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The most fundamental requirement is to somehow upload the link to the specific lesson on one's computer or phone and then to click on that link to join the learning session. Without having the link and clicking it one will never be able to hear what is being taught or benefit from the zoom session being conducted. This link is the essential ingredient to all the learning or entertainment projects that can exist on this electronic platform.
The phrase "just send me the link" has become part and parcel of our everyday conversation and mindset. Just a few short years ago, using such a phrase would only have incurred stares of wonder. Our society was not thinking in terms of links. However, among all the other immense changes that the Covid epidemic has created in our society, the realization that one must somehow find a specific link and click on it, is part of a new language and a different set of words and phrases. As such, let’s consider if we do not give proper weight to understanding the import of the links in our lives.
Judaism has always been based on links, the link to family and tradition, links to generations gone before us, and the links to eternal values and unchanging assessments of life and people. These constitute the bulk of thought and activity in every day Jewish existence. We see ourselves as being linked to the eternal chain first created by our father Abraham and continuing for millennia till our time.
Judaism values age, experience and, most importantly, links to the past, even more than it encourages the vitality and experiences of the young. We say in our prayers that we are grateful for the previous generations that have survived, so that we to are able to be connected and linked to the past, as far back as our father Abraham and our mother Sarah.
This linkage is vital to Jewish survival, both personally and nationally. One cannot participate in the eternal zoom lesson of the study of Torah and the performance of its commandments without somehow obtaining the link and clicking on it by ourselves.
When one is young, one rarely appreciates this type of generational connection. However, as one's years increase, it becomes apparent that one of the tasks of maturity is to provide that personal link that binds generations together and gives purpose and value to each individual life. For many Jews in our time, the tragedy of complete assimilation and the lack of any Jewish content in life is directly traceable to the fact that they never found the link and are cut off from their tradition by their secularism and hedonism.
The purpose of Jewish education, in my opinion, should be to impress upon the student throughout all the years of one's school experience, the necessity of finding their personal links and clicking on them. If one has the link, then there is no limit to what can be learned, understood, and creatively woven into the fabric of one's own personal life. However, if that necessary personal link is somehow unavailable, then school and knowledge become only a jumble of facts, opinions, boredom, and worse.
We are currently very careful that schools and classrooms should not infect their students with viruses and diseases of the body. We should be just as careful and vigilant that schools should not infect their students with moral viruses of unproven agendas, current political theories and correctness, and wildly impractical and utopian ideas and hopes. We cannot leave our younger generation without any link to the realities and experiences of past generations and to ancestors, that would leave them vulnerable to harmful teachings and opinions.
The truth is that every one of us, especially those of us who are blessed with being grandparents, should establish themselves as that link that is necessary to benefit from the spiritual and psychological zoom class that is currently available to all who are interested in finding and utilizing what constitutes their Jewish hertiage.
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The Land of Israel LGBT'S IN ISRAEL
The question was asked, how can one make Aliyah with the LGBT parades?
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 7 - Five Accumulative Proofs of G-d
As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
Chukat "HOW ENTEBBE STOLE THE BICENTENNIAL
The Difference Between Historic & Eternal"
As we approach America's 250th birthday, it's worth remembering her 200th Bicentennial birthday, on Jul. 4th 1976, when Israel "stole the show" by shocking the world & miraculously saving 101 hostages in a foreign continent. As Pres. As Pres. Trump decides which countries get priority in his new Middle-East, it's worth reminding him of the difference between historic events and eternally historic ones. This obviously connects with this week's parsha, as well!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 6 - The Parable of the King of India
The advantages of testimony over circumstantial evidence or philosophical speculation.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 5- "Proofs of G-d"
This may be the most important class of the entire book, where we finally get to the Jewish proof of the existence of G-d and truth of the Torah. We should follow His own direction where He tells us how to get to Him: through the Nation of Israel: Jewish history, Jewish prophets (and today, prophecies fulfilled), and national reward & punishment towards Am Yisrael.
Ein Aya One Humanity, One Creator, One Jerusalem
Rav Kook innovatively and beautifully explains this aggadeta where our sages say that after Jerusalem was destroyed her cinnamon fragrance is only found locked in a particular kingdom's treasury.
