Friday, April 25, 2025

Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz – #311 – part IV

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#311 – part IV Date and Place : 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo Recipient and Background: Rav Yaakov David Wilovsky (Ridbaz), a leading rabbi wh...

Yeshivat Machon Meir: Parshat Shemini - Nadav and Avihu (video)

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“The Nations in Uproar, Muttering in Vain”

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by HaRav Dov Begon Rosh HaYeshiva, Machon Meir Regarding the camel, it says: “Among the cud-chewing, hoofed animals, these are the ones tha...

Caught up in the passion of the moment

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by Rav Binny Freedman There is a little-known test that officer cadets undergo in one form or another during Infantry Officer’s training th...

Holy Fire, Unholy Lies

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by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky (First published at Israelnationalnews.com) There is literally no respite from the lies of our enemies. This holid...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Rubio torpedoes the left’s anti-Israel stronghold inside the State Department

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by Jonathan Tobin The administration isn’t abandoning the cause of human rights. A reorganization will stop bureaucratic ideologues from usi...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

How many times can someone be chaiv missa—culpable of death?

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by Rabbi Pinchas Winston TALK ABOUT ENTANGLEMENT. The simple narrative has Nadav and Avihu dying because they brought an “unauthorized fire”...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Rav Kook's Ein Ayah: Linking Liberation to Prayer; Influence of a Great Man

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Linking Liberation to Prayer (based on Ein Ayah, Berachot 1:143- part II) Gemara : What [did Chizkiya] mean by saying: “I did that which was...

Rabbi Doniel Glatstein on Parashat Shemini: Confirming the Brachos of Pesach (video)

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Rabbi Ari Kahn on Parashat Shmini:Is Suffering Correlated with Sin (video)?

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Arrogance in the Service of Hashem

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by HaRav Mordechai Greenberg Nasi HaYeshiva, KeremB'Yavneh The sons of Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, each took his fire pan, they put fire in...

Rav Kook on Parashat Shemini: The Error of Nadav and Avihu

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In the midst of the great public joy during the Mishkan dedication, tragedy struck the family of the Kohen Gadol: “Aharon’s sons, Nadav and ...

Eat to Survive

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by Rabbi Dov Berel Wein All living creatures that exist in our world require nutrition to be able to survive. Human beings, being the most ...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Igrot Hare’aya – Letters of Rav Kook: Refuting Criticism by the Ridbaz - part III

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#311 – part III Date and Place : 19 Sivan 5670 (1910), Yafo Recipient and Background : Rav Yaakov David Wilovsky (Ridbaz), a leading rabbi w...

Sichot with Rosh HaYeshivah Parshat Vayikra - Rabbi Dov Begon and Rabbi Menachem Listman (video)

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The Exodus from Egypt and the Future Redemption

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by HaRav Dov Begon Rosh HaYeshiva, Machon Meir When Rav Kook sets out to direct us in how we must relate to the redemption process we are u...

To see an obligation as something we actually want to do

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by Rav Binny Freedman What do you do when you can’t do what you want to do, and what you have to do, you really don’t want to do? Sound con...

Crisis for Canadian Jewry

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by Igal Hecht Because this is precisely where Canada is going. Historically, Canada has been behind Europe on antisemitism by a generation, ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

The Ettinger Report: US Interest Mandates Regime-Change in Iran

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b y Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger *Does US policy toward Iran refrain from - or repeat - past mistakes? *The diplomatic option (negotiat...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Animal Sacrifices: You or Them

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by Rabbi Pinchas Winston ONCE BACK IN the 1980s while driving a car I came across a talk show on the radio. Normally I would have just turne...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Rabbi Doniel Glatstein on Vayikra: The Meaning of the Vilna Gaon's Remez To All the Korbanos In the First Pasuk of Shema (video)

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Rabbi Ari Kahn: Spring (video)

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Rav Kook's Ein Ayah: Immediate vs Eternal Needs; Emotional and Intellectual Prayer

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Immediate Vs Eternal Needs (based on Ein Ayah, Berachot 1:137) Gemara : [Yeshaya told Chizkiya, a righteous king, that he was going to die i...

The Rationale of Sacrifices

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by HaRav Mordechai Greenberg Nasi HaYeshiva, Kerem B'Yavneh After Sefer Shemot concludes with the construction of the mishkan and the dw...