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The Real Torah
The Real Torah As we approach Tisha B’Av, it is indeed a fitting time to take a new/old look at the Torah and at its eternal truths, which are as true for our time as they were in the times of Moshe Rabeinu. That’s one of the basic principles of the Torah - it doesn’t...
America the Imploding
Last week, the esteemed Rabbi Beryl Wein wrote a blog post entitled "IMPLOSION" (America's spiralling downfall)Rabbi Wein , world renown and well respected Rabbi, Lawyer, Historian and Author has been increasingly concerned about the recent turn of events in the...
ALIYAH – Is There a Wrong Reason?
With the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization receiving an influx of aliyah applications from Diaspora Jews, it is fair to say that these Jews are seeing the writing on the wall - that the future of the Jewish people lies in Israel.Whether influenced by the economic...
“Days of Mashiach”
DAYS OF MASHIACH A Short Story by Tzvi Fishman Even before the jumbo jet came to a stop on the runway, Dr. Elliot Miller unfastened his seat belt and jumped up from his seat. “Where are you going?” his wife, Sandra, asked. “I want to be the first one off the plane,”...
“Go up and SEE the land that I have given to the Children of Israel”
Now that we have passed the summer solstice, the days are still long but they are starting to get shorter, as we move ever closer to the end of the year and the coming New Year and Days of Awe. The Hebrew letters of the present month, Tammuz, are the initial letters...
The Great Call
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...
What is your Tafkid (Mission in Life) and how do you fulfill that and support your Family?
I worked as a head hunter for 5 yrs placing trust officers in banks throughout the US over 20 yrs ago. I don't work with CVs or ResumesI moderate a Facebook group: Israel Chesed Opportunities Job Opps in Israel http://www.facebook.com/groups/313101908806188/ My...
Galut and Geula, Part 7
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...
TeleMedicine Job Opp in Israel
Are you a US Board Certified Doctor interested in making Aliyah or do you know one?Do you have a specialty that can be practiced via TeleMedicine?There is a professional organization looking for US Board Certified Physicians who have an existing relationship with a...
Galut and Geula, Part 6
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...
Living Among the Secular and Irreligious
Opportunities arise, and opportunities vanish: We must seize the opportunity immediately when it presents itself to us. Often, the chance will not present itself again in the future. No matter how unrealistic the scenario seems at that time, and that maybe, a better...
Galut and Geula, Part 5
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...
Half-Emunah
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...
You Wept in Vain
Based on chapter Shelach, in Eretz Yisroel in the Parsha , by Rabbi Moshe Lichtman, Devorah Publishing 2006 Chazal have a tradition that the sin of the spies took place on the ninth of Av and on that night, Hashem told the people of Israel, "You wept in vain", I will...
Aliyah Just Under The COVID-19 Wire
This is the story of a family who was determined to make aliyah from South Africa just before COVID-19 closed the airport.