Rabbi Elie Feder, PhD, is a rebbe at Yeshiva Bnei Torah and a math professor at Kingsborough Community College. He is the author of “Gematria Refigured” (2022) and “Happiness in the Face of Adversity” (upcoming), and is a cohost of the podcast “Physics to God.”
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Reading this book has helped direct my attention to seek out Hashem’s wisdom in the mundane.
How can we reconcile the fact that the pasuk says that the mitzvos are both tov and yashar are in Hashem’s eyes while Rashi says that yashar refers to the way man views the mitzvos?
Because the great sound that did not falter was simultaneously a great sound that would never be repeated, no navi sheker could ever produce evidence that could rival Sinai.
The lesson is that Hashem’s judgment doesn’t reduce everything to qualities – good or evil – but pays close attention to quantities of good and evil.


