And more. Pure gold. The Ravs existentialism ( = Say it like it is). I love it. Judaism does not want man to rationalize evil or to theologize it away… The encounter with death must precipitate a showing of protest, a bitter complaint, a sense of existential nausea and complete confusion. I want the sufferer to act as a human being, God says. Let him not suppress his humanity in order to please Me. And on the difference between public and personal mourning: …heseah ha-daat plays no role in the personal encounter with individual grief… the mourner… cannot think or rationalize at all because he loses the focus of his personality, and his inner life, including his intellectual capacity, is in disarray. On the prohibition to get engaged: The private mourner is enjoined from betrothal for a different reason entirely, namely, the apparent worthlessness of life and its irrational, absurd vicissitudes…. This prohibition is symbolic of the experience of human failure and full bankruptcy through which one lives during the days of mourning… when man reaches the state of resignation and utter insensibility, when he finds himself in a stage of total deprivation, when everything that used to matter is not worth ones attention – then the urge to live and to persevere and to defeat evil vanishes. That is the foundation of the prohibition of betrothal. (Avelut Yeshanah and Avelut Hadashah)
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