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In the city of Sderot, where I live, there are, as we know, many "Color Red" alarms. The first few times, I would impatiently count the seconds from the end to the beginning so that we could leave the safe room (or until I heard the "boom" – whichever came first...). Over the years, I've found that for me personally it's easier to count from the beginning to end. This way, I got a sense of maximizing the time in the safe room – not just the moments of terror that we want for them to end, but also moments in which patience and composure are built. A feeling of a small sense of accomplishment of delayed gratification.
This method can also be applied in other areas of life: not to count, for example, the number of pages left to the end of the text, but counting those we have already learned; not to count the kilograms remaining to reach the goal in the diet, but counting those that we have already lost; not to wait impatiently for the end of Operation Shield and Arrow, but to patiently list the achievements of these days; of which there are quite a few.
By the way, if we are dealing with numbers – I don't know what the planned target population of the city of Sderot is; however, nine years ago, during Operation Protective Edge, the city had 20,000 residents; today during Operation Shield and Arrow – it numbers thirty-five thousand. The frustration of the Islamic Jihad is understandable...
Shabbat Shalom!
The bad will pass.
The good will prevail.
With God's help.
Rabbi Haggai Lundin
Family and Society There Will Not Be A Civil War!
(Told to the students of the Hesder Yeshiva in Holon)
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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.
