Bemidbar

Our thanks to Hashem should match the intensity of our pleas. Birchas hagomeil gives us a concrete beracha to say to awaken our thanks for deliverance. After what flights or illnesses do we say this Beracha?

According to the Rambam, the Torah's commandments are suitable for the general public and it is plausible that a private person might get hurt. Precisely this fact allows us to deepen and understand the wisdom of God.

The relation between the role of the trumpets, which were used in times of need and the role of prayer, according to the Rambam.

Korach's statements are high-minded and quite wholesome. We certainly DO believe that the spirit of Hashem resides within each of us, & we all have the potential to be a Moshe. But there is a huge difference between the potential & the actual.

Ordinary mortals have ordinary failings and self-interest is one of those failings. Moshe is true and his Torah is true. After that, no matter how fetching the slogan or how glorious the promise, caution and wariness about the person and cause being advocated are the proper attitudes to embrace.

The spies were insinuating that, to live & survive in Israel, one has to be different, extraordinary, exceptional, abnormal. We ARE an extraordinary people; & Israel is indeed not a "normal" country! This is a land of intense holiness; guarded perpetually by the Almighty. None of the "normal" rules of history apply to us!

The attitude of Jews towards the Land of Israel has always been a litmus-paper type of test of Jewish commitment and even faith throughout the ages. Living in the Land of Israel or at least visiting it regularly is currently the centerpiece of Jewish life, its faith and its future.