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Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 28–31.
Published: 01 January 2014
... is the outsized cousin) as the root of all suffering. The Hebrew exhortation of v’ahavta l’reacha kamocha (love your neighbor as yourself) is foundational in Jewish prayer life and ethical life. Rabbinic literature warns against the dangers of the yetzer ha-ra , translated as the evil inclination...
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Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 January 2014
... their food by feeding awareness instead. Once we cultivate the compassion that is at the root of this process, the evil impulse ( yetzer ha-ra ) within us is not merely redirected while leaving the underlying drive unchanged; rather, our compassionate awareness alchemically transforms the evil urge...
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Tikkun (2011) 26 (3): 87–99.
Published: 01 August 2011
... on himself and to swear, ‘I do not know the man.’ And immediately the cock crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, ‘Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly.” In Jewish ethical thought, the yetzer hara , (Hebrew for “the evil inclination...
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Published: 01 January 2014
Paloma Galzi ( palomagalzi.blogspot.com ) Rabbinic literature warns against the dangers of the yetzer ha-ra (desire), but the Talmud itself notes that without this force, which “came forth from the Holy of Holies like a fiery lion,” the cycle of life as we know it would end.
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Tikkun (2017) 32 (2): 23–28.
Published: 01 April 2017
... love and admiration for the Israel of 1948 into idolatry toward the Israel of 2017. They hunted and hunted, and finally found it hiding. Where? In the innermost sacred place, the Temple’s Holy of Holies. The Talmud tells a story about idolatry: Some of the rabbis went searching for the yetzer...
