- All the Questions
Trips to Poland & Holocaust ed and relating to the enemy
Question
Rabbi Shvat,
This is an excellent answer. Particularly as it pertains to Israeli students and their preparation for service in the military. Though psychologically, do you think these trips to Auschwitz might actually be teaching students to avoid having EMPATHY for other people??
Answer
We Jews have the opposite problem of most armies- we so much sympathize with the other side, that we sometimes forget that the Arabs would like to eradicate us. We approach them with rationale and morality, and sometimes forget that the laws of logic don't apply to Moslem fanatics and suicide bombers who even use their own children as "human shields", taking advantage of our niceness. I can tell you from personal experience that when I have to interrogate a suspicious person at a checkpoint, I pretend to be tough, and even have to wear reflective sunglasses, so that they can't see my eyes, or they'd realize it's just an act!

Prayer "speed"
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 2 Cheshvan 5767

Does God Have Feelings?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tevet 24, 5783

Using Father's or Mother's Name in Judaism
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Mezuzah scroll
Rabbi David Sperling | Shevat 5, 5781

Rabbi Ari Shvat
Lectures at various yeshivot, michlalot and midrashot. Has published many books & Torani articles and is in charge of Rav Kook’s archives.

Orlah fruit trees
Adar I 5, 5771

A Day is a thousand years
Adar I 23, 5771

Writing a Torah Scroll in English
Adar II 25, 5771

Bircat baalat habayit 2
Adar I 23, 5771

Is a left-handed Cohen disqualified?
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 26 Tevet 5766

Mezuzah for a Catholic Family?
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 15, 5779

Blood from wound - kosher?
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 28, 5772

Bracha on water
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Cheshvan 16, 5769

Talmud
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Using Father's or Mother's Name in Judaism
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Shevat 4, 5783

Writing in a Siddur
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tevet 19, 5783
