The Soul and It’s Influence | Part Two
The is the conclusion of The soul and It’s Influence and the beginning of Sections III Chapter two “Theurgy”, which is the art of affecting change in the world through the recitation of Divine...
The is the conclusion of The soul and It’s Influence and the beginning of Sections III Chapter two “Theurgy”, which is the art of affecting change in the world through the recitation of Divine...
The Way of G-D, Section III, Chapter One, Paragraph 1-4 There’s no doubt that the Heavens speak to us — the transcendent forces, angels, G-d Himself. The only question is, through which medium? Through...
The Way of G-D | Chapter Eight Ramchal explains our suffering in terms of G-d “disciplining” us, His “children”, the way any good parent would discipline his children (by either withdrawing things from them,...
It’s ironic that we in modernity are more thunderstruck by the millions of lights on the ground when our plane descends at night over a city than we are by the sight of millions...
The System Behind the Divine Providence | Part Two Like every committee and board of directors, the Heavenly ones have their nay-sayer, too. He’s known as satan in common parlance, but he’s not what...
We’ve said it before but it bears repetition: G-d is the only one utterly free being. Everyone and everything else is either only partially free, or not at all. We’re to recall, though, that G-d...
Till now we’ve been discussing the rules G-d Himself set up for our interactions with Him, and His with us. From now to the end of the chapter we’ll touch upon the mechanisms He...
The way of God | Chapter Two Paragraph 12-Chapter Three, Paragraph 1-3 One of the last points to be made about G-d’s interactions with us touches on the fact that we might be in...
The Way of God Chapter 3 Section Two, Paragraph 9-10 As we’d said before, each and everything in this world is drawn downward in a cascade from the Transcendental Forces until it assumes...
Part Three covers Paragraph 8 of Section 8 of the book The Way of G-D. We discuss redemption, atonement and the Tzadikim Role in Redemption.
Personal Providence | Part Two Based on this we can now understand why some people suffer trials and tribulations. A person who’s mostly righteous, or somewhat righteous and somewhat wrongful could be subject to...
As we said, everything that happens to us happens with a particular aim in mind. And that is that we and the world at large reach our full spiritual potential. That being so, it...