Without rehashing the whole article, you can go back and read more below: Doing a pidyon nefesh before Rosh Hashana ==== Bottom line:  [E]veryone undergoes a certain amount of suffering. There is no such thing as a person going through life with everything going exactly according to his desire. What comes out of these teachings […]

The Dream

The last few months, I have barely been dreaming at all. I'm pretty sure they upped the 'zap' they are delivering via their 5/6/7/ gee networks, and those cute, massive antennas that most of us stopped noticing, but that are probably now fully…

The USA was founded on the 17th of Tammuz

There's a really interesting video from R Glatstein. ***UPDATES BELOW*** I like the way that he presents his information, which is way more 'informed' and even-handed than a lot of Rabbis, especially rabbis in galut, and especially, 'rabbis'…

The Jews thought Stalin was moshiach – more comments from the Rav

This is part three of the shiur we've been translating, from Shivivei Or 368. You can see part 1 HERE, and part 2 HERE. Enjoy! ==== Excerpt of a shiur given over on motzae shabbat, Parshat Chukat (July 13th 2024) So now, we are on…

Spitting Image explains Trump and Corona

I was actually looking for the skit of British comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, and the potato. The search continues. But in the meantime, I had no idea the British satire 'Spitting Image' got given a new lease of life - and did some very funny Trump…

More ‘conspiracy theories’ from the Torah

Who'd have thought that Moshe Rabbenu was such a big 'conspiracy theorist?!' Who'd have thought that Hashem would have let him write all these ridiculous 'conspiracy theories' in the Torah, of all places?! The blueprint of the world, and the…

Rivka HaTzaddika, avoiding machloket, and the Rav’s Sefer Torah

My friend just sent me a video of ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’, from two months ago (in Hebrew): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6S-X8BVd8 ==== Apparently, she isn’t meeting anyone at the moment, and I have no contact details for her. The…