{"id":234,"date":"2014-06-22T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derechhashem.wordpress.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:31:07","slug":"derech-hashem-1313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/derechhashem\/2014\/06\/22\/derech-hashem-1313\/","title":{"rendered":"Derech Hashem 1:3:13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The class can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1:3:13<\/p>\n

In fact, by all rights the soul should actually and quite naturally purify the body to a truly supernatural degree when an individual is born, whether he\u2019s worthy of that or not, given how inherently pure the soul is.<\/p>\n

But the point is that G-d purposefully disallowed for that [1], and keeps the soul at bay, if you will, in the course of one\u2019s life, so that His intentions [2] can be fulfilled. So the soul does what it does while it is in the body, and no more, where it otherwise sits stifled and withdrawn, so to speak [3].<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also true that the soul should likewise be able to expand and irradiate as the individual engages in good deeds in his life, and to purify the body then to a degree. But that, too, was denied the soul in life.<\/p>\n

But those restraints will all be removed in the course of the Resurrection of the Dead, when the soul will purify the body in one fell swoop [4]. And the combination of body and soul will grow higher and higher [5] to the degree that accords with the sort of person that individual had come to be in life [6], until they become worthy of the World to Come where they can continue to grow [7].<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

[1] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because of Adam and Eve\u2019s sin.<\/p>\n

[2] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That humans be subject to free will.<\/p>\n

[3] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it \u201cexpresses itself\u201d to a degree in The Soul World as we said in 1:3:11-12. Also see 1:4:2 below and Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em> 72.<\/p>\n

[4] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Also see Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em> 72, 146-148.<\/p>\n

[5]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See Berachot<\/em> 17a; Zohar 2:83a, 1:135b; Sha\u2019ar<\/em> HaGemul<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[6] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See the end of Ch. I of Messilat<\/em> Yesharim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[7]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thus it\u2019s written that \u201cSages have no rest, neither in this world nor in the next\u201d (Berachot<\/em> 64a). See Emunot<\/em> v\u2019De\u2019ot<\/em> 9:10.<\/p>\n

See Klallim Rishonim<\/em> 23 for a lying out of what will happen to the body and soul step by step in the course of the 7th<\/sup>, 8th<\/sup>, 9th<\/sup>, and 10th<\/sup> millennia.<\/p>\n

(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n

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Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).<\/p>\n

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence<\/a>\u201d and \u201cRamchal<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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