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The Four Parshiot and their Significance
The parallel and connection between the four Parshiot, the four cups of the Seder, and the four expressions of redemption.
The Path to Purity
The accepted view is, that man is judged only on Rosh Hashanah. If so, asks Tosfot, why do we pray every day? And what does this have to do with the red heifer?
The Red Heifer and Israel's Aspiration
Judaism strives to mend this world and all worlds, this generation and prior generations. This is the aspiration of the Jewish people, and no less. This idea is alluded to by the Red Heifer.
Purity And The Para Aduma
How can a dead animal, something which is inherently impure - and even makes its handler impure - cause someone else to become spiritually pristine?!
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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