For Mishpatim
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Insight 5779-18: Seeking the Whole
For Yitro
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In regard to the verse of Anochi, I should add that it is further significant that many believe it not to be an actual commandment. While Rambam does count it as actual mitzvah, many others do not. They define it precisely as laying the basis for the mitzvot. This idea would further substantiate the thought presented in the Insight.
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In regard to the verse of Anochi, I should add that it is further significant that many believe it not to be an actual commandment. While Rambam does count it as actual mitzvah, many others do not. They define it precisely as laying the basis for the mitzvot. This idea would further substantiate the thought presented in the Insight.
Friday, January 18, 2019
INSIGHT 5779 - #17: GIVE ME LIBERTY OR…
For Beshalach
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It is of interest to note that Patrick Henry saw his words a reflecting a deep commitment to the human being being created in the image of God. Liberty was not to be a license for a person to do whatever a person desired. It was the freedom for one to do all that was necessary to reach the Divine goal for the person. It was clearly a Torah value which he enunciated. The freedom attained through the Exodus from Egypt was not intended to allow people to be as hedonistic as they may wish. It was actually a transfer from being slaves of Pharaoh to becoming ovdei Hashem [servants of God]. Part of this task was for one to grow and develop, more and more, into this type of person. It is a lack of this understanding of what liberty truly is from which we suffer from in today's world.
RBH
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It is of interest to note that Patrick Henry saw his words a reflecting a deep commitment to the human being being created in the image of God. Liberty was not to be a license for a person to do whatever a person desired. It was the freedom for one to do all that was necessary to reach the Divine goal for the person. It was clearly a Torah value which he enunciated. The freedom attained through the Exodus from Egypt was not intended to allow people to be as hedonistic as they may wish. It was actually a transfer from being slaves of Pharaoh to becoming ovdei Hashem [servants of God]. Part of this task was for one to grow and develop, more and more, into this type of person. It is a lack of this understanding of what liberty truly is from which we suffer from in today's world.
RBH
Friday, January 11, 2019
INSIGHT 5779 - #16: MOCKING EGYPT
For Bo
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The existence of free will is, of course, what makes us culpable for our actions and thereby grow and develop into singular beings able to emulate God to the extent that we can. Pharaoh and the Egyptians, in order to be subject to the punishments inflicted by the plagues had to have free will. What this Insight is adding, though, is that it is also important for us to recognize that, even as we think we are so right and believe in the strength of our decisions and being, what we may be experiencing is not our free will but its actual removal from us by God. We can also be in the Hands of God Who is directing us pursuant to His plan and objective. That recognition is an important realization in challenging our potential haughtiness.
Friday, January 4, 2019
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