Note that the Bikurim declaration deals with agricultural produce, while ignoring the bigger implications of the Jewish nation and our great spiritual mission as Hashem‘s chosen people in Eretz Yisrael. Why?
This week’s message deals with military conscription - in the United States of America...
Two brothers, one the galut and the other in Israel - and two very different seders.
Shabbat Hagadol, prior to the holiday of our freedom, reaffirms our identity as the Jewish nation. Shabbat Shuva reaffirms our identity as a God-centered people. In their land.
The Iranians are suffering from obsessive, compulsive hatred of the Jews and of Israel and do not hide their intention of using any and every means to eradicate the lives of 8 million Jews in Israel. Is it wise to wait and see?!
Jewish life has evolved into a kaleidoscope of concepts, values, commentaries, hopes, halakhic decisions, conflicts, etc., where everyone is so sure of himself, but no one really has it right.
Were it Halakhically permissible, we would have to recite Hallel every day here in Hashem’s Holy Land!
Hashem is sending a coded message of encouragement for the Jewish nation.
The prophet Jeremiah brings G-d's comforting words to Mother Rachel, but how can she find comfort when the promise of redemption is far into the future?
One cannot deny Mamdani’s contribution to the efforts of encouraging Jews to return home.
What is so significant about these two affirmative mitzvot of brit milah and the Pesach sacrifice that places them in the Karet category?
The magnitude of Hashem's voice is perceived in accordance with the spiritual intensity of the respective place and situation.
Victorious we shall be! However, the essential condition that determines the degree of our victory is the spiritual level of the Jewish nation.
It is to my religious brothers and sisters who are still stuck in the galut that I dedicate the following article.
"He who walks with the wise will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm”.
Hamas leaders and followers are no better than Ben-Hadad of Aram. They have forfeited any rightto live.
At the end of the day, even if sanctions and other measures are introduced, we all know that no one will be shot at while delving over a complicated issue in the Gemara.
Because of the ongoing political-military-religious fireworks our concentration becomes distorted, and we are often oblivious to that factor which is closest to us, namely - ourselves.
Iran will remain a world threat because the U.S. and Israel did not finish the job in the fashion dictated in the Torah. But we must recognize that Trump made up for FDR's refusal to bomb the tracks leading to Auschwitz.
Our sources deal with the spiritual aspects of naming a child - boy or girl.
The ultimate CHOK, which is beyond all human understanding, is the day-to-day lives we lead in Eretz Yisrael, with our phenomenal success in all walks of life.
With an unpredictable, albeit pro-Israel, president in the US, this is the time to make aliya - do not postpone it!
We might be seeing now the beginning of the period where one evil nation wages war on another evil one, while in the background their countries are being ravaged by Hashem’s manipulation of natural disasters.
During WWII, we begged the major ally nations to use their air forces to bomb the concentration camps, today the world is holding its breath and counting the minutes until our Israeli Air Force bombs the Iranians after it has already bombed the Houthis!
It is time for the Haredim to come out of the cold and recognize the wisdom of Hashem in history and the great potential that this Medina brings to all parts of Am Yisrael.
MY FOREVER RELEVANT PESACH TALE.
We have no option but to succeed in revealing the hidden sanctity in the inanimate stones of Hashem’s holy land and in the deep recesses of our Jewish souls.
Look at a map of ancient Israel and compare it to where the IDF is today - and where it may be soon.
Where is Hashem’s partiality for Israel made real in the 167 verses of Megillat Esther?
Hashem’s revelation of His intimate relationship with the descendants of Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’akov was identical to the process of sanctifying Aharon and his sons as Kohanim.
There are very many religious and Torah educated officers in Tzahal, but there is a glass ceiling covering the general staff that leaves no room for Torah-oriented generals. That must change now.
What is lacking today among many Torah leaders is the will to achieve “rosh gadol”.
Tje hareidi and religious Zionist total 22% and the others 78% of Israel's population. These numbers parallel the demographics of our ancestors on the eve of the Exodus!
There are serious reasons to suspect that the Egyptians are preparing for war, although they are not seriously threatened by any enemy. This is a sign of the pre-Mashiach period.
Something big is happening now in our world; changes which are on a Biblical scale.
To love being Jewish is to strive to be as close to Hashem as humanly possible. And to be close to Hashem means to live in the land He gave the Jewish people.
On the 34th Yahrzeit (18th of Cheshvan) of my brother Ha’Rav Meir David Kahana z"l
A significant portion of the Dutch population remains passive and even hostile towards Jews, maintaining virulent anti-Semitic sentiments. That explains what has occurred on a deeper level.
Beware becoming too intertwined with America.
We who make up the chosen people of Hashem are now being put to the test to see who will take part in the grand master plan of the restoration of the glory of Hashem and His nation in Eretz Yisrael.
“And all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Bereishiet 12,2-3).
Our success in defeating those Arabs who value death over life could possibly set off the prophetic insights regarding a future international war between the descendants of Aisav and those of Yishmael. Who knows?
There is one scenario which prevents the gentile world from forgiving us for living. It is Jewish boys, born in our Alt-Neuland, sitting under the canopies of F-16s and F-35s and bombing the hell out of Arab Nazis who live only to annihilate the Jewish people.
The coming year of 5785 will be a crucial one for all Jews. Make no mistake about it. We will defeat all our enemies to the amazement and dismay of the world. Our status of “chosen people” will advance before the enlightened family of nations.
Jewish history of 3000 plus years can be likened to an accordion that produces music by intervals of expansion and contraction.
Seventy-six years ago, the gates to Eretz Yisrael were thrown open to all Jews. The call was sounded to return home and receive immediate citizenship under the "The Law of Return". Where were you?
When the two combatants - the Jewish David and the pagan Goliat were staring at each other’s eyes, what were they thinking?
When is the moment that can be pinpointed as the beginning of one’s death process?
Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the others that claim to be connected to Yishmael are demanding the land of Yisrael in contradiction to the fact that Yishmael severed all ties with Avraham, including any rights to the holy land. Read how this occurred.
From the time of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai through such time that we will have proven ourselves worthy of the honor of being the chosen nation, we remain steadfastly Am Israel.
The Jewish nation will outlive all of its arrogant, evil, demented enemies, who in the words of Daniel "will be reduced like chaff on a threshing floor”.
Free will distinguishes us from all other species in Hashem’s creation - mineral, flora, fauna and angels - we alone have the freedom to choose. So?
If the Prop;het Daniel were here, who would he single out as today's Belshazar? Perhaps all of them...
Predicting the future is more precarious than walking on thin ice in June.
Torah commentators suggest, each according to his world outlook, how one can achieve kedusha - holiness. But there is a common denominator.
My annual Pesach essay - always timely - but with a twist for today.
When the time for retribution for the evils perpetrated on His nation Yisrael arrives, Hashem will wait for no man.
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!
