Wholeness Is Not Holiness: Torah Psychology of the Unified Self
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Wholeness Is Not Holiness: Torah Psychology of the Unified Self
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Can a person become integrated, regulated, sincere, emotionally healthy, and “whole” — while still being unified around the wrong center?
In this seminar, we ask why Torah psychology cannot stop with healing, authenticity, self-acceptance, or emotional integration. The deeper question is: whole before whom? Unified around what?
We map several Torah models of the unified self: Rambam’s formed soul, Rabbeinu Yonah’s concern with יראת שמים and the source of the middah, Chovos Halevavos’ demand for purity of avodah, and Chassidus’ idea of fallen forces returning to their Divine root.
Along the way, we clarify the difference between outward expression, inward experience, and the source of a middah; why actions form the soul but also come from the soul; and why even religious self-perfection can become a subtle form of self-service.
This seminar prepares the next two discussions: first, Rambam on the unity of the soul; then Chovos Halevavos on purity of service and the hidden self.
Sources and themes discussed: Rambam, Shemoneh Perakim, Hilchos Deos, Rabbeinu Yonah on Pirkei Avos, Sefer HaChinuch, Chovos Halevavos, Bahya ibn Paquda, Chassidus, middos, anger, יראת שמים, קנאת ה׳, avodas Hashem, Jung, Neumann, and Torah psychology.