Last year my friend Rabbi Schneeweiss posted about the mystery of the Moshe’s “Kushite wife”. https://kolhaseridim.blogspot.com/2020/06/behaalosecha-moshes-mysterious-marriage.html He quoted Ibn Caspi, who harshly rejects Chazal’s interpretation as the exact opposite of Pshat, as bad as if they said black means white or love means hate. (Did Ibn Caspi also think that the blind Rav Sheshet (Sagi…
A young child asks about a number of strange changes we make at the Seder? We answer by explaining that “we were slaves to Pharoah in Egypt, and Hashem took us out from there”. But how does this explain why we make changes? An ancient Yemenite commentary explains. A slave lacks choice, by doing things…
The Rambam in Chapter 2 explained that angels are metaphysical beings, which are bodiless and have knowledge of God. Yet when describing Yaakov’s vision of the ladder with angels climbing up and down, he explains that it is a metaphor for the empires and subjugation to them. Similarly, Chayot are the highest level of angel,…
