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"Yom HaZikaron" - A Personal Note
"Despite the great differences between us there is much more uniting us than separating us."
A Time To Remember
The holy soldiers who fought for the cause, all too often paying the ultimate price
The True Meaning of Yom Hazikaron
Should we portray our pain over the fallen soldiers in somber hues, or should we try to understand the essence of Am Yisrael, and investing meaning into the soldiers 'self-sacrifice'?
"Yom HaZikaron" - A Personal Note
A personal note from Rabbi Zalman Melamed, as a young Army Rabbi, to a bereaved family.
Lessons on IDF Memorial Day
BETWEEN YOM HASHOA & YOM HAZIKARON
The two "heaviest" days of the year in Israel are "Yom HaShoah" and "Yom HaZikaron". There's a special feeling when not only does your school commemorate them, but an entire country stops in solidarity, standing at attention for the siren. Nevertheless there are several significant differences symbolized by the week differentiating between the two.
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
Rabbis on IDF Memorial Day
