Be as careful with a minor commandment as with a major one, since you do not know the reward for the commandments. Assess the loss incurred in a good deed against its reward and the gain in sin against its loss. (Mishnah Avos 2, 1)

R. Sa’adia Gaon writes:
We know that the transgression is not sev…

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Sampson was a Jew – therefore not a idiot. The Jews have the best average brain of any folks in the world. The Jews are the only race who work wholly with their brains and never with their hands. There are no Jewish beggars, no Jewish tramps, no Jewish ditch diggers, hod-carriers, day laborers or…

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From a memoir of Rabbi Reuven Agushewitz (1897-1950) on life in the Lithuanian shtetl:

The night before a wedding there was a custom to assemble a dinner for the poor – a dinner which was certainly no worse, and sometimes even better, than the dinner for the families and their guests. Don’t fo…

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On Chanukah and Purim we insert prayers of thanksgiving specifically for the miracles of those holidays in the berakhos of hoda’ah, thanksgiving, in the Shemoneh Esreh and the birkas ha’mazon, grace after meals.

The story of Chanukah in ‘al hanissim is a condensed detail of the struggle of th…

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The Alshich once delivered a derashah on parshas va’yetzei, and the Ari zal was among the listeners. The Alshich explained Yaakov’s comment to his wives, “And your father cheated me and changed my salary aseres monim, which the Midrash understands as actually one hundred times (Bereishis Rabbah 74…

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In Yesodei haTorah Rambam tells us the halakhos regarding our beliefs on:
God
Creation and
Prophecy

On the subject of creation he tells us about the angels. (Yesodei haTorah, 2:3-7)

Question:
Why does the Rambam discuss mal’a’khim, angels, in Yesodei haTorah in amoung the subjects of God (Yeso…

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