Friday, December 21, 2007

A Person Who Is Constantly Pained

by Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook

A person who is constantly pained because of his sins and the sins of the world must always pardon and forgive himself and the entire world.

And in this he draws forgiveness and lovingkindness onto all of existence, and he gives joy to God and joy to people.

First he must pardon himself. And then he draws a general pardon onto everything, starting with that which is closest to him: the extensions of his roots from the aspect of his soul, his family, his friends, his nation, his generation, his world, and all worlds.

And in this he is a “foundation of the world” on the highest level, on the level of the Holy Tongue. And “a soft tongue can break the bone”—the bone of a donkey, “a bone that is evil on the outside”—so that all of the hidden good is revealed in everything.

And then he attains to the blessing of Abraham, whose likeness appears in every generation.

Arp’lei Tohar, p. 54

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