The True Hero
Don’t picture a single jar of oil found amidst the rubble. The Beis haMiqdash wasn’t trashed, it was perverted into a Temple of Zeus. … That single jar oil needed to be searched for because it had been hidden. Who hid it?
Anavah / Bitachon / Holidays / Yir`ah
by Micha Berger · Published December 22, 2022 – כ״ח בכסלו תשפ״ג · Last modified December 23, 2022
Don’t picture a single jar of oil found amidst the rubble. The Beis haMiqdash wasn’t trashed, it was perverted into a Temple of Zeus. … That single jar oil needed to be searched for because it had been hidden. Who hid it?
by Micha Berger · Published October 8, 2022 – י״ג בתשרי תשפ״ג · Last modified December 28, 2022
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l proved that the common knowledge is simply wrong….
Mishum eivah is “merely” the importance of keeping hatred out of the world.
Whereas darkei Shalom is the ultimate – to walk in Hashem’s and His Torah’s ways.
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published September 21, 2022 – כ״ה באלול תשפ״ב · Last modified December 28, 2022
Wednesday nights (September 14th and 21st, 2022) the Beyond Meaningful Relationship – Relationshipful Meaning chaburah completed our study of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haChessed.
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published September 7, 2022 – י״א באלול תשפ״ב · Last modified December 28, 2022
Wednesday night (August 24th, 2022) the Beyond Meaningful Relationship – Relationshipful Meaning chaburah continued our study of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haChessed chapters 4 through 6 (pp. 35-39)…. This week we saw how …[g]iving leads to love, far more than the other way around.
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published August 31, 2022 – ד׳ באלול תשפ״ב · Last modified December 28, 2022
Wednesday night (August 24th, 2022) the Beyond Meaningful Relationship – Relationshipful Meaning chaburah continued our study of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haChessed chapters 4 through 6 (pp. 35-39)…. This week we saw how …[g]iving leads to love, far more than the other way around.
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published August 24, 2022 – כ״ז באב תשפ״ב · Last modified December 28, 2022
Wednesday night (August 24th, 2022) the Beyond Meaningful Relationship – Relationshipful Meaning chaburah continued our study of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haChessed chapters 4 through 6 (pp. 35-39)…. This week we saw how …[g]iving leads to love, far more than the other way around.
5- Devarim / Dei`os / Other-Focused O / Yir`ah
by Micha Berger · Published August 19, 2022 – כ״ב באב תשפ״ב · Last modified August 31, 2022
Adding together the two pesuqim, then, we get a more complete description of the path Hashem expects us to walk:
1- To be aware of the enormity of the Divine,,,.
2- which should motivate us to emulate…
3- … we come to love Him
and aim everything at wholeheartedly following His Plan to be good to us.
4- Hashem gave us Jews the Torah and mitzvos …
5- To help us become good human beings, creatures who are fair, motivated by lovingkindness, humility, in our partnership with our Creator.
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published August 17, 2022 – כ׳ באב תשפ״ב · Last modified December 28, 2022
Wednesday night (August 17th, 2022) the Beyond Meaningful Relationship – Relationshipful Meaning chaburah started our study of Rav Dessler’s Qunterus haChessed ,,, chapters 1 through 3 (pp. 32-35). In them, Rav Dessler talks about the potentials in a person for nesinah and netilah — giving and taking. These potentials have more to do with attitude and motive than the actual action…
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published August 10, 2022 – י״ג באב תשפ״ב · Last modified August 22, 2022
Wednesday night (August 10th, 2022) we completed our study of both versions of Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe’s essay Olam haYedidus. … [It] concludes with a discussion of zarus (estrangement) and akhzarius (cruelty,which Rav Dessler explains as a contraction of akh-zariyus – an extreme estangement). Our alienation from other people, from G-d and even our “need” to stay busy and never have to build a relationship with ourselves. Something to think about when singing “Mah yedidus menukhaseikh — How much affection inheres in your rest!” at the Shabbos table!
Ahavah / Audio / Ta`amei haMitzvos / Zelmele's Kloiz
by Micha Berger · Published August 3, 2022 – ו׳ באב תשפ״ב · Last modified August 22, 2022
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