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Parshas VaEschanan: The strange passage " וַיִתְעַבֵּר הַשֵּׁם בִּי"
Were the pleas of Moses rejected out of anger? Because the request was premature? Out of a sense of Divine "pain?"
2 months, 2 weeks ago
What is the meaning of גָּלוּת, as in גָּלוּת אֱדוֹם? Afterall, the Romans did not kick the Jews out of Israel?
What is the difference between heresy and unbelief? Which more accurately applies to the חִלּוֹנִים in Israel today?
2 months, 2 weeks ago
הַפְטָרַת שַׁבַּת חֲזוֹן תשפ"ו - Isaiah blasts the smug survivors of the Assyrian Holocaust
"You were not spared because you are righteous! In fact, God hates your so-called mitzvos!"
2 months, 3 weeks ago
פָּרָשַׁת דְּבָרִים תשפ"ו - Is Moss talking about "Greater Israel"?
He is rebuking the CHILDREN of the sinners, not the sinners themselves. The challenge of rebuking constructively
2 months, 3 weeks ago
More on Ancient Judaism, Christianity, and the Question of Proselytism
Why is וּלְמַלְשִׁינִים juxtaposed to עַל הַצַּדִּיקִים?
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why has (Rabbinic) Judaism not encouraged Proselytizing?
The big difference between Judaism and Christianity re: Proselytizing. Origin of the Talmudic concept of עֵרֶב רַב?
2 months, 3 weeks ago
הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת מַטּוֹת-מַסְּעֵי (בֵּין הַמְּצָרִים) - The Broken Cisterns
You abandoned land which contained a natural spring of fresh water for arid land supplied by collected rainwater only to find the cistern which was …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Henry (Tzvi Hirsh) Gersoni 1844-1897: a story of בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב and בַּעַל פְּעוֹר in Czarist Russia
בַּעַל הַ"מוֹדֶה וְעוֹזֵב יְרֻחָם"
2 months, 4 weeks ago
פָּרָשַׁת מַטּוֹת- מַסְּעֵי תשפ"ו - The Massacre of the Midianites
The peculiar moral characteristics of a "War of Revenge" - נְקֹם נִקְמַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֵת הַמִּדְיָנִים
3 months ago
Some reflections on בֵּין הַמְּצָרִים in light of Current Events
What does רשב"ג mean when he says (שבת י"ג ע"ב) אֵין אָנוּ מַסְפִּיקִין?
3 months ago