The Torah gives us rules for waging war. But the Or HaChaim reveals a far more personal battlefield. What if the enemy, the territory, and the person fighting are all you?
The scariest part of temptation isn’t the first bad decision. It’s when the temptation stops feeling like an enemy… and starts feeling like a friend.
Is there a mitzvah that you’re supposed to spend your entire life trying to fulfill, knowing you’ll never fully achieve it? That’s the question that drew me into Parshas Eikev.
The destruction of the Temple is one of the greatest tragedies in Jewish history. But what if it was also a spiritual necessity?
Why did Judaism’s greatest prophet end his story with an act of violent revenge? Confronting the chapters of our own past that refuse to let us grow.
Why Balak was so threatened by the Jewish message.
The tragic dynamic between Moses and Dasan, and the ultimate test of doing the right thing for the wrong people.
I’m not a fan of the characterization of Hashem as the, “vengeful punishing God of the Old Testament.” To say that means you have to ignore all the wonders, blessings, […]
We’ve all looked back on bad decisions with rose-colored glasses.
The Israelites did too.
But according to the Or HaChaim, what they did in this week’s parsha may have been one of the most spiritually destructive things a person can do.
The Torah’s blueprint for repentance reveals that we can’t just hand back what we took and call it even. We have to contribute to it. We have to upgrade it.
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