Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01425)

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JEWS, TRUTHFULNESS  & PATIENCE

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Dear Friends,

In its deeper aspects, Judaism has the same universal wisdom present in the 
best parts of other religions and philosophies.

For instance, members of a  Jewish community followed a course of 
instruction  laid out by  their teacher, Moses Cordovero, in the Kabbalah 
tradition.

It consisted of 13 points, and I quote them verbatim (1) :

1) Forbearance in the face of insult.

2) Patience in enduring evil.

3) Pardon to the point of erasing the evil suffered.

4) Total identification with one’s neighbor.

5) Complete absence of anger, combined with apropriate action.

6) Mercy, to the point of recalling only the good qualities of one’s 
tormentor.

7) Eliminating all traces of vengefulness.

8) Forgetting suffering inflicted on oneself by others and remembering the 
good.

9) Compassion for the suffering  without judging them.

10) Truthfulness.

11) Mercy beyond the letter of the Law with the good.

12) Assisting the wicked to improve without judging them.

13) Remembering all human  beings always in the innocence of their infancy.


To these 13 points, reproduced word by word,  I would only add a coçuple of 
sentences by H. P. Blavatsky, as a commentary to the item 10, 
“Truthfulness”.

She wrote:

“Our motto was from the first   ‘THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH’.  
Truth we search for, and, once found, we bring it before the world, 
whencesoever it comes. (2)

Best regards,   Carlos.

NOTES:

(1) “The Teachings of the Jewish Mystics”, Compiled and Edited by Perle 
Besserman, Shambhala Inc.,  Boston & London,  1998, 150 pp.,  see p. 46.

(2) “Collected Writings”, H. P. Blavatsky, TPH, Adyar/Wheaton,  Volume IX, 
p. 7.

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