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joey rosenfeld
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Oct 20, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Thread of short explanations: Arizal:
Prior to the creation of existence, the Infinite light saturated all potential space. The initial act of creation, Tzimtzum, was the concealment of the Infinite light for the sake of creating the voided space in which creation would eventually take root.
Sep 18, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
BeH
Thread of explanations for the list

Rambam:
The general theme in Hilchos Teshuva is the ability and need to rectify and change ones behaviors. It is the halachik dimensions of what is considered actual change. The future self is determined by the shift away from the past Maharal:
Nesiv HaTeshuva describes the process as a return to a true/ideal self that persists underneath the false/real self. The deviation away from the source is always accidental in its essence, and therefor one must simply return back to that which always already was
Oct 3, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I’m on a long drive from St. Louis to NY and I’m going to tweet about each of the ten sefiros keser, the first sefirah, is both the lowest level of the higher order and the highest level of the lower order.

it represents both pleasure and desire in that all desire is driven by a hidden unfelt pleasure.

it is beyond good and evil, pure compassion with no judgments.
Mar 5, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Chazal tell us (Yomah 52b) that there are five verses that remain indeterminate, meaning to say that there are particular words that remain caught up in a doubtful space because they can all be read in more than one way... One of these verses is (Shemos 17:9), “So Moses said to Joshua, Pick men for us, and go out and fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand”.
Chazal point out that the word “machar”, or “tomorrow” can be read in two ways.
Jun 18, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thread on this remarkable teaching from the Sod Yesharim: The Rabbis taught that one who denies that “the resurrection of the dead is from the torah” will take no part in the resurrection of the dead.
Death does not mean actual death, but rather the myriad struggles and concealments of this world that taste like death.