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Why did Hashem make us so cognitively restricted? Even computers today are way smarter and know so much more than the smartest human. Our ability to retain, process, and think deeply into issues is so

Tov li ki uneisi Ashrei hagever asher Oidcha ki anisani Tov veyasher al kein yoreh

Why do we need to always remember what amalek did? The pasuk says, remember what amalek did when you left mitzrayim. When a person is in the process of leaving mitzrayim, amalek = safek will come. And

אנא ה', טהר ליבי לעבדך באמת בלי שום גאווה או פניות כלל. ואם תאמר שאין תפלתי אלא מן השפה ולחוץ, היא הנותנת! Hashem, please purify my heart to serve you in truth, without any ego or ulterior motives. An

Friday 19 of Shvat is the second yartzeit of my beloved Zaide and Rebbe, Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski. Zaide, like his ancestors before him, was an amazing listener. He had the ability to tune in, foc

It does not refer to ruach. מ״ה is a very high level of bitul (ie Atzilut where איהו גרמיו… חד הוא) def not connected with the level of ruach/יצירה in this case!! מ״ה refers to Olam Atzilut which is c

יש לך לדעת שאין תשוקה בעולם עריבה וחביבה ונחמדת ונאהבת ונתאבת ומקוות לנבראים ובפרט לחלקי הרוחני המכיר ויודע בחינת אור האלהות כהדבקות באורו יתברך ואליו יכספו כל נפש חיונית המגעת להכיר קצת מנועם אורו ית

Maybe you can enlighten me with some sources to check on this iniyan which has been nagging at me? If all the maasim and even the thoughts to do these, all come from Hashem, bi’bechinat Ayin od milvad

Here are some sources in my Shomer Emunim on free choice. If you want to see the original Hebrew for any of them, I have them to hand but can only give them to you tomorrow or maybe even next week. I

In one place it says: העידתי בכם היום את השמים ואת הארץ החיים והמות נתתי לפניך הברכה והקללה *ובחרת בחיים* למען תחיה אתה וזרעך And in another it says: וזכרת את ה' אלהיך *כי הוא הנתן לך כח לעשות חיל* Wh

Perhaps the only thing that's "ours" is the recognition / Emunah that nothing is ours. And when that happens, there's a yichud between us and Hashem. הוא אחד ושמו אחד. So, reconciling this seeming con

To summarize and connect some of the points in SE. צמצום has the same gematria as יקוק + ספק. This is a key concept. If no Tzimtzum, then there is absolute certainty/knowledge. With absolute certainty

This is very insightful! I believe that since we are a chelek eloka mimal, we are really just part of Hashem and at the highest level, there is no free choice. As R' Avinoam said, free choice is a res

ו וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם, וַעֲשִׂיתֶם--כִּי הִוא חָכְמַתְכֶם וּבִינַתְכֶם, לְעֵינֵי הָעַמִּים אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁמְעוּן, אֵת כָּל-הַחֻקִּים הָאֵלֶּה, וְאָמְרוּ רַק עַם-חָכָם וְנָבוֹן, הַגּוֹי הַגָּדוֹל הַזֶּה. ז כִּי

What does this mean? There’s a saying “Someone who never did anything wrong, never did anything”. In other words, we could perhaps be a tzadik by not doing anything for fear of messing up, or we can g

The Lost Prince There was once a king and queen who had an only child in their old age, who they treasured more than anything in the world. They surrounded him with gold and sparkling gems and showere

I was thinking that perhaps the Aron is kineged the mind, as it says “and into the aron you shall place the edus that I will give you”. And the Mizbeach haketores is kineged the heart, and the shulcha

The Zohar in Parshas Vayetzeh says that the female of the Satan has 11 tikunim. The last one is 39 - like the avos melachos, explains the bal hasulam that it’s 4 x 10, but malchus of malchus has no Oh

Why does it start with this Mitzva? Because of the chet of Adam, we have to work and make birurim. There is the derech yisurim and the derech HaTorah. The derech HaTorah is sweet and allows us to do t

It occurred to me that when Chazal say אם לא עכשיו אימתי, they aren’t just telling us a cutsie piece of advice. They are saying something profound. They are telling us that there is no other time to d

How can it be that the Avos Hakedoshim and Moshe Rebeinu, etc were actual human beings in a flesh and blood body like we have? It doesn’t seem plausible that the actual merkava lashchinah, and someone

On the one hand we say that even the greatest Tzadik, no matter how much a person serves Hashem, he hasn’t really even BEGUN to serve Hashem! Yet on the other hand, we say that every mitzva a jew does

Yira, Shalem, Yevus, (another one I saw in the end of shoftim but can’t remember now) עַד-נֹכַח יְבוּס, הִיא יְרוּשָׁלִָם

God plays each of us like a master plays the harp. At every moment, God is plucking the strings, sending energy and vibrations throughout our lives. Sometimes God plays us as high notes and sometimes

We all know how difficult shmiras habris can be sometimes. How does Hashem expect us to overcome such a difficult and powerful drive? Someone sent me a beautiful piece from Rebbe Nachman of Breslav. R

י-ה-ו-ה מָה אָדָם וַתֵּדָעֵהוּ תהילים קמד ג' As I enter into my 45th year (as the Gemara in Eruvin 80? Says, a child who is 6 means in his 6th year)… מה אדם ותדעהו. מה = אדם. The yesod of אדם is אדמה

After the chet of the Eitz Hadaas, Hashem asked Adam why he did it and he blamed it on Chava. Then Hashem asked Chava why she did it, and she blamed it on the snake. But we don’t find that Hashem aske

Maybe the 10 sefiros, which symbolize the hishtalshelus of creation from the divine thought down to the physical, are in parallel with the 10 levels that make up the human being, beginning with the di

If כנגד כולן means X 10, in other words, not just X 2, then perhaps the distance we see and the distance written here are not so far apart. However, this should be taken with a grain of salt because i

In the tochacha, it says Hashem will send sicknesses, famine, etc.. then if you still don't listen, the goyim will come and eat your food and steal your children, and then if you still don't listen, y

If someone with a brilliant mind tells you that he spent his entire life trying to understand the physics of the universe, yet the deeper he goes the more he doesn't understand, that is a person I wou

One of the Yetzer Hara’s biggest tools is to tie us down with the past and the future. For example, in middle of davening when we suddenly remember that we’re standing before Hashem and we want to hav

There are two simultaneous international crises occurring now. One is the outbreak of the Coronavirus which has killed more than 1,000 people and infected more than 40,000 globally since its outbreak,

כי דדיה ירווך בכל עת” מה הדד הזה כל זמן שהתינוק מוצץ מוצא טעם אף דברי תורה כן”

People often feel that Hashem surely hates them after all the sins they did, and the trouble they have in their life is only proof of that… It could be helpful to envision Hashem’s hanhaga in the worl

Interestingly, Purim follows Chanukah and symbolizes the gmar hatikkun when we will get all the good Hashem wants to give us, from up to down. Hence the shape of the Haman Tash. But initially, this sh

Reb Yosef Albo explains that Teffilah is not to change Hashem’s mind but rather it changes us, making us into a new vessel to get blessings that we couldn’t have gotten before… I’d like to add… Why in

Previous generations knew very little about the wonders of the physical world. Tzadikim may have been able to comprehend great levels of divine wisdom in the spiritual realm and were able to feel Hash

There’s a famous expression in recovery “Once is too much, and a thousand times is never enough”. This is a profound insight into the nature of addiction, which basically means that giving in even onc

של "LEAST RESISTANCE" שכרוך בפחות אנרגיה. Violet has the highest energy among visible light, and red the lowest. The human eye is capable of seeing only light with wavelengths between 380 and 750 nano

I had this thought on Motzai Simchas Torah and I hope it is truth. I really wanted to do Jew4Real and have the great honor to spread these 4 areas of kavod shamayim in the world. But how can I do Jew4

Hashem helped me through a lot of pain (ashrei hagever…) that a switch finally clicked in my mind and for the first time in my life I realized that yiras shamayim means yegiyah, and yegiyah means doin

וַיִּשְׁמַע מֹשֶׁה אֶת-הָעָם, בֹּכֶה לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָיו כמו שאמרו חז"ל, על עסקי משפחותיו, על איסורי עריות. וַיִּחַר-אַף יְהוָה מְאֹד כי ניאף הוא מלשון אף. לא תנאף, אל תגרום לאף… מאד, זהו היצר הרע וּבְעֵ

עיין זוהר שגי' מהיטבאל = 97, מ"ה (יקוק במיוי א') + ב"ן (יקוק במילוי ה') כי היא הייתה "אשתו" הנוקבא, ורק אצלו היה שלימות של אור וכלי (מי = חסד, זהב = דין) המילה "זמן" גם = 97, כי כל מה שבתוך הזמן הוא ג

Rebbe Moshe Kobriner zy'a in Toras Avos writes: Rashi explains that Moshe Rabeinu had difficulty understanding what was meant until Hashem showed him a vision of a fiery coin. What was so hard for Mos

The Magan David symbolizes how we give all to Hashem (Ohr Chozer) and he gives us back (Ohr Yashar). It’s called a Magen David because David was Hod she’behod - the ultimate “I have nothing, it’s all

Thus even if some doubt exists with regard to the scientific classification of the gems themselves, we can still be certain as to their appearance based on the Midrashic description of their colors (a

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Or ROYGBIV. Red has the longest wavelength, with each color decreasing away from it. 6 Main Colors: The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. Th

https://99designs.com/blog/tips/why-are-there-7-colors-rainbow/ In reality there are 6 basic colors. Newton and ancient Greece decided 7 was a cooler number.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCO9ZyRgaQZxuEjKB3fyMQTjHaB679zdIM8Mq6trJZs/edit

When I have these kind of thoughts and connections (above), I feel like I'm touching "infinity", like just getting the tiniest taste of the infinite depth and wisdom in the Torah... It just makes me r

Chachma = Knowing I don’t know - ראשית חכמה יראת ה Malchus = Having nothing of my own - דלית ליה מגרמיה כלום Tzidkus = Knowing I haven’t started - פתחו לי שערי צדק - זה השער לה’ צדיקים יבוא בו Kehuna

And the word Halelu appears 10 times (besides for the first and last “Hallelu-ya”) which is keneged the 10 sefiros - the tenth one being מן הארץ! Noach was the 10th - איש האדמה (Maybe the Hilula of Ra

דוד יש לו הרבה בחינות: 7, 10, 14, 33 שביעי של בני ישי (כך כתוב בזוהר), שהוא מלכות, השביעי של המדות עשר שבצדיקים (כך כתוב בזוהר, ואיני יודע כוונתם), שהוא עשרה שבספירות (מלכות), וגם שמו כלול מהשורש של מ

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NSd6ZA3J6-g-BE2GP7shkEx-ruEwvNyCjdppMmtXszk/edit

וְלָקַחְתָּ מֵרֵאשִׁית כָּל-פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה, אֲשֶׁר תָּבִיא מֵאַרְצְךָ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ--וְשַׂמְתָּ בַטֶּנֶא Why is the torah nishmal to a tena? A tene is a kli, Could it be the tor

The Three Signs Teffilin Bris Shabbos What does sign mean? A sign is to remind us of a greater truth. Like the raindbow was a אות הברית to remind the world that Hashem won’t destroy it again. זֹאת אוֹ

In the same way Hashem is infinite, His deeds are infinite. That is why the wisdom in the Torah He gave us in infinite, and that is also why the wisdom in the universe He created is infinite. The more

Find old files where I made gematrios of numbers Look for the Ohr Hachayim that says we can darshen Torah how ever we want, if it’s not lehalacha Look for zohar of Kalos Moshe - the Tanaim who knew ho