by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Aug 11, 2009 | Intermediate
Da’at Tevunot 2:6 (# 80 [beg. – middle]) 1. Ramchal reveals an important insight here — that this principle of G-d’s alternately concealing or revealing His presence explains many things about our body and soul. And conversely that our body and soul explain many...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jul 28, 2009 | Beginner
“Up to now” Ramchal inserts here, “I have addressed those mitzvot that I perceive are most people’s downfalls”– that is, the mitzvot we need to concentrate on most of all because they’re the ones whose mark we most often miss....
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jul 17, 2009 | Beginner
We’d also need to be on guard when it comes to our Shabbos observance. As, while it’s delightful because of its special meals; because it helps recharge the workaday spirit, thaw the cold everyday heart, and relax our racked and stretched mundane bodies;...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jul 9, 2009 | Intermediate
Da’at Tevunot 2:3 (# 71-72 [beg.]) 1. Purifying the body 1 is the soul’s main objective in this world, as we’d said 2. And the soul will be rewarded for that 3 because by doing that it enabled the body 4 to become righteous. And that allows for an enhancement of G-d’s...
by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman | Jul 9, 2009 | Intermediate
Da’at Tevunot 2:2 (# 69-70) 1. Why, we might wonder, do we have a separate body and soul rather than a combination of the two, as G-d could very well have created us to have from the first 1? The answer to that lies in the fact that our body and soul each plays a...
