<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><title>[Aspaqlaria] Maharal, Derekh Chaim 4:21 - Relationship ep. 12</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/wp-content/themes/hueman/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body>Aspaqlaria has posted a new item, '<a href="https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/2022/06/08/maharal-dc-4-21/">Maharal, Derekh Chaim 4:21 - Relationship ep. 12</a>'
<h3>The Beyond Meaningful Relationships – Relationshipful Meaning series at the <em>kloiz</em> meets on <strong>Wednesday nights at 8<sup><span style="text-decoration: underline;">pm</span></sup> EDT</strong>.</h3>
<p>(If you missed our discussion so far, there is always the posts in <a href="http://asapaqlaria.aishdas.org/category/kloiz">The </a><a href="http://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/category/kloiz">Kloiz Aspaqlaria category</a>.)</p>
<p>Wednesday night (June 8<sup><span style="text-decoration: underline;">th</span></sup>, 2021) we continued our discussion of the parts of a person — body, mind and soul, and the aspects of the soul that addresses each — nefesh, ruach and neshamah, by discussing the Maharal’s take on the flaws caused by the excesses of each.</p>
<p>In his commentary on Avos 4:21, the Maharal discusses the <em>mishnah</em>‘s list of three vices that “take one from the world” — <em>qin’ah</em>, <em>ta’avah</em>, and <em>kavod</em> (jealousy, [physical] desire and [one’s own] honor, as the Maharal defines them). Each of them</p>
<p>We concluded by starting a piece from Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s discussion of symbolism in <em>tzitzis</em> will close our discussion of threes. His discussion of the meaning of 6, 7, and 8 and of red, green and blue, will be closing our discussion of threes.</p>
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<h3 class="has-text-align-center"><strong>The resource sheet for the Maharal on Avos 4:21 and Rav Hirsch’s essay on the symbolism of <em>tzitzis</em> is on Sefaria at </strong><strong><a href="https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/409461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/409461</a></strong></h3>
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<p>The story so far:</p>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Maharal</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Pillars</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><strong>Torah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><strong>Avodah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><strong>Gemilus Chasadim</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Tov</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Inherent /<br /><strong>Relationship to Soul</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;"><strong>Relationship to Hashem</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;"><strong>Relationship to Others</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Uprooting Sin</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Gilui Arayos</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Avodah Zara</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Shefichas Damim</em></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Sustains the world</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">… gives the world value.</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">… for it was created <em>liKhvodi</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">… causes Hashem’s <em>Chessed</em> to the world</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Avos</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Yaaqov</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Yitzchaq</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Avraham</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 66px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Yaaqov/Yisrael as Synthesis</strong></td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 22.3958%;">Yaaqov<br />Rivqa’s two bracelets of 5 gold each</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 18.8542%;">Yitchaq<br />Rivqa’s nose-ring</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 25.4167%;">Rivqa</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Sefer haYetzirah “Mother Letters”</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">א</td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">ש</td>
<td style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">מ</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Non-Intert Elements</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Air/Wind (<strong>א</strong>וויר)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Fire (א<strong>ש</strong>)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Water (מים)</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Element as Middah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Thought<br />in Torah</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">Passion / “<em>Hislahavus</em>“<br />in <em>Avodah</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">Calm / Unity<br />in relating to other people</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 66px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Protecting Torah / Anshei Keneses haGdolah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 22.3958%;">Establishing many students</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 18.8542%;">Diligence in Law</td>
<td style="height: 66px; width: 25.4167%;">Making a <em>siyag laTorah</em><br />(i.e. morality rather than precise Law)</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Dynamic</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">Middle<br />(Synthesis <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>or</strong></span> Dialectic)</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;">Truth / Law</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;">Peace / Lovingkindness</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Gra</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Aspect of Soul</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Ruach</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Neshamah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Nefesh</em></td>
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<td style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>Desires</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Ego</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Spiritual</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Physical</td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 24px;"><strong>Time of Life (paired with desires)</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 24px;">Adulthood</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 24px;">Old Age</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 24px;">Youth</td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 87px;"><strong>Time of Night</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 87px;">Middle – the dog barks (demanding “<em>hav hav</em>!”)</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 87px;">Near Dawn –<br />The baby nurses, the wife talks with her husband</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 87px;">Near Sunset –<br />The Donkey Brays</td>
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<td style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>Children of Adam & Chavah</strong></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Hevel</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;">Qayin</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Sheis (<em>bidmuso betzalmo</em>)</td>
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<td style="height: 45px; width: 32.0833%;"><strong>World</strong></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 22.3958%;">“In the Air” /<br />the world between our ears</td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Shamayim</em></td>
<td style="height: 45px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Aretz</em></td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%; height: 24px;"><strong>Organ</strong></td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%; height: 24px;">Heart</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%; height: 24px;">Head</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%; height: 24px;">Liver / Groin</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="text-align: center; height: 24px; width: 98.75%;" colspan="4" data-align="left"><strong>Micha’s <em>Miqdash</em> Speculation</strong></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Crowns </strong>(simple take)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;">Torah</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Kehunah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;">Kingship</td>
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<td style="width: 32.0833%;"><strong>Crowns</strong> (according to Maharal 4:13)</td>
<td style="width: 22.3958%;">Torah</td>
<td style="width: 18.8542%;">Kingship – in the soul’s ability to rule mind and body</td>
<td style="width: 25.4167%;"><em>Kehunah</em> as the sanctification of the physical</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Crowned Kelim<br /></strong>(see the Maharal, Avos 1:2)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Aron</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Mizbeiach haZahav</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Shulchan</em></td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" style="height: 24px; width: 32.0833%;" data-align="left"><strong>Uncrowned Keilim<br /></strong>(deducing from the Gra)</td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 22.3958%;"><em>Menorah</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 18.8542%;"><em>Mizbeiach Nekhoshes</em></td>
<td style="height: 24px; width: 25.4167%;"><em>Kiyor</em></td>
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