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Ep. 224 · Eikev · 21 min · 2022-08-17

Middos & Torah, a 2-Way Street

Most of us know the sting of seeing our work picked apart in public, and how long that kind of hurt can stay with us. The Chofetz Chaim, in his introduction to Ahavas Chesed, notices that Parshas Eikev says "to walk in His ways" three separate times, each one placed right before a different level: fearing Hashem, loving Him, cleaving to Him. Why say it three times, and why exactly there?Rav Moshe Feinstein once saw a sefer printed to look just like his Igros Moshe, written to argue against his teshuvos one by one. Some time later, its author came to him needing help.