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?
Trust in G-d, and in how He is running the universe.
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 November 1, 2019 – ג׳ במרחשוון תש״פ · Last modified November 1, 2019
Moshe Steinberg asked on Mi Yodeya on April 2nd, 2018: Does the phrase b’ezras Hashem make sense philosophically and if so, what does it mean? B’ezras Hashem implies to me that a person can do...
by Micha Berger · Published December 2, 2015 – כ׳ בכסלו תשע״ו · Last modified December 2, 2015
No, the title of this post doesn’t refer to HQBH, although clearly it could. (Or can it: Can we define “heroism” with respect to One for Whom there are no risks to take?) Nor...
Bitachon / Holidays / Teshuvah
by Micha Berger · Published September 18, 2014 – כ״ג באלול תשע״ד · Last modified September 18, 2014
תִּקְעוּ בַחֹדֶשׁ שׁוֹפָר, בַּכֵּסֶה לְיוֹם חַגֵּנוּ. כִּי חֹק לְיִשְׂרָאֵל הוּא, מִשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹקֵי יַעֲקֹב. Blow the shofar at the new moon, at the fullness for our holiday. For it is a choq [a trans-rational statute]...
by Micha Berger · Published February 13, 2013 – ג׳ באדר תשע״ג · Last modified February 13, 2013
Saying that I have bitachon, trust that Hashem sets up the world I experience to maximize my opportunity for success, implies that I believe that all of my failures are due to my own...
by Micha Berger · Published March 9, 2012 – ט״ו באדר תשע״ב · Last modified March 9, 2012
Regardless of what one believes about Creation and the origin of the species, we have evolution since then. In order to even entertain the possibility of evolution as the origin of the species, one...
by Micha Berger · Published February 7, 2012 – י״ד בשבט תשע״ב · Last modified February 7, 2012
אמר רבי אבהו כתיב (תהילים ד:ב) “בְּקָרְאִי עֲנֵנִי אֱ-לֹהֵי צִדְקִי, בַּצָּר הִרְחַבְתָּ לִּי[; חָנֵּנִי, וּשְׁמַע תְּפִלָּתִי].” אמר דוד לפני הקדוש ברוך הוא, “רבון העולמים! כל צרה שהייתי נכנס לה, אתה הייתה מרחיבה לי. נכנסתי...
by Micha Berger · Published October 30, 2008 – א׳ במרחשוון תשס״ט · Last modified October 30, 2008
In an earlier post, I mentioned R’ Elchanan Wasserman’s essay on the Great Depression. ) Despite the past couple of days looking promising, it is still too early to rest comfortably. The markets are...
by Micha Berger · Published September 29, 2008 – כ״ט באלול תשס״ח · Last modified September 29, 2008
Perhaps it is just that we have been exploring these two topics simultanously, but I think there is an interesting relationship between them. I wrote about bitachon that Bitachon is awareness that the A-lmighty...
by Micha Berger · Published September 22, 2008 – כ״ב באלול תשס״ח · Last modified September 22, 2008
There are three basic models of bitachon: 1- Bitachon is the belief that everything will turn out okay. This message is taught in an entire genre of stories which create the image that if...
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