The Gift

The relationship of the written law to the oral law, and where it all comes from

You open the letter carefully, you start to read your beloved’s words and you actually begin to hear her voice. And then you feel her presence.

While the excited atoms in your flashlight bulb each emit light independently of each other, a laser device stimulates a great number of atoms to emit their light in a single frequency and in step with each other

Torah, you say, is divine wisdom. So why is it full of animals' hooves and fish's scales, goring oxen and adulterous human beings?

Shavuot, the day of the giving of the Torah by G-d, is also called the day of the receiving of the Ten Commandments by Israel. And it would seem to be a natural pairing of concepts. Nevertheless, each has its own particular meaning.

I could believe the world was real. But was it possible to know it? What had to be added to that belief in order to convert it into knowledge?

To explain that, I would need a long conversation with you about what is G-d and how G-d talks to people and why....

Marriage comes in three varieties: the singular marriage, the twosome marriage and the three-dimensional marriage.

One might reasonably suppose that since oxen and pits are facts of life, the Torah must implement laws to govern their many possible interactions. In fact, the situation is just the reverse . . .

The greatest conspiracy theory of all time is materialism. The second greatest conspiracy theory is that the Jews invented the Torah...

How do you measure the things you own? By the degree of your investment in them? By the intensity of your desire for them? By how possible it is to get rid of them?

Humility. Devotion. Toil. Divine assistance. Practicality. The five steps necessary for anyone who wishes to approach the Torah

Why would G‑d want to give His treasure specifically to those that are tempted to misuse it?

Make a list of the areas of greatest concern in your life, and for each item on the list, ask yourself the following simple question: Do I look to the Torah as the principal source of guidance in this area of my life?