Saturday, 1 December 2018

Mussar: Purifying the Mind

originally published Jan. 25, 2014

Derech Emet:
Yaarot Debash, Volume 2 of 2,
Derush 5:
 
To purify thoughts, nothing helps more than Torah [study] and rejoicing about performing good deed[s] [simchah shel mitzvah]. 


MICROBIOGRAPHY:
 
Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz was born in Kraków (Poland) in 1690 CE, became dayan [Rabbinical Judge] of Prague (Czech Republic) in 1736 CE,
became Rabbi of Metz (northeast France near Germany) in 1741 CE, and died in Altona (Germany) in 1764 CE.
 
Yaarot Debash volume 1 was published in Lvov in 1798 CE;
volume 2 in 1799 CE.


Kol Tuv,
RRW

1 comment:

Mr. Cohen said...

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! I thank and praise HASHEM,
because my Torah quote was republished on Nishma blog!!!

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“Internal Koranic evidence shows that the
Jews of Medina [a city now in Saudi Arabia]
were steeped in rabbinical tradition.

While celebrating him [Mohammed] as an
unlearned person, the hadith
[Islamic holy books] acknowledges
that Mohammed was confounded by
the learned questions of these Jews.”

SOURCE: In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

(chapter 2, page 13) by Martin Gilbert,
year 2010 CE, Yale University Press

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“The conquests of Islam made Jews
the subjects of Arab and Muslim rulers
in a wide swath of land, stretching
from the Atlantic coast of Morocco
to the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan.

Being non-Muslims, these Jews held
the inferior status of dhimmi,
which, despite giving them protection
to worship according to their own faith,
subjected them to many vexatious and
humiliating restrictions in their daily lives.”

SOURCE: In Ishmael’s House:
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

(introduction chapter, page xx)
by Martin Gilbert, year 2010,
published by Yale University Press

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In 1958, former director of UNRWA
Ralph Galloway declared angrily while in Jordan:

“The Arab states do not want to solve
the [Palestinian] refugee problem.

They want to keep it as an open sore,
as an affront to the United Nations,
and as a weapon against Israel.

Arab leaders do not give a damn
whether Arab refugees live or die.”

SOURCE: From Time Immemorial:
The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict
over Palestine
(chapter 2, page 23)
by Joan Peters, year 1984, JKAP Publications

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