Fear

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  1. The Difference Between Haftarat Shoftim and "Nahamu"

    Haftarot: Shoftim/Nahamu

    Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein

    There are many parallels between the haftara of Shoftim and the haftara of Shabbat Nahamu. The repetition is part of the emotional process of being comforted. This haftara offers a detailed account of the fears and concerns of Bnei Yisrael that were mentioned in general terms in the previous haftara - "Nahamu." The prophet focuses on fear as a problem in itself.

  2. In the Market for Genocide - Dispatchers of Dread

    Chazal's Preambles to Megillat Esther: Part 3

    Rabbi Moshe Taragin | 17 minutes

    This shiur examines the significance of dispatching letters - a newly implemented advancement for a vast empire - and the fear experienced by the Jews after hearing Haman's edict of destruction. The fear is immediate—and the dread gradually builds up, as the people have to wait months for the day of their impending doom. There is a sickening feeling as the advanced technology of the day is being used against them.

  3. Esav and the Birthright - Fear and Scorn

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  4. Tell His Righteousness to a Born Nation

    Based on a sicha by Harav Aharon Lichtenstein (Translated by Yoseif Bloch and Rav Ronnie Ziegler)

    Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

    תאריך פרסום: תשס"ט |

     

    The declaration of the State of Israel filled hearts with terror and joy alike. I found myself, like every simple Jew, compelled to recite psalms. My attention was drawn to mizmor 22 "To the Conductor, on the morning star, a psalm of David," a chapter associated by the Sages with times of crisis.

    "They will come and tell His righteousness to a born nation as He has made it" (Psalms 22, 32).   Over half a century ago, certainly I took our verse to refer, first and foremost, to the present-tense "born," to a nation just now finding itself on its feet, at this moment undergoing the birth process, experiencing the pangs of emerging nationhood, the pangs of history - "a nation being born."

    However, it now seems to me that we can speak not only of one understanding, but of three valid interpretations.

     

  5. VaYetze: G-d is Against Me

    Rabbi Jay Kelman