The Parsha and Current Events: The King’s scepter
The best of all choices is to thank Hashem for returning us to Eretz Yisrael, a holy home that we can love and defend in all circumstances.
The best of all choices is to thank Hashem for returning us to Eretz Yisrael, a holy home that we can love and defend in all circumstances.
Gather together and come home voluntarily before it becomes impossible.
The chances of a national state of Indians in the heartland of America are more probable than a “Palestinian” state bordering on Israel. Never!
The State of Israel will never come to the point of Shimshon, because when push comes to shove, we will use all the weapons at our disposal to kill our enemies.
The song of praise will again be sung on the background of the punishment of Egypt by water.
My “small package” response to those who ask my opinion regarding the exemption from military service of full-time Torah learners during this time of war.
The events of Shemini Atzeret 5784 can be led by the precedents set down in the Torah over 3000 years ago.
What we are witnessing today is the beginning of Hashem’s count-down time for justice.
There are many scenarios but all will center around our prophets’ predictions that under Hashem, we will be the torchbearers of a new era,
For 2000 years the land of Israel was in suspension, as a wife impatiently awaits the return of her beloved husband who was called away.
The Jews and especially the Jews in Israel have no real friends, but we do have real enemies.
As I write, our valiant soldiers are facing off against the Islamic Nazis in Gaza City with miraculous stories of military successes.
When I heard of the travesty, and that she was not arrested for degrading Judaism, I knew that it would not pass without a divine reaction.
Am Yisrael is poised to eradicate the tuma (impurities) from Eretz Yisrael.
Hashem has no other Am Yisrael in this world. So, Hashem “has no choice” but to exercise His right and privilege to save Am YIsrael.
Eventually, if you try to live in it after the holiday, a sukkah will collapse. Come back inside, come home.
Or as they say in Yiddish:' A yid bleibt a yid.' The pride of being a Jew that echoes in one’s soul.
The first time Johnny calls you “dirty Jew” - shame on Johnny; the second time - shame on you!!
Life is indeed a very narrow slippery bridge whose floor is broken, but Hashem provided the Jewish nation with protective side rails.
These are the calls of Elul, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur - awaken to your responsibilities, as the Rambam writes (Tshuva chapter 3).
True, we have returned home - a giant leap towards the goal, however there are deep pitfalls still in front of us.
What is the fate of Jews today who are already in the galut and refuse to reunite with Yerushalayim and Eretz Yisrael?
Pondering several issues.
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.
Three questions with one answer.
The demise of Moshe and Aharon was predicated on a reality.that we face today.
Tzahal, the most respected institution in Israel, will one day be a holy army, and
'Those who are ignorant of Torah despise Torah scholars even more than gentiles hate Jews;' On the anti reilgious protests.
How quickly we forget 2000 years of galut and the wings of eagles that have carried us home! How quickly we forget!
The “Tochacha” (reproach and admonition) in parashat Bechukotai. What is missing?
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.
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.
My feelings towards Jews who have thrown off the mantle of Torah observance.
Hashem’s method of social and political centrifugation works to separate the deniers from the believers.
Two incidents from which all of us can gleam a bit of understanding about assimilation today and the eternity of Torah.
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.
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.
What is really going on in the dispute over judicial reform in Israel? What are they protesting?
We are witness to the metamorphosis of western democracies as they change their colors to blood red antisemitism. What does this mean?
A Jew can walk with head held high in New York, Moscow and Berlin because of the Medina.
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.
History teaches that human intelligence cannot provide us with clarity when the forces of confusion band together, but they are a sign.
How was it possible to refuse Hashem for even a moment, let alone seven days and nights?
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 major thrust of Pharaoh’s dreams as compared to Nebuchadnezzer's dreams - what do they say about the future of humanity?
Jews wake up! Get serious! Make your lives meaningful!
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.
Questions: What is the source in the written Torah for the two stages of marrying a couple and for the interlude between them?
How does a dry cell battery explain what this week's parasha is really telling us?
We Jews are Hashem’s chosen people! And Avraham spoke the plain, fundamental truth which all humanity, even Biden, must accept.
Three of the four parties that comprise our new government are halakha observers. The message is that we will begin asserting our rightfs.
Our mission as Hashem’s proxies has been to clash with the world’s civilizations, shatter their essence and disclose the lies within them.
Judaism is the heavy stretcher of history, and the Torah observant are those supporting it for just one more kilometer and generation.
Is man, knowing morality, always above beasts? Take Australia, known as “down under”- a most appropriate name after this week.
A sukkah is a temporary dwelling. What happens to those to whom it becomes a permanent one even though a beautiful home awaits them?
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.
On Rosh Hashanah the order of Hashem’s judicial overview begins with the Jews in Eretz Yisrael, and as we go, so goes the rest of humanity
Life doesn’t stand still; it is volatile and mercurial with resha’im dictating the direction of world affairs. Come before it's too late.
What went through Moshe's mind as he reviewed the forty years in the desert and castigated the people, then blessed them?
He who cannot state proudly that he is one of Hashem’s chosen nation, can be Jewish but is far from being a Jew.