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Conversion
articles on Conversion
Why Civilisations Fail
What is the real challenge of maintaining a free society?
Municipal elections in Israel
This lesson comes from the past but the message to the elected members today is more recent than ever!
Elected by Accident
A cleaning lady unintentionally became the mayor of a town. Is she allowed to back out, after having been elected?
When to Obey the Law?
The Laws of "Dina Demalchuta- Dina". Is it obligatory to obey civil law?
Lessons on Conversion
The Son of a Convert Feeling Looked Down Upon
My father converted (his mother was not Jewish). I have struggled with my identity due to what I have read in the Kuzari, Maharal and Kabbalistic and Chassidic works, which seem to view gerim as lesser than born Jews. Does Judaism view someone like me as somewhat defective?
Lessons
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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
