Integral Torah Perspectives

The 16 different expressions of forgiveness, extended explanation. Translation by Rabbi Mendy Greenstein  Kapara - atonement, “atone for your nation Israel. כפרה - כפר לעמך ישראל . When you are in debt to get forgiven for it you need to give a כופר נפש , a payment of your soul. This is  judgment that descends upon you and a difficulty you go through in order to atone. A direct exchange for atonement all at once. Thus, on Yom “Kippurim” we ask for complete forgiveness in the merit the five עינוים afflictions we subject ourselves to.  Slicha - forgiveness, by the golden calf, “and Hashem says, I have forgiven, as you said” סליחה - ויאמר ה׳ סלחתי כדבריך . The idea is forgiveness for now, but the punishment is still in the wings and has not gone away. Even if there is punishment for now, to affect the forgiveness, it is not over. Just as by the golden calf it states וביום פוקדי ופקדתי , “on the day I remember (to punish you for a sin) I remember (to pu...

Iyov's grave soliloquy as a longing for le'asid lavo The implication here in the Mittler Rebbe’s Perush Hamilos is that "katan ve'gadol sham hu"-"great and small can be found there" refers to le'asid lavo - the time to cone and not simply "in the grave". None of the mefarshim take this view, but then I found the Yalkut רמז תתצו . The Yalkut does  imply that this hints to le’asid lavo. “If you ‘humble’ yourself with divrei Torah in this world, you will be ‘great’ in the world to come.” Accordingly, there must be a way to interpret the rest of the perek in this light. So read the pesukim now of perek 3 Iyov with this in mind... (English translation.) Perhaps the day he is cursing is the galus and the night is the night of exile. "Those who will awaken the livyason" is now a reference in context. The desire for miscarriage can refer to Moshiach who is a "bar nafla" like David. "With kings ...