Galut and Geula, Part 2 Scattered Limbs without a Soul In our previous article, we began to explain the need for a deeper comprehension of Emunah (Faith) and Torah, in order to understand the rebirth of the Nation of Israel in our time. This deeper learning has the...
Galut and Geula, (Part 1 of an Eight Part Series) The Exile is the Valley of Dry Bones In order to understand the centrality of the Land of Israel to a full Jewish life, it is necessary to recognize the very real differences between life in Israel and life in the...
Get ready to hear the Torah explained by the greatest Torah teacher of them all – Moshe Rabeinu. As we approach the tragic tale of the Spies in the Wilderness, coming soon in the Torah portion of “Shelach,” it is a fitting time to take a new/old look at the Torah and...
Light to the Nations When I became a baal t’shuva 37 years ago, I benefited greatly by studying the writings of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsh, especially his Commentary on the Torah and his Commentary on the Book of Psalms. In the year 1836, he wrote in his book,...
When I first came to Israel forty years ago, as a non-religious tourist in search of my true inner self, Rabbi Meir Schuster, of blessed memory, approached me at the Kotel and asked if I wanted to attend a few interesting classes on Judaism at a yeshiva. I had...
