This is an awkward feeling:
Well, in learning some random Sicha tonight, the Rebbe says that the not only do we have to fulfill Mishpatim in the same manner as we were to fulfill the Chukim. i.e. To fulfill the Mishpat solely because that is the will of Hashem. But it goes both ways. Meaning, in some way, Chukim have to be done as if they were Mishpatim too.
How is that done?
Says the Rebbe, that in the same way a person fulfills a Mishpat with extra enthusiasm and Lebbedikeit, because he can undertsand why he's doing it. So too, one must do the Chukim with that same energy and life. Even though he does not understand anything and is seemingly fulfilling the Mitzvah only because he's forced into it.
I personally have never learned such a thing and found this extremely interesting. Of course the argument can arise: A Jew should apparently get more excited when doing a Chok. Only because it's his creator's desire. Whereas, just to do a Mitzvah as it is understood by his limited capacity of understanding like a Mishpat, that would only generate a limited excitement for the Mitzvah. Nonetheless, this is Takeh the intention. In order for there to be the ultimate Dirah B'Tachtonim, we have to have the Chok - the infinte - enclothed within an excitement which would be generated and created from the limits of our world. On the other hand, as brought down throughout most of Chassidus, we have to turn the limited itself into the infinite as well.
As always, Judaism is so full of contradictions!
(I think the Ma'amor of "Havayeh Li Bi'Oizroi" from Meluket Beis speaks about the differences between the three types of Mitzvah's and how every single Mitzvah has all three aspects within it.)
... Gosh that feels holy!!!!
How is that done?
Says the Rebbe, that in the same way a person fulfills a Mishpat with extra enthusiasm and Lebbedikeit, because he can undertsand why he's doing it. So too, one must do the Chukim with that same energy and life. Even though he does not understand anything and is seemingly fulfilling the Mitzvah only because he's forced into it.
I personally have never learned such a thing and found this extremely interesting. Of course the argument can arise: A Jew should apparently get more excited when doing a Chok. Only because it's his creator's desire. Whereas, just to do a Mitzvah as it is understood by his limited capacity of understanding like a Mishpat, that would only generate a limited excitement for the Mitzvah. Nonetheless, this is Takeh the intention. In order for there to be the ultimate Dirah B'Tachtonim, we have to have the Chok - the infinte - enclothed within an excitement which would be generated and created from the limits of our world. On the other hand, as brought down throughout most of Chassidus, we have to turn the limited itself into the infinite as well.
As always, Judaism is so full of contradictions!
(I think the Ma'amor of "Havayeh Li Bi'Oizroi" from Meluket Beis speaks about the differences between the three types of Mitzvah's and how every single Mitzvah has all three aspects within it.)
... Gosh that feels holy!!!!

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ben
your blog is getting to deep for me here
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