Shiur given the evening of the 17th of Iyar 5786 Hashem said to Cain, why are you bringing flax?! What, you don’t have dates? Except, the dates he was keeping for Putin. Now, they are saying that Trump is going to come here, another time. They are always breaking us. Every time, I get broken again. […]

Jewish Jesuits and Berlin Bankers

A few months ago, the penny finally dropped that so many of the ‘famous names’ that populate Jewish history and Jewish genealogy from the last 250 years are actually made-up. This happened in a few different ways. Some of it was just…

Busting the paradigm

I've been thinking a lot about how 'the evils' turn us all against each other. In our puppet-controlled world, they make all these machloket, all these ridiculous arguments between us, about details that are actually totally pointless, but…

The Rambam on accidental murder

Amazingly, this was the next part of the Rav's shiur, given on Rosh Chodesh Kislev (Nov 13th, 2023). The first part of the shiur was talking about transferring 1.5 billion to Hamas, and Hamas firing on the patients in the hospitals, and then…

Friendly fire

The last two days, I've been pretty down. It's probably a whole bunch of things together, including trying to keep everything going and 'upbeat' so the wedding could get done, and not totally falling apart that first month after Simchat Torah. But…

When the lies becomes ‘the truth’

This one is a little more recent  - from last Saturday night. ==== Shiur given at Seudat Shlishit, Shabbat Vayetza, 12th Kislev 5784, (Nov 25th, 2023) ...The force of the imagination that deceives a person is called ‘Lavan Ha Arami’…

Everything with Qatar was a lie

Shavua Tov! Over Shabbat, I managed to catch up on a few of the Rav's shiurim from the last couple of weeks. I will just carry on translating the bits that took my eye, and you take from it whatever you take from it. There's lots and…