Parashas Tzitzis
This week’s shiur rounds out our discussion of Shema with the third paragraph. In the first paragraph we accept Hashem as King, and that evolves to the theme of Vehayah im Shomo’ah, accepting the...
by Micha Berger · Published November 27, 2006 – ו׳ בכסלו תשס״ז · Last modified November 27, 2006
This week’s shiur rounds out our discussion of Shema with the third paragraph. In the first paragraph we accept Hashem as King, and that evolves to the theme of Vehayah im Shomo’ah, accepting the...
1- Bereishis / Fundamentals / Gender / Holidays
by Micha Berger · Published November 21, 2006 – ל׳ במרחשון תשס״ז · Last modified November 21, 2006
1. Buying Ma’aras haMachpeilah It is interesting to note that Judaism’s holiest sites were not conquered but bought. Parashas Chayei Sarah opens with Avraham purchasing the Ma’aras haMakhpeilah and the fields around it. Later,...
by Micha Berger · Published November 11, 2006 – כ׳ במרחשון תשס״ז · Last modified November 11, 2006
There are two places in halakhah where the criterion for whether something is significantly changed is whether there was a shinui sheim, a change in name. The first is in the laws of Shabbos,...
by Micha Berger · Published November 10, 2006 – י״ט במרחשון תשס״ז · Last modified November 10, 2006
Updated by user suggestion. Element added: tzimtzum. We can’t really understand how the Ribbono shel olam does anything, and so in contemplating the concept of creation we have to fall back on simplifications, models...
by Micha Berger · Published November 9, 2006 – י״ח במרחשון תשס״ז · Last modified November 9, 2006
We entered Shema last week by following the detailed look at the text started with Birchas Ahavah, Kel Melekh Ne’eman and the rich first sentence of Shema. This week we looked at the second...
by Micha Berger · Published November 3, 2006 – י״ב במרחשון תשס״ז · Last modified November 3, 2006
In this shiur, we look at the rest of the first paragraph of Shema. Some of the issues discussed are: Why do we say “Barukh sheim“? How can a person choose to fulfill the...
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