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With God's help, 29 Av 5782

To Doron — greetings,

The Rabbi wrote a whole book, “Walking Among the Standing Ones,” in which he explains that a person should not be “static,” standing in one place, but should be in the category of “Israel, who are called children of the Omnipresent and were given the precious instrument” — the Torah — through which a person creates new insights in Jewish law and thought מתוך understanding the reasons of the Torah in depth.

With blessings for a good new month, Eliam Fish"l Workheimer

Shimshon Zvi Levinger, hello,

I am once again asking to clarify with you your extensive use of various different names.

In the past you objected to a comment of mine that was signed with the name "Shatzal." Over time, you keep adding more and more names and nicknames every day, and I’m worried there won’t be any names left for me for anonymous comments.
Would you be able to limit yourself and stop adding new names every other day?

Saturday night, “You are children to the Lord your God,” 5782

My wordplay on “Static” refers to the angels, who are called “standing ones,” since they are “separate intellects,” fixed and standing without change. In contrast, “Ben El” refers to the people of Israel, who on the one hand are human beings made of matter and prone to falling, but on the other hand are “children of the Omnipresent,” and therefore can depart from their inert nature and renew a choice for the good, to rise and to do good.

It should be noted that the angels are called in the Hebrew Bible (in Genesis and Job) “sons of God” or (in Daniel) “bar elahin,” whereas of the people of Israel it is said, “You are children to the Lord your God,” “and you shall be called children of the living God,” “my son, my firstborn, Israel.” So the angels too are called “sons of God.”

Perhaps the distinction is between the name “God,” which expresses the attribute of judgment, from which comes the fixed lawfulness in the governance of the world, whereas the names “the Lord” and “God” express (as the Maharal writes in one of his introductions to his books) the attribute of mercy, by which the Lord creates a new reality. And this attribute is entrusted only to the people of Israel, “who are called children of the Omnipresent” and “to whom was given the precious instrument with which the world was created.”

With blessings for a good new month, Afor

* whereas of the people of Israel — firstborn
* my son, my firstborn, Israel — son

But what is this — Eliam Fish"l Workheimer?

Does the requested series of columns converge? If so, each column has to converge. Or perhaps it’s a series of function columns which is itself a sequence of functions. If the sequence has to converge uniformly, it takes time to build it.

With God's help, end of August, to the great Cauchy, from August, 2 Elul 5782

Now that we have come to the mathematical doctrine of Augustin-Louis Cauchy, the reason for the separation of Static and Ben-El has become clear to us, for such is the nature of a “Cauchy sequence”: the more it advances, the denser its terms become, and naturally constant partnership grows more and more wearing.

The solution is to turn “August” into “Elul.” When each person sees himself as an “Augustus,” boasting of his achievements, then two kings indeed cannot wear one crown together, and each feels that he is “diminishing himself.”

By contrast, when Elul enters, in which each person places at the center the desire to bring gratification to his Maker, in the spirit of “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,” and the desire to bring gratification to the other, in the spirit of “each man to his fellow, and gifts to the poor,” and in which each person seeks and examines how to correct his own mistakes, in the spirit of “and if it came about by his hand, then I will appoint you” — then the two friends cease being static, and instead are filled with solidarity as “sons of the mighty,” sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

When each one returns to seeing himself as “virgin soil,” open and thirsty to receive — then the motivation between partners grows to appreciate one another and to invest in cultivating and strengthening the relationship, and the more they invest in the relationship, the more it grows stronger.

With blessings, Hasdai Betzalel Duvdevani Kirshen-Kwass

It is worth noting that A.-L. Cauchy opposed separating the state from faith; rather, he held that cultivating an individual’s faith strengthens his social responsibility. Precisely a person’s sense of himself as a “child of God” strengthens his commitment to society..