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Ein Ayah: Fear of the day of death is meant to accompany the natural tendency toward justice and kindness that exists in a person if he guards its purity. A person with a rational approach realizes that he views things inaccurately when he is alive and is drawn to desires and improper physicality and that he suffers when he strays from the holy traits that Hashem bestowed from Himself on the human spirit.
This changes on the day of death, when he is rid of all his physical desires and his soul wants to return to its natural level but feels at once the pain of defilement. The healthy soul, sensing, while still alive, the pending problem, fears the upcoming day of death. It is sad to think that certain lofty things that the soul cannot sense while alive but can when he is dead will elude a soul because of his behavior during his lifetime. The greatest acquisition a person can lose is the light and completeness of his soul.
Wicked people, who do not focus on the splendor of knowledge and were not warmed by the light of Hashem, will not be afraid of the day of death. This is different from those who have made wrong decisions and have lost much of the light of Hashem, but their spirit still has yearnings for improvement and will thus fear the day of death. Wickedness is capable of polluting the heart to the point that the wicked will be insensitive to the disappointment of not attaining purity after death. Therefore, as they walk in darkness, they will be robust and unconcerned about what they may experience after death.
A person can lack knowledge and proper emotion, either because he has intellectually warped conceptions or because his feelings are occupied with other things. If the problem is intellectual, he can be taught the truth and be healed. Even if it is due to distractions, it does not have to be a permanent problem because they can pass.
However, wickedness can destroy all logic. Then, even if one should fear what will happen when he dies, he develops a rebellious nature that rejects the very idea of logic dictating how he should live his life. This is a moral disease that has no cure, because improvement is predicated upon the intellect being respected, which is missing when one knows that there is a day of reckoning after death but is not concerned about it. This is the fat covering the kidneys.
The situation would not be severe if the person temporarily forgot the day of death, but we are referring to one who remembers and ignores. It turns him into an animal-like person. He can know everything and not have it trickle down to practicality and actions.
In order to ward off such a horrible disease, Hashem gave us the Torah of truth which impacts the way we act. It enables us to be sensitive to sacred things so that we will not become lost in the turmoil of wickedness and the muddiness of iniquity. Thus, in response to the dangers of wickedness, Hashem, who created the evil inclination, created Torah as a remedy (Kiddushin 30b).
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The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
Chukat "HOW ENTEBBE STOLE THE BICENTENNIAL
The Difference Between Historic & Eternal"
As we approach America's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering her 200th Bicentennial birthday, on Jul. 4th 1976, when Israel "stole the show" by shocking the world & miraculously saving 101 hostages in a foreign continent. As Pres. As Pres. Trump decides which countries get priority in his new Middle-East, it's worth reminding him of the difference between historic events and eternally historic ones. This obviously connects with this week's parsha, as well!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 6 - The Parable of the King of India
The advantages of testimony over circumstantial evidence or philosophical speculation.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
