Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Search for the True Tzaddik (part 2)


Our Holy Teacher of living memory, before he died was sighing and shouting greatly with anguished voices and sighs and great shouts about the heresy and atheism that in the future would spread throughout the world. For this is the greatest evil of all the evils and miseries in the world; there is nothing more evil than this, may heaven protect us. And then his followers were sighing before him despondently and were saying: "what shall we do and to whom will he [Rabbeinu] leave us?" And he answered, "What are you worrying about, since I am going before you" etc. And he revealed his thought both explicilty and implicitly that everything that he did with his followers was for both those who are here and those who are not here, meaning even for the future generations. And he said, Just strenthen yourselves together with unity and friendship and the love of friends, and then you will be proper people, and not just proper but you will even be tzaddim and good. For G-d surely will help that my wish will be fulfilled, as I have always wanted. For with G-ds help I have finished  and I shall finish according to His will for sure And he said that whoever endeavored to join with one of his followers certainly will be a proper person, and not just proper but even a complete tzaddik, the way I want.

8 comments:

  1. Just strenthen yourselves together with unity and friendship and the love of friends, and then you will be proper people, and not just proper but you will even be tzaddim and good.

    wow!!! this sounds nice! And you get to be a tzaddik! :-) lol



    And he said that whoever endeavored to join with one of his followers certainly will be a proper person, and not just proper but even a complete tzaddik


    WOW! So not only do you get to spend time in unity with love of friends and be a tzaddik but to even make a effort to join..., you are a tzaddik! very cool!

    anyone have any other insights from the post?? Anything anyone wants to share..??
    I am all ears! I am hoping to get others so we can learn together! Am open to anyones obervations and understandings etc...

    pz Nanachs!

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  2. I noticed something. He says: "but you will even be tzaddikim and good"

    The word good seems superfluous, no? If you are a tzaddik doesn't that already include being good? It's like saying "that man is a rabbi and Jewish". You just need to say he's a rabbi. I don't have any ideas of how to answer my question. But I would like to see the original Hebrew but I don't know where it is.

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    1. I think they might have the original hebrew on nanach.org.

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    2. I think I actually have the Hebrew book, but I just don't know where in the book it is.

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    3. End of second paragraph, the first letter

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    4. Thanks. I found it and it indeed says "tzaddikim v'tovim". "Tovim" means "good". I don't have an explanation. I know though, that a person can be a tzaddik and still "miss the mark". The Talmud says that before the 2nd Temple was destroyed the generation was filled with tzaddikim but because these tzaddikim had baseless hatred for eachother and spoke loshon hara about eachother the Temple was destroyed.

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  3. HMM, how can one be a tzaddik and not be good? weird...

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