How we respond to resistance determines our growth. Growth happens when we resist the forces of nature; and with resistance comes discomfort.  Sometimes we choose our areas of resistance and embrace them. At other times resistance is imposed upon us.

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Experts expound on why various things happen. In reality they are explaining how they happen but not why they happen. The why is far too complex for the human mind to grasp. 

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Teaching torah to an individual of poor character is high risk – both to Torah and to the teacher.

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Why is common decency not so common at all? Is decency, derech erettz, innate or learned?

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Sometimes, the tradition handed down to us, requires a less literal interpretation of a text. Provided the text can be applied to the traditional interpretation, tradition trumps literalness. 

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Even reported facts and established stats can often be unreliable. Judgement is an intuitive balance of facts, statistics and reasonable assumptions.

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Mostly an active transgression of a Torah law entails punishment, but there are times when the transgression can be unwound thereby removing the need for punishment.

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Once evidence is accepted in Beit Din it creates a new reality that cannot be undone except by Hazzama.

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To truly trust what an individual says, he or she need to have “skin in the game”; they must be at risk in the event that their statements are false.

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Never underestimate the power of a single, ordinary individual doing a single “ordinary” action, to have extraordinary impact on masses of people.

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