Parshas Behaaloscha: Does Action Create Will or Does Will Create Action?
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier HaRav Menachem Recanati (1223-1290) who wrote mainly kabbalah, explained that before the “sin” of אדם הראשון, Adam, one’s inner essence and focus was completely positive, though the outside environment contained negative influences. Subsequently after the “sin” the external influences became his essence and the internal self became ideas and […]
Parshas Naso
Print PDF By Rabbi Shimmy Sternfield איש או אשה כי יפליא לנדר נדר נזיר להזיר לד’ (פרק ו’, פסוק ב’) “A man or woman who will take a Nazirite vow of abstinence for the sake of Hashem.” In this week’s Parsha, the Torah describes the process used to determine the innocence or guilt of a […]
Parshas Naso: The Nazir and “The Street”
Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier Chazal explain the juxtaposition of the laws of the סוטה, Sotah – a woman who has not acted in a moral manner – to the laws of the נזיר, Nazarite in the following manner: A married woman who had been forewarned not to seclude herself with another man and […]
