Clothing and Sin

Hi,

"Clothing honours a person and leads him before the great, and when clothing is dirty and stained then, 'Go away, impure, they declare (Eichah 4:15),' and people cannot go before kings without removing the stains by washing and purifying them via great blows and wringing. So, too, a person's deeds are the garb of his soul, in which he appears before the Universal King. Therefore he must have good deeds, as Kohelet 9:8 states, 'At all time, your garb should be white.'"

(Don Isaac Abarbanel, Maayanei haYeshuah 10:6)

Have a great day,
Mordechai

The symbolism of White

Hi,

"Rabbeinu Saadya Gaon wrote that since the first Greek king was Alexander of Macedonia - who was a philosophical scholar, and wisdom is white and pure - therefore Zecharyah's vision portrayed his reign with white [horses]."

(Radak to Zecharyah 6:3)

Have a great day,
Mordechai