![]() Not so good and reward, which are truly infinite. And so in accordance with our choice do we, ourselves, define the reward and punishment of "tomorrow." Just as evil is a finite phenomenon, so is punishment. The Torah says: "Today to do them," from which the Sages infer: tomorrow to receive their reward." Only "today" do we possess the opportunity to choose between good and evil. The final reward, the ultimate revelation of God's Essential light, will thus justly be bestowed upon the soul in the very same context as its life's endeavor, the physical world. In running, the leg is firmly in contact with the earth through an act of will, the soul directly affects physical reality. Running, more than any other physical act, expresses the power of will and freedom of choice (the Hebrew word for "running," ratz, is related to the word for "will," ratzon). This is alluded to by the leg of the letter gimel which expresses the running of the rich man to bestow good upon the poor man. Kabbalah and Chassidut support the opinion of the Ramban. On this point the Ramban (Nachmanides) disagrees and argues that since complete freedom of choice exists only in our physical world, the ultimate rectification of reality the reward of the World to Come will also be on the physical plane. According to the Rambam, the World to Come, the time of reward, is a completely spiritual world, one of souls without bodies. (The teaching of the gimel thus refers back to that of the open left side of the beit, from which it is born, as explained above.) The Rambam(Maimonides), in particular, places great stress upon free choice as being fundamental to Jewish faith. Reward and punishment imply that man is free to choose between good and evil. ![]() ![]() In Torah, both reward and punishment have the same ultimate aim the rectification of the soul to merit to receive God's light to the fullest extent. The word gimel is derived from the word gemul, which in Hebrew means both the giving of reward as well as the giving of punishment. P.S.Our Sages teach that the gimel symbolizes a rich man running after a poor man, the dalet, to give him charity. Reading things online is one thing… putting them to use is how you’ll master them.īe sure to leave a comment if I missed anything! What’s the best way to master these numbers? Print this page out, put in your notebook for reference. This should’ve taken you 5 minutes or less to read. Now, you can count from 1 to 100 in Hebrew. See? All you’re doing is combining part 3, ve and part 1.
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