Perek 11
How does one reconcile hashgacha the triumph of a rasha over a tzaddik? If hasgacha meant instantaneous reward/punishment, the evidence of HKB”H would be so overwhelming that we would have no bechira (see, “kafa aleihem har k’gigis”, as well as
Ramban, Shmini
Issur achila stems from the tuma. Issurei kashrus and arayos stem from tuma, and those types of tuma the Torah forbides categorically. Kedoshim tihiyu tells us that even mutar types of tuma we should minimize, i.e. tuma is also on
Perek 10, part 2
The rasha feels invulnerable. Rasha preys on people throughout their lives. Even when old and bent over, people continue on same trajectory without a conscious effort to reflect; nothing affects us automatically. Aveira goreres aveira true in belief as well
Perek 10
Malbim: Dovid Hamelech asking about rasha v’tov lo. People get confused by it, think rasha acting autonomously, etc. Leaves us with an inability to understand it. (If not for the Malbim, could understand the perek as a tefillah, akin to
Perek 9, part 2
– different levels of hashgacha in Eretz Yisroel and dorshei Hashem vs. other contexts– HKB”H’s hashgacha is middah k’neged middah. A person is the cause of his own downfall. In the physical world, there is cause and effect, if I
Purim: The Power of Tefillah
Megillah, according to the Rambam, was designed as Hallel, and to emphasize that Hashem listens to the tefillah of tzibbur. Chazal saw how extraordinary the havtacha of “k’Hashem Elokeinu b’chol kor’einu eilav” is. We can bring the war in Ukraine
Ramban- Parshas Vayikrah
– Defining theme for vaykira: kohanim and leviim– Shemos, geulah == shechina resting on us, Vayikra about korbanos, which will keep shechina here. Most korbanos on shogeg. See shogeg can also result in siluk shechina. Why? Cheit stains nefesh, even
Perek 9
– Said on occasion of death of Labein.– Malbim, Chovos Halevavos: hard for us to fully thank Hashem, because underneath our hoda’ah is a bakasha that the good continue. Rambam (Hil. Berachos, end Perek 10) – connects hoda’ah and bakasha;
Perek 8, part 3
– Malbim would agree that the universe also points to Hashem, but man points to him even more.– Reviews arguments from the position that the universe is above and beyond man, then responds to them.– Neshama is immortal, greater than
Purim
– Hilchos Meigllah & Chanukah: the two mitzvos (mikra Megillah, Ner Chanukah) are d’rabbanan, not from minyan haMitzvos. Why does Rambam only count those two and not seudah, mishloach manos, matanos l’evyonim? Why not Hallel on Chanukah? To avoid bal