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Vayigash 5775Volume 11 · Issue 11
Light from Darkness
Rabbeinu Yonah elaborates with words of admonishment and near the end states (2:5), “Let he who is confident in God have faith when tragedies hover about him that the darkness will be the cause of the light. Of this, it says (Michah 7:8), “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy, for when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness
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Mishpatim-Shekalim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 17
Integral Dimension
By “perceive” we mean sense. With our minds, with faith, we know with absolute certainty even here that nothing exists beside Him, that anything exclusive of Him is impossible, and that nothing compares to Him. But to sense, to live, to perceive as a matter of life, we cannot reach
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Acharei-Kedoshim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 20
Of Days and Weeks
always is. To elaborate on such matters is to enter waters without end. But let us always remember the words of Rabbeinu Yonah (Gates of Repentance 2:5): “He who is confident in God must have faith when tragedies hover about him that the darkness will be the cause of the light, as it says (Michah 7:8)…, “When I sit in darkness, God shall be my light.”
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Behar 5775Volume 11 · Issue 22
Twofold Aspiration
Sadly, this was fulfilled—and it is still fulfilled. But we know with absolute faith that God brought us out of Egypt for eternal freedom. Eternal freedom is freedom upon which slavery can no longer be manifest, freedom after which there is no slavery (cf. Zohar Chadash to Ki Savo).
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Naso 5775Volume 11 · Issue 25
Honor of the Torah
attained the correct perception, and truth was revealed to him (cf. Bereshis Rabbah 39:1). He endeavored to eradicate all idols from the world, to straighten the warped minds in the world, and to teach the entire world faith in the Creator. This was the revelation of Torah.
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Vayishlach 5748Volume 12 · Issue 10
Predicting the Future
This is the difference between Israel and the nations. We are prophets, descendants of prophets, and we have faith in prophets. All their words are directed at teaching us of the true future, which is not concealed in the present. It is the absolute reverse of what is anticipated from the present.
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Vayigash 5752Volume 12 · Issue 13
Centrifugal Force
The Creator of the World keeps teaching us faith. How will we bear our shame if we do not take it to heart? And it is not being shown to us by allusion, in the manner that suffices for the wise. It is being shown to us with
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Vayechi 5747Volume 12 · Issue 14
Heritage in Exile
…ow after blow, and more blows, and nothing more than blows, and yet to have faith, to yearn even more intensely and more passionately. And the blows are not only from without but also from within, “Wounds… from when I was…
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Beshalach 5747Volume 12 · Issue 18
Pillar of Cloud
firmest planting in the world, essentially the tree of the world, the potential from which all of creation sprouted. In fact, the wording of the Rambam (Hilchos Avodah Zarah 1:3) is that Avraham Avinu planted faith in everyone he encountered. He was the father (Bereshis 17:5).
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Shemini-Parah 5776Volume 12 · Issue 29
Grantor of Life
Rachav attained the perception that there is nothing other than God, but not the perception that there is nil exclusive of Him. This is another level of faith, an additional perception. “There is nothing else even in the space of the world,” meaning there is no space for any other existence.
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Emor 5776Volume 12 · Issue 31
Security of Israel
many verses—throughout Prophets; it is not stated in the Torah. The commentators discuss this as well; they deliberate why the Torah itself does not mention the commandment of being secure in God. The Torah refers to it as Emunah, faith in God.
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Behar 5776Volume 12 · Issue 32
Your Truth
…tor has no need for us and no benefit from us—except that we have faith in Him and that we give thanks to Him for creating us, and this is the intent of uplifting our voices in prayer. The concept is…
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Bechukosai 5776Volume 12 · Issue 33
Fifty Weeks
which we barely understand. But that it states everything that happens in the world to the minutest detail is beyond the scope of our understanding (cf. Vilna Gaon to Safra Ditzniusa 5:33a-34a). In this, we must have faith for the Creator gazed into the Torah and created the world.
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Devarim 5776Volume 12 · Issue 42
Sanctuary of Time
must await the arrival of the Sabbath as one awaits the arrival of the king, which is why he went out in the first place. Indeed, the Rambam himself writes regarding the Messianic King that in addition to having faith in his arrival one must also await it (Hilchos Melachim 11:1).
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Lech Lecha 5776Volume 12 · Issue 7
Unnatural Catastrophe
prayer that it must elicit. We are being spoken to; we are being told, “You must pray.” And the prayer for this must be from the depth of the heart; it must be prayer from the profound faith that prayer can indeed alter nature.
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Toldos 5747Volume 13 · Issue 10
Echoes of Laughter
We know and have absolute faith that we were created in This World to reveal the glory of Heaven. God created us and He fulfills in us what it says (Yeshayahu 49:3), “Israel—through you, I become glorified.” We are the ones through whom
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Miketz Chanukah 5748Volume 13 · Issue 14
Majestic Brilliance
Jewish People, this was the simplest awareness, the most basic premise of every child. Every infant among the Children of Israel had a conception of it, even a few generations ago. I myself have seen such people, such faith, such a bond with the Creator of the World. Existential awareness was not intellectual; it was awareness of essence. It was part of existence. It was part of life itself.
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Vayechi 5746Volume 13 · Issue 16
Linked to our Roots
Shemoneh Esrei Prayer, the Creator remembers the kindnesses of the Fathers and brings a redeemer to the children of their children for the sake of His Name—out of His love for us. We are Yehudim, we have faith in our fundamental root, and we are therefore not uprooted and not forsaken.
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Beshalach 5746Volume 13 · Issue 20
Mirror Image
This is akin to what it says, “And he was indeed standing upon the river.” He has faith in it, he worships it, he serves it. But the wicked stand upon their deities. Where does he ultimately wish to reach? He wishes to reach to himself.
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Ki Savo 5758Volume 13 · Issue 3
Of Circles and Lines
We indeed do not exist in a place altogether. Our place exists entirely by His utterance. And it is not a matter of faith, it is the very nature of things, “For He founded it upon oceans and established it upon rivers.”
