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RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
“Image of God,” Learning from Animals, Serving Ourselves
6 Lashon Hara RABBI ISRAEL CHAIT
A thorough analysis of slander, taken from the book series “Pirkei Avos”
14 First & Last
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
15 Slander
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
The evil and the harm
17 Lashon Hara RABBI RICHARD BORAH
The weaponization of languge
19 Min Hahar
RABBI CHAIM OZER CHAIT
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20 Min Hahar RABBI REUVEN MANN
Why the plagues contradicted Moshe’s request
22 Passover
RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
Primary themes vital to fulfill this mitzvah with images to enhance your Seder
Correcting the notion that the Temple Mount is to be avoided
Understanding Isaiah’s praise of the Creator
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GOD: “THE FIRST & THE LAST” What is Isaiah’s meaning? See page 14.
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LETTERS RABBI MOSHE BEN-CHAIM
“Image of God”
READER: Torah says man is created in the “image of God.” Bestowing man with emotions contradicts this, as God has no emotions. Secondly, as emotions do not apply to God, how does Torah say God “loves,” and “hates”? Thirdly, as God granted man emotions, what is the idea of man being told to control all his emotions, namely anger, contentment, jealousy etc.? Why give something, if not to use it? –Saul S. Aptekar
RABBI: As to your first question, Man being created “in God’s image” (Gen. 1:27), God did not make man a duplicate of Himself. “Created in God’s image” means man has a soul, an intelligence, with which to perceive God. But this is not man’s exclusive faculty; “God’s image” refers to only one human faculty. God gave man many faculties. One could rightly say, “God (CONT. ON NEXT PAGE)
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