[Avodah] What is Mindfulness and does Judaism have it

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Nov 20, 2007 10:51 PM, Sholom Simon <sholom at aishdas.org> wrote:

>  Even if the challah *does* know -- we're not doing it for the sake of the
> Challah, al pi RambaN, right?  After all, if shiluach haKen is not for the
> sake of the bird, then, it would seem to me kal v'chomer that covering the
> challah is not for the sake of the challah.  The Rabman was far from an
> ultra-rationalist.
>
> And then there's the many-told story of the Chofetz Chaim, who witnessed a
> man embarrassing his wife for not covering the challah.  Whether the story
> is accurate or not, it certainly doesn't work if the C"C didn't think the
> mitzvah was, al pi Ramban, to inculcate values among ourselves.
> -- Sholom
>
> See the Hinuch Mitzva 41:
v'hakol yod'im she'ho'avanim lo yakpidu seshum bizayon...
and all know that the stones couldn't care less re: any manner of
emabarassment;

Ela hainyon laseis taziyur belibeinu
Rather it is to be mindful :-) in our hearts  of the Awe of G-d ...

I don't know if the hinuch aualifies as  an ultra-rationalist. he states
that the point of these mitzvos is our character development -  [and as I
hold this too is in order to make the society holy and just e.g. see Hinuch
7]
-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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