Parshat Bereshit

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Covers the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first sin, Cain and Abel, and the generations from Adam to Noah. Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Isaiah Faces Judgment

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 54:1

And Da'at Tevunot, a profound work of Jewish thought, offers a powerful perspective. The "Intellect," as it's personified in this text, wants to share another layer of understandin...

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Divine Purpose

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 56:4

We go about our lives, making plans, building things, assuming that everything will just… keep being. But what if it wasn't so automatic? What if the whole shebang, from the smalle...

Path of Discernment

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 58:1

We're going to unpack a seemingly simple statement, one that rabbis have pondered for centuries: "He is the place of the world, and the world is not His place." It comes to us from...

Kingdom of His

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 58:4

We read it in Psalms (104:31): “HaShem’s honor will be forever; HaShem is pleased with His actions.” It sounds like God gets pleasure from creation, that everything is done for His...

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Soul of Rabbi Akiva

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 61:1

And that feeling takes over when I delve into Jewish mystical thought. Today, we're going to dip our toes into some deep waters, guided by a little fragment from the text Da'at Tev...

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Anatomy of the Soul

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 63:1

A deeper understanding of... well, everything? That yearning, that quest for wisdom, is at the heart of so much Jewish thought. And it's where we pick up our thread today. We're di...

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Repair of the Soul

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 69:1

It’s a question that has plagued thinkers for centuries, and it's one the text Da'at Tevunot grapples with head-on. The Soul, in this passage, poses a powerful question: why two cr...

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Isaac's Spiritual Journey

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 73:1

That feeling, that yearning for deeper understanding, is at the very heart of what we're going to explore today. The passage we’re diving into is a single, deceptively simple line:...

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Priestly Duties

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 74:1

There’s a fascinating idea explored in Da'at Tevunot, a work that delves into wisdom and understanding. It speaks of the relationship between the intellect, the soul, and the body....

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