The Nine Principles of Faith Part 4: All Descent is for the Purpose of Ascent, Even Sin
We continue our review of the 9 Principles of Faith of the Torah’s inner dimension with the fourth principle: that all descent is for the...
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Threats, Punishments, and the Chasidic Approach to Sin
Parashat Bechukotai includes God’s threats and punishments that will ensue should we not keep the commandments and attempt to live our lives free of Divine...
Pirkei Avot 4:2 Staying on the Mitzvah Track
Ben Azzai would say: Run to pursue a minor mitzvah and flee from a transgression, for a mitzvah causes another mitzvah after it and a transgression causes another...
The Rock that God Can Carry
A famous philosophical conundrum, asks, whether God can create a rock that He cannot lift? The answer to this conundrum is that indeed, God can...
Where Am I? The Secret of Divine Consciousness
After his sin God asked Adam, "Where are you?" Do you know to what depth you have fallen? Adam ate the forbidden fruit of the...
