Dance

The Double-Edged Sword of Gevurah

The Double-Edged Sword of Gevurah

As is known, ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘middle’ aspects exist in the structure of the Supernal Lights, i.e. the sefirot in the world of Atzilut. The right side descends from chochmah (‘wisdom’) and is dominated by chesed (loving-kindness, giving), the left side descends from binah (‘understanding’) and is dominated by gevurah (severity, strictness, judgment, self-restraint), and…

Dancing with the Devil to Dance with Hashem
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Dancing with the Devil to Dance with Hashem

Describing the time in the future when Mashiach will reign, David ha-Melech expressed a beautiful thought simply and eloquently (Tehillim 149:3): יְהַלְלוּ שְׁמוֹ בְמָחוֹל בְּתֹף וְכִנּוֹר יְזַמְּרוּ־לוֹ (Let them praise His name with a circle-dance; with tambourine and with lyre let them make music to Him). Let us understand why dancing is the primary expression…