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The Maharal says that the function of the third item in a series is to find the synthesis to hold the first 2 opposing forces together. The Torah fills this role....

If the Torah was given on Shavuot shouldn’t it be a purely spiritual holiday? Why do all the opinions in the Gemara agree that part of it has to be spent in physical pleasure?...

At Matan Torah the Jews were able to see sound. What was the point of this miracle? Why couldn’t the Torah be all written or all oral? What is the difference...

If the Torah is the world’s blueprint then what changed at Matan Torah, there was already Torah on Earth? Torah belongs in heaven, it’s essence is now on Earth.

If the ways to acquire torah parallel sefirah, why only 48? As much progress as we make in sefirah, the jump to infinity (50) is infinite. How do we do it?...

What does it mean that Torah should be new to us each day? Why is it alluded to in the nation’s arrival in the Sinai Desert? What does desert represent?

Kavod (honor) is from the outside. Shem (name) is from the inside, the essence of the item itself. We can’t know the true shem, only the kavod.  

Why was the decree against Rabbi Akiva’s students during Sefirah and not during the 3 weeks leading up to Tisha B’Av? What is the connection to Sefirah?

The 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva who died weren’t the only talmidei chachamim at the time. Why is the emphasis on the fact that they were specifically Rabbi Akiva’s students?

What are we celebrating on Pesach Sheni – we don’t need it because we celebrated Pesach? They were unhappy they missed out on performing a mitzvah.