[Avodah] The Main Idea of Judaism

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:07:52PM +0300, Doron Beckerman wrote:
: Along the lines of what RCM said, it is to make Will of Hashem the be all
: and end all of one's existence.  Essentially, it is to transform one's own
: Ratzon....

And I think both answers suffer from what must have been a lack of clarity
in my question.

Saying that the main idea of Judaism it do Hashem's Will is just a very
minor shift of my intended question. What I am trying to get at it:

1- Tell me how you view Hashem's goal for a human, so that one can plan
how to conform to His Will for them?
2- What I find more interesting, because #1 has SO MANY valid answers,
all of which are necessarily incomplete, how would you reach an answer
to #1?

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:07:52PM +0300, Doron Beckerman wrote:
:         Rav Wolbe (Alei Shur I:120) says that the entirety of our Avodah is
: to transform one's Ratzon to be a "Ba Litaher." A person achieves in life
: whatever, in the deepest parts of himself, he really wants.
: 
: Ultimately, that is what "Tzaddik BeEmunaso *Yichyeh*" means. It does not
: merely mean that one needs to acquire a certain set of beliefs...

By quoting RSW you do narrow the range of possible answers to the first
question, because you're framing it in terms of tohar haleiv and thus
(broadly speaking) sheleimus.

And you also narrow it by excluding belief as an end in itself.

But you don't actually answer the questions I meant to ask.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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