Aspaqlaria

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• ► Audio(15)
  • Modeh Ani
  • Al Netilas Yadayim
  • Asher Yatzer
  • E-lokai Neshamah
  • Birchos haTorah
  • Nishmas. part I
  • Nishmas, part II
  • Yotzeir Or, part I
  • Yotzeir Or, part II
  • Yotzeir Or, part III
  • Birkhas Ahavah
  • Shema Yisrael
  • Veahavta
  • Vehayah im Shamoa
  • Parashas Tzitzis
• ► Chumash(25)
  • ► Bamidbar (7)
    • Tum'ah and Taharah
    • Tum'ah and Taharah, part II
    • Different Parts of the Same Body
    • Tzitzis, Advance and Retreat
    • Mas'ei -- the Journey as a Name of G-d
    • Tzitzis: Advance and Retreat, part II
    • Noach and the Use of Wine
  • ► Bereishis (7)
    • Ki Arumim Heim
    • The power of speech
    • But the name of the city was "Luz" originally
    • Lekh-Lekha 5757: Temimus and Deveiqus
    • Shemittah
    • Yisrael, Yaaqov and Beis Yaaqov
    • Angry at G-d
  • ► Devarim (3)
    • A Second Covenant
    • May only goodness and kindness pursue me
    • HaKel HaGadol HaGibbor veHaNora
  • ► Shemos (3)
    • The Fire Within the Bush
    • Some thoughts about Parashas Yisro
    • Terumah - The Legs of the Aron
  • ► Vayiqra (4)
    • Purpose of Qorbanos
    • Purpose of Qorbanos, part II
    • Qedushah
  • Welcome
• ► Machashavah(140)
  • ► Absolutism (7)
    • The Troubles of Relativism
    • Rights and Duties
    • Psychology and Mussar
    • Politeness and Taharah
    • ... The rest is commentary
    • Qinyan and Ba'alus
    • The Butler's Dilemma
  • ► Creation (6)
    • Different Approaches to Creation
    • Argument by Design ver. 4.0
    • Rav Dessler's Approach to Creation
    • The power of speech
    • The Rambam on Time During Creation
    • Models of Creation
  • ► Eschatology (6)
    • Yom Yerushalayim
    • War
    • Defining Ge'ulah
    • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
    • Ge'ulah and the Halachic Process
    • ► Ge’ulah (1)
      • In the Name of the One Who Said It
  • ► Faith and Proof (8)
    • Emunah Peshutah vs Machashavah
    • The Kuzari Proof, part I
    • The Kuzari Proof, part II
    • Argument by Design ver. 4.0
    • The Kuzari Proof, part III
    • The Devastating Power of Leitznus
    • Like the Laws of Pesach
    • Tam, what does he say?
  • ► Forks (8)
    • Aspaqlaria
    • The Fall of Mimeticism and Forks in the Hashkafic Road
    • Other Tines on the Fork
    • Brisk and Telzh
    • Different Parts of the Same Body
    • Modern Orthodoxy, Chareidism, and Mussar
    • Vetaheir Libeinu
    • Lekh-Lekha 5757: Temimus and Deveiqus
  • ► Fundamentals (14)
    • The Semitic Perspective
    • Ikkarei Emunah
    • Rav Dessler on Reality and Perception
    • Rav Dessler On Reality and Perception, part II
    • Roads and Cities
    • Chayei Sarah - Kibbush and Chizuq
    • Types of Thought: Gender Differences, part II
    • Tiqanta Shabbos
    • A Broad Life
    • TIDE, variants on a theme
    • Angels and Idols
    • Synthesis and Dialectic
    • כג אלול תשס"א
    • Why I'm a Man
  • ► Halachah (67)
    • ► Process (17)
      • Today's Daas Torah
      • The Legislative Authority of a Bas Qol
      • Eilu va'Eilu - part I
      • Eilu va'Eilu part II
      • Appropriate and Inappropriate Kulos, Good Chumros and Bad
      • Midrashei Halakhah
      • Types of Halachic Rulings
      • Chidush and Shinui
      • What is Judaism?
      • Midgets on the Shoulders of Giants
      • Safeiq deRabbanan
      • Halachic Process, part I
      • Halachic Change
      • Halachic Process, part II
      • Halachic Process, interlude: What it isn't
      • Halachic Process, addenda
      • Ge'ulah and the Halachic Process
    • ► Ta`amei haMitzvos (50)
      • Purpose of Qorbanos
      • Life and Consciousness
      • Causality in Halakhah
      • Purpose of Qorbanos, part II
      • Reasons for Mitzvos
      • A Second Covenant
      • ... The rest is commentary
      • The Simplicity of the Shofar
      • Coronating G-d, part II -- Pragmatics
      • The Nature of Reality
      • The Unobservable, the Unobserved, and the Observed
      • Changing Name
      • Shiluach haQen
      • Qinyan and Ba'alus
      • Universalism
      • Shemittah
      • ► Clothing (3)
        • Ki Arumim Heim
        • Tzitzis, Advance and Retreat
        • Tzitzis: Advance and Retreat, part II
      • ► Holidays (31)
        • A Thought About Maoz Tzur
        • Purim, Yehudim and Simchah
        • Yom haAtzma'ut
        • Coronating G-d
        • Yom Yerushalayim
        • Chayei Sarah - Kibbush and Chizuq
        • Why do we light the new candle first?
        • The Last Tish'ah be'Av
        • Hashem is Righteous
        • Hilkhos Mashiach
        • Thoughts about Teshuvah
        • Purim and Permanence
        • Defining Ge'ulah
        • Mourning During the Omer, part II
        • Simchah and Oneg
        • Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark
        • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
        • Mourning During the Omer
        • ► Pesach (13)
          • Pesach 5761: The Four Sons Confront Tragedy
          • Who knows four?
          • Pesach: Freedom from Preconceived Limitations
          • Hagaddah
          • A Seder Thought
          • Like the Laws of Pesach
          • Sweet Charoses
          • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
          • The Structure of the Seder
          • This Year in Jerusalem
          • Tam, what does he say?
          • Sipur
          • Defining Ge'ulah
  • ► Reward and Punishment (5)
    • The Marksman
    • The Thermodynamics of History (revised)
    • Of Empty Cups
    • The Gift of Justice
    • Thoughts about Teshuvah
  • ► Science and Torah (3)
    • Different Approaches to Creation
    • Rav Dessler's Approach to Creation
    • Trends in Resolving Torah and Science
  • ► Theology (12)
    • Divine Timelessness
    • Hashem and Morality
    • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    • Attributes of G-d
    • Hashem and Logic
    • Divine Timelessness II, Hebrew Tenses
    • ► Theodicy (6)
      • Theodicy
      • Mima'amaqim
      • Hashgachah Peratis as a level of abstraction
      • Pesach 5761: The Four Sons Confront Tragedy
      • The Invisibility of Providence -- How?
      • Mi sheBeirakh
  • Welcome
  • Ethics and Morality
  • The Mishkan and its Utensils
  • Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark
• ► Mussar(91)
  • ► Dei`os (19)
    • Today's Daas Torah
    • Psychology and Mussar
    • The 25th of Shevat
    • Modern Orthodoxy, Chareidism, and Mussar
    • Did you cry?
    • Did you cry? II
    • But the name of the city was "Luz" originally
    • Rav Breuer: 'Glatt Kosher -- Glatt Yoshor'
    • War
    • Frum or Erlich
    • What does Hashem ask of you?
    • The 29th of Shevat
    • Introduction to Shaarei Yosher
    • Rebbe
    • Be a Jew Through and Through
    • May only goodness and kindness pursue me
    • Gratitude
    • What is Mussar?
    • Brisk and Mussar
  • ► History (2)
    • A History of Mussar, part I
    • A History of Mussar, part II
  • ► Middos (43)
    • Tefillin Mirrors
    • Charitzus - Decisiveness
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Ma'avir al Midosav -- the pragmatics
    • My Life as a Pendulum
    • Shetir'u baTov
    • The Devastating Power of Leitznus
    • The Desire to Desire
    • Perishus
    • Nine Qavim at the Buffet
    • ► Ahavah (6)
      • Love, part I
      • Love, part II
      • Compassion for Our Enemies
      • Universalism
      • Something Else to Throw into the Bonfire
      • Ben Shishim leZiqnah
    • ► Anavah (7)
      • The Fire Within the Bush
      • Anavah (Redux)
      • Esther's Modesty - Adar's Joy (Anavah and Anvanus)
      • In the Name of the One Who Said It
      • Saving One's Own First
      • Defining Anavah
      • Purim and Permanence
    • ► Anger (4)
      • Menuchas haNefesh
      • Ma'avir al Midosav
      • Anger and the Golden Mean
      • Angry at G-d
    • ► Aveilus (3)
      • Mima'amaqim
      • Yahrzeit and Simchah
      • Idealism
    • ► Bitachon (3)
      • The Five Hardest Words
      • The Kindness of Hashem
      • Vera'isa es Achorai
    • ► Simchah (7)
      • Purim, Yehudim and Simchah
      • Yahrzeit and Simchah
      • The Five Hardest Words
      • Introduction to Shaarei Yosher
      • Who is wealthy?
      • Simchah and Oneg
      • Idealism
    • ► Yir`ah (3)
      • Yir'ah
      • Qedushas Beis HaKenesses
      • Qedushas Beis HaKenesses, part II
  • ► Teshuvah (9)
    • Something you can do to help the situation
    • The Simplicity of the Shofar
    • 9/11 - 5 Years Later; or, How to Effect Permanent Change
    • Coronating G-d, part II -- Pragmatics
    • Mi Keil Kamokha
    • Thoughts about Teshuvah
    • Selach lanu, Mechal lanu, Kaper lanu
    • Anu ma'amirekha ve'Atah ma'amireinu
    • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
  • ► Tools (5)
    • Hispa'alus, or: Yismach Moshe
    • Yismach Moshe II
    • "I have a dream..."
    • I have a dream... part II
    • The Tools of Mussar
  • ► Torah as Growth (6)
    • Free Will and Environment
    • People and Angels
    • Mas'ei -- the Journey as a Name of G-d
    • On Destroying Synagogues
    • The Lishmah of Interpersonal Mitzvos
    • Terumah - The Legs of the Aron
  • ► UFEM (3)
    • A use for every middah
    • A Use for Every Middah, part II: Two Dictionaries
    • Another's Gashmiyus is my Ruchnius
  • Welcome
  • THE KING AND I
  • The Blessing of a Commoner
  • Dear Graduate
  • Rav Dessler: 25 Teves
• ► Psyche(25)
  • ► Naran (8)
    • People and Angels
    • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
    • ► Qedushah (3)
      • Qedushah
      • Tiqanta Shabbos
    • ► Taharah (3)
      • Politeness and Taharah
      • Tum'ah and Taharah
      • Tum'ah and Taharah, part II
  • The Psychological Model of Orechos Tzaddiqim
  • See but not Seen
  • The origins of imperfection
  • Adam and Pinocchio
  • Havdalah
  • The Point of Decision
  • Urgency, Importance, and the Yeitzer
  • Atzilus and the Mind - Body Problem
  • Atzilus and the Mind - Body Problem, part II
  • Ruach Memalela
  • Shiluach haQen
  • Dialectics
  • Yeitzer haRa
  • Neither Random nor Predetermined
  • Types of Thought: Progressions
  • Types of Thought: Dictionary
  • Types of Thought: Gender Differences, part II
• ► Tefillah(53)
  • ► Amidah (5)
    • Birkhas Avos
    • HaKel HaGadol HaGibbor veHaNora
    • Types of Thought: Progressions
    • Types of Thought: Dictionary
  • ► Daily (9)
    • What is a Berakhah?
    • Modeh Ani
    • Al Netilas Yadayim
    • Asher Yatzer
    • E-lokai Neshamah
    • Birchos haTorah
    • Coronating G-d, part II -- Pragmatics
    • Benching Gomel
    • Types of Thought: Dictionary
  • ► Preparation (1)
    • A quick but beautiful thought on tefillah
  • ► Shabbos (6)
    • Yismach Moshe II
    • Nishmas. part I
    • Nishmas, part II
    • Tiqanta Shabbos
    • Simchah and Oneg
    • Sweet Charoses
  • ► Shacharis (5)
    • Hispa'alus, or: Yismach Moshe
    • Vetaheir Libeinu
    • E-lokai Neshamah
    • Birchos haTorah
    • The Kindness of Hashem
  • ► Shema (9)
    • Saying Shema Together
    • Tzitzis, Advance and Retreat
    • Yotzeir Or, part II
    • Yotzeir Or, part III
    • Birkhas Ahavah
    • Shema Yisrael
    • Veahavta
    • Vehayah im Shamoa
    • Parashas Tzitzis
  • ► Yom Tov (12)
    • A Thought About Maoz Tzur
    • Who knows four?
    • Vetaheir Libeinu
    • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
    • The Structure of the Seder
    • Coronating G-d, part II -- Pragmatics
    • Selach lanu, Mechal lanu, Kaper lanu
    • Anu ma'amirekha ve'Atah ma'amireinu
    • Hagaddah
    • This Year in Jerusalem
    • Simchah and Oneg
    • Sweet Charoses
  • Welcome
  • Yotzeir Or, part I
  • A Fallen Soldier's Prayer for Peace
  • Prayers and Requests
  • The Efficacy of Prayer
  • Three Modes of Tefillah
• ► Uncategorized(5)
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  • Other Divrei Torah
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  • Mussar Kallah V
  • Tziduq haDin
  • Gender Differences
  • The Chosen People