Aspaqlaria

Keeping Torah and Values in Focus

Monthly Archive: February 2008 – כ״ב באדר א׳ תשס״ח

Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark 0

Holidays / Machashavah

Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark

Rav Hutner, in the Pachad Yitzchaq for Purim, addresses the famous medrash (on Mishlei 9) which says that after moshiach comes, all the holidays will cease except Purim. This is derived from the verse...

Simchah and Oneg 0

Holidays / Shabbos / Simchah / Yom Tov

Simchah and Oneg

Simchah is related to wanting and having, because Ben Zoma defines the wealthy person as “sameiach bechelqo — happy with his lot”. The Tanya speaks about how each aspect of the soul lives in...

Brisk and Mussar 0

Dei`os

Brisk and Mussar

This post is a continuation of my previous post on the nature of Mussar, and on an earlier post contrasting Brisker and Rav Shim’on Shkop’s derekh (as I saw Rav Dovid Lifshitz’s variant thereon)....