Tomorrow we will read the story of the Tower of Babel. We will read about how they tired to produce unity. And how God changed their languages, thus causing their division into distinct nations which dispersed in all directions. Why did God divide mankind into distinct nations and languages? Isn’t unity good? God created a…
King David is a paradigm of doing teshuva. His Teshuva had many parts, both illustrated in the story and explained in Tehilim (especially mizmor 51). One of the lesser known steps happened when he was running away from Avshalom. When David is on the run from Avshalom, he has the opportunity to take the Aron…
In Halacha 9 The Rambam quotes a pasuk (Iyov 11:7) in support of the idea that man is inherently unable to apprehend or investigate the true reality of God.However, looking inside, the Pasuk never says that. Rather the Pasuk quotes Tzofar hanaamati as saying it. Quoting someone does not necessarily indicate agreement (for example, reporting…
