Don't Forget to Leave the Airport

Adding a mitzvah sounds like something only a person who loves the Torah would do. Yet Parshas Vaeschanan forbids adding in the same breath as taking away. Why would extra devotion be a problem? Rav Neiman asks exactly that in Darkei Mussar, and the answer runs through a startling line in the Rambam: someone who believes Mashiach will come, but doesn't wait for him, is called a kofer.Then a friend is asked a simple question, whether he has ever been to Cleveland, and finds he has no idea how to answer. It is a picture of how easy it is to do every mitzvah and still never quite arrive.Visit our website prismoftorah.com: we have a full archive of hundreds of past Devrei Torah. Thank you Yona Veffer for your equipment.