by ידידיה ביג'ל | Aug 14, 2022
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by Rabbi Eldad Zamir | Jul 25, 2021
Rav Eldad Zamir Former shaliach (Cape Town, 1997-98) Senior Instructor at the Nativ ’Giyur” program in the IDF Click Here for the PDF version About fifteen months after the Second Lebanon War, we were called up to miluim in the Gush Talmonim region, which is part...
by Dani Eisenstock | Aug 2, 2020
Click HERE for the PDF version Nachamu Nachamu Ami! This Shabbat all over the Jewish world we will read these words. Be comforted and be consoled my nation. How can we be comforted and how can we be consoled? Only yesterday we were sitting on the floor crying over the...
by Rabbi Yehuda Susman | Sep 5, 2019
Much has been written trying to explain the distinctions between the Aseret Hadibrot as originally formulated in Parshat Yitro as opposed to the way they are relayed in Parshat VaEtchanan (see, for example, Ibn Ezra and Ramban Shmot 20:7 and Rambam Moreh Nevuchim...
by Shalom Schwartz | Aug 5, 2017
Shalom Schwartz Project Aseret HaDibrot What is the Purpose of The Ten Commandments? "He announced to you His covenant, instructing you to keep the Ten Commandments, and He wrote them on two stone tablets". (Devarim 4:13) Aseret HaDibrot, The...
by Rabbi David Kupinski | Aug 18, 2016
Rabbi David Kupinski Former Rosh Kollel (Memphis, 2014-15) Currently Dorm Manager and Social Coordinator in ‘Levav Shalem’ Yeshiva High School, Yerucham G-d Who Created the World or G-d Who Took Us From Egypt? One of the main symbols of Judaism are...
by Rabbi Yair Spitz | Jul 29, 2015
Rabbi Yair Spitz Menahel and Principal of Yeshivat Or Chaim, Toronto “You shall not have other Gods before me” Spiderman, Dracula, Superman, Wonder Woman, Thor, Avengers, Avengers 2, Transformers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America and X-men are only a...
by Rabbi Moshe Pinchuk | Aug 6, 2014
Rabbi Moshe Pinchuk Former Rosh Kollel (Melbourne, 1998-2001) Currently Head of the Beit Midrash in Netanya College The Weekly Torah readings follow a set order independent of any particular date. We begin at Be’reshit and proceed inexorably week by week until...
by Rabbi Uri Cohen | Aug 6, 2014
Love in the Shma: Two Radically Different Approaches Rav Uri C. Cohen, Former Rosh Kollel – Syracuse Familiarity may not breed contempt of the tefillot (prayers) we say every day, but it certainly makes us feel overconfident about how much we understand. After...
