Days of Vacation: Difference between revisions
Created page with "Days of vacation are typically defined as days off from the regular learning schedule in educational institutions, as well as temporary breaks from workplaces. However, Chabad Chassidus ideologically opposes the concept of "vacation" as expressed in common world practice. The Rebbe instructed that the meaning of "vacation days" should be defined as a period meant to strengthen Torah study and meticulous mitzvah observance. == Negating the Concept of Vacation == The Reb..." |
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== Not Always is the Intention to Serve Hashem Revealed == | == Not Always is the Intention to Serve Hashem Revealed == | ||
"This opposite this Hashem has made," and when the body engages in strengthening its health through simple physical matters, with increased eating and drinking, walking etc. (and not always is the intention to serve Hashem - revealed), this requires an increase also in the health of the neshamah, and even more than in bodily health, since the environment in summer resorts draws more to the above simple matters than in the city. At minimum the spiritual increase should match the physical increase, and it's brought that this is one of the reasons to learn Pirkei Avos immediately when summer begins, since then nature strengthens, trees blossom etc. It's also understood that from this there is absolutely no contradiction to the Baal Shem Tov's teaching of "you shall surely help with him," and not through fasts and afflictions because the power of desire should be clothed in holiness etc., until the hoped-for prophecy is fulfilled that the body will not only not disturb the spiritual and not only assist it but rather "the female will encompass the male." | "This opposite this Hashem has made," and when the body engages in strengthening its health through simple physical matters, with increased eating and drinking, walking etc. (and not always is the intention to serve Hashem - revealed), this requires an increase also in the health of the neshamah, and even more than in bodily health, since the environment in summer resorts draws more to the above simple matters than in the city. At minimum the spiritual increase should match the physical increase, and it's brought that this is one of the reasons to learn Pirkei Avos immediately when summer begins, since then nature strengthens, trees blossom etc. It's also understood that from this there is absolutely no contradiction to the Baal Shem Tov's teaching of "you shall surely help with him," and not through fasts and afflictions because the power of desire should be clothed in holiness etc., until the hoped-for prophecy is fulfilled that the body will not only not disturb the spiritual and not only assist it but rather "the female will encompass the male." | ||
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