<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:13:15PM +0000, <a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
: Caveat: Remember that a Sefer like Mesillas Yesharim was written by<br>
<div class="im">: Ramchal - and so my friend woud claim that it ostensibly has Qabbalistic<br>
: overtones<br>
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</div>It's very hard to see anything esoteric in MY. (And I'm teaching MY<br>
next year in a "Center for Mindfulness" to a group of C Jews. So I've<br>
actually actively looked for something to tease out some interest from<br>
them that way.)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>RSW z"l has a fascinating remark about this at the end of Alei Shur Vol 1 Ch. 3 (p.30):<br><br>"Admor Ma'or `Eineinu Maran R. Yerucham zt"l used to say that MY is a summing-up [or "the essence"] of all RMHL' z"l's books on Kabbala, and I heard the same from Mori veRabbi Hagaon R. Yitzchak Hutner zt"l. That is to say, it is totally based on Hochmat Ha'Emet -- and when we learned it we didn't realize! This is indeed preparation for the internals[1] of the Tora: by learning this marvellous book early and often, without drudgery or routine, we will gradually become accustomed to finding the internal in his words -- and in ourselves. Anyone who hasn't accustomed himself to this kind of learning, and then comes to books of Kabbala in which the internal is not concealed from
view, will turn the internal knowledge into external. The gateway to the truly internal (penimiut ha'emet] is MY."<br><br>[1] My apologies: "internals" is a terrible English translation of "penimiut", maybe one that only a programmer who is used to hearing it as programming jargon would have come up with<br>
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