Pieces of Sapphire
In this week’s parasha (Shemos 34:1), when Hashem tells Moshe to carve the second luchos, He says “פסל לך – carve for yourself”. The gemara comments on the apparently superfluous “לך – for yourself”...
2- Shemos / Torah as Growth / Uncategorized
by Micha Berger · Published March 4, 2021 – כ׳ באדר תשפ״א · Last modified March 4, 2021
In this week’s parasha (Shemos 34:1), when Hashem tells Moshe to carve the second luchos, He says “פסל לך – carve for yourself”. The gemara comments on the apparently superfluous “לך – for yourself”...
Teshuvah / Torah as Growth / Uncategorized
by Micha Berger · Published November 5, 2019 – ז׳ במרחשון תש״פ · Last modified November 5, 2019
Someone lamented on Mi Yodeya: I wasted my youth. I am 35 years old. I had a toxic relationship with my parents, especially my mother. My career never started, and I am still looking...
2- Shemos / Pesach / Torah as Growth / Yir`ah
by Micha Berger · Published April 12, 2019 – ז׳ בניסן תשע״ט · Last modified April 12, 2019
דַּבֶּר־נָ֖א בְּאׇזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֑ם וְיִשְׁאֲל֞וּ אִ֣ישׁ ׀ מֵאֵ֣ת רֵעֵ֗הוּ וְאִשָּׁה֙ מֵאֵ֣ת רְעוּתָ֔הּ כְּלֵי־כֶ֖סֶף וּכְלֵ֥י זָהָֽב׃ Please tell the people to borrow, each man from his friend and each woman from her friend, silver utensils and gold utensils....
1- Bereishis / Anavah / Audio / Torah as Growth
by Micha Berger · Published October 4, 2018 – כ״ה בתשרי תשע״ט · Last modified October 4, 2018
A 15 minute shiur on Facebook Live on the Meshekh Chokhmah’s discussion of Bereishis 1:26 “וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹקִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ — And G-d said, ‘Let us make man in our Image.” Audio: Video:...
by Micha Berger · Published August 3, 2016 – כ״ח בתמוז תשע״ו · Last modified August 3, 2016
Parashas Mas’ei opens with a description of Benei Yisra’el’s trip through the desert, and lists the forty-two stops made along the way. An oft-quoted Zohar identifies the stops in the desert with each of...
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...
1- Bereishis / Holidays / Torah as Growth
by Micha Berger · Published June 9, 2016 – ג׳ בסיון תשע״ו · Last modified June 9, 2016
Most young Yeshiva children come home sometime around Shavuos with the story of how Hashem offered the Torah to all the nations of the world, but only the Jews accepted it. The medrash, as...
Shaarei Yosher / Torah as Growth / Uncategorized
by Micha Berger · Published June 22, 2014 – כ״ד בסיון תשע״ד · Last modified June 22, 2014
Nefesh haChaim is a collection of Rav Chaim Volozhiner’s writings organized posthumously by his son and successor, R’ Yitzchak. We can see this in the self-description in the title page of the early editions...
by Micha Berger · Published May 1, 2014 – א׳ באייר תשע״ד · Last modified May 1, 2014
(This post comes with background music. If you listen to a capella singing during the omer, press play below now. “Ana Hashem”, sung by Nachum Stark, from “A Sefirah Kumzitz”.) There is a story...
by Micha Berger · Published April 7, 2013 – כ״ז בניסן תשע״ג · Last modified April 7, 2013
דְּבַשׁ מָצָאתָ אֱכֹל דַּיֶּךָּ פֶּן תִּשְׂבָּעֶנּוּ וַהֲקֵאתוֹ. If you find honey, eat just enough; lest you get full and vomit it. – Mishlei 25:16 (In the days of the geonim and earlier rishonim it was...
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