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Torah is limitless and is therefore immeasurable. Something significant is
 not forgotten, like the names of one’s wife and children. Torah should be
 paramount in our lives. Therefore, we should never forget it.

 A great scientist claims that it is dangerous to live on Earth. But he never
 tasted the sweet taste of Torah, so he cannot fathom that “better one
 hour… in this world than the entire life of the World to Come.”

 I once sat next to a priest on a flight. He sought physical pleasures in a
 most shameful way. In contrast, “Who is like Your people, Israel, a unique
 nation on earth?!”












 “When you are in distress and all these things
 have befallen you, at the end of days, you will
 return unto Hashem, your G-d, and hearken to
 His voice”

 (Devarim 4:30)

 “One who covers an offense seeks love; but

 one who harps on the matter alienates a ruler
 [from himself]”
 (Mishlei 17:9)
                                                                                                                  Why did Moshe place the blame for his sin at Mei Merivah on the
                                                                                                                  shoulders of Bnei Yisrael? Why does parashat Va’etchanan open with
                                                                                                                  Moshe’s request to enter Eretz Yisrael and Hashem’s subsequent refusal?
                                                                                                                  Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to begin with the magnificent
                   The pasuk says, “But you who cling to Hashem.” How can a person cling                          event of Matan Torah, instead of mentioning it later in the parashah?
                   to Hashem, Who is an all-consuming fire? We are obligated to emulate                           Hashem arranged for Moshe to sin at Mei Merivah in order to prevent him
                   His middot. It is still difficult to understand how we can be expected to                      from entering Eretz Yisrael. Hashem knew that Bnei Yisrael would sin in











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