by Rabbi Yossi Slotnick | Apr 28, 2026
Hidden in history Rav Ilan Goldman Friend of Torah MiTzion Former Rav Shaliach of Bnei Akiva UK. Involved in variuos Aliyah initiatives Click for PDF For translation to Spanish and Português We are often taught of how Hashem is found ‘in the details’. Many aspects of...
by Eli Lipschitz | May 15, 2022
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by Zeev Schwartz | Apr 29, 2018
Zeev Schwartz Executive Director, World Torah MiTzion ISRAEL AT 70 Special message from our Executive Director The turning point in my life was at the age of nine. Together with all of Am Israel, I held my breath in suspense as to the outcome of the Entebbe...
by Simon Jackson | May 11, 2016
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah MiTzion What’s So Special About Living In Israel When we think of redemption, Geulah, we normally have in mind the rebuilding of the Temple, the resurrection of the dead, the restoration of the kingdom of David, the...
by Zeev Schwartz | May 11, 2016
Zeev Schwartz Executive Director, Torah MiTzion The Day After For 49 days we repeat the verse “and you shall count from the day after Shabbat …” (Emor 23:15) emphasizing the difference which exists, since creation, between the highlight of the...
by Rabbi Shai Finkelstein | Jun 7, 2015
At the beginning of our parsha the Torah commands the woman who gave birth, to bring a sin offering. The commentators struggle with the following question: what is the sin that the woman who gave birth committed? What is the transgression that obligated her to bring a...
by Rabbi Yisrael Shachor | Jan 12, 2015
The source for the obligation of the recitation of Hallel is in Pesachim 117a, “The Rabbis taught, ‘Who instituted this Hallel? The prophets legislated for the Jewish people that this Hallel should be recited at each designated season and on any trouble that should...
by Rabbi Emanuel Cohn | Jan 12, 2015
Rabbi Emanuel Cohn Former Avrech in Montreal (2001-2003) Founder of “Torah MiCinema” – Teaching Film and Judaism After celebrating the Independence of the State of Israel, we fall back into the mourning period of the counting of the Omer...
by Rabbi Baruch Plaskow | Jan 12, 2015
Independence Day, Jerusalem, Israel. The scene is set and the celebrations are about to get underway. Thousands of people are present. I see Jews of many nationalities flocking here from many countries. Many will stay, and some will go. They are all here for one...
by Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Jan 12, 2015
What exactly do we celebrate on Yom Ha’Atzmaut? The day does not celebrate the end of a war, in the same way as, for example, Purim. Neither does it recall any great miracle, such as the miracle of the oil on Chanukah. How, then, was it chosen to be a special day,...