Observing Mitzvot
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Someone told me that children of people who make Aliya are in a bigger danger of Leaving the Derech. If so, should I make aliya?
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Life is Valuable- Even of the Unconscious
The fact that life supercedes mitzvot helps us analyze priorities and what life, faith and mitzvot are really about. -
The Advantages of Obligations and Volunteerism
The delicate details of the many social and economic mitzvot simultaneously include obligations and educating to volunteerism. -
Every Generation Understands and Benefits Differently from Each Mitzva
Learning a mitzva leads to identification and motivation, but realize it's just partial. -
The Importance of the Meaning, but Also Details, of Mitzvot
"Uniting the Whole"- the Meaning of Brachot on Mitzvot -
What is the Goal of the Mitzvot?
Mitzvot are such a central part of our lives, but we sometimes forget what's their goal. -
The Difference Between Mitzva and Kdusha (Holiness)
People often confuse the different aspects of spirituality, but the contrast between the means and the goal must be clear. -
The Time and Place for Understanding Mitzvot and Not
The Mitzvot include both Mishpatim (understandable) and Chukim (non-understandable). Rav Kook posits that the differentiation between the two is consciously unclear, because study turns the Chukim into rational, and society sometimes interchanges what was thought as rational into a chok (e.g. homosexuality may be seen differently, but it's always wrong).
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