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Ein Ayah: The great spirit of the king of wisdom wanted to jump over the mountains of slow human progress, which Divine Providence "planted" for human history. He wanted to dispose of eras that can take thousands of years by accomplishing all that was necessary during his short period of rule, thus enabling the world to ascend by great strides.
Shlomo did not suffice with encompassing intellectual and practical knowledge. He knew that emotion and life itself are deeper than intellectual knowledge and that these fields must be mastered. He wanted to raise all emotional matters to the point that they can properly serve the greatness of Israel, which incorporates a divine kernel and shines brightly when it reaches its completeness. Therefore, Shlomo explored all the emotions and internal recognitions, which are finer and not as limited by the calculations of the external world as the intellectual is. That is why women have a special measure of emotions, as Hashem gave them extra insight (bina).
Shlomo wanted to understand the depths of human characteristics according to the many and varied nations, families, and lands and their customs. Egypt was at the summit of cultural greatness, including science and powerful emotions. In contrast to Israel, this included the coarsest and most powerfully impure forms of life, e.g., a variety of tricks to entice people to idolatry, with its impact on the spirit. Shlomo sought to know how to straighten out such crooked paths that captivate mankind’s senses and emotions, with its beguiling beauty and pleasantness, which had been used for powerful corruption.
This occurred in four spheres: 1) the practical, material perspective; 2) the scientific perspective, which stems from the combination of material realities; 3) the ideological perspective that leads practical life; 4) the ideological perspective, in and of itself (most important). Egypt was a showy society, which viewed itself as a great sea creature that lurked in the Nile, and thought its ideology was so great that it could not relate to falsehood and evil to see their purposes. Indeed these damaging, impure foundations were the basis of the evil nation/kingdom, containing the most powerful feelings of evil.
The number 1,000, beginning the fourth digit, corresponds to the perspective of ideology in and of itself. In this case (musical pieces), the 1,000 broadened itself with great pleasantness. However, it was an empty happiness that lacked internal vitality, as they were connected to idolatry, which are called elilim because they are hollow. This "armed," adorned evil brings tremendous confusion, which was strongly felt at the strange marriage between Shlomo and the daughter of Paroh.
Among the great waves of the sea, even the greatest of captains can become tossed and seasick. The overdoing of emotions, one after the other, can overcome even the greatest human, as he still has, in the final analysis, human frailties. Shlomo should have criticized that which his new wife brought with her, for that would have been an expression of the strength of sanctity, which could have tamed the glow of the tendency toward evil. Protest must take on the false alleged wisdom, which does not have the right to stand on its own.
Shlomo failed to do this because Hashem was not willing for mankind to jump quickly to its final greatness. One of His days is like a thousand of our years, and we cannot count how many years He has. He alone decides when we will go forward and when we fail. That is why the wisest of all men failed, by not protesting. When Hashem has a plan, no one can undo it.
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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.
