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Iyar 27 5781 | Rabbi Ari Shvat
Remembering the 6 Day War- Yom Yerushalayim & Declaring New Holidays
It sounds complicated to declare new holidays, but it's actually not at all. Similarly to allow haircuts and music during the Omer also is simple. Just declaring Hallel with a bracha is more complicated, but an historic return to the forgotten background of the "6 Day War" helps clarify that, as well.
The Obligation of Thanking Hashem Jerusalem Day
45 min
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Azriel Ariel
Translated by Hillel Fendel Jerusalem Day: Some Stones Are Hearts
The Western Wall looks simply like a big and menacing block of rocks. One must look with penetrating eyes to sense what it really expresses: the longing of dozens of generations, the prayers of our forefathers and foremothers, and the joy of all those who commemorated their happy occasions there over the course of centuries.
Jerusalem Day
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Ari Shvat
Ein Aya Shabbat 2, 276 Give Space Before Harmonizing
Rav Kook teaches that opposing legitimate ideals inevitably first appear as contradictory, but eventually harmonize with each other. So by all partnerships and inter-personal and relationships, as well as ideological rabbinic machloket.
Ein Aya Ein Aya on Lag Ba'Omer
32 min
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
The Halacha Named for a Thief!
What Halachic principle is, strangely, named after a thief?
Preparations for Shabbat, Entrance and Exit
Iyar 25 5781 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
A Tale of Two Mountains
This Shabbat, we find ourselves between two staggering events: the tragedy at Har Meron last Friday, and Yom Yerushalayim this Sunday night and Monday. Two mountains, steeped in Jewish history, associated with the most significant personalities and pathos: Avraham, Yitzchak and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Bechukotai Jerusalem Day

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