What is Shabbos?

If life is a cycle, the most basic example of it in the world around us would be the week. All the other cycles have natural events that mark them: the day has sunrise and sunset; the month has the waxing and waning of the moon; and the year has the seasons with the sun's altered placement in the sky. The week, however, is solely around human life events.

What is the week about? If human life has any representative feature, it is most likely 'question and answer'. If… Continue

Hashem would rather overlook the three cardinal sins than overlook Bittul Torah. Why?

The Yeitzer would allow you to fulfill any mitzvah rather than to study Torah: also, why?

First of all, to point out that although a major part of Bittul Torah has to do with the study of Torah, the main point that I refer to here is not the studying of it; rather, mindfulness of the insights themselves (also, the insights have to be holy - from observance - for the following to apply).

Where… Continue

In trying to explain reward and punishment, RAMChA"L puts something forward that I would like to rephrase this way:

1) Children need to be told not to put their fingers into the electric outlet; if they don't listen they are punished: Hashem arranged that so as to continue it to the next levels.

2) When the child is older, his peers will judge his behavior: is it beneficial or is it something that invites ridicule; all the while keeping in mind that the judging began when he was… Continue