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The solution is to learn Torah. See here. Often, people just don't trust the power of Torah to save them from the clutches of the Yetzer Hara. They try everything, the 12 steps, meditations, psychotherapy, etc... but they won't sit down and learn a blat of Gemara. My friends! Gemara is "sechel hayashar" - "straight thinking". When a person ...

From the "Kehos Chumash", based on Derech Mitzvoshecha Mitzvas Ha'amanas Elokus: Generally, after seeing something, we no longer need to accept it on faith. If so, after seeing God's great hand, why did the Jewish people still need to believe in God and Moses? The answer is that once they had seen and validated what they had previously only ...

מחשבה JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY אורות Orot This book presents the foundational issues in the Torah of Rav Kook: The land of Israel, the renewal of the nation its the land and its relationship to the nations of the world. עקבי Ikvei Tzon A collection of essays discussing contemporary issues. The essays include: 'HaDor-The Generation' which discusses how ...

This is an unsourced logical argument that buying or selling such a policy does not imply a lack of faith in the coming of moshiach. Do we say that the writer of a life-insurance policy is betting that the buyer won't die, so he won't have to pay out? No; rather, the insurance company is making an actuarial/financial calculation by which they believe they ...

This is my own drash (no sources). Seeing wasn't enough, because seeing tells you only what God has done for you. It doesn't say anything about the future. So they need to also have faith. Further, the text here tells us that they had faith in God and in Moshe, his servant. God is God and is thus worthy of faith, but that doesn't automatically transfer ...

This is really a more general question about minyan hamitzvos--what is the nafka minah ever? It is well-known that the Gra objected to the enterprise of minyan hamitzvos on similar grounds. Various acharonim propose various explanations (see: hakdamah of Kiryas Sefer of the Mabit, hakdamah of R. Yerucham Perlow to Sefer Hamitzvos le-Rasag) but I don't think ...