Prayer and Self-Assessment

Hi,

['Tefillah' is a Hebrew word for prayer.]

"‘Hitpallel התפלל’, from which ‘tefillah תפלה’ is derived, originally meant to deliver an opinion about oneself, to judge oneself… Thus it denotes to step out of active life in order to attempt to gain a true judgment about oneself, that is, about one’s ego, about one’s relationship to G-d and the world, and of G-d and the world to oneself."

(Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsh, Horeb 618)

המצפה לישועה,

Mordechai

The illness of Self-Delusion

Hi,

"Among these human illnesses, there is one disease which is so common that I think that no one can escape it, except a rare individual... This disease can be of greater or lesser (severity), like other physical and spiritual illnesses. The illness to which I refer consists of the fact that every individual person considers himself more perfect than he really is, and desires and lusts that all that enters his mind should possess perfection, without effort and fatigue."

(Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms 25:59)

Have a great day,
Mordechai