Among the works of Chagall The Museum of Fine Arts Basel's portrait of a happy man. According to Jewish tradition the world rests on three pillars: one is the service of God, but since the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the service, sacrifices were replaced by prayer. ''I am a mystic, Chagall said, my work is my prayer.''A great part of Chagall's work is inspired by the thought of Hasidism, Jewish religious movement that emerged in Poland and Russia in the eighteenth century that emphasizes wisdom rather than knowledge, experience rather than doctrine, true emotion, rather than ritual.
The table entitled''The popular''or''''Portrait of a Rabbi is a double prayer: it is both the artist and the model for the The study also notes the service of God ; study of the Book,''this unique book by Maurice Blanchot, in which winds a series of wonderful books, library not only universal but in lieu of universe and more comprehensive, more enigmatic than he.'' But Judaism has never advocated asceticism , Rabbi here interrupts his reading and agrees a small playground. In a snuffbox held gently, it is no less to his nostrils gently with a pinch of snuff few grains-three dots-red fall on his beard. In the upper left corner, there are''part of a shaft of light,''a seven-branched candelabrum which light of a soft yellow will spread across the board. In the upper right quarter green cloth, the same green that can be found in profusion on the rabbi's beard, the green color of youth and renewal, which proclaims it as the wise old person to be c is to say not to give up asking questions, to question, to advance , not to despair, to resign.
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"Any Play Study of the Torah is " Levinas
Mishna Avot Chapter 6 Treaty
R. Meir teaches anyone who engages in the study of Torah for its own merit many more benefits and it is worldwide and is called beloved, loving God and people, which pleases God and that men. This study brings him humility, fear of God ...
greater the Torah that the priesthood and royalty, for royalty virtues acquired by 30 by 24 and the priesthood, but the Torah is acquired by 48 virtues
... Great is the Torah because it gives life to those who practice it in this world and the world to come, as it is says (Prv 4): "because it is life for those who find it [referring to the future world], and its flesh is healing [a reference to this world]" ...
Moses during Rabbi Aquiba
A dynamic transmission
An amazing story Talmud describes Moses' difficulty in understanding her own teaching in the mouth of Rabbi Aquiba.
Ménahot Treaty, page 29b
Moses ascends to heaven to receive tables of the law. It is God busy putting crowns on the letters.
Moses
- which next to you holding what you have written? (In other words, that prevents you from completing your text with conventional letters, which forces you to add these embellishments?)
And here is the divine response :
- After much generations will come a man, his name will Aquiba ben Yosef. It will build mountains hala'hah (driving laws, laws on, scalable) to From each of these points (the letters) "
Moses aback request :
- Show me the man. So I do not receive a completed act. This will continue to be built in future by a man who is neither saint nor prophet
God said to Moses:
- turn around.
Moses finds himself in the yeshiva of Rabbi Akiva, sat modestly behind the last row Students listen to the Master's teaching Akiva. But do not get it, it is exceeded by the subjects under discussion and style developments.
The letters of the Torah and their embellishments
This depresses him, suddenly, after Rabbi Akiva stated a decision that seems arbitrary to students, not based on any reasoning according to rules of hermeneutics, the Last call:
- Rabbi, where did you get this decision?
- It is a law (hala'hah) received by Moses at Sinai, Akiva responds
Moses is reassured by this reference to it proves that education focuses on the Torah
he received at Sinai, though he has no recollection of that Act.
- You have such a man and you give me the Torah to me?, Surprised Moses.
- Shut up, that's how it is mounted in thought before Me
- Show me his reward. Moses then asks
- Turn around, look at what is happening on the other hand, in the world of men
And Moses saw that we will debit the flesh of R. Akiba in the shops, after having tortured and murdered for teaching, despite the ban enacted by the authority.
- Master of the world, is this the Torah? Is this salary?
- Shut up, that's my intention
Astronomy
science as a mitzvah
to Moses in Deuteronomy, the specificity of the message to Israel is in his knowledge of the Torah. This knowledge is not confined solely to religious knowledge, but the Talmud implies knowledge of astronomy.
Babylonian Talmud Shabbat Treaty page 75 has
Rabbi Samuel son of Nahman said in the name of Rabbi Yohanan: where do we know that it is a mitzvah to indulge in astronomy? For it is written (Deuteronomy 4) "And you will keep them and complete them (the commandments) because this is your wisdom and your knowledge to the peoples." What are the wisdom and expertise in the eyes of the people? These are astronomical!
Four steps in the study of Torah
Throughout the existence
By Nechoma Greisman
You shall teach them to thy children and shalt talk of them when you sit in your house and when you're on the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 6, 7
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak offers this verse of the Shema, an explanation of cosmic significance. When studying the Torah, there are several levels and stages. At each level of personal existence, the Torah is present.
"When you sit in your house" is the state of the soul High, before she not go down here, in the physical world. There, in heaven, the seat in front of God and soul is constantly studying the Torah.
The next step, "when you're on the way" refers to the time when the soul descends from the upper world in this world here below, from level to level up that it enters a physical body. There, through the study of Torah, she learns to grow ("way") in enterprises spiritual and even physical businesses when they are done out of love for Gd. This is not really the natural place of the soul whose real home is above. When the soul is born into a body, it must learn to react in a world new to her while remaining faithful to God. It is the mission of the soul, here in this world.
When the soul leaves the heavens and comes in a terrestrial environment, it must pass through a number of raids. At each step, it is taught Torah to the appropriate step. Once the child is born into this world, we must begin by teaching him "in the beginning God created ...." This is much lower than it is capable of understanding before birth. Thus, the Torah must be adapted to the soul in a body. But the end result of the descent of the soul in this world, where she learns the Torah of this world and fulfills the commandments materials is that it manages to rise above the level it was before its descent down here . The descent is to climb much higher.
Then comes the stage of "when you lie down" . This is the day the person is returned to the spiritual realm, when she is lying in his grave.
When a man leaves this world, none of the material that has not gained with it. Neither his home neither his car ... He leaves everything behind him. It does not imply anything he has amassed in his material existence. But his Torah and good deeds are with him. And his soul is in heaven, studying the Torah. Finally
"and when you rise" refers to the era of the Resurrection of the Dead. This is also one of the foundations of our faith. Whatever the duration of their rest in the grave, all men will wake up with the Resurrection at the time of Moshiach. So the Torah is once again at a level quite different. There will be nothing to make it difficult the study of Torah.
Why now is it so difficult to study the Torah? Because our minds are preoccupied with many other things. How can we sit all day and study it? We do not have time or lack the capacity or many other things distract us. When Moshiach comes, all that weighs us down and prevents us indulge in a real concentration in the study, even just the idea of physical fatigue, will be resolved.
In addition, with the coming of Mashiach, the Midrash ruled that "a new Torah gush of Me," which means that all the secrets of the Torah that have been hidden in all the years of exile will reveal themselves to us. In other words, not only will we be different but the Torah itself is much deeper, clearer and higher, a level that nobody has ever known. This to happen fast these days!
the study of Torah
This same idea is found in the commentary of the first verse of Sidra Be'houqothaï '. "Lm Behouqotay télékhou" literally: "If you walk in my statutes" translated by Rashi: "If you care to diligently study the Torah." "Amélim batorah" evokes the idea of effort, hard work, fatigue, as expressed in Psalm 1: "Blessed is the man who finds his pleasure in the Torah of the Lord and meditates day and his Torah night. The Torah is the first of the Lord, but when it invests entirely man and conquers by her work, she becomes his own. Spiritual food necessary for the life of every individual, it is accessible to all. Everyone can find contentment. One stop literally, others in mind sharper, the student to discover the meaning allusive. Most scholars try to uncover the hidden meaning of the text, Sod. This is one of Kabbalists believe that the text of the Torah as a code which is necessary to discover the keys to interpretation.
What is the Torah?
What is meant by the word Torah? Virtually the Torah means the five books of Moses, but in Jewish tradition, the word Torah includes every word of God addressed to Israel and by extension, all speech explaining the Wise God's word. Prior to writing the Torah by Moses at the dictation of God, this teaching was first spoken. For centuries, oral tradition written down much later and known as the Talmud (study), which clarifies and amplifies the written text. Moreover, all terms associated with the concept of Torah relate to the teaching and study. Although all religious life can not be understood without prior knowledge of the requirements of God towards man, in the areas of private life, moral and social study of Torah is in itself itself and for itself a commandment positive. "You study and you will keep them to put them into practice."
It is difficult to imagine what is the Torah in Jewish tradition, the education received by Moses on Mount Sinai and passed down from generation to generation to us.
When the Lord wanted to give the Torah to Moses, the angels are moved away, saying to God: "What a treasure you have hidden for 974 generations, the books you today to be flesh and blood? " The Midrash teaches us that the Lord has used the Torah to create the world as an architect uses his project before constructing a building. The Torah is the key that enables the understanding of this world, and he maintains that studies the existence of our universe.
Benefits of Torah study
Rabbi Shimon ben Lachish
said: "Anyone who studies the Torah away from his suffering." The study is also a source of forgiveness of sins, and is superior to all the sacrifices of animals. Indeed, the words of the Torah can transform man, a sinner, he became repentant of miscreant, he became a believer. They have such a force that permeates our being deep of himself. He who diligently takes care of the Torah sees his business prosper and leave their worries, because it is a source of blessing. Moreover, it satisfies the man and gives him the strength to cope with the vicissitudes of life. It is for this reason that the Torah has been compared to bread that restores the heart. Even if the study is undertaken with some ulterior motive, to protect themselves from harm or to deserve the blessing, the Torah will eventually give the quality of unselfishness and pure love in this study.
knowledge of the Torah can benchmark themselves against the world, give meaning to his life and to link the man to God Through it, man can attain the love of God and his fellows, and know all the joys of this world and the world to come.
Indeed, study diligently, with every fiber of his body and soul, inevitably leads to action on the path of truth and light. The Torah study is not restricted to the wise, everyone is obliged, at his level, to engage in this exercise daily. That is why the Torah has been compared to water, essential to life. Whether you are big or small, king or slave, each creature needs water. "If you engage in the diligent study of Torah ... I will give you rain in due season," I will give you life. The study of Torah can be made even in French.
Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin viejuive
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