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Iyar 23 5781 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
What is a Tree?
Eggplants grow on a woody stem. Does this make the eggplant a tree and prohibit the fruit that grows during its first three years as orlah or not? What is the correct beracha to recite when smelling carnations, lilies, or mint? What is the correct beracha to recite before eating papaya, cane sugar, or raspberries? May someone plant tomatoes in his vineyard in Eretz Yisroel?
Orla and Counting the Tree's Years
Iyar 23 5781 | Baruch Gordon
Israel National Torah What's First - Messiah or Aliya
Looking at the Ohr HaHayim's commentary on this week's Parshat Behar to discover the answer to the centuries-old question: Will Redemption come miraculously or by natural means?
Behar
3 min
Iyar 26 5781 | Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Why Bad Things Happen To Good People
Nothing is as challenging to our faith as seeming injustice and tragedy. How does a believing person reconcile an apparently cruel world with an Omnipotent and Merciful Creator?
Bechukotai
0 min
Iyar 22 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
Tragedies
We all know that tragedy eventually awaits us in one form or another, but we do not and cannot live our lives based on the fear of impending tragedies or inevitable troubles. Built into the human personality and character is the ability to withstand tragedy, and even, to a certain extent, overcome it.
Trial and Difficulties in Life
Iyar 22 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
Creators Belonging
The idea behind the sabbatical year remains fixed in the minds and hearts of the Jewish people wherever they may live. And that basic idea is simple: that the world and all its land belongs to and is subject to the will of the Creator.
Behar

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