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A Look at Tu B'Av
The enthusiasm which accompanies falling in love helps getting married. However, it doesn't guarantee a happy marriage.
What are we celebrating?
What happened on Tu B'av, and what makes it a significant day?
Tu B'Av - The Joy of Learning the Hard Way
Twice mistakes were made, and in both cases we paid dearly for the mistakes - yet we learn from our mistakes.
Living Again
The ninth of Av is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar. Six days later we celebrate the fifteenth day of Av about which the Mishnah says "there were no happier days for Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur"
Lessons on Tu Be'av
The Torah's Understanding of Love
So much has been written over the course of history about the always-fascinating topic of Love. It encompasses many aspects of our lives, whether between parents and children, between G-d and mankind, between man and woman, or just simply various experiences in which we "love" to engage. The Torah tells us to "love your friend as yourself" and to "love Hashem your G-d." It also relates that Yitzchak loved his wife Rivka, and that the two of them loved each of their sons, respectively. Yet, there is still much room to clarify what precisely is the Torah's approach to this issue.
Learn, Pray, Love
The best and most up-to-date information on love and marriage exists in the Beit Midrash. Both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah provide us with guidance on how we should love. We should therefore take advantage and clarify this weighty issue from the Torah's perspective, not only via human insights.
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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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