The Parsha and Current Events: A Jew will forever be a Jew
Or as they say in Yiddish:' A yid bleibt a yid.' The pride of being a Jew that echoes in one’s soul.
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The Parsha and Current Events: Hungry for geula?
The first time Johnny calls you “dirty Jew” - shame on Johnny; the second time - shame on you!!
The Parsha and Current Events: What kind of a world did Hashem produce?
Life is indeed a very narrow slippery bridge whose floor is broken, but Hashem provided the Jewish nation with protective side rails.
Messages for the Month of Elul
These are the calls of Elul, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur - awaken to your responsibilities, as the Rambam writes (Tshuva chapter 3).
The Parsha and Current Events: Consideration, emancipation, infinity, fulfillment
True, we have returned home - a giant leap towards the goal, however there are deep pitfalls still in front of us.
The Parsha and Current Events: Lest we forget
What is the fate of Jews today who are already in the galut and refuse to reunite with Yerushalayim and Eretz Yisrael?
The Parsha and Current Events: Tisha B'Av, Va'etchanan and our future
Pondering several issues.
The Parsha and Current Events: Shalom Chaver
Rav Sholom and I had to find spiritual and ideological ways to Eretz Yisrael against the tides flowing away from the miracles of our times.
The Parsha and Current Events: Three questions
Three questions with one answer.
When did Moshe Rabbeinu’s death process begin?
The demise of Moshe and Aharon was predicated on a reality.that we face today.
Shlach (Israel): Stand proud
Tzahal, the most respected institution in Israel, will one day be a holy army, and
Behaalotcha (Israel): Beauty and the beast
'Those who are ignorant of Torah despise Torah scholars even more than gentiles hate Jews;' On the anti reilgious protests.
The Parsha and Current Events: Yom Yerushalayim
How quickly we forget 2000 years of galut and the wings of eagles that have carried us home! How quickly we forget!
The Parsha and Current Events: Challenges facing our generation
The “Tochacha” (reproach and admonition) in parashat Bechukotai. What is missing?
The Parsha and Current Events: Redemption and Comfort
it appears that Hashem's agenda for our nation does not stop with a thin strip of land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Two seders - two worlds
Next year in Jerusalem is not “only a song,” it was the dream, hope and prayer of Jews for 2000 years and fulfilled in our time.
The Parsha and Current Events: A spirit of teshuva
My feelings towards Jews who have thrown off the mantle of Torah observance.
The Parsha and Current Events: Social and political centrifugation
Hashem’s method of social and political centrifugation works to separate the deniers from the believers.
Purim’s message for us today
Two incidents from which all of us can gleam a bit of understanding about assimilation today and the eternity of Torah.
The Parsha and Current Events: It’s time for a heart-to-heart talk
If all the Jews 200 years ago were non-observant, there is little reason to believe that there would be a single Jew alive today.
The Parsha and Current Events: The Foundation Stone
Chodesh tov! The Persians threaten once again to annihilate the Jews in one day, this time with a bomb, but they should read the Megillah.
The Parsha and Current Events: Judicial Reform?
What is really going on in the dispute over judicial reform in Israel? What are they protesting?
The Parsha and Current Events: The life raft of survival
We are witness to the metamorphosis of western democracies as they change their colors to blood red antisemitism. What does this mean?
The Parsha and Current Events: Self-esteem
A Jew can walk with head held high in New York, Moscow and Berlin because of the Medina.
Who was responsible for the Jewish Exodus from Egypt? The Parsha and Current Events
The exodus from Egypt taught us that words, such as those spoken by Moshe and Aaron,are not enough to move masses of Jews to return home.
The Parsha and Current Events: confusion and perplexity!
History teaches that human intelligence cannot provide us with clarity when the forces of confusion band together, but they are a sign.
The Parsha and Current Events: From Moses to Moshe Rabbeinu
How was it possible to refuse Hashem for even a moment, let alone seven days and nights?
The Parsha and Current Events: Recovery & Hope
What would you give to be present at that time in Avraham's tent together with the ministering angels? When Jacob blessed his sons?
The Parsha and Current Events: Israel Is for Real
The major thrust of Pharaoh’s dreams as compared to Nebuchadnezzer's dreams - what do they say about the future of humanity?
The Parsha and Current Events: Mondial, Hanukkah & Us
Jews wake up! Get serious! Make your lives meaningful!
The Parsha and Current Events: Be on the winning side!
It is not easy to be a Jacob in a world of Esaus but it is the Jacobs who will survive and guarantee the eternal existence of Am Yisrael.
The Parsha and Current Events: Halakhic Marriage
Questions: What is the source in the written Torah for the two stages of marrying a couple and for the interlude between them?
The Parsha and Current Events: Inertia
How does a dry cell battery explain what this week's parasha is really telling us?
The Parsha and Current Events: The tenth test
We Jews are Hashem’s chosen people! And Avraham spoke the plain, fundamental truth which all humanity, even Biden, must accept.
The Parsha and Current Events: the essence of Israel’s recent elections
Three of the four parties that comprise our new government are halakha observers. The message is that we will begin asserting our rightfs.
Our clash with civilizations
Our mission as Hashem’s proxies has been to clash with the world’s civilizations, shatter their essence and disclose the lies within them.
The Parsha and Current Events: Dramatic changes in life
Judaism is the heavy stretcher of history, and the Torah observant are those supporting it for just one more kilometer and generation.
The Parsha and Current Events: The message of the Sixth Day
Is man, knowing morality, always above beasts? Take Australia, known as “down under”- a most appropriate name after this week.
An allegory for Sukkot
A sukkah is a temporary dwelling. What happens to those to whom it becomes a permanent one even though a beautiful home awaits them?
Great expectations - great disappointments - and great return
We disappointed Hashem from the Exodus until today, not living up to expectations, but we have also proven that we want to be bonded to Him.
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