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Emor 5771Volume 7 · Issue 27
From Coincidence to Providence
writes (Shemos 13:16), “And from the great open miracles, man acknowledges the hidden miracles, which are the foundation of the entire Torah, and a person 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….”
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Behar 5771Volume 7 · Issue 28
From Abundance to Completeness
In this merit, the Creator communicated with him. The sages (Bereshis Rabbah 39:1) famously compare his journey of faith to a man who wandered from place to place and came upon a burning tower, concluding, “It is impossible for the tower not to have an owner,” whereupon the owner of the tower appeared to him. Likewise, Avraham Avinu read the created
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Naso 5771Volume 7 · Issue 31
Innovating Creation
The weekly cycle, however, is nonexistent in the natural world. It is not seen and it is not part of life. We live it only from faith, from knowledge, from the tradition that we received; it is part of our lives yet from our fathers and forefathers. This is how the world was created and this is how it continues—six days and the Sabbath, six days
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Behaaloscha 5771Volume 7 · Issue 32
Bound for Eternity
This is what the authors of Tosafos reveal. Their question is also addressed in the book Faith and Trust, which is attributed with inconclusive proofs to the authorship of the Ramban; despite the uncertainty, this is the accepted view and it is printed among his writings, but regardless, it was certainly authored by one of the earlier
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Shelach 5771Volume 7 · Issue 33
Losing Sight
World and he has no portion in the World to Come—idolatry, immorality, and bloodshed—and slander is equal to all of them.” The sages also said, “Anyone who speaks slander is as though he denied the fundamentals of faith.”
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Pinchas 5771Volume 7 · Issue 36
Plea of the Pauper
As is well known, the Rambam himself rules (Hilchos Shemitah 13:13) that to adhere to the Torah and to be secure in faith is the province of a person whose heart uplifted him and whose mind separated him from the rest of the nation to stand before God and to serve Him. Indeed, of such a person, no requirement of prayer is stated
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Masei 5771Volume 7 · Issue 38
Shattered and Scattered
What does this mean? Why must one believe that there is wisdom by the nations? Is it one of the principles of faith? Is one who does not believe considered heretical? What do the sages wish to convey with this?
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Toldos 5771Volume 7 · Issue 9
In Perfect Alignment
…built an inn and benefited the multitudes (Sotah 10a), and he established faith in the world. The Torah is filled with stories of him. Moreover, the fact that he prayed the Morning Prayer does not appear openly in the…
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Shoftim 5771Volume 8 · Issue 1
Destiny of the Year
When we look about us, what we see in the natural course of the world is that everything is advancing toward the end. But this is the test, the point of firm and true faith and genuine yearning for deliverance. We must look at all this as the achariss, destiny, and not, Heaven forbid, as the end. All that appears to us as the end is really the true destiny; it will truly bring
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Vayishlach 5772Volume 8 · Issue 10
Israel Forever
once came up, and the scholar said to him, “You believe in the Torah; why then do you wish to kill us? You appear as anti-Semites. How can you do such a thing? It goes against your own faith.”
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Shemos 5772Volume 8 · Issue 15
Stars of the Night
To accept this statement in its plain meaning, and not in its interpretive or esoteric meaning, seems impossible. So much suffering, so many forced desertions of faith, so much spilt blood—all for the exceedingly small quantity of converts.
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Vaeira 5772Volume 8 · Issue 16
Living the Exodus
In the Evening Prayer, following our remembrance of the Exodus, we recite the blessing that begins, “Truth and faith.” Therein, we state, “He is the One Who performs acts of greatness beyond fathom and (some add: miracles and) wonders beyond number.”
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Terumah 5772Volume 8 · Issue 21
Inversed Value
On this note, Avraham Avinu, the man who planted faith in the world, wished to show how little value the natural realm has. Everyone believed in the forces of nature and gave them significance and great value; everyone worshipped idols, and all idolatry focuses on the forces of nature. But Avraham
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Bamidbar 5772Volume 8 · Issue 29
Beyond Space and Time
…justifiably been asked, “What are you doing? Where are you going?” But he had faith and he entered the sea, and in his merit, it split, and the Jewish People crossed it. The Splitting of the Sea was so tangible,…
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Naso 5772Volume 8 · Issue 30
Complementary Week
The Talmud relates (Chagigah 14b) that something happened to each of them. One died, one went mad, and one abandoned faith and became Acher, the Other, which was the worst tragedy.
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Naso 5773Volume 9 · Issue 30
Sustenance of Hope
The book Faith and Trust (chapter 21; Kisvei HaRamban 2:425), disputably attributed to the authorship of the Ramban but universally acknowledged as the work of an earlier commentator from his house of study, states that even on festivals man receives the additional soul. Moreover, it does
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Behaaloscha 5773Volume 9 · Issue 31
Impetus of Prayer
have never seen it, we have never sensed it, and we have never fulfilled it, for we have never been answered in prayer, never have we found the Creator near to our cries. Avraham Avinu, who planted true faith in the world, established prayer. By him, prayer was a connection to the Creator. We, however, connect only to ourselves (cf. Sefer HaKadosh 7:4:8).
