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OPINION
& COMMENT
What Makes People Run Today?
About 60 years ago, an author named Bud Schulberg wrote a
popular book about the extremes of free enterprise and
competition, showing how ugly they can become, entitled
What Makes Sammy Run? The book described a wheeler-
dealer named Sammy Glick who clawed his way up to the top of
the Hollywood heap.
The Key to Torah Success: Ignore
Material Pleasures
by HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
In the first part of the discussion about success in Torah
learning, R' Michel Yehuda discussed the life of learning
Torah mitoch hadechak -- while living in a condition
of material deprivation. He explained that in this state, it
is as if one receives his wisdom directly from Hashem
yisborach.
They Have Eyes But Cannot
See
by L. Jungerman
The Zohar Hakodosh commenting on this parsha
reports the rationale of the meraglim, who were the
tribal heads, as follows: If the Jews enter the land, we
will stop serving as the leaders and Moshe Rabbenu will
appoint new heads, since our only merit and justification to
this office existed in the desert. When we come to Eretz
Yisroel, we will no longer be considered worthy
enough.
Observance of Pesach and the
Observance of Shmitta
by HaRav A. Levi
As I write, we are still under the exhilarating spirit of the
yom tov of Pesach. As at every time of spiritual
regeneration (and most recently Shavuos) those were days full
of splendor and contentment of soul, days in which we
attained fine and sublime feelings and strengthened,
clarified, and purified our emunah.
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