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The father – an educator / high-tech / accountant (circle as relevant) – a major in reserves of a command center and in parallel, part of the community's area defense unit; the mother – a principal / doctor / self-employed (circle as relevant) – head of the ZaHI [community emergency/resilience] team (is everyone on the ZaHI team?) and at the same time, looking after the grandchildren of the daughter whose husband is in the reserves; the children – the three sons are army officers and the four daughters are married to officers; two family members donated a kidney, lung, retina or something. When we arrive on Friday for Shabbat (in order to use their housing unit that they donated for the benefit of the guests who come to visit), it turns out that the husband is on reserve duty and the family is now busy baking challah to distribute to the soldiers at the checkpoint or to the evacuees from the north in the nearby community...
That's the reality! These supermen and superwomen belong to a species of superheroes who, there is nothing to say apart from admiring them. Perhaps to add the words written by Naomi Shemer to the "Nahal outpost in Sinai" where she found "the beautiful, lost and forgotten Land of Israel" some fifty years ago:
"I saw so many beautiful things,
So many beautiful things for which
I wanted to hug everyone there.
To whisper to the discomfited faces
'Oh, may there be a guest hotel in the desert'".
The bad will pass
The good will prevail
With God's help.
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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.
Shlach Lecha "Why So Many Don't Make Aliya?" - Parshat Shlach
This short article deals with the weird phenomena that every single time Am Yisrael is meant to enter the Land of Israel, throughout the Tanach, 2nd Temple and until today, they "chicken out" and look for excuses. What's the problem with this mitzvah that proves so challenging. The article, based on sources, suggests that the difficulties of Eretz Yisrael is precisely her secret and beauty!
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 4
The class deals with Islam and how the Muslim tries convincing the King of the Khazars, and why he was also rejected.
Beha'alotcha JEWISH STATE= GUIDE TO G-DLINESS & SELFLESSNESS
A Jewish State not only is a good idea, but educates us towards selflessness, altruism and G-dliness in our daily lives.
Ein Aya In Zion Even the Smoke of the Bark is Sweet
Just as Jewish nationalism is different from others, so too our capitol of Jerusalem is totally different than other national capitols. Rav Kook beautifully explains the passage in the Talmud that the trees of Yerushalayim were cinnamon trees.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 3
The second speaker invited to convince the Khazar King is the Christian, who presents their beliefs. Even before the questions of the King, "between the lines", the author R. Yehuda HaLevi already begins disproving them.
Ein Aya "Intimacy: Love, Life & Giving or Egocentric Taking & Expiration"
Today, many confuse between intimacy in marriage, based on love, giving and life which are diametrically opposed to empty "sex", pornography and prostitution which destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. The practical importance of clarifying this topic in today's western society is obvious, especially for young adults.