The Lord agreed to this, whereupon Abraham argued God down to 45, and then 40, and then 30, and even down to 20 and then to In Genesis, God will spare Sodom for the sake of The number 10 is certainly a sacred one and there are many examples of groups of 10 in the Bible, beginning with the 10 sons of Jacob who went down into Egypt.
But while the unknown worthy men of Sodom accounts for the principle of hidden righteous ones, where does the number 36 derive from? In his list of urgently needed righteous types of men, Rabbi Shimon included himself and his son and various biblical worthies.
Modern scholars have suggested that the fact that ancient astrology believed that the sky, the courts of heaven, was traditionally divided into 36 sections of 10, giving us our modern degrees of a circle, may have influenced the numbering for the Talmudic sages.
These secret people are righteous men whose actions are good and compassionate. They do not know that they are among the 36, and their humility is so great that were they to discover that they are indeed these righteous ones, they would cease to be them. Therefore any person who declared himself to be one of the hidden ones would certainly not be one.
But God knows who they are and for their sake he spares the rest of us. The Hasidic Jews loved to attribute wonderful powers to the holiest of their rabbis, and so in some of the writings one finds disciples of great rabbis wondering of their master might be one of the In Hasidic legend these men are scattered around the Diaspora, that is, the communities of Jews across the world.
On occasion, one of the Tzadikim Nistarim will emerge from obscurity to save a Jewish community or some group of innocent people from disaster or persecution. They would hand the gabay a kvitlekh [Yiddish, "slip of paper"] upon which a request was written, as well as a small sum of money, the "pidyon ha-nefesh" [Hebrew, "payment for one's soul"].
The teachings of specific tzaddikim, related in the form of parables, differed, as Chasidism did not have a uniform doctrine. Heated debates took place between some courts. One such example took place in the mid-nineteenth century between the tzaddik Chaim Halberstam of Nowy Sacz, who put strong emphasis on studying the Talmud and on a modest, ascetic lifestyle, and the tzaddik Israel Friedman of Sadogora, the author of many parables who loved luxury and not place much importance on study of the Talmud.
Skip to main content. Toggle navigation. About the project Polin. Search form "Search". Facebook YouTube. Goto Top. He succeeded to rise above the depravity of those around him, and despite the declining spirituality of the society, he was able to reach great spiritual heights of righteousness.
In their opinion, if Noah had lived in the generation of Abraham he would have succeeded to reach even higher levels. As you probably remember, G-d decided to destroy Sodom because of the overwhelming wickedness there. Abraham, who lived not far from Sodom, tried to save the city and his nephew Lot from destruction. He knew that no one truly righteous lived in the city of Sodom.
However, Abraham would have been satisfied with the people who were just righteous relative to the sinners of the city. Sometimes, in the lowest spiritual situation, even this is an advantage. They love family and are very connected to their children.
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