Maakeh (building a fence)

Every verse in the Torah is meant to be understood on many levels. When we look deeper into this verse, we can learn lessons that apply to all of us, even to someone who doesn’t own a house.

There are houses made of bricks, and houses built of effort and accomplishment. One can “build” up a friend to be a solid edifice of G‑d-centered living, or build a network that develops into an oasis of spirituality.

If the person is going to fall anyway, why should I have to take reponsibility?

Any new endeavor requires checks and balances to ensure it remains safe.

Too often we build the house and assume that the “and they lived happily ever after” will just automatically happen.

To what extent do Divine providence, free choice, and cause-and-effect intersect? Or do they?

Set up guardrails to carefully control and temper your ego.

A caricature of neurotic self-absorption, or the most encouraging and optimistic perspective of reality in the history of human awareness?