Materialism Addiction
I was asked the following question, and I was happy with how the reply came out. I just received permission to post the exchange, minus identifying information. Question: I learn in yeshiva kollel in...
Qedushah / Taavah / Taharah / Teshuvah / Torah as Growth
by Micha Berger · Published July 24, 2016 – י״ח בתמוז תשע״ו · Last modified July 24, 2016
I was asked the following question, and I was happy with how the reply came out. I just received permission to post the exchange, minus identifying information. Question: I learn in yeshiva kollel in...
by Micha Berger · Published February 8, 2015 – י״ט בשבט תשע״ה · Last modified February 8, 2015
It makes a lot of sense that the first mitzvos the Torah teaches after the Aseres haDiberos would be the interpersonal mitzvos of parashas Mishpatim. And many rabbis have given sermons on this point. The only problem...
by Micha Berger · Published February 7, 2015 – י״ח בשבט תשע״ה · Last modified February 7, 2015
We just looked at the section on the mizbeiach as being more about the role of the religious rite in a life of Torah. We don’t offer qorbanos — or daven, or shake lulav and esrog or… — ...
by Micha Berger · Published April 18, 2014 – י״ח בניסן תשע״ד · Last modified April 18, 2014
AishDas’s motto is lifted from the motto of HaOlim, founded by Dr. Nathan Birnbaum which existed from the 1910s through the 1930s, ending with the decimation of European Jewry. “Da’as, Rachamim, Tif’eres” — Knowledge...
by Micha Berger · Published April 17, 2014 – י״ז בניסן תשע״ד · Last modified April 17, 2014
So, I was asked in the middle of the second seder: Why do we break the middle matzah for Yachatz? Is there some significance to it being the middle matzah? Here was my off-the-cuff answer,...
by Micha Berger · Published September 8, 2012 – כ״א באלול תשע״ב · Last modified September 8, 2012
I was at a Mussar conference once, and Rabbi Dr. Meir Levin asked me about the programming. He asked, roughly, “When did Mussar shift from being about giving to others to being about working...
by Micha Berger · Published August 21, 2012 – ג׳ באלול תשע״ב · Last modified August 21, 2012
At one point in my career I was working at a bank that took on a large initiative to formalize its processes. Everything done within the bank had to follow procedures, with the requisite...
You might have noticed on the AishDas home page the motto “Da’as, Rachamim, Tif’eres” and wondered what it meant. It was something lifted from Dr Nathan Birnbaum’s organization “HaOlim”. (Note to the skimmer: Please...
by Micha Berger · Published December 9, 2010 – ב׳ בטבת תשע״א · Last modified December 9, 2010
The Mishnah in Maaser Sheini 5:4 discusses the obligation to be finished with all maaser by the Pesach after the third and sixth years of the shemittah cycle. The mishnah describes messages sent to...
3- Vayiqra / Qedushah / Shaarei Yosher
by Micha Berger · Published November 29, 2010 – כ״ב בכסלו תשע״א · Last modified November 29, 2010
(The following is based on a class I gave on Shabbat at Mussar Kallah IX, and is the further development of a number of ideas R’ Gil Student and I wrote for Mesuqim MiDevash.)...
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