by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jan 15, 2010 | Intermediate
1. “Man’s being is rooted in deep and infinite wisdom”, we’re told here. Yet we’re each capable of terrible wrongs, of acts of horrendous injustice, and of unnatural wickedness. So, what has gone wrong, so to speak? How could G-d have...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jan 8, 2010 | Beginner
Not only would the righteous choose to abstain from certain common pleasures and to always be more halachically stringent as we’d said; they’d also agree to certain other restrictions. But once again the point needs to be made that these farther-reaching...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jan 8, 2010 | Intermediate
1. We’ll first sum-up what’s behind the existence of wrong and injustice in the world in general [1], then we’ll touch on the equally vexing issue of the existence of human wrong and injustice, which is so much closer to home [2]. The underlying...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Dec 29, 2009 | Beginner
There are three essential types of abstinence the righteous should concentrate on: those touching on personal pleasures, on Halachic processes, and on personal habits. Ramchal already discussed refraining from personal pleasures in the previous chapter, which focused...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Dec 17, 2009 | Intermediate
Chapter 6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted it to, and then be undone. He’ll now lay out some of the details of that. His first point is that G-d originally...
