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The Maharal asks: why is it called the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza – Kamtza is the one person who didn’t do anything wrong! What is the meaning of the word kamtza? Previous:...

Many other calamities befell us at the end of the 2nd commonwealth (Bayit Sheni), why are the destruction of Yerushalayim, Tur Malka and Beitar singled out by the Gemara? Previous: Why...

The temple is a home. Family is the essence of a home & marriage is the essence of a family. The Bet HaMikdash’s destruction is therefore akin to being divorced from God....

The Maharal says that the function of the third item in a series is to find the synthesis to hold the first 2 opposing forces together. The Torah fills this role....

If the Torah was given on Shavuot shouldn’t it be a purely spiritual holiday? Why do all the opinions in the Gemara agree that part of it has to be spent in physical pleasure?...

At Matan Torah the Jews were able to see sound. What was the point of this miracle? Why couldn’t the Torah be all written or all oral? What is the difference...

If the Torah is the world’s blueprint then what changed at Matan Torah, there was already Torah on Earth? Torah belongs in heaven, it’s essence is now on Earth.

If the ways to acquire torah parallel sefirah, why only 48? As much progress as we make in sefirah, the jump to infinity (50) is infinite. How do we do it?...

What does it mean that Torah should be new to us each day? Why is it alluded to in the nation’s arrival in the Sinai Desert? What does desert represent?

Kavod (honor) is from the outside. Shem (name) is from the inside, the essence of the item itself. We can’t know the true shem, only the kavod.