by tzvi fishman | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
THE GREAT CALL To All Diaspora Leaders We, the undersigned: Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, former Prisoner of Zion; Rabbi Shalom Gold, Co-Founder, Union of Rabbis for Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael”; Rabbi David Samson, YTA Torah Academy High Schools; Meir Indor, Founder of...
by tzvi fishman | Jun 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Geula and Galut, Part 7 The Surest Sign of Redemption In the Gemara, in tractate Sanhedrin, there is a teaching concerning the end of the exile: “Rabbi Abba states: There is no greater sign of the revealed end of the exile than this, as it says, ‘And you O mountains...
by tzvi fishman | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Galut and Geula, Part 6 The Holiness of Medinat Yisrael At the time of the Torah giant, the Gaon of Vilna, the Jewish People had managed to survive 1500 years of exile without the living Soul of the Nation shining in our midst. Except for the great Torah giants of...
by tzvi fishman | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Galut and Geula, Part 5 The Holy Soul of Zionism Our last few essays have dealt with the vast difference between Jewish life in the exile and Jewish life in the Land of Israel, as the Jewish People rise from the “dry bones” of Galut to mega-powered nationhood in the...
by tzvi fishman | Jun 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Half-Emunah Here is an excerpt from a lecture of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook, of blessed memory, explaining to his students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem how it can happen that Torah-observant Jews can turn their backs on the very foundation of the...