From Miriam the Prophet to Agam Berger

by | Feb 5, 2025

Last week, after over 480 days in captivity, Agam Berger finally returned home. Agam is a talented violinist, who feels a deep connection to music and instruments. In Parshat Beshalach, we find the prototype of a musical woman: Miriam HaNeviah—”Then Miriam the...

Kri’at Yam Suf – for what?

by | Jan 28, 2021

Rav Meir Katz Former shaliach (Melbourne 1999-2000) Currently Ra”M in Yeshivat Nachalat Yisrael – Migdal Haemek Click Here for the PDF version Every year, when we get to read again about Kriat Yam Suf, I find myself asking the same question – for what did...

Tu Bishvat – The Festival of Eretz Israel

by | Feb 4, 2020

For the PDF version: בשלח 5780 אנגלית “Rabbi Yehuda Ben Rabbi Simon said: “[The Torah commands us to] ‘follow God your Lord’. But how is it possible for a man of flesh and blood to ‘follow’ God? … In another place the Torah commands us to ‘Cling to Him’. Yet, is it...

Tu Be’Shevat: Inside and Outside the Land of Israel

by | Mar 11, 2019

Tu Be’Shevat: Inside and Outside the Land of Israel By Rabbi Moshe Bloom Former Rosh Kollel (Warsaw, 2013-17) Currently Head of the English department at Machon HaTorah Ve’Haaretz, The Institute for Torah and the Land of Israel Tu BiShevat is a day with...

Whales in the Red Sea

by | Jan 21, 2016

Rav Baruch Weintraub Former Rosh Kollel in Toronto (2011-2014)   “And Egypt pursed them, and entered [the sea] after them, all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and charioteers, to the middle of the sea.” (Sh’mot 14:23) This sentence...