My Mission Impossible Assignment :: Book Report :: "Love of Kindness" ... Seeing The Good In Others (In Emoticolor) ... Including Those Who Dislike and Slight You... And Helping Them, EVEN WHEN YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO...
Mission Impossible Assignment:
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it is - Read "Love of Kindness" and write a book report. Use photography to make a point or to add something of value.
I can now say that "Love of Kindness," which is "Chafetz Chayim" = "חָפֵץ חַיִּיִּם" in Hebrew, is a fantastic book. I had heard about it, a number of times, and had been meaning to read it, but life kept getting in the way...;))
The physical pages are dull grey and white, aka B&W. However, the writings feel red hot, like the burning bush or molten glass... I changed the page colors a bit to capture those shades of emotional intensity...
One might call it Emoticolor. No, it's not Technicolor. Yes, I made up the word Emoticolor as a contraction of Emotion and Color.
Last week, a copy of the book was on the table where I usually sit and stand for Evening and Night services at my local Synagogue. I knew right away what that meant. I don't believe in accidents, so I took this serendipitous occurrence as a gentle message as to what I should be reading next. I don't have a copy of the book, so I've been sneaking in random pages between focusing on the service.
How do I select pages? I use a tried and true method that I perfected in childhood. I open a book at random and start to read. If I have trouble closing the book, I know it's a read. I do open and read once near the end, then near the middle, and then near the beginning. If it hasn't grabbed me, after those tries, I decide it's not for me.
I tried that with Ahavat Chesed, Love of Kindness. No matter where I open the book and read, I have trouble stopping to return to praying!! And it's grabbed my attention during the rest of the day, even when I am not anywhere near the book.
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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chofetz.html
The Chofetz Chaim - Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen
(1838-1933)
Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen was one of the greatest figures in modern Jewish history. He was recognized as both an outstanding scholar and an extraordinarily righteous man. His impact on Judaism was phenomenal. It is interesting to note that, despite his great stature, he refused to accept any rabbinical position and supported himself from a small grocery run by his saintly wife in the town of Radin where they lived. Rabbi Yisroel Meir devoted himself to the study and teaching of Torah.
Rabbi Yisroel Meir is perhaps best known for his campaign to teach his fellow Jews about the laws of Lashon Hara (forbidden [i.e., evil] speech). When he was 35 (1873) he published his first book, Chofetz Chaim, which was devoted to this topic. The name comes from Tehillim (Psalms) 34, “Who is the man that desires life (chofetz chaim)… keep your tongue from evil….” He later published two more books on this subject. As has often happened to Judaism’s great leaders, Rabbi Yisroel Meir became known by the name of his book and is known worldwide as the Chofetz Chaim.
My Next Assignment? What about the book called "The Desirer of Life" = "The Chofetz Chayim" in Hebrew
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chafetz_Chaim_(book)
"The Chofetz Chaim" (or Chafetz Chaim or Hafetz Hayim) (Hebrew: חָפֵץ חַיִּים) (trans. Desirer of Life) is a book on the Jewish laws of speech written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan.
The title of the work Chafetz Chaim by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan is taken from Psalms 34:12–15:
"Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of God. Who is the man that desires life; who loves days, that he may see goodness [during them]? Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit; turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it." [1]
The subject of the book is Lashon Hara (evil speech, or loosely: gossip and slander and prohibitions of defamation.) Rabbi Kagan provides copious sources from the Torah, Talmud and Rishonim (early commentators) about the severity of Jewish law on tale-mongering and gossip.
Lashon hara, meaning evil speech, is sometimes translated as prohibitions of slander, but in essence is concerning the prohibitions of saying evil/bad/unpleasant things about a person, that are true.
The book is divided into three parts:
Mekor chayim ("Source of Life"), the legal text.
Be'er mayim chayim ("Well of living water"), the footnotes and legal argument.
It is commonly printed together with the text Shemirath ha-Lashon ("Guarding of the tongue"), an ethical treatise on the proper use of the faculty of speech.
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My Mission Impossible Assignment :: Book Report :: "Love of Kindness" ... Seeing The Good In Others (In Emoticolor) ... Including Those Who Dislike and Slight You... And Helping Them, EVEN WHEN YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO...
Mission Impossible Assignment:
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it is - Read "Love of Kindness" and write a book report. Use photography to make a point or to add something of value.
I can now say that "Love of Kindness," which is "Chafetz Chayim" = "חָפֵץ חַיִּיִּם" in Hebrew, is a fantastic book. I had heard about it, a number of times, and had been meaning to read it, but life kept getting in the way...;))
The physical pages are dull grey and white, aka B&W. However, the writings feel red hot, like the burning bush or molten glass... I changed the page colors a bit to capture those shades of emotional intensity...
One might call it Emoticolor. No, it's not Technicolor. Yes, I made up the word Emoticolor as a contraction of Emotion and Color.
Last week, a copy of the book was on the table where I usually sit and stand for Evening and Night services at my local Synagogue. I knew right away what that meant. I don't believe in accidents, so I took this serendipitous occurrence as a gentle message as to what I should be reading next. I don't have a copy of the book, so I've been sneaking in random pages between focusing on the service.
How do I select pages? I use a tried and true method that I perfected in childhood. I open a book at random and start to read. If I have trouble closing the book, I know it's a read. I do open and read once near the end, then near the middle, and then near the beginning. If it hasn't grabbed me, after those tries, I decide it's not for me.
I tried that with Ahavat Chesed, Love of Kindness. No matter where I open the book and read, I have trouble stopping to return to praying!! And it's grabbed my attention during the rest of the day, even when I am not anywhere near the book.
__________________________________________________________
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/chofetz.html
The Chofetz Chaim - Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen
(1838-1933)
Rabbi Yisroel Meir HaKohen was one of the greatest figures in modern Jewish history. He was recognized as both an outstanding scholar and an extraordinarily righteous man. His impact on Judaism was phenomenal. It is interesting to note that, despite his great stature, he refused to accept any rabbinical position and supported himself from a small grocery run by his saintly wife in the town of Radin where they lived. Rabbi Yisroel Meir devoted himself to the study and teaching of Torah.
Rabbi Yisroel Meir is perhaps best known for his campaign to teach his fellow Jews about the laws of Lashon Hara (forbidden [i.e., evil] speech). When he was 35 (1873) he published his first book, Chofetz Chaim, which was devoted to this topic. The name comes from Tehillim (Psalms) 34, “Who is the man that desires life (chofetz chaim)… keep your tongue from evil….” He later published two more books on this subject. As has often happened to Judaism’s great leaders, Rabbi Yisroel Meir became known by the name of his book and is known worldwide as the Chofetz Chaim.
My Next Assignment? What about the book called "The Desirer of Life" = "The Chofetz Chayim" in Hebrew
__________________________________________________________
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chafetz_Chaim_(book)
"The Chofetz Chaim" (or Chafetz Chaim or Hafetz Hayim) (Hebrew: חָפֵץ חַיִּים) (trans. Desirer of Life) is a book on the Jewish laws of speech written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan.
The title of the work Chafetz Chaim by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan is taken from Psalms 34:12–15:
"Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of God. Who is the man that desires life; who loves days, that he may see goodness [during them]? Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit; turn from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it." [1]
The subject of the book is Lashon Hara (evil speech, or loosely: gossip and slander and prohibitions of defamation.) Rabbi Kagan provides copious sources from the Torah, Talmud and Rishonim (early commentators) about the severity of Jewish law on tale-mongering and gossip.
Lashon hara, meaning evil speech, is sometimes translated as prohibitions of slander, but in essence is concerning the prohibitions of saying evil/bad/unpleasant things about a person, that are true.
The book is divided into three parts:
Mekor chayim ("Source of Life"), the legal text.
Be'er mayim chayim ("Well of living water"), the footnotes and legal argument.
It is commonly printed together with the text Shemirath ha-Lashon ("Guarding of the tongue"), an ethical treatise on the proper use of the faculty of speech.
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