A man of piety complained to the Baal Shem Tov:
“I have worked long and hard in the service of Hashem, and I haven’t seen any improvement. I am still an ordinary and ignorant person.”
The Besht answered:
“You have gained the realization that you are ordinary and ignorant. This in itself is a great accomplishment!”
“I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob…” (Exodus 6:3). This seems to be a very straightforward and unambiguous statement by God to Moses.
“You don’t learn by having faith. You learn by questioning, by challenging, by re-examining everything you’ve ever believed. And yet, all this is a matter
“You have enough. Circle the mountain and turn to the north” (Deuteronomy 2:3). Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, in his commentary Kli Yakar, spins this verse
