Where did geula go?

Yesterday, I put up a post for 5 minutes, called ‘Anyone else smelling a rat?’ It was about the elections in Israel, or more precisely, all the scary official warnings that ‘Iran’ is going to try to disrupt them. Whatever. The point was, not to buy into all the fearmongering, not to buy into all […]

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The Burgher and the Pauper – Part 8D

OK, I finally caught up the missing parts. This is the last one, for your delight and delectation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1NkoXT-WA == In this part, the Burgher's Son finally decides he is going to 'claim' the Emperor's Daughter…

Rav Berland’s words on the ‘FlyDubai’ miracle – the day before it happened

This is from the RavBerland.com site. You can read the whole thing HERE. Here's the key snippet from the Rav: Tuesday, the night of 19 Tishrei 5787, the Rav spoke after Maariv about the holiness of the sukkah. From there he turned…

Getting the message

I know, it's Succot, and I'm not writing about 'Succot' much at all. Except, to tell you how flat the hiloula seemed to be Monday night, in Meah Shearim. A commentator just sent a link to R Berland's livestream for the Shuvu Banim festivities,…

Spoiling Rabbenu’s Chiloula

Yesterday night, was the Chiloula of Rabbenu, Rebbe Nachman. Last year, Shuvu put up their own tent, on their own piece of ground, legally owned by them. And the Iriya sent the cops to rip it all down, destroy the site as totally as they…

Coining a new term: AI research fatigue

I've been doing a huge amount of research the last few months. And the AI makes it easier to do things like, for example, transcribe huge sections of handwritten notes, or find 10 new papers on a subject you never heard about before. So,…

Uman and Jerusalem are unified – more comments from the Rav

The first shiur from the Rav after his return from Uman, 5787 60 bachurim (young men) remained in the Aretz (Israel). They tried to cross the border, and they didn’t succeed – these are the ones who really came [to Uman]. Whoever didn’t…

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