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Balak 5768Volume 4 · Issue 38
The Potency of Speech
…e shall consume everything around us… (Bamidbar 22:1-4).”” Moab in their fear of Israel sought the advice of Midian. Rashi explains, “What did Moab see to take advice of Midian? Once they saw Israel being victorious…
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Vayigash 5769Volume 5 · Issue 12
Deciding our Faith
When the point of origin is a sense of lack, a feeling of lowliness, a pit of emptiness, it fills with snakes and scorpions. From there, one does not attain the love and fear of God. Only “when one contemplates His greatly wondrous works and creations, and sees from them His invaluable and endless wisdom, does one immediately love, praise, glorify, and become filled with an immense desire to know, the Great Name” (Rambam Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah
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Ki Seitzei 5768Volume 5 · Issue 2
Converging Paths
The sages established two courses to reach the Days of Awe, to end the year in a manner that will enable us to begin it anew, to end the year and its curses, and to begin the new year and its blessings.
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Balak 5769Volume 5 · Issue 31
Living Eternity
Thus, the Jewish People, the Torah, the upper and lower realms, all quake in fear from the curse of a human being, an inferior one at that, utterly depraved. What is the source of this astounding power?
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5769Volume 6 · Issue 2
Rosh Hashanah: True Individuality
Paling in Fear
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Lech Lecha 5770Volume 6 · Issue 6
Sodom Overturned
shallowness. One morning, it was as though it never was. It dissipated like a dream and it ceased to be. When it was in power, it was terrifying. I know people who to this very day tremble with fear when they recall what was—and they are frightened that this golem will yet rise again.
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Vayeira 5772Volume 8 · Issue 7
Footsteps of the Messiah
But the true fear is that the Kingdom of Heaven will ultimately manifest itself throughout the world. This deep and inner fear is what drives people to war. For this, they are truly willing to sacrifice themselves. They are prepared to accept anything, only
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Miketz Chanukah 5773Volume 9 · Issue 13
In Those Days In This Time
might, to be rulers within the world. They are filled with luster and they radiate brightness, their luster is comely throughout the world. They are glad when they go forth and joyous when they return, they perform with fear the Will of their Maker.”
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Vayishlach 5765Volume 10 · Issue 10
Head Over Heel
…e crooked was made into plains. Yet he is still called Yaakov—and so are we, as we find throughout the Prophets. For example, when it says (Yeshayahu 44:2), “Fear not, My servant Yaakov,” it is not speaking…
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Beshalach 5763Volume 10 · Issue 17
Faith in Action
…istia, Edom, and Moab, and the dwellers of Canaan melted away, for the fear of God and glory of His majesty, but Amalek came from afar as if to overpower God. Therefore, it says of him (Devarim 25:18), “He was not…
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Yisro 5764Volume 10 · Issue 18
Joint Conversation
The blessing to the One Who shields Avraham is based on what God had said (Bereshis 15:1), “Fear not, Avram, I am a shield for you; your reward is very abundant.” The concept is that the point that Avraham Avinu had reached, the level that he had attained, the covenant that he had forged with the Creator, is shielded
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Ki Sisa 5763Volume 10 · Issue 22
Transitional Stage
It is truly wondrous to contemplate, if we but look at what is happening around us. Fear not; our intent is merely to utilize their praise to reach their truest disgrace. They are people of faith; they wholeheartedly and willingly are prepared to forfeit their lives for it, but over nonsensical matters, over absolute desolateness.
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Pekudei-Shekalim 5774Volume 10 · Issue 25
Communal Offerings
In other words, the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu died in Adar should cause us fear. It requires atonement; it requires rectification. Indeed, there was rectification—the birth is worthy of atoning for the death. But without this atonement, we are in actual danger from the lot that Haman had cast. It opposes us. Only, we have
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Yom Kippur 5774Volume 10 · Issue 4
Behind the Smokescreen
Conversely, sin should be nonexistent even more so for one who utilizes it as the catalyst for repentance. He does not repent for fear or for any reason except the perception of the sin itself. He is intelligent and he contemplates, and when he realizes that he sinned, his first thoughts of repentance are that sin should essentially be impossible. He thereby concludes that
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Mishpatim-Shekalim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 17
Integral Dimension
Upon beholding a king—whether of Israel or of the nations, one recites the blessing, “Blessed are You, God…, Who apportioned of His honor to those who fear Him,” or in the case of a gentile king, “Who gave of His honor to flesh and blood” (Berachos 58a).
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Ki Savo 5774Volume 11 · Issue 3
The Longing of Israel
…shall see that the Name of God is called upon you, and they shall fear you. God shall grant you good surplus in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your…
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Pinchas 5775Volume 11 · Issue 30
Loss of Place
“From the day the Torah was given to Israel until the last Temple was built, the Torah was given but its majesty and glory, its honor and greatness and splendor, its awe, trepidation, and fear, its wealth and pride and grandeur, its vibration and radiance, its invincibility and strength, its dominance and power, were not given….”
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Shemini-Parah 5776Volume 12 · Issue 29
Grantor of Life
Among those very Spies were Yehoshua and Caleb, who declared of the Canaanites (Bamidbar 14:9), “Their shadow, tzilam, has departed from them, and God is with us; fear them not.”
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Tazri'a-HaChodesh 5776Volume 12 · Issue 30
Creators of Destiny
Just, introduction), “Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair said, “Torah leads to mindfulness, mindfulness leads to alertness, alertness leads to fastidiousness, fastidiousness leads to abstinence, abstinence leads to pureness, pureness leads to devoutness, devoutness leads to humbleness, humbleness leads to fear of sin, fear of sin leads to consecration, consecration leads to prophecy, and prophecy leads to the Resurrection of the Dead.”
