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Elections - Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
As we say here, this is what is, so let us hope for the best and be realistic and hopeful at one and the same time.
Demonstrations
How should we view the recent demonstrations in Jerusalem?
Body and Soul Wonder
We know that the coronavirus is a disease. But our body cells do not know that the omicron is their enemy. How can it be?
Russia - Ukraine. Gog and Magog?
Are the winds of war blowing between Russia and Ukraine the beginning of the Gog and Magog war?
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COPING WITH TERROR AND TRAGEDY
On a spiritual level, two theological questions cry out to us: Is there justice in the world? And what is the nature of a God of love and mercy in a world filled with evil? When we witness the brutal murder of both soldiers and civilians, the young and the old, we are numbed and bewildered, at a loss as to making religious sense of it all. We feel helpless at even beginning to comprehend the ways of God.
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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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