by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
“Who is Allowed to Study Torah?” At first glance, the above question might seem to be strange, and with a clear answer – Everybody can and should study Torah, and become intimately linked to it! “The crown of Torah rests and waits for all of Yisrael to pick it up.”...
by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
“In our generation, miracles don’t happen to us, like what happened in past generations,” I said to my Sabba, as we went together in a happy dance of flags in Jerusalem. And then I immediately clarified: “I mean such miracles as the vial of oil on Chanukah and the...
by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
Two proofs are given to show that there is a Divine source for the Torah. But they must be understood in depth and not simply in accord with the folk approach – that millions of people would not lie about the description of an event, especially not to their children....
by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
I am writing this before the visit of the President of the United States to Israel, and it goes without saying that as of now I do not know what results the visit might have in either the short or long term. In 5699 (1939), near the Torah portion of Bamidbar, the...
by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
We celebrated Yom Yerushalayim with Hallel and thanksgiving, with joy and dancing. Sadly, during the rest of the year the unification of Jerusalem is more on paper than it is a real fact. Construction in the city is frozen, its Moslem citizens are taught in school to...
by admin | May 24, 2017 | Weekly Email
The attitude of the wise men of Yisrael towards a flag is not uniform. In the past we discussed the positive approach of Rabbi J.B. Soloveithik to the flag of Israel. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, on the other hand, felt that the flag has no importance. In response to a...
