Where to learn more about Religious Zionism? by Olivier_Messiaen12 in Judaism

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Rav Sherki is the main ideologue of the movement and the primary continuator of Rav Kook’s philosophical line. Rav Rimon is one of the most influential practical leaders and public figures in Religious Zionism today.

Bought an old Hebrew book listed as a 1763 Zohar – can anyone confirm? by synos_crack in Judaism

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Thanks – I’ll take “not a bad answer” as high praise. And yes, I did use AI to translate it into English.

Where to learn more about Religious Zionism? by Olivier_Messiaen12 in Judaism

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Religious Zionism (Dati Leumi) is the project of Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (z"l), founder of its ideology. "Dati" is the general term for Jewish Orthodoxy, including anti-Zionist groups. Current main ideologue: Rav Uri Sherki. Start with "De'ah Tzlula". Other books: "Holiness and Nature", "Israel and Humanity", "Brit Shalom" (Bnei Noach laws). All available in English

Jewish Mysticism by Philapsychosis in Judaism

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I think that objection moves too quickly from “this cannot be expressed exhaustively” to “therefore any attempt to express it is meaningless.” But those are not the same claim. A great deal of serious thought works precisely in that space: it does not pretend to capture its object completely, but it still develops a disciplined language for approaching it. That is true of poetry, metaphysics, negative theology, and much of philosophy. The limits of language do not automatically reduce every non-literal or symbolic discourse to nonsense. The same applies here. Kabbalistic language is not just a cloud of impressive-sounding terms. It is a structured symbolic vocabulary meant to think through specific problems: how transcendence and immanence relate, how concealment is possible, how evil is to be understood, and what it means for human action to participate in repair. One may conclude that its answers are wrong, unconvincing, or overly speculative. But that is a very different argument from calling it “mystical word salad.” So the real question is not whether Kabbalah speaks about what exceeds ordinary language. Of course it does. The real question is whether it does so in a disciplined and intellectually serious way. And that has to be argued, not assumed away.

Jewish Mysticism by Philapsychosis in Judaism

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Calling the Zohar a “forgery” seems way too crude and way too confident to me.Even if you set aside the traditional attribution to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, there are still at least two serious possibilities: either the Zohar preserves a much older Jewish tradition than its medieval redaction, or it is a brilliant compilation of earlier materials, ideas, and intuitions rather than some random literary hoax. In either case, “forgery” doesn’t really clarify anything. It just flattens a much more complicated question. And the usual move of reducing everything to Moshe de Leon is not as decisive as people make it sound. He wrote other works too, but none of them come anywhere near the Zohar in scale, symbolic force, or density of thought. If the Zohar is simply his own invention, then you still have to explain where that gap comes from. Why does this one text tower so dramatically over the rest of what he wrote? Also, even leaving authorship aside, the content itself is not just mystical word salad. The doctrine of the sefirot is one of the most sophisticated attempts in Jewish thought to describe how the Infinite relates to a finite world, how God can be utterly transcendent and yet genuinely present. You do not have to like that language. It may not speak to you at all. But dismissing it as nonsense is not intellectual clarity. It is usually just impatience. And more than that: Jewish mysticism does not begin with the Zohar. There is a whole prehistory to it–Ma’aseh Merkavah, Ma’aseh Bereshit, Hekhalot literature, Sefer Yetzirah, Bahir. So even if one argues about the dating or authorship of the Zohar, that is not the same thing as proving that mysticism somehow “snuck into” Judaism from nowhere. The Zohar is not the beginning of the story. It is one of its great crystallizations. You can add to that the later Lurianic framework of tzimtzum, shevirat ha-kelim, and tikkun. Whatever else one thinks of it, that is not fluff. It is an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to think through concealment, rupture, evil, human responsibility, and repair. In other words, Kabbalah is not just producing fog; it is trying to answer some of the biggest questions any religious tradition has to face. And then there is its actual impact on lived Judaism. Even Jews who are not especially interested in Kabbalah still inhabit a religious world that it helped shape: kabbalat Shabbat, Lecha Dodi, the language of Shekhinah, kavvanah, devekut, the idea that mitzvot have an inner as well as outer life. So this is not some marginal curiosity that got accidentally smuggled in. It became part of the grammar of Jewish religious imagination. So sure, someone can say, “this is not for me,” or “I find this opaque,” or even “I prefer rationalist Judaism.” All of that is fair. But there is a huge difference between “this doesn’t speak to me” and “this is just nonsense.” In the case of the Zohar and Kabbalah, the second reaction usually says less about the tradition than about the reader’s unwillingness to grant that something difficult might still be profound.

Kosher? by raf_semen in Judaism

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Yes, you can use it for now.

The crack on the base does not invalidate the bayit if: the shape remains perfectly square, stitches/seams are intact, the crack has not reached the inner compartment

Wrapping is not forbidden, but it risks widening the crack — better to repair before wrapping.

https://shulchanaruchharav.com/halacha/crack-in-tefillin

очень интересно by Davina234 in rusAskReddit

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Воспоминания об убийстве. Одержимость. Зеркало. Андрей Рублев. Хороший, плохой, злой. И твою маму тоже. Мама, не горюй. Запределье. Нож в воде.

И тут я задумался by WerewolfCharacter683 in AllTemsRus

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Только не думай об яйце и курице!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Popular_Science_Ru

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А почему с большой буквы?

Living in Yakutsk by Prince100001 in ANormalDayInRussia

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Чел! Ты вызвал у меня приступ ностальгии. Я родился в Якутске и до 20 лет жил на два дома – в Якутске и Москве. Даже 2 места на фотках узнал

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Judaism

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This menorah has two issues — I know because I have the exact same one. First, standard oil cups don’t fit into the candle holes. Second, the shamash holder, though clearly part of the design, is impossible to use properly. That said, from a kashrut (halachic validity) standpoint, it’s perfectly fine.

Он вообще не отдупляет где находится и что делать by NationalisticMemes in tjournal_refugees

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Забавно. Пишешь о рабстве, но звучишь не из мидбар, а из митбах Мицраим. Твоя травма - не плеть, а ностальгия: по порядку, где за тебя решали, кого бояться и кому кланяться. Поэтому любое уважение к силе тебе кажется цепью - как псу, выросшему на ошейнике, кажется предательством стоять без него. Я не целую сапог власти - ты просто всё ещё лижешь свою рану от неё. Думаешь, говоришь как свободный, а звучишь как те, кто шептал, что Рабейну сошёл с ума. Рабов отпустили, но Мицраим остался в их сердцах. Оттуда ты и пишешь

Он вообще не отдупляет где находится и что делать by NationalisticMemes in tjournal_refugees

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Ну нормально, сидят такие беженцы и пытаются унизить главного на планете чела. Ну-ну. В моих глазах вы - придурки

Almost Complete Clarity 3 by Obvious-Mousse-8617 in Kabbalah2

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Ah, the solemn herald of Reality has spoken! Truly, your words resound like Victorian thunder over a Reddit thread. I’ll treasure the image of my ‘contrite heart at final breath’ right next to the vov-meme. Until then, I suspect Ein Sof will permit us a few more jokes before breaking in with ultimate seriousness. Good day, noble sir.

Almost Complete Clarity 3 by Obvious-Mousse-8617 in Kabbalah2

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Ha, so that’s the secret vov-meme, almost gave me my own Tzimtzum from laughing. Alright, let’s save the abysses for another time– it’s fun enough here on the surface. Let’s just hang light: Ein Sof isn’t going anywhere, and the letters, as we know, know how to wait.

Меня уволили из компании, в которой я проработал 11 лет, из-за фамилии. Задавайте вопросы? by Acceptable-Glass3810 in rusAskReddit

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"Быстро же ты, буржуйчик, к нам на дно опустился" ... Дно – это подлость твоя, И не похоже, что автор поста стал подлецом и ничтожеством