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Thoughts on Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

Shabbat is coming – our most precious day of the week. Along with Her, we receive the two ministering angels (malachei hasharet) familiarized in the song Shalom Continue Reading

To encourage or to punish, that is the question.

Thoughts on parashat Ki Teitzei.

Human beings are more prone to be preoccupied with the negative aspects of our existence and tend to ruminate more about unpleasant events. In general, there is not much we can do about this: that’s how our brains have evolved throughout millions of years of evolution – this Continue Reading

A Manual for the Elimination of Evil and Injustice

Thoughts on Parashat Shoftim. 

Is it possible to eliminate crime completely? How about at least eliminating the worse crime, murder? It probably is possible. Here is a scenario:  We lock all the people in individual prison cells and we construct our societies that way. It would require three social castes: prisoners Continue Reading