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Lech Lecha 5771Volume 7 · Issue 7
Nimrod: The Voice of Rebellion
The Rambam (Hilchos Avodah Zarah 1:1-3) describes at length how Avraham would go from city to city and from country to country, where multitudes of people would gather around him and ask him various questions regarding faith, and he would answer them according to their level. He planted the eshel, either an inn or an orchard, and he thereby caused the Name of God to be spoken by all, as it says (Bereshis 21:33; Sotah
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Chukas 5774Volume 10 · Issue 37
Eliciting Its Waters
The implication of all earlier commentators is that the manner in which the sin is written in the Torah cannot be interpreted literally. The words spoken to Moshe and Aaron, “Because you did not have faith in Me to sanctify Me,” are not explained by anyone as stated. To say this of them is unfeasible.
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Ki Sisa 5757Volume 18 · Issue 23
Erased from the Book
In his commentary to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 10:1), the Rambam enumerates the Thirteen Principles of Faith. He explains them, and cites the source for each.
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Vaeira 5767Volume 3 · Issue 19
Reality of Promise
One of those poems, titled Everyone Has Faith, contains a stanza that reads, “The Sure One is His Name, so is His praise.” The Arizal writes that the Hebrew word vadai, Sure One, has the numerical value of the Name Ekyeh, and this intention must be borne in mind
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Vayakhel-Pekudei-HaChodesh 5769Volume 5 · Issue 22
The Great Luminaries
Establishing Faith
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Vayeira 5770Volume 6 · Issue 7
The Eshel of Avraham
In a world of idolatry, a world without true faith, one solitary man sprouted. The entire world was on one side, and he was on the other. He was called Avraham HaIvri, Avraham of the Other Side (Bereshis Rabbah 42:8). He was one man against the entire world
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Toldos 5765Volume 10 · Issue 8
Focus of Creation
Our fundamental faith is that God created the entire world only for the sake of the form of man that recognizes Him, “that knows God” (Rambam Hilchos Avodah Zarah 1:3), meaning for the form of man that turns to Him, prays
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Korach 5775Volume 11 · Issue 27
Power of Sight
entire chapter of his Guide for the Perplexed (3:29) to relate how the generation in which Avraham Avinu grew up appeared—what the people were like, upon what culture they were raised, what books guided them, what faith dominated the world during his lifetime. The Rambam discusses it at length, and as the subject relates to the present, it is befitting to explain it.
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Tetzaveh-Zachor 5754Volume 16 · Issue 21
From Death to Birth
reason it was decreed for Moshe Rabbeinu to pass away and not to bring Israel into the Land was that he had not spoken to the rock to give forth its waters but instead struck it: “For not having faith in Me to sanctify Me” (Bamidbar 20:12), “For disobeying My command in the Zin Desert (ibid. 27:14).
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Ki Sisa-Parah 5756Volume 17 · Issue 23
Many Pursued by One
“The concept of this commandment is that we are commanded to publicize this true faith throughout the world and fear no attack from any attacker.
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Beshalach 5757Volume 18 · Issue 19
The Teaching of a Tree
Foundation of Faith
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Shoftim 5757Volume 19 · Issue 1
Origins of the Shofar
There, King David pleads to God, “Submit me not to the will of my oppressors, for false witnesses and those who breathe evil have risen against me—had I not had faith to see the goodness of God in the land of life” (Tehillim 27:12-13).
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Bo 5758Volume 19 · Issue 17
Propelling Force
This is our faith, “I am God your Lord” (Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvos, Aseh, 1). Avraham Avinu planted it, and we are the fruit of his planting. We are indeed called bnei mehemnusa, children of faith (Zohar 1:18a, et. al.). He began both faith
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Behaaloscha 5761Volume 21 · Issue 31
Reduced to Words
It seems very peculiar. How do the abundant words of the fool lead to his denial of faith? It does not come from his foolishness but from his excessive words of foolishness. This leads him to speak against the righteous, against the prophets, and against the Lord Himself in His Essence and Glory.
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Acharei-Kedoshim 5767Volume 3 · Issue 28
Counting Beyond the Self
The fool distorts this and claims that since the matter was placed in his hands, he is the one who establishes and determines truth. Indeed, anyone who never toiled to understand faith, anyone who never exerted himself to contemplate it well, is liable to find himself not far from this outlook.
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VaYikra 5771Volume 7 · Issue 25
World of Life
does this mindset come? We live within the world’s natural order, and it establishes our mindset. Consequently, we must find within it something even remotely similar to the ultimate Resurrection that would allow us to cling to our faith in it. Yet the entire course of the world demonstrates the reverse.
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Toldos 5775Volume 11 · Issue 8
Hear Our Plight
Yishmael hails from the home of Avraham. He has faith—and his faith is in the Lord of Avraham. He prays to the Lord of Avraham and he prostrates himself before the Lord of Avraham. The Rambam writes in one of his letters that the monotheistic faith of Yishmael
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Bamidbar 5765Volume 1 · Issue 13
Torah of Truth and Eternal Life
Of day and night it says (Tehillim 92:3), “To relate Your kindness in the morning, and Your faith in the nights.” In the morning, when light first appears on the horizon, He bestows upon us kindness—the entirety of existence, as it says (Tehillim 89:3), “The world is built by kindness.” In light, the bounty
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Shelach 5765Volume 1 · Issue 16
Slander: The Ultimate Lack of Intelligence
Thirteen Fundamentals of Faith
