Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah
Yesod Blocks: Foundational Torah
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Ep #46: Melakha, Cooking and Balance
21 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2022 at 8:20 am.
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In this Erev Shabbos episode, we explore the balance of pulling back from melakha (the application of consciousness to the physical world in order to create higher order and organization in a permanent way) while still having some involvement with it on Shabbos. Often, because of the Etz HaDa'at ( the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil), we think in polarities, imagining that melakha is bad on Shabbos, and must be avoided at all cost. The truth is far more complex...