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Often people come to us and urge us to write about one subject or another.

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To Bring Merit to Jewry
by Yochanan Dovid

When someone is aroused to do a mitzvah but does not actually execute it, from laziness or the like, he has missed out on an opportunity. But if he was unable to perform it due to extenuating circumstances, the merit of the mitzvah he had intended to do is credited to him.

Suicide Bombers vs. Kiddush Hashem
By HaRav Chaim Charlap

Suicide bombers seem to come in swarms, like flies. There seems to be no end to them. What is their secret? Why is it seemingly so easy for them to give their lives for their "homeland"? From where do they take their heroism? Why is it that for Klal Yisroel giving up one's life for Kiddush Hashem is so scarce and precious?

Complete Purity: Understanding Parshas Poroh and Poroh Adumoh
by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis

<A Change of State

King Solomon remarked about himself that all of the gates of Divine wisdom had been opened to him, with the exception of one: he did not know why the Poroh Adumoh (red heifer) purifies the impure yet at the same time contaminates the individuals who are involved with its preparation. Although we cannot hope to shed light on an issue which was unclear to the wisest of all men, perhaps we can try to fathom why Hashem chose this particular area of Torah to be left beyond the grasp of our intellect.


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