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Ki Savo 5768Volume 5 · Issue 3
Rosh Hashanah: Strength of Infinite Joy
defendants behave. Not us; we do not make a single request. All that concerns us, all that we ask for, is the absolute Kingship of Heaven. In the first group of blessings, we say, “And so, instill the fear of…
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Shoftim 5775Volume 12 · Issue 1
Days of Fearsomeness
Fear of Heaven
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Mattos-Masei 5750Volume 14 · Issue 36
Journeys of Life
angry, and who does not become inebriated, and who does not insist on his rights. And he who knows it and who is careful with it and protects it in purity is beloved above and cherished below, and his fear is cast upon all creations, and he inherits two worlds—This World and the World to Come.”
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Devarim 5754Volume 16 · Issue 36
The Knowing Man
It all begins by knowing what to negate and how to say no. The great principal is, “The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God” (Tehillim 111:10). Wisdom is called yeish, existence, and its beginning is the fear of God.
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Vayeitzei 5754Volume 16 · Issue 9
Laughing and Jesting
game is also to run—all participants must run like mad to achieve something because that is the game. Today, another part was added—they say that they are obligated to do so. This too is a game.
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Tzav-Parah 5757Volume 18 · Issue 26
Splendor of Israel
The attribute of fearsomeness is the attribute that casts fear—and this is what happens when the Divine Presence is seen. As we say in the Passover Haggadah, ““God delivered us… and with great fearsomeness,” referring to the revelation of the Divine Presence” (Devarim 26:8).
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Mattos-Masei 5757Volume 18 · Issue 38
Revenge
And it is vital to understand. The fear is not from the prowling killer but from the fact of the possibility. This is far more terrifying. The Creator introduced an entirely new concept. An unprecedented abyss was opened.
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Shelach 5758Volume 19 · Issue 31
The Blue Thread
explore after our eyes. To the contrary, we are the ones who establish what we see. Everything becomes the background for the form we grant.
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Shoftim 5759Volume 20 · Issue 1
Seeking Refuge
One who contemplates knows that fear is the reaction to an impending blow of some kind. But the fear caused by the sound of a shofar is not directed toward something specific. It is a general sense of anxiousness.
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Chayei Sarah 5760Volume 20 · Issue 10
Branches of the Fathers
This is what Yitzchak Avinu brought to the world. He is the pillar of Divine Service (Avos 1:1), of standing in the King’s presence, of being obligated. His is the attribute of fear—He personified the aforementioned state of fear.
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Behaaloscha 5760Volume 20 · Issue 33
Fearsome Journey
among ilmim, mutes!” He hears His humiliation and not only keeps quiet but also enables all this (Gittin 56b). One who contemplates and delves deeper sees His mightiness in this on a greater and more profound level than the fear His mightiness strikes in the hearts of the gentiles.
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Miketz Chanukah 5766Volume 2 · Issue 14
The Light of Faith
Indeed, the Jerusalem Translation renders it as, “with wisdom,” as it says (Tehillim 104:24), “How abundant are your works, God, you made all of them with wisdom.” This is where wisdom begins—“The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God (Tehillim 111:10).”
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Vaeira 5769Volume 5 · Issue 15
Conditional Creation
there be light,” and there was light.” This is the faith of the Holy One Who is Blessed, which is called light, as it says (Tehillim 27:1), “God is my light and my deliverance, from whom shall I fear.” It says, “Do not have foreign deities in My Presence,” and it says by the Work of the Beginning, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, etc.”
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Shemos 5771Volume 7 · Issue 15
Miracles Beyond Number
The Men of the Great Assembly, who were the first sages of the Oral Torah, said, “To the contrary—this in and of itself is the greatest display of His Fearsomeness, for if not for the fear of the Holy Blessed One, how could one nation survive among the nations?”
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Yom Kippur 5772Volume 8 · Issue 5
Lifeline
The sages comment (Vayikra Rabbah 30:7), “R’ Acha said, ““With You is forgiveness” means that from Rosh Hashanah, forgiveness awaits by You. Why to such an extent?—“so that You will be feared”—meaning to place Your fear upon Your creations.”””
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Vayeitzei 5765Volume 10 · Issue 9
Choice of the Fathers
…the Creator Who is in fact called, “Lord of Avraham, Lord of Yitzchak.” We even find that Yaakov swore by the fear of his father Yitzchak (Bereshis 31:53). To swear by any kind of fear is forbidden—unless the fear is an…
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Chayei Sarah 5775Volume 11 · Issue 7
Our Father Our King
The Rambam writes (Hilchos Melachim 2:1), “Great honor must be accorded a king, and his fear and awe must be placed in the heart of every man, for it says (Devarim 17:15; Kesuvos 17a), “Appoint a king over you,” meaning his fear must be over you.”
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Ki Seitzei 5775Volume 12 · Issue 2
Honest Expression
With the sound of the shofar You emerged before them,” “The sound of the shofar was very powerful, and the entire nation that was in the encampment trembled.” When a person is shaken, when he trembles, he is in fear. Understandably, the fear was very powerful. In this state, man is true. This is how the Torah was given.
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Miketz Chanukah 5748Volume 13 · Issue 14
Majestic Brilliance
In truth, the link between Hallel and joy is clearer. The Rambam cites as law (Hilchos Chanukah 3:6), “But on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur there is no Hallel for they are days of repentance and fear and trepidation, not days of excessive joy.” Clearly, Hallel is recited out of excessive joy and this is its concept. But the link between thanks and joy is incomprehensible. Why must one be joyous to say thank you?
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5749Volume 14 · Issue 3
Monumental Occasion
full world? I am seen as if there were no other image of man in the entire world. Nothing else is seen. Where can I hide? Where can I transport my shame? It truly strikes the heart with the fear of God. How indeed can we stand?
