Essays
Do You Want to be Rich?
If you wish to be truly rich, our mishnah is saying, expend only the toil of your “hands,” the more external elements of your talents and faculties, in your material involvements, reserving the “toil of your head” for the more lofty things in life.
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The Upside-Down Tree
A person’s deeds are embedded in the soil of supra-rational faith and commitment, and nourish his understanding of himself, his world and his G-d.
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The Mirror
If he senses his fellow’s degradation, he must conclude that Divine providence has provided him with a mirror with which to discern his own shortcomings.
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Rabbi Eliezer & Rabbi Elazar
Trick question: Who was greater? Rabbi Eliezer or Rabbi Elezar?
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Perpetual Rebirth
Reality is nothing but the fact of G-d’s will to create it, as it is, in the present micro-moment.
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The Sixth Chapter
The story of the sixth chapter of the Ethics of Our Fathers expresses a truth that is fundamental to the Torah, and to the significance of Shavuot in particular.
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Judging with Double Standards
We must measure our own worth in terms of our real and concrete achievements, and view others in terms of their potential.
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The Journey
Beginning with the second night of Passover, we count the days traversed from the Exodus, chronicling the milestones and stations of our journey of self-refinement.
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Seeking the Week
The Omer count corresponds to the forty-nine elements of the heart, which consist of seven “weeks,” each comprised of seven “days.”
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