#lamed vav tzadikim

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Quem É Um Cabalista E Qual O Seu Papel ?

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Velvy thinks she’s an angel. Of course he does. Not exactly. Lamed Vav Tzadikim. The 36 righteous by whom the world exists. They’re the emissaries for God. Without the righteous, then the world will come to an end. So maybe Star is one of them. A Tzadik Nistar.

SILENT WITNESS | Series 26 Episode 5.

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to be clear, this isn't some dumbass youth pastor bullshit or a case of folklorist labeling every monster that eats people a vampire. A recurring claim in the talmud that later writers expanded on was the the idea of the tzadikim nistarim (or alternatively, the Lamed Vav). 36 people who not only have miraculous powers which they use to fight supernatural threats, but that more importantly are expected to remain incognito during their acts of heroism, vanish the moment their job is done, and deny any relation to their alter ego even in the even they are unmasked.

Lets be real, no shortage of figures throughout mythology and folklore who walk around wearing the cape and underpants, but with the exception the handful of heroic trickster deities, the tzadikim are the only ones who also don the mask as a core job responsibility

The craziest thing is that these legends even justify the mutual independence and anonymity offered to heroes with their own solo series, while assigning them a united purpose against larger-scale global threats—namely, preventing the almighty fucker in the sky from going gold morning on our asses *again*—which is in fact their primary role in the folklore.

While Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster never, to my knowledge, directly mentioned the tzadikim in writings or interviews, they did explicitly state that superman was created with the clear role of giving people a jewish protector figure with the theme of blending in. I have no way of knowing if there was a direct inspiration there, but the archetype was clearly in there, just waiting to be expressed in the medium that it was.

I think that when discussing the jewish origins of superman and the cape fiction genre as a whole, there's always this crucial element to the equation that cant be ignored and yet almost always is, which is that superheroes already existed within jewish canon and have served a functionall identical role within folklore for centuries prior to the publication of action comics or zorro

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There are many stories about him, but I chose one about us. 50 years ago, today, Rabbi Aryeh Levin passed away, the man who was called "The Jerusalemite Tzadik", "The Prisoners' Rabbi" and was a one-man _chessed_ operation. We can write a lot about the warm, wise attention that he knew how to give to everyone - from the Prime Minister to the street beggar. He also managed to give hope to the prisoners in prison, to sick people in bad condition, and actually to everyone who came into contact with him. But here is a story of a totally different kind that the author Chaim Be'er once related: "Once, when I was a child in Jerusalem, I couldn't restrain myself and asked him: 'Is it true that you are one of the Lamed-Vav (36) Tzadikim?' Indeed, according to tradition, the world exists thanks to 36 Tzadikim, Lamed-Vav hidden Tzadikim, who are in every generation. R' Aryeh seemed to me to be surely one of them. But he smiled and replied with one word: 'Sometimes'. What a true, wonderful answer. He actually told me then that this is not a life time job or position, but a changing one. The world exists thanks to the Lamed-Vav tzadikim, and every time you get out of yourself and do something worthy, something good, you are considered to be one of them, and then you give your place to someone else after you who does something worthy." Sivan Rahav Meir

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Touch S01E9 - Lamed Vav Tzadikim - Tzadikim Nistarim - Bodhi Elfman - Avram.

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Tsadikim nistarim

Os Tzadikim Nistarim ou Lamed Vav Tzadikim (ל"ו צדיקים)  [são os 36 Justos] ou Pessoas Santificadas, uma noção enraizada no aspecto mais místico do judaísmo. Na gematria , ciência esotérica hebraica, Lamed é a letra que representa o número 30 e Vav, representa o número 6.

Além disso, 36, significa "vida dupla", sendo duplo de 18, que representa "vida". Tzadikim é o plural de "Justo" [justos, portanto]. Deste modo, as "Pessoas Santificadas" são chamadas de "Os trinta e Seis". Também são denominados Tzadikim Nistarim: "Justos Ocultos", ou "Santos Ocultos".

Segundo a tradição judaica do místico Judaísmo Hassídico ou "Chassídico", existem 36 homens [seres humanos] justos cujo papel na vida é justificar a existência da raça humana aos olhos de Deus.

A identidade destas pessoas é desconhecida e quando uma delas realiza completamente sua missão neste mundo, morre, e seu lugar é imediatamente assumido por outra pessoa.

O escolhido é, necessariamente, alguém que deve possuir o caráter necessário à condição de Tzaddikim. Porém, se Deus não encontrar sobre a Terra alguém bom, puro, humilde o suficiente para assumir o lugar do Tzaddikim morto, então, o mundo pode acabar no mesmo instante.

Os Lamed-Vav Tzaddikim, são chamados Nistarim, "os ocultos" ou, em tradução livre, os desconhecidos. Na condição de Nistarim ou, de agir anonimamente, é uma escolha, uma auto-imposição do Justo que usa seus poderes místicos para prevenir desastres e/ou proteger pessoas ameaçadas ou perseguidas. No cotidiano, vivem discretamente, em posições de pouco destaque na comunidade.

Em raras ocasiões, um deles é descoberto por acidente. O segredo não deve ser revelado. Os próprios lamed-vavniks desconhecem sua condição e se uma pessoa alega ser um dos 36, essa pessoa, certamente, está mentindo; porque a principal de virtude de um Nistarim é anavah [humildade]. Uma humildade tão sincera que o Nistarim não pode crer que, ele mesmo, é um dos 36 Justos.

Esses 36 Justos, vivendo sobre a Terra, são uma espécie de garantia de salvação do mundo perante o julgamento de Deus. É por causa deles que o Criador permite a existência da Humanidade que degenera em barbárie de costumes. Essa situação remete ao episódio bíblico de Sodoma e Gomorra, quando Deus promete a Abraão que preservará a cidade de Sodoma se ali encontrar ao menos 10 homens justos.

O mito dos Lemed viniks encerra a possibilidade de que cada pessoa neste mundo pode ser um dos 36 Justos e pode agir como um deles, praticando a misericórdia e a oração pela salvação, pelo bem de toda a Humanidade.

A tradição diz, ainda, que um desses 36 Justos pode, potencialmente, ser o Messias Judeu se o mundo estiver pronto para a revelação de sua identidade. Os Justos vivem e morrem como pessoas comuns.  

A crença nos 36 Justos preenche, em boa medida, o culto aos santos e outras personalidades no judaísmo. O homem não precisa de intercessores celestiais posto que o mundo recebe a Misericórdia através das ações dos Justos anônimos, desconhecidos e nunca revelados.

Qualquer um pode ser um deles: o articulista deste texto; o leitor ou mesmo alguém a quem todos consideram completamente desprovido (a) de qualquer mérito.

אני כבר אמרתי את שמי : " נ נח " !

נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן

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Waiting for the right moment...

As a mystical concept, the number 36 is even more intriguing. It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end. The two Hebrew letters for 36 are the lamed, which is 30, and the vav, which is 6. Therefore, these 36 are referred to as the Lamed-Vav Tzadikim. This widely-held belief, this most unusual Jewish concept is based on a Talmudic statement to the effect that in every generation 36 righteous "greet the Shekhinah", the Divine Presence (Tractate Sanhedrin 97b; Tractate Sukkah 45b).

Their purpose

Mystical Hasidic Judaism as well as other segments of Judaism believe that there exist 36 righteous people whose role in life is to justify the purpose of humankind in the eyes of God. Jewish tradition holds that their identities are unknown to each other and that, if one of them comes to a realization of their true purpose, they would never admit it:

The Lamed-Vav Tzaddikim are also called the Nistarim ("concealed ones"). In our folk tales, they emerge from their self-imposed concealment and, by the mystic powers, which they possess, they succeed in averting the threatened disasters of a people persecuted by the enemies that surround them. They return to their anonymity as soon as their task is accomplished, 'concealing' themselves once again in a Jewish community wherein they are relatively unknown. The lamed-vavniks, scattered as they are throughout the Diaspora, have no acquaintance with one another. On very rare occasions, one of them is 'discovered' by accident, in which case the secret of their identity must not be disclosed. The lamed-vavniks do not themselves know that they are ones of the 36. In fact, tradition has it that should a person claim to be one of the 36, that is proof positive that they are certainly not one. Since the 36 are each exemplars of anavah, ("humility"), having such a virtue would preclude against one’s self-proclamation of being among the special righteous. The 36 are simply too humble to believe that they are one of the 36.

The Tzadikim Nistarim exemplify a mode of leadership that differs from the notion of the visionary public leader that scholars suggest is overvalued in modern culture, but is well encapsulated in the aphorism that Presidents Truman and Reagan cited, "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."