Chapter 3: Mishna 7: Part 4 By Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky In the first chapter of Berachoth (6a) it is taught “Ravin bar Ada said in the name of Rebbi Yitzchak: What is the source that when ten people pray, the Divine Presence resides among them? As it is written ‘Elokim stands in a Divine gathering…’…
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Chapter 3: Mishna 6: Part 2 This idea (that one who is intimately connected to G-d escapes the limitations and control imposed upon him by physical systems) is embodied in the statement of Rabbi Yossi (Tr. Avodah Zarah 5a): “The Jewish people accepted the Torah [only] so that the Angel of Death, other nation[s], and…
Maharal – Chapter 3: Mishna 6: Part 1
Chapter 3: Mishna 6: Part 1 Rabbi Nechunia ben HaKannah says: Anyone who subjects himself to (imposes upon himself)the burden of Torah has the burden of the government (bureaucracy) and the burden of livelihood removed from him. And anyone who releases himself from the burden of Torah has the burdens of government and of livelihood…
Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 5
Because of man’s “tzelem Elokim” (embodying within him an element which is a reflection of the Divine) animals can’t exert control over man, unless that element is missing. This “tzelem Elokim” is found in two people more intensely than in one, and among three the reflection is even greater. We find a similar concept in…
Maharal – Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 4
Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 4 You see that when man separates from a settled area, he finds himself detached from his “place,” He is then deprived of the special protection provided him, according to the order of the world as created by G-d. This is why a place is called “makom,” (from the same…
Maharal – Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 3
Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 3 Adam, as the beginning of all humanity, represents all men. (The beginning of something embodies within it the totality of that thing, a principle taught a number of times in the Maharal. Therefore, if we want to understand the essence of a concept, we look for the first time…
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Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 2 What about walking on the road alone? G-d created man to live in places which are populated. One who lives in areas which are uninhabited has deviated from this natural order. We are taught this principle in Brachoth (31a). Rav Yossi bar Chanina said: “…in a land through which…
Maharal – Chapter 3: Mishna 5: Part 1
Rebbe Chachinai says: One who stays awake at night, and one who goes on the roadway alone, and one who turns his heart to time-wasting – he is liable for his life. After the Tanna has taught the virtue of one who is involved in Torah [study], and the flaw of one removes himself…
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Chapter 3: Mishna 4: Part 1 Rebbe Shimon says: Three who ate at one table, without saying words of Torah while upon it, are considered to have eaten from sacrifices to the dead (idols) as it is written: “All their tables are full of vomit and excrement, without [a clean] place.” But three who who…
Mishna 3: Part 4
Chapter 3: Mishna 3: Part 4 We are then taught that even the person who sits as an individual and involves himself with Torah has a reward set for him by G-d. Although the proof text does not explicitly refer to one involved in Torah study, but rather to one who is accepting upon himself…
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Chapter 3: Mishna 3: Part 3 There is a further depth to the qualitative difference between two people and one person, which will explain why the Divine presence resides specifically between the two who are studying Torah. Immediately following the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the Jewish people were commanded to build a Mishkan,…
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