The Calculus of Interest-Free Loans and it’s Logical Derivatives or Consequences - Footnote I

Notes and References

1) Its possible to channel by means of prayer and meditation the 26 middot through ten gates. Fear, Anger, Grief, Shame, Worry – honor, trust, duty, integrity, authority.



Middot


Tohorot Tumahot
1) Modesty: grief/duty

1) Hated without cause: worry/authority
2) Truth: anger/trust

2) Narrow eye: fear/honor

3) Controlling anger: grief/duty

3) Jealousy of others success: anger/trust
4) Increase beauty to give honor: fear/honor
4) Greed: grief/duty
5) Grace: worry/authority

5) Illicit nakedness: anger/trust
6) גמ"ח: fear/honor

6) Pleasure from others humiliation: grief/duty
7) Act of creation/ דרך ארץ: fear/honor

7) Arrogant self worth: shame/integrity
8) Self nullification: anger/trust

8) Loyalty that fails to distinguish: worry/authority
9) תשובה: worry/authority

9) Oppressive violence: worry/authority
10) Mercy: grief/duty

10) Mob emotionalism: shame/integrity
11) Giving heart: shame/integrity

11) Inability to listen: worry/authority
12) Forming the Yazir: anger/trust

12) Lust for power: fear/honor
13) Embolden will to rule humility in the face of conflict: the palm

13) Selfishness: shame/integrity







The 10 gates align with the hands and diagonally opposite feet. Assigning the middot as fixed points within the body establishes internal focus points when meditating. By focusing upon fixed nefesh pulses a student of דרך ארץ can develop a conscious awareness of his/her emotional mind located in the general area of the brain stem. Rational logical methods and emotional logical methods operate independently from one anther. A master of דרך ארץ respects this most fundamental distinction within the functions of the human mind. At birth a child’s emotional mind has essentially matured, not so the Neo-cortex. The Elokim informed Rivka that the elder would serve the younger. Hence דרך ארץ serves as the foundation of Torah faith.