A Second Covenant
“To enter into a beris, a covenant, with Hashem your G-d, and in His oath, which Hashem makes with You today.” (Devarim 29:11) The Ramban comments that the beris mentioned here is a new...
5- Devarim / Ta`amei haMitzvos
by Micha Berger · Published September 30, 2005 – כ״ו באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 30, 2005
“To enter into a beris, a covenant, with Hashem your G-d, and in His oath, which Hashem makes with You today.” (Devarim 29:11) The Ramban comments that the beris mentioned here is a new...
by Micha Berger · Published September 25, 2005 – כ״א באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 25, 2005
When a Jew talks during davening in a shul in America, A shul in Netzarim is set aflame. That’s the lesson I took from this Elul. The feelings generated from pictures of the fires...
by Micha Berger · Published September 22, 2005 – י״ח באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 22, 2005
(This is the second in what I hope will be a series of posts be”H about whether reward and punishment are caused by the actions they address, or meted out by Hashem more directly....
by Micha Berger · Published September 22, 2005 – י״ח באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 22, 2005
There are two kinds of medrash (which should technically be called “midrash” to be grammatically correct). Midrashei Aggada are non-halakhic statements, those of mussar, Jewish thought, Qabbalah, and the like. The thought is usually...
by Micha Berger · Published September 20, 2005 – ט״ז באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 20, 2005
I wanted to share the following thought sent in today’s email from Rabbi Zvi Miller of The Salant Foundation. The Salant Foundation emails a mussar thought and a suggestion for implementing it daily (when...
by Micha Berger · Published September 19, 2005 – ט״ו באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 19, 2005
I recently noticed a paradox when it comes to mitzvos bein adam lachaveiro (interpersonal mitzvos). What is the purpose of such mitzvos? To develop feelings of love and caring toward others; to expand our...
by Micha Berger · Published September 12, 2005 – ח׳ באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 12, 2005
The Israeli Government wanted to have the army destroy the synagogues of Azza, to spare us the shame, the Palestinian triumphalism and the chillul Hashem (not that the government would necessarily use that term)...
by Micha Berger · Published September 8, 2005 – ד׳ באלול תשס״ה · Last modified September 8, 2005
Picture being in a box. A large box, plenty of room to walk around, but very much with a “boxy” feel. There is a pervasive smell of tar; the box itself is wood sealed...
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