Details

The Rebbe describes the following as the central teaching of the Baal Shem Tov: Not only the pirouettes of a leaf as it falls off a tree, the quivering of a blade of grass in the wind, each and every detail of existence brought into being, given life and ...

An engineer designs machines consisting of many parts, some more important than others. Although some parts seem to the layman to have no function at all, the engineer understands how each one is necessary for the machine to function. Because he lacks ...

Why the obsession with such insignificant details as how many ounces of matza do I eat, which spoon did I use for milk and which for meat, what is the right way to tie my shoelaces? It seems to me that this misses the bigger picture by focusing on ...

Our sages tell us that on the rod that Moses used in bringing the plagues upon the Egyptians were carved the names of the six mothers of our people (Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Bilha and Zilpah), the twelve tribes, the ten plagues, and the Great Name ...

Of course, a large number of small quantities add up to a much larger quantity. But there is also another reason why the "small details" are so important...

Building your child’s character requires focusing on the “big” issues; but it also means not neglecting the “minor pegs” grounding his values.

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

From what I've read, constitutional experts, as well as the White House's counsel, insisted that a repeat of the oath was not necessary, but the President felt that a retake would be appropriate...

"First read the article," I say. But the affinity for the red pen is many an editor's Achilles heel. And the tendency to focus on the details at the expense of the larger picture affects us all...

So it's not like I am trying to make some kind of bartering deal with the Cosmic Infinite Source of the Whole Universe. It's just that I realized that maybe I'm a lot more into a vast variety of details than I ever faced – whether it's a bus coming on ...