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 nations wanted a chareidi Jewish State here
BH, I translated a bunch more stuff from the last Shivivei Or (358).
There is always so much to unpack with even the smallest of the Rav's comments, and I'm still working on the stuff about Menashe ben Yisrael, aka 'MBY', so we'll get to an…
Flashback: what the autistics said about Rav Berland in 2019
I'm going through my old posts from 2019 on, to put together some interesting sources on 'Moshiach'.
In the middle of doing that, I tripped over what the autistics said about Rav Berland being Moshiach, back in May 2019, and I thought it would…
They just cancelled Meron
A couple of weeks ago, I was pondering on how 'quiet' the Rav has been about Meron and also about Uman.
Usually, the Rav is prepping us for long months in advance, about the importance of being by Rashbi for L'ag B'omer, and the importance…
Passing (and failing…) the test of anger
Shavua Tov!
***UPDATE: Scroll down to download the full English / Hebrew Kuntres as a PDF***
You probably noticed that I've been in kind of a bad mood the last couple of weeks.
On the one hand, that's totally understandable. The stress…
The Rav is back in hospital
An hour before Shabbat, my friend sent me an unconfirmed report that the Rav was in intensive care in Hadassah.
***UPDATE: I managed to talk to a gabbai of the Rav now, and this story is a lie. The Rav is in hospital, but only because he went…
The heart aches
Yesterday, my kid was standing behind someone she used to work with in the supermarket.
He used to be a construction supervisor.
Then, his son, a soldier in the IDF, was killed on October 7th.
He got so discombobulated emotionally, a…