Beauty is a value in Judaism aesthetics are only good as long as they carve a path to God. First, aesthetics can become a god in itself, as we become addicted to beauty and luxury. Second, sometimes - looks can be deceiving, and simplicity reveals God more than beauty.

The Tabernacle imitates and to some degree, replicates Mount Sinai. It even has a pillar of fire over ‎it and cloud surrounding it exactly like Mount Sinai! (- See Ex 40:35-38) The Tablets of Stones, ‎received by Moses at the summit of Mount Sinai reside in the Ark at...

What is more critical, to hear the broad moral statements, the ethical imperatives, or the ‎legal and practical details? - or might it be important to hear both?‎ - Can a moral imperative exist in a real and serious way without being translated into ‎action?‎

"All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the blare of the horn and the ‎mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they fled and stood at a distance.‎" Do we - as human beings, as children - learn more by love or by fear? By threats or rewards?...