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Chayei Sarah 5761Volume 21 · Issue 9
Home of Prayer
Faith in the Nights
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Miketz-Chanukah 5762Volume 22 · Issue 12
Temple of Beauty
There he writes, “And the Lord Most High has no desire in those of the lower realm other than for us to have faith in Him and to concede to Him that He created us.” These are the two reasons for our creation.
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Vayigash 5762Volume 22 · Issue 13
Illuminated Prayer
In other words, the very same mind that brings them to absolute darkness, to the complete denial of faith, to the limited perception of reality found in that dark space, brings us to the light of the Torah.
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Yisro 5766Volume 2 · Issue 20
Mount Sinai: The Ultimate Clarity
save him from our hands, for we are the ones who know and the ones who witness his falsity and his impetuosity. Of this, it says by that event (Shemos 19:9), “And also in you they will have faith forever.””
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Vayeitzei 5771Volume 7 · Issue 10
Spatial Awareness
Faith in the Nights
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Vayechi 5775Volume 11 · Issue 12
Capacity of Hope
In continuation, the Rambam states: “But anyone who does not have faith in him, or anyone who does not await his coming, denies not only other prophets but also the Torah and Moshe Rabbeinu.”
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Vayeira 5756Volume 17 · Issue 8
Rallying Point
Presumably, most have seen a least part of what is happening. I unfortunately neighbor these events and I have seen many things. People in great numbers, most completely bereft of faith, don themselves with the attire of esteem, and behave irrationally! They speak nonsense and act with absolute foolishness.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei-Parah 5758Volume 19 · Issue 23
Purified for the Festival
Prophecy is one of the principles of faith—one of the thirteen, as the Rambam enumerates them. And there is a separate principle for the prophecy of Moshe Rabbeinu. An entire section of the Torah is dedicated to differentiate his form of prophecy (Bamidbar 12). It was an entirely different
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Noach 5760Volume 20 · Issue 7
Endless Achievement
The Rambam famously considers it a denial of faith not only if one denies his ultimate arrival but also if one does not await it (Hilchos Melachim 11:1).
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Vayechi 5761Volume 21 · Issue 16
Closed Eyes Closed Heart
The mitzvah to recite Shema is the mitzvah to accept the yoke of Heaven’s Kingship, or, as the Rambam words it, at least in his Book of Commandments, the mitzvah to have faith in the Oneness of God (Berachos 13b; Sefer HaMitzvos, Asei 2). And this mitzvah stems from that occasion.
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Tetzaveh 5763Volume 10 · Issue 21
Gaining the Upper Hand
…s is prayer. In the words of Rashi: “And Moshe was with his hands of faith spread heavenward in faithful and directed prayer.” And the sages say often and variously that when the voice is the voice of Yaakov,…
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Tazri'a-HaChodesh 5774Volume 10 · Issue 29
Conflicting With Nature
…hat God inflicted upon Egypt, and the nation feared God, and they had faith in God and in Moshe His servant.” This is the only mention of Moshe Rabbeinu—and it is not because he requires mentioning but…
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Yisro 5776Volume 12 · Issue 21
Commanded Today
And he adds a very novel insight. He states that anyone who does not have faith, anyone who has left the fold and cast off the yoke of Torah, the implication is that his ancestors did not stand at Mount Sinai (Igros HaRambam page 130). This is also stated by the Radak (Yechezkel
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Shelach 5750Volume 14 · Issue 32
Walk in Innocence
appear as we do. We keep regressing. Despite all the great and wondrous things that the Jewish media has to say about us, we know the truth. We are becoming more obtuse, less perceptive, less knowledgeable, with less faith, less fear and love of God, and less devotion.
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Vayeitzei 5756Volume 17 · Issue 11
Duty Bound
The defilement of this personality is false prophets. Yishmael and his descendants are very strong in faith. They are indeed descendents of Avraham, leader of faith, and they truly have faith. The Name of Heaven is fluent on their tongue and it never moves from their mouths. But it is in their mouths—they consider themselves
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Mattos-Masei 5756Volume 17 · Issue 33
Repelled and Lost
“But they did not listen, and they hardened their nape like the nape of their ancestors who did not have faith in God their Lord. They despised His laws, His covenant that He had forged with their ancestors, and His warnings that He had warned them, and they went after worthless things and became worthless, and after the nations that were around
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Vayeitzei 5758Volume 19 · Issue 10
Like Daybreak
Faith in the Nights
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5769Volume 6 · Issue 2
Rosh Hashanah: True Individuality
In his commentary to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 90a), the Rambam establishes the Thirteen Principles of Faith, which were accepted throughout all of Israel. He concludes, “When a person believes in all these foundations, and his faith in them is clear, he enters the Jewish race, and it is a mitzvah to love him and to have
