Maakeh (building a fence)

The Torah considers one responsible for safeguarding one's own as well as others' health and wellbeing. Presented here is a partial collection of laws pertaining to guarding the life and health of oneself and others.

If the person is going to fall anyway, why should I have to take reponsibility?

A caricature of neurotic self-absorption, or the most encouraging and optimistic perspective of reality in the history of human awareness?

There are houses made of bricks, and houses built of effort and accomplishment. One can “build” up a friend to be a solid edifice of G‑d-centered living, or build a network that develops into an oasis of spirituality.

Whether something good or bad has been predestined, how does G‑d choose which person should be the one to bring it about?

Each soul should fulfill all 613 commandments, and some must reincarnate to do so.