So, I was debating whether to get into this again. Long story short, I saw THIS post, which starts off like this: A story about the famous 18th-century Torah scholar, Rabbi Yonatan Eibeschutz as told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Go read the whole thing for yourself, if you didn’t already. Point is, the whole premise […]

The next big ‘thing’: speaking to spirits via your smartphone
I'm just going to keep throwing out random stuff about just how bad, spiritually, smartphones really are.
I know the people who are addicted to them, and in denial, or worse, 'despair' that they can actually do anything to fight back, will…

The Hasmoneans were wiped out because Kohanim can’t be kings – more comments from the Rav
Shiur from Shabbat Parshat Vayechi, 5786
So, there was one person called ‘Sissai’.
She jumped off the roof. Why did she jump from the roof? She simply committed suicide, jumped of the roof.
It appears, she was ‘Shuvu Banim’...
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So,…

BDE: R Moshe Tzanani
I heard yesterday that R Moshe Tzanani passed away on Shabbat afternoon.
Below, I will put the text from One in a Generation I, that explains a little more about who R Tzanani was, and how he came closer to the Rav and then became a huge talmid…

The world is still good
Baruch Hashem, I spent today hiking around Tel Arad with my husband and a bunch of other people.
The sun was shining, which after all the rain was very nice.
The wind was blowing.
The hills around Arad where sprouting green wheat, or…

Stromae on ‘smartphones’
This is a pretty old video, from the last decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU&t=3s
It's how I got my kids to stay away from social media.
I sat them down, showed them the video, and it scared the living daylights out of…

Reposting from 2021: Mad Martin Radziwill, the Belarussian ‘dracula’
It's a time when 'truth' is becoming so much stranger than 'fiction'.
In so many ways.
I went back to find the article I'd written five years ago, about 'Mad Martin Radziwill'.
If you haven't read the post before this, go back and read…
