Rabbi Nachman Kahana

Jew vs. Jewish

He who cannot state proudly that he is one of Hashem’s chosen nation, can be Jewish but is far from being a Jew.

The Parsha and current events: Our Destiny 5783

Iran/Persia, the hostile Ishmaelic state will go the way of Achashverosh and Haman. How Hashem will do it makes for fascinating theories.

Parashat Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul 5782

There are many proofs that God exists, but I will report on a particular one that caught my attention, and its relation to the present..

Historic patterns of the 15th of Av

Six historical incidences seem to have no connection but they possess a common denominator.

Despite our sins...Vaetchanan, Nachamu and Tu B'Av

In no way can one compare the conduct of the so-called secular Zionists to the huge transgressions of the Jews in the desert. And yet...

The making of a 'rasha'

How a well-intentioned organization became an infamous bloc of nations that blames Israel for all the world's ills.

Masei: Three stages of Redemption

Standing at the borders of the Holy Land, then and now.

Mattot: Will you stay or will you go?

You will see them with their knitted kipot, M16s over their shoulders, returning from a shiur by the rosh yeshiva, an IDF officer. And you?

The great message of the Pinchas Episode

The essence of the kohanic personality is to be responsible for the nation, overriding his personal interests.

The Parsha and Current Events: Take My hand

Diminutive in size, giant in spirit, Medinat Yisrael has made the world stand still more than once since its re-establishment 74 years ago.

The Parsha and Current Events: Para Aduma

When goyim attack our religious beliefs, the best thing is to say, “because Hashem said so”, and discussion finished.

Korach, The Holy Ark and our Torah scrolls

Learn about a project to make sure our soldiers have a kosher Torah scroll wherever they serve.

What the Jewish World needs now

The Parsha and Current Events.

Defining our relations with the world's major powers

Parashat Naso - Shavu’ot 5782: The parasha and current events.

Bamidbar (The Book of Numbers): It’s the math that counts

The Parsha and Current Events: Words and Numbers,

Behar-Bechukotai: 'You disappointed Me!"

30 hours in prison was enough to realize how special it is to live in the Medina - the tochacha is enough to realize that every Jew should.

Flux, Confusion, War – where are we headed?

Relationships between nations and races are shifting, so-called absolute laws of human behavior are being re-written, the East is rising.

A Tale of Two Cities – two worlds

Excerpt from the writer's book "With all your might." Two families, two Seders, one nation.

The Difference between Russia’s Putin and Am Yisrael

We should learn not from the acts of Putin, but from his dedication to the greatness of his country. It is this that we have forgotten.

The Parsha and Current Events:Roaring Wadis

A wadi is a dry riverbed that can fill with a flash flood in seconds. That is a metaphor for Jews returning to Zion but the question is how.

Tzav: No negotiations

Judaism is always built for the long run and not for the short moments of seeming pleasure or current correctness.

The Parsha and Current Events: The embedded factor in history

Is there an embedded factor which is responsible for Hashem bringing about certain events - from Akedat Yitschak to Purim and Putin?

The Parsha and Current Events: anti-Semites, bacon & churches

The ABC of what is happening now.

Pekudei 5782

The Parsha and Current Events: Esau vs. Esau

A curt but mighty statement regarding what is now happening in eastern Europe. And: Jew-be proud-Eretz Yisrael is your country. Live in it..

VAYAKHEL 5782

The parasha and current events: Sacred voltage

Although we know nothing about the thought processes of the Almighty, we know that Hashem is the master of cause and effect.

The Parsha and Current Events: Danger and Fear in the air

Not only in the Ukraine but in LA, South Bend, Atlanta, Houston, Skokie, Brooklyn, Hollywood, Boca Raton, Ferndale, Kiryat Joel, NYC.

A miniature Beit Hamikdash

If you stand in front of a mirror.you see the human structure. A closer look reveals that you are a miniature Beit Hamikdash.

Mishpatim 5782

The Parsha and Current Events: The final events in human history

Not all the Jews will hear the call to aliya, just as the 80% in Egypt did not hear or heed the call - and that is very sad.

Humanity is presently perched on a seam of history

Humanity today awaits to see what is next. Nuclear war? Decimation through viral infection? Economic disaster? Racial and religious wars?

The Parsha and Current Events: Who knows five?

When our “backs were to the wall” (“to the sea wall”), Hashem said “Stop praying and be pro-active ...”. That holds for today as well.

The Parsha and Current Events: The fate of our generation

There is a gene for hating Hashem’s chosen people passed on forever in the descendants of Esau and Ishmael. What does the future hold?

The Hand of Hashem in Israel's economy

The Exiles have returned and the Land bears abundant fruits, two prophetic signs of Redemption, but Torah and economic wealth are as well.

When uninhibited hatred is released

The murder of human beings is a greater tragedy than the destruction of the Holy Temples.

The parsha and currrent events:

A leap of faith

An extraordinary feature of the Jewish national character is the willingness to make a ‘leap of faith’ - but never give up.

MIKETZ

The Parsha and Current Events: Iran, JCPOA and the Prophets

The Iranians don’t need ICBMs to attack Israel. We are camouflage for their real enemies, the West. It is all predicted in Jewish sources.

Halakha, Science & Technology

The reality facing the modern orthodox Jew in the United States.

VAYISHLACH 5782

The Parsha and Current Events: Good emerging from evil

Soon, we will be witnessing a dramatic turnabout in the attitude of most gentile nations to the Jews and to Israel.

What if...

What if Medinat Yisrael would have been established 100 years earlier in 1848, and not 1948?

CHAYEI SARAH 5782

The Parsha and Current Events: Faith and courage

Where is the Avraham of today who will stand up before the world as he did to the Hittites and declare that this land is our heritage?

The Parsha and Current Events:

The insular nature of the Covenant

Today's nations want Israel to go alone, in the hope that Iran will destroy the annoying Jewish state. Abraham too had to fight alone.

The Parsha and Current Events: Thoughts on the world today

It is 5782 years from the time humans appeared and began destroying the beautiful world that Hashem created for them.

Yom HakiPurim and Purim

The similarity in names is not coincidental.

Nitzavim - Last Shabbat of 5781

Where is our generation alluded to in the Torah?

Becoming Am Yisrael

To be involved in keeping the mitzvot outside of the national collective, is like catching a floating cloud which has no substance.

What is in store for the world?

Based on abbinic sources: The true intentions of the ruthless Islamic State of Iran-Persia at this time in history.

A unique singular State of Israel vs. the many “States of Jews”

The various “states of Jews” in the galut play an important role in attracting the haters of the Jewish State and drawing them away from us

Un-Jewish? Un-Rabbinic?

Is it "un-Jewish” and "un-rabbinic” to hope that Hashem, the God of justice, mercy and truth punish all who have wronged His people?

For Shabbat Nachamu: A world of comfort

Hashem’s answer to the Third Reich will be a world where the evil doers of all sorts will not be participants.

Denying Jewish Inheritance

I once met a survivor who said that whoever was in Bergen Belsen for 10 minutes, can justifiably say Hallel every day in Medinat Yisrael.

Ushering in an age of fear

Is it really true that being Jewish means knowing how to pack quickly? Not in Israel.

The Parsha and Current Events: The root of our fears

Hashem expects the Jewish nation to live with trust in Him, without fear of the gentiles.

The Parsha and Current Events: Para Aduma

Parashat Chukat (Para): Disunity brings death and tuma, but unity brings life and tahara (purity).

The Parsha and Current Events: Choice versus Virtue

In every generation, the question is asked: "How do we know that Hashem will make us victorious?"

The Parsha and Current Events: Living the miracle

They returned with a report whose variations appear in today's Torah journals, speeches etc. The message is: Do not go to Eretz Yisrael.

The Parsha and Current Events: The head chases its tail

Who - or what - will break the vicious cycle of the God-fearing communities in the galut?

The Parsha and Current Events: Why does tragedy strike us?

That most people suffer in this world is axiomatic, but so too is the reality that Hashem’s chosen people suffer most. Why?

Can both sides be right in a dispute?

Two opposing ideas or opinions can appear to be correct to the same degree but, in fact, only one is true.

The Silent Shoah

Olim from the US can be considered survivors of the US Silent Shoah. We suggest choosing a day for Assimilation Shoah Memorials. Op-ed.

The Parsha and Current Events: The election results don't matter

We have no king, Sanhedrin, Kohen Gadol or prophet. Hashem established Israel for the spiritual potential the Jews have in Eretz Yisrael.

Time!

As we are now building the future redemption of Am Yisrael, all who can participate are invited. But eventually that time will be over.