' S t a r W r a p p e d .Com '   (tm)
: EVERYTHING is Wrapped in Stars



'The Starry Night'
by Vincent van Gogh 1889










' J e w i s h   T a l es ' (tm)
What Tales !











' T A L E S '










: G_d adapted just part of himself to become the universe.











: Life and Death, no divide











: Our bodies belong to G_d
Our souls __________











: We do not blink into existence and after a time blink out of existence; what a lame explanation of Life and the World !











: The mass promotion of souls back, to unify with G_d, their source, is ___________











: Why does Soul separate ? To experience the world and universe .











: A flock of birds has one soul though we only see a single bird.











: What we see as 'Adversity' and we call 'Heroism', is what G_d values most in this world.











: Plants and Animals could not work (ie. have behaviours) without G_d's Spirit directing them.











: G_d wants only small actions from us.




























: Some of Us are High Up In the Tree, some of Us are Low Down, it is all the same Tree.


























: There is only one Soul, no separation between Human Jewish and Animal Nature Soul.






































: This place is a weird temporary place, normalcy will be renewed for us all soon.







































: One can enter by any door, no matter how microscopic







































: G_d is big, Really Really big







































: There is no space between us, ever







































: Where you go in the future is where you went in the past







































: What's past is future what's future is past







































: The universe is forever, it is continuous circular enclosing







































: There is nothing outside, creating Creation.







































: Nothing means nothing







































: Our relationship with His Creatures (i.e. His Creation) is the basis of G_D's commands to us







































: TORAH - SHEMOS - EXODUS - PARSHAS BO
" G_d said to Moses 'Come to Pharaoh for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order that I may put these miracles of Mine in his midst, ....' " [ 10: 1-7 ]







































: TORAH - SHEMOS - EXODUS - PARSHAS VA'EIRA
" G_d said ' I will harden Pharaoh's heart (in order that) I should increase My miracles and wonders in the land of Egypt. .... ' " [ 7:2-7 ]







































: KETUVIM - MISHLEI - PROVERBS - CHAPTER 1
7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.







































: This world is only a tiny tiny part of G_d's universe







































: G_d is always present, continuously interacting with His creation (closely and otherwise)







































: His reasons are His reasons, His intermediaries are His intermediaries













-------------------------------------------------------------------------



THE GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED
by Moses Maimonides


Friedlander tr. [1904], at Sacred-Texts.Com

PART ONE "Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in."--(Isa. xxvi. 2.)

CHAPTER I

....... Some have been of opinion that by the Hebrew 'zelem', the shape and figure of a thing is to be understood, and this explanation led men to believe in the corporeality [of the Divine Being]: for they thought that the words "Let us make man in our 'zelem' " (Gen. i. 26), implied that God had the form of a human being, i.e., that He had figure and shape, and that, consequently, He was corporeal. They adhered faithfully to this view, and thought that if they were to relinquish it they would 'eo ipso' reject the truth of the Bible: and further, if they did not conceive God as having a body possessed of face and limbs, similar to their own in appearance, they would have to deny even the existence of God. The sole difference which they admitted, was that He excelled in greatness and splendour, and that His substance was not flesh and blood. Thus far went their conception of the greatness and glory of God. The incorporeality of the Divine Being, and His unity, in the true sense of the word--for there is no real unity without incorporeality--will be fully proved in the course of the present treatise. (Part II., ch. i.) In this chapter it is our sole intention to explain the meaning of the words 'zelem' and 'demut' . I hold that the Hebrew equivalent of "form" in the ordinary acceptation of the word, viz., the figure and shape of a thing, is 'toar' . Thus we find "[And Joseph was] beautiful in 'toar' ('form'), and beautiful in appearance" (Gen. xxxix. 6): "What form (toar) is he of?" (1 Sam. xxviii. 14): "As the form ('toar') of the children of a king" (Judges viii. 18). It is also applied to form produced by human labour, as "He marketh its form (toar) with a line," "and he marketh its form (toar) with the compass" (Isa. xliv. 13). This term is not at all applicable to God. The term 'zelem', on the other hand, signifies the specific form, viz., that which constitutes the essence of a thing, whereby the thing is what it is; the reality of a thing in so far as it is that particular being. In man the "form" is that constituent which gives him human perception: and on account of this intellectual perception the term 'zelem' is employed in the sentences "In the 'zelem' of God he created him" (Gen. i. 27). It is therefore rightly said, "Thou despisest their zelem" (Ps. lxiii. 20); the "contempt" can only concern the soul--the specific form of man, not the properties and shape of his body. I am also of opinion that the reason why this term is used for "idols" may be found in the circumstance that they are worshipped on account of some idea represented by them, not on account of their figure and shape. For the same reason the term is used in the expression, "the forms (zalme) of your emerods" (1 Sam. vi. 5), for the chief object was the removal of the injury caused by the emerods, not a change of their shape........



Starwapped (tm), StarWrapped.Com (tm)
Jewish Tales, JewishTales.Com (tm)
What Genesis, WhatGenesis.Com (tm)
iAshkenazi.Com (tm) TheAshkenazi.Com (tm)



eMail - Avram@StarWrapped.Com



TeachEden
Moortown Little Park
Ballymitty Township
Co. Wexford
Ireland
Y35 HP89




(c) Anthony Vard 1996-2022 all Rights Reserved