Gidon Rothstein

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  • Sep 21, 2023
    Eating, drinking, and all other sensual pleasures focus us on our material side, the side that has excessive appetites and leads to sin, that competes with our wiser soul, hinders it...
  • Aug 2, 2023
    Rambam’s Obligation Four says we are commanded le-ha’amin yir’ato yit’aleh, to believe in His fear, He should be exalted, and to fear Him, not to be like the...
  • Jul 27, 2023
    Despite its centrality to a man’s Jewish life, I believe many of us do not know basics of the mitzvah of Talmud Torah, commonly translated as Torah study.
  • Apr 17, 2023
    Three examples of where we might not know what’s good for us: in understanding what affects our Jewish souls, for Kli Yakar, in failing to have the proper respect for...