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: ...