Parshat Lech Lecha

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God calls Abraham to leave his homeland for Canaan. Covers Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, the separation from Lot, the war of the kings, and the covenant between the pieces. Genesis 12:1-17:27.

Foundations of Belief

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 88:8

Da'at Tevunot, a profound work of Jewish thought, delves into this very tension. It describes a fifth level of being, a state where the body seemingly reigns supreme. Imagine a per...

Judgment

Moshe Speaks for God and Sanhedrin

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 92:1

Our sages, may their memory be a blessing, had some pretty fascinating ideas about it. They taught us that the world as we know it exists for six thousand years, and then… well, th...

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Soul in the Body and Times

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 94:1

Sometimes, it's glimpses into the hidden structure of time itself. Today, we're going to peek into a fascinating, if somewhat cryptic, passage from Da'at Tevunot, a text deeply con...

Soul

Jeremiah and David

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 100:1

Da'at Tevunot, a profound text of Jewish thought, delves into this very question. It points to a divine emanation, a flow of energy from the Creator, as the lifeblood of existence....

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Counsel of the Sages

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 102:1

It’s a question that’s plagued mystics and theologians for centuries. How does the Divine, so far beyond our comprehension, interact with the finite reality we experience every day...

WisdomSefirot

Way of Understanding

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 116:3

It grapples with a fundamental question: why would the Divine, in all its perfection, choose to involve itself with a world that, let's face it, often feels pretty imperfect? The a...

Divine Names

Glory of the Temple and Holies

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 116:4

It suggests that during our period of "service" – our time here on Earth, striving to connect – the Divine emanation is, in a sense, clothed. Clothed in what? In the world around u...

Temple

Cosmic Origins

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 118:2

And the text Da'at Tevunot offers a fascinating, if somewhat complex, answer. The core idea revolves around the nature of divine emanation – the way G-d's creative force manifests ...

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Stranger in a Strange Land

Other Texts Da'at Tevunot 118:5

We often think of good and evil as two distinct, opposing forces, but what if evil isn't a thing in itself, but rather a lack of something? That's the fascinating idea explored in ...

Exile