\u201cIsh Tam\u201d \u2013 simple, innocent, wholesome man \u2013 that\u2019s how Torah calls our forefather Yaakov. \u201cTam\u201d is also used in Haggadah to describe the third son, where it sometimes interpreted as \u201csimpleton\u201d. However Haggadah gives a key into the real meaning in that context as well:<\/p>\n
The third son\u2019s question is \u201cMah Zot?\u201d \u2013 What is that?<\/p>\n
Normally in Hebrew we ask \u201cMah Ze?\u201d \u2013 for generic and male subjects.<\/p>\n
\u201cMah Zot?\u201d however signifies female subject \u2013 and beautiful explanation tells us that Tam sees Shehinah \u2013 Hashem\u2019s presence (which is linguistically and kabbalistically female), however doesn\u2019t exactly understand what he sees\u2026<\/p>\n
So our task here is to understand what is that we see\u2026 with our eyes and our soul \u2013 and use it to fulfill to the best our potential\u00a0\u2013 to get closer to our Source and help our dear brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n
Why call the site \u201cIsh Tam\u201d ?<\/p>\n
\u201cIsh Tam\u201d \u2013 simple, innocent, wholesome man \u2013 that\u2019s how Torah calls our forefather Yaakov. \u201cTam\u201d is also used in Haggadah to describe the third son, where it sometimes interpreted as \u201csimpleton\u201d. However Haggadah gives a key into the real meaning in that context as well:<\/p>\n
The third son\u2019s question is \u201cMah Zot?\u201d \u2013 What is that?<\/p>\n
Normally in Hebrew we ask \u201cMah Ze?\u201d \u2013 for generic and male subjects.<\/p>\n
\u201cMah Zot?\u201d however signifies female subject \u2013 and beautiful explanation tells us that Tam sees Shehinah \u2013 Hashem\u2019s presence (which is linguistically and kabbalistically female), however doesn\u2019t exactly understand what he sees\u2026<\/p>\n
So our task here is to understand what is that we see\u2026 with our eyes and our soul \u2013 and use it to reach our goal of coming to this world – to get closer to our Source and help our dear brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIsh Tam\u201d \u2013 simple, innocent, wholesome man \u2013 that\u2019s how Torah calls our forefather Yaakov. \u201cTam\u201d is also used in Haggadah to describe the third son, where it sometimes interpreted as \u201csimpleton\u201d. However Haggadah gives a key into the real meaning in that context as well: The third son\u2019s question is \u201cMah Zot?\u201d \u2013 What is that? Normally in Hebrew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[11,12,102,7,13,10,9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ish-tam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}