Beit Midrash
- Sections
- Chemdat Yamim
- Ein Ayah
Ein Ayah: Drinking is natural for man. It is in fact more pressing a need than eating food, and therefore water is provided in the most complete manner for living beings who need it to survive. It is available for all who need it at most times due to Hashem’s mercy for all of His creations.
This fact and viewpoint helps provide mankind with the light of trust in Hashem within the depths of the internal heart. Unnecessary concern, which is spawned by evil, can remove some of the trust in Hashem, to the extent that one will not have confidence that Hashem will provide him with enough of his necessities. Even if he has plenty water, he will be concerned that he will not have enough in the future. This is a characteristic of leaving Hashem, which causes him to leave by the wayside restfulness, pleasantness, and goodness which should be in his soul and spirit. It is based on this reasoning that the gemara calls one who drinks water and leaves it over, one who follows the ways of the Emorites,
A Nation that Can Simultaneously Be Insular and All-Inclusive
condensed from Ein Ayah, Berachot 9:263
Various Rabbis | Nissan 5773
When Even Rav Kook Identifies a Jew as Evil
Ein Aya Shabbat 5,22
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Nissan 5783
The Benefits of Admonishing Even When Unheeded
Ein Aya Shabbat 5,17
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Adar 5783
The Benefits of Torah and of Eating
Various Rabbis | 5770
Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Four Prototypes of Service of Hashem
5774
Moreshet Shaul: A Crown and its Scepter – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 294-5
Av 5785
Connection to the Present and the Past
Iyar 21 5775
