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    • ▼2008 (48)
      • ▼November (1)
        • Bilvavi, part I
      • ►October (2)
        • Mitzvos of Sukkos
        • Simchas Beis haSho'eivah
      • ►September (5)
        • Thoughts about Teshuvah
        • And with what? With a Shofar
        • Coronating G-d
        • Wisdom from Eeyore
        • Shalom Aleikhem!
      • ►August (6)
        • AishDas
        • Ben Chamishim le'Aitzah
        • Heroism
        • Three Desires
        • Hatred
        • Gender Differences: Oaths
      • ►July (4)
        • The Halakhic Community
        • The Tools of Mussar
        • The Chosen People
        • Types of Thought: Dictionary
      • ►June (4)
        • Types of Thought: Gender Differences, part II
        • Gender Differences
        • Types of Thought: Progressions
        • Three Modes of Tefillah
      • ►May (6)
        • Mourning During the Omer, part II
        • Mourning During the Omer
        • In the Name of the One Who Said It
        • Ben Shishim leZiqnah
        • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
        • Ge'ulah and the Halachic Process
      • ►April (6)
        • Defining Ge'ulah
        • Sipur
        • Hagaddah
        • Tam, what does he say?
        • Sweet Charoses
        • Shetir'u baTov
      • ►March (6)
        • Nine Qavim at the Buffet
        • Purim and Permanence
        • Tziduq haDin
        • The Efficacy of Prayer
        • Mi sheBeirakh
        • The Kindness of Hashem
      • ►February (3)
        • Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark
        • Simchah and Oneg
        • Who is wealthy?
      • ►January (5)
        • Why I'm a Man
        • Perishus
        • Prayers and Requests
        • Neither Random nor Predetermined
        • Rav Dessler: 25 Teves
    • ►2007 (54)
      • ►December (2)
        • Halachic Process, addenda
        • Halachic Process, part II
      • ►November (3)
        • Halachic Process, interlude: What it isn't
        • Halachic Process, part I
        • Halachic Change
      • ►October (3)
        • Angry at G-d
        • Yisrael, Yaaqov and Beis Yaaqov
        • Anger and the Golden Mean
      • ►September (2)
        • Shemittah
        • כג אלול תשס"א
      • ►August (3)
        • Mi Keil Kamokha
        • May only goodness and kindness pursue me
        • The Desire to Desire
      • ►July (10)
        • Saving One's Own First
        • Compassion for Our Enemies
        • Something Else to Throw into the Bonfire
        • The Last Tish'ah be'Av
        • Hilkhos Mashiach
        • Hashem is Righteous
        • Safeiq deRabbanan
        • TIDE, variants on a theme
        • Noach and the Use of Wine
        • Benching Gomel
      • ►June (5)
        • Dear Graduate
        • Synthesis and Dialectic
        • The Blessing of a Commoner
        • Tzitzis: Advance and Retreat, part II
        • Angels and Idols
      • ►May (7)
        • ... The rest is commentary
        • A Broad Life
        • Ethics and Morality
        • Hashem and Morality
        • Introduction to Shaarei Yosher
        • Birkhas Avos
        • The Five Hardest Words
      • ►April (5)
        • Mussar Kallah V
        • Universalism
        • The Butler's Dilemma
        • Like the Laws of Pesach
        • A Seder Thought
      • ►March (6)
        • This Year in Jerusalem
        • Pesach: Freedom from Preconceived Limitations
        • The Mishkan and its Utensils
        • The Invisibility of Providence -- How?
        • Qinyan and Ba'alus
        • Esther's Modesty - Adar's Joy (Anavah and Anvanus)
      • ►February (4)
        • Terumah - The Legs of the Aron
        • THE KING AND I
        • Midgets on the Shoulders of Giants
        • Dialectics
      • ►January (4)
        • 35
        • I have a dream... part II
        • "I have a dream..."
        • Yeitzer haRa
    • ►2006 (53)
      • ►December (6)
        • The Devastating Power of Leitznus
        • A Thought About Maoz Tzur
        • Why do we light the new candle first?
        • Shiluach haQen
        • Ruach Memalela
        • Atzilus and the Mind - Body Problem, part II
      • ►November (7)
        • Parashas Tzitzis
        • Chayei Sarah - Kibbush and Chizuq
        • Atzilus and the Mind - Body Problem
        • Changing Name
        • Models of Creation
        • Vehayah im Shamoa
        • Veahavta
      • ►October (7)
        • The Unobservable, the Unobserved, and the Observed
        • The Nature of Reality
        • Shema Yisrael
        • Urgency, Importance, and the Yeitzer
        • Birkhas Ahavah
        • Anu ma'amirekha ve'Atah ma'amireinu
        • Selach lanu, Mechal lanu, Kaper lanu
      • ►September (5)
        • A Fallen Soldier's Prayer for Peace
        • Coronating G-d, part II -- Pragmatics
        • 9/11 - 5 Years Later; or, How to Effect Permanent Change
        • The Simplicity of the Shofar
        • Something you can do to help the situation
      • ►August (3)
        • Hashgachah Peratis as a level of abstraction
        • Yotzeir Or, part III
        • Yotzeir Or, part II
      • ►July (2)
        • War
        • Yotzeir Or, part I
      • ►June (5)
        • Nishmas, part II
        • Nishmas. part I
        • Birchos haTorah
        • E-lokai Neshamah
        • Asher Yatzer
      • ►May (3)
        • Al Netilas Yadayim
        • Yom Yerushalayim
        • Modeh Ani
      • ►April (4)
        • Roads and Cities
        • The Structure of the Seder
        • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
        • What is Judaism?
      • ►March (4)
        • My Life as a Pendulum
        • Yahrzeit and Simchah
        • Chidush and Shinui
        • The Rambam on Time During Creation
      • ►February (3)
        • Rav Dessler On Reality and Perception, part II
        • Rav Dessler on Reality and Perception
        • Types of Halachic Rulings
      • ►January (4)
        • Ikkarei Emunah
        • Ma'avir al Midosav -- the pragmatics
        • Ma'avir al Midosav
        • Vetaheir Libeinu
    • ►2005 (64)
      • ►December (4)
        • The Semitic Perspective
        • Anavah (Redux)
        • But the name of the city was "Luz" originally
        • What is a Berakhah?
      • ►November (6)
        • The Point of Decision
        • Havdalah
        • Mima'amaqim
        • Adam and Pinocchio
        • The origins of imperfection
        • The power of speech
      • ►October (2)
        • Yismach Moshe II
        • Qedushas Beis HaKenesses, part II
      • ►September (6)
        • A Second Covenant
        • Qedushas Beis HaKenesses
        • Midrashei Halakhah
        • The Lishmah of Interpersonal Mitzvos
        • On Destroying Synagogues
        • Menuchas haNefesh
      • ►August (3)
        • Appropriate and Inappropriate Kulos, Good Chumros and Bad
        • Mas'ei -- the Journey as a Name of G-d
        • Defining Anavah
      • ►July (5)
        • Divine Timelessness II, Hebrew Tenses
        • See but not Seen
        • The Psychological Model of Orechos Tzaddiqim
        • Hashem and Logic
        • Conflict Resolution
      • ►June (6)
        • Tzitzis, Advance and Retreat
        • Modern Orthodoxy, Chareidism, and Mussar
        • Charitzus - Decisiveness
        • Different Parts of the Same Body
        • Attributes of G-d
        • Ki Arumim Heim
      • ►May (7)
        • A History of Mussar, part II
        • A History of Mussar, part I
        • Qedushah
        • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
        • Yom haAtzma'ut
        • Yir'ah
        • Reasons for Mitzvos
      • ►April (5)
        • Purpose of Qorbanos, part II
        • Who knows four?
        • A quick but beautiful thought on tefillah
        • Tum'ah and Taharah, part II
        • Tum'ah and Taharah
      • ►March (7)
        • Causality in Halakhah
        • Life and Consciousness
        • Purim, Yehudim and Simchah
        • Purpose of Qorbanos
        • Eilu va'Eilu part II
        • Eilu va'Eilu - part I
        • Trends in Resolving Torah and Science
      • ►February (7)
        • Brisk and Telzh
        • Saying Shema Together
        • People and Angels
        • Tefillin Mirrors
        • Hispa'alus, or: Yismach Moshe
        • The Kuzari Proof, part III
        • Some thoughts about Parashas Yisro
      • ►January (6)
        • Free Will and Environment
        • Rav Dessler's Approach to Creation
        • The Fire Within the Bush
        • Divine Timelessness
        • The Legislative Authority of a Bas Qol
        • Politeness and Taharah
    • ►2004 (18)
      • ►December (9)
        • Theodicy
        • Argument by Design ver. 4.0
        • The Kuzari Proof, part II
        • The Kuzari Proof, part I
        • Psychology and Mussar
        • Rights and Duties
        • The Troubles of Relativism
        • Love, part II
        • Love, part I
      • ►November (8)
        • Emunah Peshutah vs Machashavah
        • Different Approaches to Creation
        • Other Tines on the Fork
        • Today's Daas Torah
        • The Fall of Mimeticism and Forks in the Hashkafic Road
        • Aspaqlaria
        • Welcome
        • Miqeitz: Time and Process
      • ►May (1)
    • ►2002 (1)
      • ►April (1)
        • Pesach 5761: The Four Sons Confront Tragedy
    • ►2001 (1)
      • ►August (1)
        • Idealism
    • ►1998 (1)
      • ►August (1)
        • HaKel HaGadol HaGibbor veHaNora
    • ►1996 (1)
      • ►October (1)
        • Lekh-Lekha 5757: Temimus and Deveiqus
    • ►1995 (1)
      • ►October (1)
        • Tiqanta Shabbos

  • Categories

    • ►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 (27)
      • ►Bamidbar (8)
        • 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
        • Gender Differences: Oaths
      • ►Bereishis (8)
        • Lekh-Lekha 5757: Temimus and Deveiqus
        • Miqeitz: Time and Process
        • Ki Arumim Heim
        • The power of speech
        • But the name of the city was "Luz" originally
        • Shemittah
        • Yisrael, Yaaqov and Beis Yaaqov
        • Angry at G-d
      • ►Devarim (3)
        • HaKel HaGadol HaGibbor veHaNora
        • A Second Covenant
        • May only goodness and kindness pursue me
      • ►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 (144)
      • ►Absolutism (7)
        • The Troubles of Relativism
        • Rights and Duties
        • Psychology and Mussar
        • Politeness and Taharah
        • Qinyan and Ba'alus
        • The Butler's Dilemma
        • ... The rest is commentary
      • ►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 the Halachic Process
        • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
        • ►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)
        • Lekh-Lekha 5757: Temimus and Deveiqus
        • 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
      • ►Fundamentals (14)
        • Tiqanta Shabbos
        • 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
        • A Broad Life
        • Angels and Idols
        • Synthesis and Dialectic
        • TIDE, variants on a theme
        • כג אלול תשס"א
        • Why I'm a Man
        • Types of Thought: Gender Differences, part II
      • ►Halachah (70)
        • ►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 Change
          • Halachic Process, part I
          • Halachic Process, interlude: What it isn't
          • Halachic Process, part II
          • Halachic Process, addenda
          • Ge'ulah and the Halachic Process
        • ►Ta`amei haMitzvos (53)
          • Purpose of Qorbanos
          • Life and Consciousness
          • Causality in Halakhah
          • Purpose of Qorbanos, part II
          • Reasons for Mitzvos
          • A Second Covenant
          • 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
          • ... The rest is commentary
          • Shemittah
          • ►Clothing (3)
            • Ki Arumim Heim
            • Tzitzis, Advance and Retreat
            • Tzitzis: Advance and Retreat, part II
          • ►Holidays (34)
            • Purim, Yehudim and Simchah
            • Yom haAtzma'ut
            • Yom Yerushalayim
            • Chayei Sarah - Kibbush and Chizuq
            • Why do we light the new candle first?
            • A Thought About Maoz Tzur
            • Hashem is Righteous
            • Hilkhos Mashiach
            • The Last Tish'ah be'Av
            • Simchah and Oneg
            • Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark
            • Purim and Permanence
            • Defining Ge'ulah
            • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
            • Mourning During the Omer
            • Mourning During the Omer, part II
            • Coronating G-d
            • And with what? With a Shofar
            • Thoughts about Teshuvah
            • Simchas Beis haSho'eivah
            • Mitzvos of Sukkos
            • ►Pesach (13)
              • Pesach 5761: The Four Sons Confront Tragedy
              • Who knows four?
              • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
              • The Structure of the Seder
              • Pesach: Freedom from Preconceived Limitations
              • This Year in Jerusalem
              • A Seder Thought
              • Like the Laws of Pesach
              • Sweet Charoses
              • Tam, what does he say?
              • Hagaddah
              • Sipur
              • Defining Ge'ulah
      • ►Reward and Punishment (4)
        • The Marksman
        • The Thermodynamics of History (revised)
        • Of Empty Cups
        • The Gift of Justice
      • ►Science and Torah (3)
        • Different Approaches to Creation
        • Rav Dessler's Approach to Creation
        • Trends in Resolving Torah and Science
      • ►Theology (13)
        • Divine Timelessness
        • Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
        • Attributes of G-d
        • Hashem and Logic
        • Divine Timelessness II, Hebrew Tenses
        • Hashem and Morality
        • ►Theodicy (7)
          • Pesach 5761: The Four Sons Confront Tragedy
          • Theodicy
          • Mima'amaqim
          • Hashgachah Peratis as a level of abstraction
          • The Invisibility of Providence -- How?
          • Mi sheBeirakh
          • Wisdom from Eeyore
      • Welcome
      • The Mishkan and its Utensils
      • Ethics and Morality
      • Recognizing Your Friend in the Dark
      • The Halakhic Community
    • ►Mussar (101)
      • ►Dei`os (20)
        • Today's Daas Torah
        • Psychology and Mussar
        • 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 25th of Shevat
        • 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
        • Wisdom from Eeyore
      • ►History (2)
        • A History of Mussar, part I
        • A History of Mussar, part II
      • ►Middos (52)
        • Tefillin Mirrors
        • Charitzus - Decisiveness
        • Conflict Resolution
        • Ma'avir al Midosav -- the pragmatics
        • My Life as a Pendulum
        • The Devastating Power of Leitznus
        • The Desire to Desire
        • Perishus
        • Nine Qavim at the Buffet
        • Shetir'u baTov
        • Hatred
        • Heroism
        • Shalom Aleikhem!
        • ►Ahavah (6)
          • Love, part I
          • Love, part II
          • Universalism
          • Something Else to Throw into the Bonfire
          • Compassion for Our Enemies
          • Ben Shishim leZiqnah
        • ►Anavah (7)
          • The Fire Within the Bush
          • Defining Anavah
          • Anavah (Redux)
          • Esther's Modesty - Adar's Joy (Anavah and Anvanus)
          • Saving One's Own First
          • Purim and Permanence
          • In the Name of the One Who Said It
        • ►Anger (5)
          • Menuchas haNefesh
          • Ma'avir al Midosav
          • Anger and the Golden Mean
          • Angry at G-d
          • Hatred
        • ►Aveilus (3)
          • Idealism
          • Mima'amaqim
          • Yahrzeit and Simchah
        • ►Bitachon (8)
          • The Five Hardest Words
          • The Kindness of Hashem
          • Vera'isa es Achorai
          • Lehman Brothers and Bitachon
          • Emunah and Bitachon
          • Bitachon: Trust that ...?
          • Bitachon and Melukhah
          • More on Finance and Bitachon
        • ►Simchah (7)
          • Idealism
          • Purim, Yehudim and Simchah
          • Yahrzeit and Simchah
          • The Five Hardest Words
          • Introduction to Shaarei Yosher
          • Who is wealthy?
          • Simchah and Oneg
        • ►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
        • Selach lanu, Mechal lanu, Kaper lanu
        • Anu ma'amirekha ve'Atah ma'amireinu
        • Mi Keil Kamokha
        • Ge'ulah and Accepting Hashem as King
        • Thoughts about Teshuvah
      • ►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 (27)
      • ►Naran (10)
        • People and Angels
        • Pesach, Matzah, Maror
        • Three Desires
        • Bilvavi, part I
        • ►Qedushah (3)
          • Tiqanta Shabbos
          • Qedushah