Daas & Chochmah
דעת וחכמהKnowledge, wisdom, and the gates of understanding. The Sfas Emes on daas.
167 essays
Bereishit
Noach
Lech Lecha
Vayeira
Chayei Sarah
- Chayei Sarah תרל"א 1Chayei Sarah · תרל"א · Essay 1
- The zaken who elevates all his days into wisdomChayei Sarah · תרל"ד · Essay 5
- Sin is relative to one's spiritual levelChayei Sarah · תרל"ה · Essay 2
- From General to Personal ServiceChayei Sarah · תרמ"ב · Essay 2
- The divine point overflows the bodyChayei Sarah · תרמ"ד · Essay 2
- Self-nullification makes a vessel for blessingChayei Sarah · תרמ"ז · Essay 2
- Tzaddikim elevate time, nature, and soulsChayei Sarah · תרמ"ט · Essay 1
- The days of tzaddikim unify both worldsChayei Sarah · תרס"א - תרס"ב · Essay 4
- Wisdom as remembering the soul's rootChayei Sarah · תרס"ד · Essay 1
Toldot
Vayetzei
Vayishlach
Vayeshev
Chanukah
- Faith Versus Human WisdomChanukah · תרל"א · Essay 6
- Hanukkah Light of the SoulChanukah · תרל"ב · Essay 6
- Fear as Foundation of WisdomChanukah · תרל"ד · Essay 6
- Mindful Mitzvah PracticeChanukah · תרל"ה · Essay 3
- Inner Truth Over Foreign WisdomChanukah · תרל"ה · Essay 4
- Chanukah and Oral TorahChanukah · תרמ"ה · Essay 3
- Hanukkah as Spiritual PreparationChanukah · תרמ"ח · Essay 12
- Torah’s Unique Divine WisdomChanukah · תרנ"ד · Essay 1
- Divine Providence vs. Greek NatureChanukah · תרס"א · Essay 6
Shemot
Vaeira
Bo
Beshalach
Yitro
Mishpatim
Shekalim
Terumah
Tetzaveh
Purim
Ki Tisa
- Guarding Shabbos by drawing its holiness into the weekKi Tisa · תרל"ב · Essay 1
- Shabbos elevates the physical to soulKi Tisa · תרמ"ג · Essay 1
- Holiness and Shabbos as Hashem's giftKi Tisa · תרמ"ג · Essay 2
- Written and Oral Torah as marriageKi Tisa · תרמ"ט · Essay 2
- Shabbos grants daas through thought, speech, deedKi Tisa · תרנ"ג · Essay 2
- Shabbos purifies and unmediated knowledgeKi Tisa · תרס"א · Essay 1
Parah
Vayakhel
Pekudei
Vayikra
- Da'as as living awareness of one's missionVayikra · תרל"א · Essay 2
- Humility as the Fruit of ClosenessVayikra · תרמ"ב · Essay 2
- Hidden light revealed through concealmentVayikra · תרמ"ו · Essay 1
- Daas as wisdom lived in actionVayikra · תרמ"ז-תרמ"ח · Essay 2
- Daas as humility and dveikusVayikra · תר"נ · Essay 2
HaChodesh
Shabbat HaGadol
Pesach
- Divine Plan in Egyptian ExilePesach · תרל"א · Essay 10
- Clarity of Divine PerceptionPesach · תרל"ב · Essay 20
- Hidden Meanings of TorahPesach · תרל"ה · Essay 6
- Sanctity of the FestivalsPesach · תרל"ז · Essay 8
- Spiritual Victory Over NationsPesach · תרל"ח · Essay 8
- Fifty Levels of RedemptionPesach · תר"מ · Essay 9
- Wisdom in Sacred SongPesach · תר"מ · Essay 12
- The Essence of Divine ServicePesach · תרמ"א · Essay 2
- Fifty Gates and RedemptionPesach · תרנ"ט · Essay 2
- Purpose of Mitzvot and RedemptionPesach · תרס"ב · Essay 3
Shmini
Tazria
Acharei Mot
Emor
Bechukotai
- Bechukotai תרל"ב (test)Bechukotai · תרל"ב
- Bechukotai תרל"הBechukotai · תרל"ה
- Yoke of Heaven reveals the mitzvos' inner tasteBechukotai · תרל"ה · Essay 1
- Daily renewal and the toil of self-reckoningBechukotai · תרמ"ב · Essay 1
- Chukim rectify Adam's sinBechukotai · תרנ"א · Essay 1
- Nullifying intellect to Hashem's TorahBechukotai · תרנ"ב · Essay 1
Bamidbar
Shavuot
- Shavuos and the unified fiftieth gateShavuot · תרל"ט · Essay 1
- Rectifying Speech for Receiving TorahShavuot · תרמ"ב · Essay 2
- Shavuos as the oath of Sinai and tefillin of the headShavuot · תרמ"ב · Essay 5
- Torah's da'as makes the world bear fruitShavuot · תרמ"ב · Essay 6
- The fiftieth gate of understanding as a giftShavuot · תרמ"ד · Essay 2
- Deed as the essence of TorahShavuot · תרנ"א · Essay 3
- Yiras Hashem precedes and preserves wisdomShavuot · תרנ"ב · Essay 2
- The fiftieth gate and the World of FreedomShavuot · תרנ"ח · Essay 2
Naso
Shlach
Korach
Chukat
Balak
Pinchas
Matot
Masei
Devarim
Vaetchanan
Eikev
Shoftim
- Nullifying Intellect Before Divine WillShoftim · תרל"ב · Essay 1
- Gates Opened Through HumilityShoftim · תרל"ג · Essay 1
- Judge And Officer WithinShoftim · תרל"ה · Essay 1
- Bribery Blinds Inner VisionShoftim · תרל"ה · Essay 2
- Inner Gates Of UnderstandingShoftim · תרל"ו · Essay 1
- Judges As National MindShoftim · תר"מ · Essay 1
- Inner Judges And OfficersShoftim · תרמ"א · Essay 1
- Inner Judge And OfficerShoftim · תרמ"ז - תרמ"ח - תרמ"ט · Essay 1
Ki Tavo
Nitzavim
Rosh Hashanah
- Bnei Yisrael as channel of shefaRosh Hashanah · תרל"ה · Essay 2
- Da'as and the renewal of creationRosh Hashanah · תרמ"ד · Essay 3
- Shofar as the wisdom that sweetens judgmentRosh Hashanah · תרנ"ח · Essay 1
- Shofar and teshuvah reveal Divine mercyRosh Hashanah · תרנ"ח · Essay 2
- Shofar as wisdom of self-nullificationRosh Hashanah · תר"ס · Essay 4
- Shofar and Torah arouse Divine mercyRosh Hashanah · תרס"ד · Essay 5
Shabbat Shuva
Yom Kippur
Sukkot
- Receiving life and unity on SukkosSukkot · תרל"ד · Essay 3
- Choosing penimiyus and unity on SukkosSukkot · תרל"ו · Essay 2
- Torah as the intimate gift from Hashem's mouthSukkot · תרל"ו · Essay 9
- Teshuvah transcends human effortSukkot · תרל"ז · Essay 6
- Affliction of Yom Kippur ripening into SukkosSukkot · תר"מ · Essay 2
- Sukkah and lulav as elevation above natureSukkot · תרמ"א · Essay 5
- The sukkah, berur, and the daas of redemptionSukkot · תרמ"ט · Essay 1
- Three festivals as three gifts of da'as HashemSukkot · תרמ"ט · Essay 4
- Second Luchos: Torah's wisdom clothed in the worldSukkot · תרמ"ט · Essay 5
- Taking the heart's inner wisdomSukkot · תרנ"ד ותרנ"ו · Essay 3
- Shemini Atzeres and the level of knowingSukkot · תרנ"ה · Essay 4