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The True Hero

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Author: Micha Berger

Don't picture a single jar of oil found amidst the rubble. The Beis haMiqdash wasn't trashed, it was perverted into a Temple of Zeus. ... That single jar oil needed to be searched for because it had been hidden. Who hid it?

Categories: Anavah, Bitachon, Holidays, Yir`ah

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Dispelling the Dark

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Author: Micha Berger

So, Adam saw the return of darkness, the same darkness the opening medrash identified with the spiritual decimation attempted by the Hellenists in the years before Chanukah. He mourned and fasted for 8 days. We have 8 days, but with an opposite theme -- mourning and fasting are prohibited, and praise and gratitude dominate. And in both cases, the message was only seen in retrospect, the next year.

There is one major difference: Adam concluded that the darkness and the return of light was just "the natural cycle". In Chanukah, we initiated the light manually, and Hashem responded with a miracle. Where Adam saw Hashem's Light in nature, we see Him bestowing it in a covenantal union with us.

Adam was the start of this world. The Jewish People were given the Torah, handed a burning torch, to bring light to the world that follows.

Categories: 1- Bereishis, Holidays

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The Besh"t on Knowing What You're Davening

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Author: Micha Berger

I just wanted to share this beautiful quote from Toledos Yaaqov Yoseif, (Parashas VaEschanan, p. 176c, via Baal Shem Tov al ha-Torah, Amud ha-Tefilla 76). You think the Baal Shem Tov would be discussing kavvanh during davening in terms of unifying names, uniting the worlds etc.. But here is a quote about the importance of the most fundamental kind of kavvanah -- just thinking …

Categories: Tefillah

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Aggadic Stories and Peshat - Narrative Styles

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Author: Micha Berger

Midrash makes for far more 2-dimensional people than you have in peshat. Let me explain with a mashal. The first Star Wars series was a classic Hero's Journey plotline. And the characters -- good was good, evil was evil. Everything was very black-and-white. This mythic style of storytelling uses characters as archetypes. The most recent trilogy didn't preserve this. People today …

Categories: Fundamentals

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Widen Your Tent, ep. 4-6 / Relationship ep. 30-32 (end)

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Author: Micha Berger

On Wednesday November 9th, 16th and 23rd at 8pm, we concluded our discussion of the introduction to Shaarei Yosher, by Rav Shimon Shkop, starting from the tail of the second paragraph in the original edition (section 1.2 in Widen Your Tent) through the end of paragraph 4 (section 1.4). The remainder of the introduction is more related to Shaarei Yosher itself, and wasn't in scope or the chaburah.

These were the last meetings of the Beyond Meaningful Relationship - Relationshipful Meaning chaburah. Next: in January we start Derashos haRan!

Categories: Audio, Shaarei Yosher, Zelmele's Kloiz

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Universal Hashgachah Peratis (notes)

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Author: Micha Berger

Back in 2002, Rav Yitzchok Zirkind zt"l (COLlive obituary) brought the last Lubavitcher Rebbe's Igeres (Igeres haQodesh 1:93) to the attention of the gang at Avodah. I was motivated to summarize it on list, and I see the summary isn't on this blog. So, here it is, now, in notes / outline form. I hope it makes sense to someone …

Categories: Reward and Punishment, Theodicy

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Widen Your Tent, ep. 2-3 / Relationship ep. 28-29

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Author: Micha Berger

On Wednesday October 26th and Nobember 2nd at 8pm, we continued our discussion of the introduction to Shaarei Yosher, by Rav Shimon Shkop. This meetings covered the majority of the second paragraph in the original edition (section 1.2 in Widen Your Tent).

Categories: Audio, Shaarei Yosher, Zelmele's Kloiz

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Widen Your Tent, ep. 1 / Relationship ep. 27

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Author: Micha Berger

On Wednesday Chol haMo'eid Sukkos (October 12th) at 8pm, started our discussion of the introduction to Shaarei Yosher, by Rav Shimon Shkop. This is the last text in the Beyond Meaningful Relationship - Relationshipful Meaning chaburah,

Categories: Audio, Shaarei Yosher, Torah as Growth, Zelmele's Kloiz

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