Learning Mussar
- Excerpts from Chapter 4 “Frumkeit”
- Chapter 13: Summary: Removing the Impediments
- Chapter 14: Summary: A Short Guide to Mussar Study
Mussar Practice
- Chapter 5: Hislamdus [Teaching Oneself / Taking Lessons from Life] (ve’adim)
Intimate Knowledge of G‑d
Compassion Toward People
Splendor in Mind and Heart
Avodah
Is lev bet din matneh a nice way of saying it?s ?impractical? to apply the letter of the law in a particular situation (so chazal, HKBH?) must?ve had this situational [...]
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:20 Micha Berger wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik [...]
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 06:07:13AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > Does anybody know historically when mugmar was used to perfume clothes, was > it a one [...]
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:31:33AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote: > Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only > said sim shalom [...]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:49:20AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The rama in o"c 149:1 says it's a mitzvah to accompany the sefer torah back > [...]
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:22:54PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > Why do you consider his contemporary generation a more important > > audience than later [...]
Interestingly enough Rav Soloveitchik never said shalom Rav at all he only said sim shalom because shalom Rav doesn?t appear in the Rambams siddur and was a later geonic invention [...]
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 09:16:29AM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > R' Joel Rich asked: >> S"A O"C 131:4 states "nahagu shelo lipol al pneichem... bbeit >> [...]
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My brother, HaRav Yochanan Meir shlita,is our special guest to reminisce about the niftar zt"l.https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/110529 [...]
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אשה אחת שאלה אותי אם אני מוכן להעביר את הזוהר היומי בעברית. אמרתי לה שאם יהיו אנשים מעוניינים בזה אנסה. האם יש כאן או ידוע למישהו כאן על מי שיהיה [...]
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Orot HaTechiyah 9 This is the most explicit explication of Rav Kook's novel perspective on Secular Zionism as a holy movement. I have connected it to the "tzitzit bli kippa" [...]
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Focusing on the Dover Shalom (in the Otzar HaTefillos Siddur) on Shemoneh Esrei. [...]
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Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 9:'עָצֹ֤ר עָצַר֙ הֹThe Million Man March in Yerushalayimhttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/110054Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
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Motzo'ei Shabbos Parashas Lech Lecha, Nov. 1, 2025.Young Israel of Oak Park, with the Shul's Rav, Rabbi Shaya Katz.Q&A on Chinuch Issues at a scholar-in-residence Shabbos. [...]
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כיצד התמודד ראש ראשי הישיבות עם נכדתו, חברת הכנסת השמאלניתהרב יחיאל פליסקיןכאשר גדולי ישראל התמודדו בעצמם עם צאצאים שנטו מדרך התורה, הם סיפקו לנו דוגמא חיה ומשכנעת של כבוד, אהבה [...]
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https://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/108565Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 8:Rav Moshe Hauer Z"L:To Understand and Work with The Other:Encouraging Curiosity and Engagement with The Broader WorldPicture of Rabbi Hauer taken at NIRC back in the early 80's when we were [...]
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A BHP Productions video on the Parasha. Parashas Bereishis (but works for Kedoshim and Ki Teitzei too!).https://chat.whatsapp.com/I4CFQwInPXNATfQSMNOeRV [...]
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The Biur HaGra to Yoreh De'ah 63.1, pertaining to the Yerushalmi Shekalim (Vilna-Bavli pagination) 19b (Artscroll edition 53a), on theRambamon בשר שנתעלם מן העין, who seems to go like the Yerushalmi [...]
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Rischa D'Araisa Season 12 Episode 7Unbox Your Soul:Suggested Hisbonenus for this Year'sHoshanhah RabbahandShemini Atzereshttps://listen.jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/108219Play EpisodeDownload EpisodeSupport This Episode [...]
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New Series!Sefer HaZichronosReb Tzadok's Work on Emunah and Kabbalah part 1Subsequent episodes in the series will be linked in the comments here. [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
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The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
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Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
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Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
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Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
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Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
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The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
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Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
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I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
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My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
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When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
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Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
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I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
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I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
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So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
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“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]