מה אני ומה כחיNo Deed Is Lost

mah ani u-mah koḥiIn Gamatria ↗

Nothing you do falls to the ground; it all goes up.

No Jew should say "what am I, what power do I have?" Every act, word and thought rises to its root and works in the highest worlds, even though he cannot see it. The author hears Avot's "know what is above you" as "know that what happens above comes from you." A sin wrecks more than Nebuchadnezzar and Titus did. They could destroy only the lower Temple, and only because Israel's sins had already weakened the upper one. The heart corresponds to the Holy of Holies, so an impure thought defiles that inner sanctum worse than Titus's desecration did.

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