Chapter 4
What You Have Is Not Who You Are (4:1)
Once again we turn to this week’s Ethics of our Fathers for an insight into human nature and the proper attitude one should have in life. Our chapter begins with these four questions as posed by the ancient sage, Ben Zoma. “Who is wise? Who is strong? Who is rich? And who is honorable?” read more »
A Student’s Honor (4:12
In several hours, I will be boarding a plane headed for New York. The threats of the ‘Unabomber’ will not stop me, nor will he deter the thousands of other Chassidim of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe from attending the first Yahrzeit of this great leader. read more »
Whose Values
Vice President Dan Quale is worried about values. Parents and educators are worried about values. The question that must be asked is: Whose values?
One imagines that all decent people have an innate sense of right and wrong. While the headlines seem to belie this belief in the basic goodness of man, one can argue that these are aberrations. In truth, however, not only criminals, but even the common man propagates a value system directly opposed to true Jewish ot Torah standards. read more »
