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Shoftim
By the Numbers
Your Questions
Am I just a Figment of Someone's Imagination?
Unpredictable + Self-Conscious = Free Choice. Bingo, we have a formula for free-choice figments!
Unpredictable + Self-Conscious = Free Choice. Bingo, we have a formula for free-choice figments!
Parshah
The Blame Game
While no one will argue that man’s psyche is a tabula rasa, the question is: to what extent do we control the choices that we make? Whom can I blame? Where does my choice begin?
While no one will argue that man’s psyche is a tabula rasa, the question is: to what extent do we control the choices that we make? Whom can I blame? Where does my choice begin?
The Signposts Along My Road Towards a Torah-Observant Life
I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.
I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.
Essay
What I Want to Tell My Friend, the Shoplifter
Daniela (not her real name) was an old friend, a very old friend, and it pained me to hear that once again she was in trouble.
Daniela (not her real name) was an old friend, a very old friend, and it pained me to hear that once again she was in trouble.
Story
The Wise Words That Saved a Life
The two bright scholars spent much time conversing, and the young aristocrat particularly enjoyed hearing his friend’s ingenious Torah insights.
The two bright scholars spent much time conversing, and the young aristocrat particularly enjoyed hearing his friend’s ingenious Torah insights.
Our road in this world is like the edge of a knife: on this side is an abyss, and on that side is an abyss, and the path of our life is in the middle
— Chassidic master Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov
Print Magazine
We don’t learn Torah to gain knowledge—not even divine knowledge. At the time you are learning Torah, your mind itself is divine.
Your mind wraps itself in divine modalities. Your soul twirls and rises in a divine dance. As you wrestle with divine words, pathways and wisdom, you merge with them, so that your entire being...
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