Uncovering Your True Self: Personality Types and the Four Species
You really don’t want to be a willow person! Or do you?”
The world we live in is characterized by the very opposite of unity. “
Jewish custom reflects the Jew’s ability to intuitively sense the cosmic means of connection to G-d that are available. “
Qualities
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Citron/Etrog
Palm/Lulav
Body Part
Heart
Spine
Eyes
Mouth
Keter
Taste and Smell
Taste
Smell
Neither taste nor smell
Advantages according to overt meaning of Midrash
Learns Torah and does good deeds
Learns Torah
Does good deeds
Has neither Torah nor good deeds
Has both the advantages of Torah and good deeds
Learning brings to action. Thus although this Jew focuses on learning, that in and of itself implies doing
Performs the required deeds thus must have knowledge of the what and how of Torah
Included in the same prestigious group of individuals who are imbued with both Torah and good deeds and by extension has both as well
strengths of the individuals
Highly intelligent and emotionally gifted
Excels in intellectual arenas
High in emotional intelligence
Imbued with guileless, pure and simple faith. “Blandness” touches one’s essence
All the groups of three leaves come to one point at the stem
Are called achvana, “fraternal,” because they grow beachva, ”together”
The Up and Downside of Each Type (Inverted for the Willow)
Essence point of the soul is concealed by the sparkling mind and personality
Essence point of the soul is concealed by the gift of intelligence
Essence point of the soul is concealed by gift of emotional intelligence
No revealed gift and therefore the essential, unified and “simple” point of the soul is manifest
G-d said, “Bind them all together and they will atone for each other.”
This article was originally published on www.TheJewishWoman.org.
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