Beit Midrash
- Sections
- Chemdat Yamim
- Ein Ayah
Ein Ayah: When the human spirit delves, with all its depth, thought, feelings, desires, and imagination, into the depths of animalistic coarseness, it sets many and deep paths of darkness. The general approach that the paths of darkness employ is to bring the desired "peace" between a person’s evil and lowly tendencies and between his good and lofty tendencies by "killing" the positive tendencies and having the negative ones take control over all of a person’s totality. From there darkness takes over the world.
The phenomenon of the amgosh sets the stage for idol worship, and his ways are very complex. Sometimes such a person has positive things to offer and can teach things that are useful. However the characteristic of the amgosh imprints on everything in which he is involved with venom. Thereby, anything that comes within his domain will cause an increase of darkness and allow a person’s lowly animalistic elements to cause him to be brash and have his side of chutzpa prevail. Even the smallest measures of intellectual attainment that come from such a destructive source have venomous impact. They strengthen a person’s excitement with that which his evil inclination presents in a way that grows and grows in severity. One who learns from an amgosh thus leads himself away from the proper paths of life
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.
Responsibility for Collateral
5774
Good and Evil Depend on the Actions
5777 Tammuz 22
Moreshet Shaul: A Crown and its Scepter – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 294-5
Av 5785
Responsibilities Based on Different Modes of Influence
Sivan 26 5777
"Various Levels of Bad & Their Exact Judgement"
(Ein Aya Shabbat Shabbat 5, 29)
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 5783
When Even Rav Kook Identifies a Jew as Evil
Ein Aya Shabbat 5,22
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Nissan 5783
Torah of this World Relevant in the Next
Condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:6
Various Rabbis | Adar II 7 5779
