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Re-edited
on July 24, 2013 ----------- In
this research - first completed 41 years ago -
I cannot update, how the central concept of "SIN" has to be radically
transmuted.
Sin is "Suende" in German, which derives from "sondern"=
to separate.
The actual "Suende" is "Denial", i.e. the separation between
Thinking and Feeling,
i.e. the lack of awareness - by ignoring, overriding, repressing -
of what I do not want in my life - a) feelings, b) needs, c) qualities, d)
greatness.
These denied parts of myself do not simply disappear ,
but survive in body and soul and all around me,
they even attract more of the same denials, become monstrous,
produce evil doing, perpetration, or evil suffering, victimhood.
The redemption from "Sin", i.e. from denial and "Lost Will"-
and from there the redemption from suffering and death,
begins with learning to feel, i.e. to accept, "to womb" what I feel,
to move it physically and then to understand...
In other words: I can allow myself to feel unpleasant feelings, needs, qualities,
only if I KNOW and PRACTISE - that every feeling, from the tiniest to the
biggest -
must be V I B R A T E D , i.e. physically breathed, sounded,
moved,
in order to heal and evolve, and then fulfill its task: to guide me and to
full-fill me.
Once there was a quantum-leap in evolution,
when humans understood that there was a connection between suffering and doing.
Since they knew from the beginning (unlike humankind today), that the many
and the one were tied together,
their "solution" then was, to uproot the one evil-doer from the
community, so as to spare it the consequences.
The next quantum-leap in evolution, was,
when it was understood that this "solution" caused even more suffering,
and they evolved the idea of "reproach and protest".
This, also, caused more damage than benefit.
The "solution" people then came up with, was not an evolution, but
a re-volution:
it was to deny the connection between doing and suffering altogether
and to ignore the mutual guarantorship between the one and the many.
As the present time-period shows, this was/is a horrendous denial,
yes the culmination of an absurd, monstrous illusion.
Now the time has come, to go down to the deepest roots of both:
the connection between doing/notdoing (=denial) and suffering,
and the connection between me, the individual, and everybody else .
My PH.D.-Thesis, 1966-1982, delivered
in Hebrew to the Jerusalem University 1972
Original Theme,1966 : The Idea of VICARIOUS SUFFERING as an ANSWER to INNOCENT SUFFERING (i.e. my coping with the holocaust). Final Hebrew Title 1972: "The PERCEPTION of SUFFERING and SOLIDARITY with the SUFFERERS in the Thought of the Jewish Sages from the time of the second Commonwealth till the End of the Talmudic Era" (i.e. in Bible, Apocryphes, Qumran, New Testament, Talmud, Midrash)
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See
the overview of "MY BOOK" in the context of "MY LIFE's
HARVEST"
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English Summary and Digests
continuation
of Rafael Rosenzweig's translation of the original summary
of the PH.D. thesis delivered to the Jerusalem University on Purim 1972
DIGEST - APPENDIX : THE TEACHING ON MUTUAL GUARANTORSHIP
What matters today is not the difference
between believers and unbelievers,
but that between those who care and those who do not care.
Abbe Pire, Nobel Price Winner for Peace, 1958
A historical occurance
The slogan: "All Israel are guarantors for each other"
The teaching of guarantorship as a base to a midrash on a holocaust (Midrash
Zekharia)
The teaching of mutual guarantorship in the research of a present-day Jewish
scholar.
The appendix deals with
the base of solidarity - the Law of Mutual Guarantorship.
"One man, or one set of society, or even one people
cannot do good or harm
without influencing beneficiently or adversely the fate of their nearest kin
as well as their whole environment, yes, even the whole world."
Arthur Marmorstein, who is quoted here,
was the first scholar to discover the teachings of the sages about a fact
"the truth of which is verified by daily experience...
....the understanding of which alone can bring blessing to mankind,
and the neglect of which was the cause of woe and tragedies in the history of
the world."
The sages' conception of guarantorship is exemplified
in the cruel legend about the hundred thousand of innocent persons, who were
slaughtered,
because many generations before one man, the prophet Zekharia, had been murdered
by his people.
But the sages taught this
law not only in an implicit but also in a very explicit way:
"All of Israel are guarantors to each other."
I searched the origins and applications of this popular
slogan
and dwelt on the most important means of measuring up to this terrible law of
reality:
the means of "protesting".
A man, who does not protest againt evil, has done it
himself.
When Jiftah, the military leader, slaughtered 42000 Ephraimites (Judges
12,6),
"who was it that killed all those?
say, it was none but Pinhas, the spirital leader,
for he had the chance to protest and did not!"
[There followed more than 600 notes,
which in the books I reduced to some thirty,
integrating into the text itself, what was vital in the rest and discarding
what was not vital]
Original
Introductions to the two Books Intro 2002 and Diary |