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Nissan 29 5781 | Rabbi Elyashiv Kafka
Yom Ha'Atzmaut - A Holy Day?
Our independence day is a happy day, but is it a holy day? We established a state but why do we see it as a day of some special spirtual event?
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Nissan 27 5781 | Baruch Gordon
Israel Ind. Day - Missing Link in Ancient Rabbinic Code
Though the Hebrew calendar date of Israel Independence Day was decided upon by the Israeli government a year after the establishment of the State, their choice of day - the 5th of the Hebrew month of Iyar - received a divine stamp of approval in that this very day filled the missing link in a Rabbinic puzzle of centuries.
The Essence of the Day
Nisaan 27 5781 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Translated by Hillel Fendel From Destruction to Revival
Rav Tzvi Yehuda Hakohen Kook, saw the terrible destruction of the Shoah in the context of the great construction of the Redemption. While the Exile was being all but destroyed, he Nation of Israel was being built up in its homeland.
Yom Hakaddish Haklali Holocaust Memorial Day
Nissan 26 5781 | Rabbi Shlomo Katz
A Berdichever First Impression
When Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev became the Rav of the well-established community in Berditchev and how he made his first impression as someone extremely and incredibly special.
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Nissan 26 5781 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Reticence vs. Impetuosity
It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the Mishkan, the Sanctuary. But tragedy struck. The two elder sons of Aaron “offered a strange fire" and they died. Aaron’s joy turned to mourning.
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Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk: The Pioneering Rebbe
It would appear that his thirst for closeness to God, and his great longing for the Holy Land - the land wherein the Divine Presence rests - shook his inner being so strongly that no worldly enjoyment could compare to living in the land of Israel.
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Tevet 23 5781 | Yaakov Asher Sinclair
A Legend In His Own Lunchtime
Even though he grew up as a prince in Egypt, Moshe never forgot his roots.
Shmot
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Tevet 23 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
One People, One Voice
Shmot
Tevet 22 5781 | Rabbi Berel Wein
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Tevet 19 5781 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Women as Leaders
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
Tevet 19 5780 | Baruch Gordon
What Israel Does to Your Mind
In this week's Torah reading Hashem promises Moshe he will redeem the nation of Israel out of Egypt and he will take them to a good and broad land. How can such a small land be called broad? The Natziv explains this issue.
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Tevet 18 5780 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
God - let me know who you are!
Shmot
Tevet 15 5780 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Faith in the Future
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Kirsch
Shemot 5779 At The Shabbat Table
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Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Shemot 5779 The Light at the Heart of Darkness
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Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
NAME THAT PEOPLE
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Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Avraham Rosenthal
Egypt and York: Are We Forbidden to Live There?
Shmot Leaving the Land of Israel
Tevet 19 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
A Sad Secret – Lashon Hara Brings National Agony
Moshe’s first action as an emerging leader was that he saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite and killed the Egyptian (Shemot 2:11-12). This was followed by confronting two Israelites fighting and trying to stop them, only to be scorned, “Who has placed you as an officer and judge over us? Will you kill me the way that you killed the Egyptian?” (ibid. 14). Moshe was then sought by Paroh and slated for execution, but he managed to escape to Midian.
Parashat Hashavua Shmot
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
And They Cried Out- Crying to Hashem or Crying out of Agony
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Tevet 17 5778 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
LIGHT, LIFE & THE G-D FACTOR
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Tevet 14 5778 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Unknown Spiritual Power
Before the appointment of Moshe at the burning bush, the pasuk announces: “Hashem saw Bnei Yisrael, and Hashem knew (vayeda)” (Shemot 2:25). Many of our great commentators have toiled to explain this pasuk, especially its conclusion. Doesn’t Hashem always know everything? What exactly is it here that Hashem “knew,” and what does it have to do with Bnei Yisrael’s burgeoning redemption?
Parashat Hashavua Shmot
Tevet 1 5778 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
God Loves Those Who Argue
Covenant & Conversation Shmot
5777 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Who is a Man?
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Tevet 21 5777 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
THE NAME OF THE GAME
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Tevet 18 5777 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Who Am I?
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Tevet 18 5777 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
“These Are the Names of Israel” – How Does One Enter the List?
We have dealt with helping Jews being accepted and encouraging the conversion of those with patriarchal Jewish lineage. Now we will deal with the question of how to approach the challenges of conversion. No broad elements of the religious community in Israel treat conversion as a highest priority endeavor, with groups viewing other things as higher on the national agenda. To change this, the political leadership of the State of Israel and Torah leadership need to embark on a program that turns the spiritual absorption of olim, especially those from the Former Soviet Union who require conversion, into a major national project. Passiveness with the illusion that matters will work out by themselves, runs the real risk of assimilation within the Jewish State.
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