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Showing posts with label R. Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label R. Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 May 2022

382) Is "holy sin" a bad theology?

 

Yitav Lev is an acronym for Yekutiel Yehudah (Zalman Leib) Teitelbaum of Sziget, known as the  (1808–83). 

Introduction

This article, based extensively on the research by Professor Benjamin Brown[1] deals with the paradoxical idea of “holy sin” or “aveirah lishma”- where sometimes it is considered a mitzvah to sin - as found in some kabbalistic and Chassidic thought.