Menachem Mirski PhD

Thoughts on Parashat Yitro One by now classical problem of Western philosophical thought is the dispute regarding the nature of moral norms – whether they are in essence objective or perhaps conventional – that is established based on a social contract – or if maybe they are something utterly subjective. Various thinkers have provided different […]

Thoughts on Parashat Beshalach Then I will stiffen Pharaoh’s heart and he will pursue them, that I may gain glory through Pharaoh and all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so. (Ex 14: 4.) Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, saying, […]

Then the LORD said to Moses, [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them and that you may recount in the hearing of your sons and of your sons’ sons […]

Thoughts on Parashah Va’eira. God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and . I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. I have now heard the moaning of the Israelites because […]