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...

Parshat Beshalach

by | May 5, 2015

Parshat Beshalach and the parshiyot hashavua which come before and after it revolve around the first Geulah (Redemption). ThisGeulah serves as a model for every future Geulah – including the one whose beginning stages we are now privileged to experience. The...

The Religious Value Of The Concept Of Trial

by | May 5, 2015

In this week’s parashah, the Torah continues to relate to us the story of the Children of Israel and their exodus from Egypt. Following the ten plagues, departing the place of their bondage and the drowning of their enemies in the Red Sea, the nation find themselves...