Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson

Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson

Author:Elliot R. Wolfson [Wolfson, Elliot R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Religion/Judaism/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-05-31T21:00:00+00:00


The rational soul (which is the matter of the divine image) in the Jew is not comparable to the rational soul in the Gentile . . . for the rational soul of the Jew is in a manner different than the rational soul in the human species . . . for Israel is called “sons of God,” as they have a divine soul, and thus their rational soul is also in another manner than the rational soul in the human species. And the principle difference between them is that the intellect of the divine soul is humble . . . it can attain nullification, which is not so in the intellect of the world (the rational soul) that effectuates being . . . and it can lead to arrogance . . . when it acquires an intellectual matter.77



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