President Obama would do well to listen to recordings of the radio broadcasts that were aired prior to the Six day war. This was prior to the formation of the 1967 lines precedent Obama seems to rely on. This was before Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland was returned to their ancestral tenants. Yet in [...] Read more »
SHORASHIM OVERVIEW AND STUDY GUIDE Bechukotai Leviticus 26:3–27:34 G‑d promises that if the people of Israel will walk in his statutes and keep His commandments, they will enjoy blessings that speak material comfort and physical security in their land. Read more »
We are entering a time of great upheaval and concern. The world is being stirred by unusual weather phenomenon and revolutions and unrest on every continent. There was a time we would measure the state of the world in terms of decades. The 60′s decade of “flower power” .Then came the 70′s defined by campus [...] Read more »
Behar (Leviticus 25:1-26:2) -- What does the portion teach about the written and the oral Torah. What do we learn about the connection between Mount Sinai and the Land of Israel? The Torah portion begins with us being told that the laws of the sabbatical year, the shmittah year, were transmitted on HAR SINAI, Mount Sinai. Read more »
Emor ( Leviticus 21:1–24:23) – he powers of stirring the Heavens from below while being wary of the dangers of being too politically correct. Read more »
On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany. Sixty-thousand prisoners were living in the camp when the troops arrived, most of them seriously ill. Thousands more lay dead and unburied on the camp grounds. Five days after the liberation, the sick and starving survivors gathered for their first Shabbat [...] Read more »
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