ext_27529 ([identity profile] seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sophiaserpentia 2003-07-14 10:14 am (UTC)

Jewish concept of Law

First anyone looking over our shoulders should
not suppose this, nor of course should you, as my
own thought on these questions... But perhaps it
is worth to say that an Orthodox Jewish idea
(I say "an" because people may differ but I think
it is a fairly deeply thought sense of that idea)
is that the Law is not always for an apparant reason
but because these are tracks of the movement of things
above as reflected here and are to be followed in
effect not because they are the "right way or the wrong
way but the army way"...this adherance to the paths
of the supernal is for the Jew and not for all...
there are places where this thought strains and to my
sense breaks down, nor do I know that Orthodox(as
distinct from Reform Jews) would addopt a distinction
of morality and law, it sounds like a fellow attempting
to be pc and faithful to his thought at the same time which
can lead to breakdowns of order...
but this just to point up a perhaps Kabbalistically sound
(again saying as in another context I did what the
likutei amrim tanya observes that even the tree of life
is but an image and a dream) distinction of the paths
above reflected here and the merely rationally moral.

and again this is to express as I understand it a Jewish
thought rather than my own,
+Seraphim.

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