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Sivan 13 5780 | Baruch Gordon
Israel National Torah How To Survive the Riots
In this week's Torah reading of Baha'alotcha Hashem pushes the Jewish people towards the land of Israel. During the journey, the Jewish nation complained about the length and the pace of the trip. Why was the journey so arduous?
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Sivan 12 5780 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
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Sivan 10 5780 | Rabbi Ari Shvat
What's the Ideal Life Style, Working for a Living or Just Learning?
One of the most basic questions is how should we strive to live? The differing approaches to this issue is seen to this day, whether just to learn Torah (as claimed by the Haredim) or to also merge work as an ideal, as proclaimed by the modern-orthodox or religious-Zionists. If one is a millionaire, and doesn't need to work for a living, perhaps nevertheless, he should work, if it's an ideal. This machloket is found already among chazal, but even in the time of R. Shimon Bar Yochai, who had claimed that just Torah is the ideal, he surprisingly & apparently changed his mind, and joined Torah vaAvodah! The Chatam Sofer also differentiates between those living in Israel, where work is a mitzva and holy, as opposed to work in the diaspora.
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Sivan 10 5780 | Beit Din Eretz Hemda - Gazit
based on ruling 77007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts A Defendant Continuing Adjudication after the Plaintiff Halted it
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Why Are There So Many Questions and Difficulties in Judaism?

Life is comprised of many challenges which raise many questions about how G-d runs the world and why bad things sometimes happen to good people? Rav Kook suggests that this is essential for life and spirituality.

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

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