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Korach 5768Volume 4 · Issue 36
Absolute Promise
…ah, “the earth was fearful and became tranquil?” If the earth had reason to fear, why did it become tranquil, and if it had reason to become tranquil, why did it fear? Rather, to begin with, it was fearful, but in the end,…
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Beha'aloscha 5758Volume 58 · Issue 2
Mishlei: Catalyst of Wisdom
…there will certainly be in his book great matters of wisdom – and likewise in fear of God, and likewise in Torah. He thus made three books here, which are three Mishlei. The first concerns wisdom, the second concerns…
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Naso 5770Volume 6 · Issue 28
Message of Sinai
says (Eichah 5:16), “The crown of our head has fallen, woe unto us now for we have sinned.” In fact, the Hebrew word for woe is oy, which relates to the words iyum, threat, and aimah, fear. This message emerges from Mount Sinai to those who situated themselves away from the original sounds of that event.
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Rosh Hashanah 5769Volume 6 · Issue 3
Greatness of Man
literally within our souls, our innermost sense of being. We must rise to the higher reality and return to our true selves. We pray, “And thus, give honor, God, to Your people, praise to those who fear…
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Mishpatim 5771Volume 7 · Issue 19
Guardians of Sinai
In our Sabbath Morning Prayers, we say, “Good are the luminaries that our Lord has created…. Joyous as they go forth, exultant as they return, they perform with fear the Will of their Maker.” But here we find that aside from providing illumination in joy and fear, they have another task—they must saw through the skies and pave their own path.
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Shemini-Parah 5771Volume 7 · Issue 26
The Course of Adar
The nations of the world were indeed unfazed by the second decree. True, many were filled with fear of the Jewish People (ibid. v.17), but only many. It did not quell the multitudes that came to fight and to fulfill the original decree. Seventy-five thousand of them were killed (ibid. 9:16), but it is unreasonable to assume
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Ki Savo 5770Volume 7 · Issue 3
Yearning for Perfection
them. But they are not the main part of prayer—one who forgets them does not repeat the Shemoneh Esrei Prayer.
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Balak 5772Volume 8 · Issue 34
Existential Temperament
This is where the fear of the nations began. This was the first, foremost, and truest clarification of the division between the Children of Israel and all other nations. “God is giving the Torah to His nation.” There is a unique connection between the Creator
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Vaeira 5773Volume 9 · Issue 17
Infinite Existence
change of conduct toward one who keeps the commandments or toward one who annuls them. But neither is there any contradiction to nature. This depicts the miracles in which the Creator reorganizes the systems of nature for those who fear Him—for the Fathers.
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Ki Seitzei 5772Volume 9 · Issue 2
Catalyst of Renewal
festival. We do not go out of our minds. The Rambam writes (Hilchos Chanukah 3:6), “There is no Hallel on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur because they are days of repentance and awe and fear, not days of excessive joy.” They are not days of excessive joy, of joy beyond limit, but they are days of joy.
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Acharei-Kedoshim 5773Volume 9 · Issue 26
Dignity of Man
The Talmud states (Berachos 58a), “One who sees the kings of Israel says, “Blessed are You God Who apportioned of His honor to those who fear Him,” but for kings of the nations, one says, “Blessed are You God Who gave of His honor to flesh and blood.””
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Behaaloscha 5773Volume 9 · Issue 31
Impetus of Prayer
This is the great falsehood. If we turn to the Creator of the World and speak to him, and our teeth do not chatter out of fear, it means that we are speaking to ourselves, not to Him. How indeed can one speak to the Creator of the World without trembling in fear?
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Vayeira 5773Volume 9 · Issue 8
Man of War
He assured them that a flood is not coming to the world and a flood will never come again. “From this, you have nothing to fear,” for God already swore that He would not bring a flood.
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Shoftim 5773Volume 10 · Issue 1
Blurring the Lines
One of the allusions to the month of Elul is cited by the Ba’al HaTurim (Devarim 30:6) from the chapter of Psalms that we recite repeatedly during the days of Elul and throughout the Days of Awe. King David prays (Tehillim 27:12-13), “Do not give me over to the will of my oppressors—for false witnesses and breathers of evil have risen against me, had I not had faith to see the goodness
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Miketz Chanukah 5765Volume 10 · Issue 12
The Hidden Light
…mple, to fulfill what it says (Devarim 31:12), “So that they will listen… and fear.” The Talmud (Yevamos 90b) cites an incident of one who transgressed a Rabbinical law whom the sages brought to the courthouse and stoned, “Not…
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Tetzaveh 5763Volume 10 · Issue 21
Gaining the Upper Hand
…ng revealed more and more. See how great powers have become weak. They are truly mighty; all the power in the world is in their hands. Now, they quake in fear. On whom shall we rely? Shall we rely on one who…
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VaYikra 5774Volume 10 · Issue 26
Soul of the Shekel
…erive it from a verse, for it says (Yirmiyahu 30:10), “But as for you, fear not, My servant Yaakov—the word of God—and worry not, Israel, for indeed, I am delivering you from afar and your progeny from the land of…
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Behaaloscha 5774Volume 10 · Issue 34
Personal Redemption
“But if you abandon God and go astray with eating and drinking and immorality and their like, He will bring all these curses upon you and remove all the blessings, until your days end in panic and fear. Moreover, you will not have an undistracted heart or a healthy body to perform the commandments, so that you will perish from the life of the World to Come. You thus forfeit both worlds….”
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Pinchas 5774Volume 10 · Issue 38
Divine Being
Those curses from which there was such great fear were—and are—manifest upon us. All that saves us from them is that whenever they are manifest, we run to houses of prayer and study, and there we seek mercy. There, the curse is nullified. But the curses keep returning
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Lech Lecha 5765Volume 10 · Issue 5
Rain of the Heavens
The sages reveal that the judgment of man regarding water is the end of the judgment of the Days of Awe. When judgment is passed on water, the judgment that began on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ends (cf. Ta’anis 10a).
