{"id":1117,"date":"2020-08-29T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1117"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:33:00","slug":"tiferet-the-middle-path","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/mussar\/tiferet-the-middle-path","title":{"rendered":"Mussar Tiferet, The Middle Path 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Tiferet, The Middle Path<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The end of the matter, everything having been heard, fear G-d and keep His Commandments(mitzvotav), for this is the entire man.\u00a0 For every deed G-d will bring to judgment-for every hidden or secret thing, whether good or bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 24px;\">\u05dc\u05b0\u05d1\u05b7\u05d3\u0599 \u05e8\u05b0\u05d0\u05b5\u05d4\u05be\u05d6\u05b6\u05a3\u05d4 \u05de\u05b8\u05e6\u05b8\u0594\u05d0\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05b6\u05c1\u05a8\u05e8 \u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05b8\u05c2\u05a7\u05d4 \u05d4\u05b8\u05bd\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u059b\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05be\u05d4\u05b8\u05bd\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u0596<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 24px;\">\u05d5\u05b0\u05d4\u05b5\u05a5\u05de\u05b8\u05bc\u05d4 \u05d1\u05b4\u05e7\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u0596\u05d5\u05bc \u05d7\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05bc\u05c1\u05d1\u05b9\u05e0\u05a5\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05e8\u05b7\u05d1\u05b4\u05bc\u05bd\u05d9\u05dd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Behold, only this have I found, that G-d has Made (\u05ea\u05d0\u05b6 everything from Aleph to Tav)(of) man upright(straight); but they have sought out many schemes:\u00a0 Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 7:29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0But, see, this I did find: G-d Made men plain, but they have engaged in too much reasoning.\u00a0 Kohelet Rabbah 7.29<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The Rambam, in dealing with the rectification of one\u2019s character traits in the service of G-d, speaks of the <em>middle path<\/em>, which seeks to void the extreme manifestation of any particular emotive attribute, and leads to a life of moderation and constant consideration of one\u2019s fellow man. This ideal state of man is in truth the return to G-d\u2019s initial Intention in His Creation of man, as said in Ecclesiates: Behold, only this have I found, that G-d has Made (everything from Aleph to Tav)(of) man straight; but they have sought out many schemes:\u00a0 Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 7:29\u00a0 The Hebrew Letters Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh Gal Einai Publications, Jerusalem page 98<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">It has been taught: Rabbi says: Which is a right way that a man should choose? Talmud Tamid 28a<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>The Straight middle way of Tiferet<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-774 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/qualabear2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"73\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #0000ff;\">Blessings and Peace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #0000ff;\">Rebbetzin Revi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiferet, The Middle Path \u00a0 The end of the matter, everything having been heard, fear G-d and keep His Commandments(mitzvotav), for this is the entire man.\u00a0 For every deed G-d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":618,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,24,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-chesed-sefirot","category-mussar","category-sefirot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117\/revisions\/1208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jewishpath.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}