{"id":1718,"date":"2018-10-22T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?page_id=1718"},"modified":"2018-11-11T02:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T02:22:47","slug":"interest-and-desire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?page_id=1718","title":{"rendered":"Interest &#038; Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><b>Transcendent Powers of the Soul: Interest and Desire<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Jewish teaching, within the finite conscious part of our soul the deepest powers we possess are <em>tainug<\/em> (pleasure) and <em>ratzon<\/em> (will).\u00a0 Will is the active expression of pleasure: we want what we like.\u00a0 Pleasure and will are transcendent soul powers since they are expressed in all parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.6; font-size: 1.3rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1301 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/903-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"903\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/903-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/903-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/903-720x405.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In educational terms, pleasure is the deep interest a student takes in learning and will is a student\u2019s desire to actively pursue an interest.\u00a0 In short, interest generates a desire to learn. There is a well-known Jewish teaching that \u201ca person should always study in a place that his heart desires\u201d, for learning ultimately stems from interest and motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Just as children are born with natural curiosity and pleasure in learning, so too are all students naturally self-motivated learners.\u00a0 Yet as we grow older we may lose touch with that core.\u00a0 Our responsibility as educators, therefore, is not so much to <i>create<\/i> interest and motivation but rather to <i>nurture<\/i>\u00a0our students&#8217; innate curiosity about themselves and the world around them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/893-e1391997011825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1300 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/893-e1391997011825-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"893\" width=\"270\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/893-e1391997011825-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/893-e1391997011825-1024x989.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcendent Powers of the Soul: Interest and Desire According to Jewish teaching, within the finite conscious part of our soul the deepest powers we possess are tainug (pleasure) and ratzon (will).\u00a0 Will is the active expression of pleasure: we want what we like.\u00a0 Pleasure and will are transcendent soul powers since they are expressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1696,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1718\/revisions\/1835"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}