[Avodah] Tiqun Olam

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Richard Wolpoe <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Yeeks held that kabbalh was for privateyechidei  Segulah as a reaction to
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I was reading the Bio of R. Wlf Heidnehim at the back of the Heidenheim
haggadah

He purposefully would NOT translate certain piyytuim a likely to be
misconstrued by the masses and be dangerous.

Similarly the haftara of the first day of Shavuos is not translated to this
day in the Roedelheim Machzor nor AFAIK in the Mendel Hirsch book on
Haftoros.   The disclaimer is that they are too sublime for translation.

Bottom line, the Yekkisher community from Heidneheim through Hirsch to this
day have consistently opposed making Nistar readily available to the masses.

That is NOT to say that they dismissed Nistar as meaningless or evil or
false, just plain dangerous in the wrong hands.

FWIW The Sefer hachinuch while acknowledging the existence of nistar is
reluctant to engage in using it to explain ta'amei mitzvos

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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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