Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Class Notes: End of Zman

As usual all of the material below comes straight out of my notebook:

Traits of a Jewish leader: the true essence of a Jewish leader is they are a person who believes in and will stand up for the Jewish people.

Daas Torah: An extension of knowledge in Torah to all aspects of ones existence.

In the absence of truth, nothing is true and everything is permitted.

When you’re doing mitzvahs remember to do it for the sake of heaven, i.e. mitzvahs are designed to give one an awareness of the thing itself and its easy to think your simply doing it to do it. The correct attitude is to remember though the mitzvahs you’re improving your awareness about life itself.

Generalizations are valuable because they are generally true.

Stay out of Egypt! “So that he will not return the people to Egypt…for Hashem has said to you, you shall no longer return on this road again.” – Devarim, Parshas Shoftim, 17: 14-16

What is important in life? We’re addicted to things, we think they’ll make us happy but they don’t and in the end we feel empty. What’s important is to find something that will last.

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