Selections from Alei Shur vol. II

Learning Mussar

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Chapter 5: Hislamdus [Teaching Oneself / Taking Lessons from Life] (ve’adim)

Ameilus BeTorah - Tikkun HaMidos - Gra
Micha Berger: Ameilus BeTorah - Tikkun HaMidos - Gra: [...] I have not. I have limited my comments to saying that the link you give is neither in Even Sheleimah nor could be implied in ES, since the book itself says that ameilus beTorah would make bad middos worse, not fix them! But since you […]
10th vs. 10th
Micha Berger: 10th vs. 10th: The Torah Temimah this week (in the commentary, Bamidbar 15:5, #14) quotes Bekhoros 60a about how maaser beheimah is every tenth one to pass under the rod (the rod isn't me'aqeiv), and there is even some level of qedushah to an animal accidenatally called "asiri" (although calling […]
taking a stand?
David Riceman: taking a stand?: RMB: [...] But then why the emphasis on acquiring good midos through repeated practice in 8 Perakim and H. Deos? Shouldn't he just say 'mashcheihu l'beis hamidrash'? DR
Punishment
David Riceman: Punishment: RJR: [...] The function is different. In this world punishment induces tshuvah. In the Ramban's analysis in Shaar HaGmul in the next world one's faults are removed and the wounds are cauterized, both (in an analogy that predates anesthesia) painful. […]
Ameilus BeTorah
Rabbi Meir G. Rabi: Ameilus BeTorah: R' Micha, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. pls see my responses below within your message On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 6:53 AM Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote: [...] I'm sorry if I gave the impression that the GRA actually says that. Indeed it is for this reason […]
Emerging Psak
Joel Rich: Emerging Psak: A note to a maggid shiur: I also appreciate it what you said concerning abortion and authorities who are stringent don’t get asked questions anymore. I think this is a dynamic that bears further analysis. Similarly, what are the factors that have turned from the stringent opinion to the […]
Ameilus BeTorah
Micha Berger: Ameilus BeTorah: [...] I see tiqun hammidos, but nothing about ameilus in Even Sheleimah until paragrpah 39. The Gra opens by telling you "All of Avodas Hashem rests on Tiqun haMiddos" and only mentions being oseiq baTorah as a way to put the yh"r is snooze mode. In other words... […]
taking a stand?
Micha Berger: taking a stand?: [...] The Rambam, in the Moreh 1:1-2 explains the effects of the sin of the Eitz haDaas as introducing aesthetics and desire. That previous to the cheit, Adam and Chava only had to distinguish between the truth and falsehood. And then the key to nevu'ah is da'as and a person's […]
Question About This Week's Sedra
Zev Sero: Question About This Week's Sedra: [...] See Malbim, who answers all these questions. But in Devarim it does say "vayeraglu osah".
Question About This Week's Sedra
Prof. L. Levine: Question About This Week's Sedra: In this week's Sedra, Shlach, (which happens to be my Bar Mitzvah parasha) Moshe sends one representative of each Shevat to "scout" the land. However, in the haftorah Yehoshua sends only two men. Shlach is referred to as the parasha of miraglim, yet this word does not […]

Selections from Alei Shur vol. II

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