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Ki Savo 5749Volume 14 · Issue 2
Unfettered Transformation
The Ramban explains differently. “In my opinion, this acceptance was that man must concede the commandments in his heart and consider them true in his eyes. He must have faith that one who performs them will receive reward and goodness, and one who transgresses them will be punished.
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Vaeira 5754Volume 16 · Issue 16
Transcendent Names
Keeping Faith
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VaYakhel-Shekalim 5757Volume 18 · Issue 24
Foundation of the World
On the verse (Devarim 32:4), “He is the Lord of trust,” emunah, “and there is no unfairness,” the sages comment, “Lord of trust, baal pikadon, a trustee” (Sifri chapter 2; Yalkut Shimoni chapter 942). Clearly, an entrustment, pikadon, is a matter of trust, haamanah. A person places an entrustment under the guardianship
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Vayishlach 5758Volume 19 · Issue 11
Man of the Right
The most prominent difference between those who live along a course of routine continuation and we who live toward a new beginning is that they live in one world whereas we live with the faith that we are headed toward the Resurrection of the Dead for the World to Come (cf. Berachos 54a).
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Vayeitzei 5760Volume 20 · Issue 12
Leaving an Impression
Your Faith in the Nights
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Vayechi 5760Volume 20 · Issue 16
Fortified Ascent
For 26 years, the Romans kept faith with Israel. From then on, they enslaved Israel.
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Tzav-Parah 5760Volume 20 · Issue 27
Saved and Redeemed
Nothing of what happens in that world was revealed in This World to any of us—aside from Moshe Rabbeinu who brought to us this Torah. Other than him, our only perception of it is simple faith. “I believe with absolute faith that the Resurrection of the Dead will be when the Will arises from the Creator.”
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Vayakheil-Pekudei-HaChodesh 5762Volume 22 · Issue 22
How Fortunate Our Share
Foundation of Faith
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Bamidbar 5762Volume 22 · Issue 28
Mystery of One
He adds that since Anochi is one of the Ten Commandments, it inevitably commands us. What does it command—aside from establishing fact, which obligates us to believe? In addition to the obligation of having faith in this fact, there is a practical obligation to yearn for deliverance.
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Vayeira 5762Volume 22 · Issue 6
Excision of Defilement
They are not idolaters, and there is no place for idolatry by them. Anyone who is somewhat familiar with their ways knows that they have absolute faith that all is guided and established by the Creator. It is impossible to do the slightest thing in the world unless it was directed from on high. This faith is very ingrained in them and they live by it.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei-HaChodesh 5766Volume 2 · Issue 25
Beyond Time
To think that a thing exists as long as none destroys it is a grave misperception of existence itself. As people of faith, we know that nothing in creation exists intrinsically. The Creator bestows existence on all things, and their existence of one moment will never be the cause for their existence in the next moment. The fact of their continued existence
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Chukas 5766Volume 2 · Issue 32
Distinguished Nation
The incident teaches that the month that began idolatry, which Avraham had uprooted from the world, awaits rectification, and it should inspire us during this month in particular to return to the fundamental of faith that Avraham Avinu planted (cf. Rambam Avodah Zarah 1:3) and to distinguish ourselves in truth as his children. Then, all would recognize the Jewish People with certainty as the true descendents of Avraham, and the horrific tragedies we suffer
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Toldos 5767Volume 3 · Issue 11
A Touch of Laughter
After establishing the entire world on the point of faith, it was simply unfeasible for him not to have a continuation. As the great imposer of the world, he could not possibly remain childless. If his faith is correct, the entire future of the world must belong
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Shemini-Parah 5768Volume 4 · Issue 27
Instantaneous Inversion
To understand this, it is necessary to explain a concept inherent to the essence of faith and pertinent to each of us.
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Ki Savo 5767Volume 4 · Issue 3
The Cry of the Shofar
The Ultimate Future that awaits us is about absolute change, which requires the complete disintegration of all the organized and structured systems of today (cf. Maharal Netzach Yisrael chapter 32). One who has faith in them does not have faith that anything will change; one who lives a lifestyle that presumes the essential continuation of these systems in the Ultimate Future is either a fool or an apostate, or both. But one who awaits change and lives
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Korach 5769Volume 5 · Issue 29
Truth of Creation
brought out truth. The Rambam (Hilchos Avodah Zarah 1:3), based on the words of the sages, writes that Avraham Avinu debated with every individual according to his beliefs and showed him how his very mistake itself led to faith. In other words, he utilized all the falsehood in the world to prove truth and transformed the errors of all those generation into its substantiation.
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Mattos-Masei 5769Volume 5 · Issue 32
Imminence of Renewal
…t to rely. At night, we have nothing on which to rely; we live in faith. Of this, it says (Tehillim 92:3), “To relate Your kindness in the morning and Your faith in the nights.” At night, we rely…
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Vaeira 5770Volume 6 · Issue 16
Man and His World
Our entire faith rests on the Exodus (cf. Ramban to Shemos 13:16; Shemos Rabbah 89:4), and the verse from which the commandment of faith derives states (cf. Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvos, Aseh 1), “I am God your Lord Who has taken
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Ki Sisa-Parah 5770Volume 6 · Issue 21
Shrouded by Nature
event is by way of nature or the custom of the world. This lesson, we learn from the open miracles. In the words of the Ramban: “Man has no portion in the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu unless we have faith that all our matters and events are all miracles, consisting of nothing natural or the custom of the world.”
