Haskel and Deah
Articles by Haskel and Deah
Wise Fridays: A Monumental Risk
God as we encounter him in the Bible takes a risk monumental in its implications. He creates one being, humanity, ...
Wise Fridays: Build Many Chambers in Your Heart
All the words have been given by a single Shepherd … so you build many chambers in your heart and ...
Wise Fridays: After I Die
Rava said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna b. Rav Yehoshua: If a written ruling of mine comes to ...
Wise Fridays: Albert Einstein, God, and Atheism
I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of ...
Wise Fridays: The First Time I Could Pray
I will never forget the first time I was able to daven after my daughter’s birth. When I was able ...
Wise Fridays: Thinking & Judging
“In analyzing or evaluating an object, we think and judge from a particular point of view. The psychologist, economist, and ...
Wise Fridays: Faith Without Works
Our Father rejects those who do good, trusting in their own righteousness to save them, looking to their own works ...
Wise Fridays: People Are Stingy
People are stingy with money, but we’re also stingy with kavod, with honor. We’re even stingy with ourselves. We’re supposed ...
Wise Fridays: Our Happiness
Our happiness depends upon enjoyment and enjoyment depends upon the swift sentiment with which each beauty surprises our senses. Unhappy ...
Wise Fridays: The Most Difficult Commandment
Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai taught: The Holy One has [only] revealed the reward for obeying two commandments in the Torah: ...