INSIGHT 5780 - #24: BEYOND INDEPENDENCE DAY

For  Pesach
 
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INSIGHT 5779 - #26: CHOSEN

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INSIGHT 5779 - #25: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

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INSIGHT 5779 - #24: UNIVERSALITY AND TORAH

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Insight 5778-25: THE MIRACLE AT YUM SUF

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My final message in the Insight would seem to actually supported by the fact that the opening verses in the Shira refer to God's Might against the Egyptians. This, I find, most significant in that the nation itself experienced their own miraculous salvation, passing through the Sea in a most tranquil way. This is really supported in the midrashic literature in that the land was dry and level and there were fruit trees growing from the water so that the people could enjoy a delicious fruit as they traveled. Yet, describing their own experience was not how they began the Shira for the greater reality of God's Existence is that He fills all aspects of Creation. As He saved the Jewish nation in such tranquility, He dealt with the Egyptians as they deserved, with the wrath of His Might -- and even, as the midrash explains, each Egyptian as individually deserving. That recognition of reality really brought forth shira.

RBH

Insight 5777-28: A Structure of Freedom

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Insight 5776-30: TWO STEPS OF FREEDOM

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Insight 5776-29: LIVING WITH GOD AND NATURE

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1) One may be wondering how the commitment to the Divine ethic connects with the recognition of the Supernatural Essence of the Divine. It is the realization that the Divine is beyond the natural and supersedes the natural that actually yields the overriding nature of the Divine ethic over the natural order. In the realm of the natural, one can always use the argument that the end justifies the means because the overriding concern of the natural must be the conclusion. It is the supernatural nature of Torah ethics that declares that, while there are times that the end does justify the means, this is not an absolute principle. Many times within Torah, the ethic of the means is paramount notwithstanding the result. It is the recognition of the supernatural nature of the Divine that gives weight to the argument that the end may not justify the means. 

Insight 5775-28: CONNECTING YETZIAT MITZRAYIM AND YAM SUF

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Insight 5775-27: God and Yetziat Mitzrayim

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Insight 5774-29: National Essence

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Insight 5773-28: Another's Freedom

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1) While I did not further discuss this issue in the Insight itself, it may be interesting to consider the impact of slavery on a master. How can we understand the perception of a master that frees his/her slaves? Pursuant to the idea developed in the Insight, this would also be freeing for a master -- how can we understan?

Insight 5773-27: Command

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1) I believe that the idea presented in this Insight is very applicable to Pesach. I was actually hoping to express this in the Insight proper but ran out of room This is something, though, that you may wish to explore.

Insight 5772-26: A Nation Forged by Mitzvah

For Pesach, Bo

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Insight 5771=28: The Shift to Revelation

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Insight 5769 - 13: A UNIQUE NATION

For Shemot and Pesach.

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