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 […]

Rav Arush: How to know who is really ‘Moshiach’

Confusing times, isn't it folks? Every blogger and their donkey is putting up stuff claiming to know who Moshiach is. (I'm also in that category, with the stuff I'm posting up here from Rav Elmaliach - with the difference that he's actually…

Written Message from the Rav for the Shvi’i Shel Pesach

This is my translation of R Elmaliach’s shiur, based on a megillah he recieved from the Rav, written down by the tikshor method, shortly before this last Shvi’i shel Pesach. The stuff in square brackets is R Elmaliach’s own comments.…

Prayer that the True Tzaddikim should be revealed without suffering

I've had this prayer for a while, but forgot about it. This morning, it 'fell out' of my siddur, exactly on time. This is my translation of it, the original Hebrew is underneath. == Ribbonu Shel Olam, Who can do anything. Please…

Waiting for the sea to split

The 'chametz' stickers just came off the kitchen cupboards. The Pesach plates and cookware got washed and put back in their boxes, then back in their cupboard upstairs. The plastic table cloths were removed. We are back to 'normal'. Whatever…

The Iraqi connection

The story begins back with the post I stuck up a couple of weeks ago about the BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL, where I was trying to unpack some of the Rav’s comments about it. You can go back and read that post HERE. To make the very long story short,…

Message from the Rav about what’s really going on – Part I

This is the paraphrased remarks from the first part of Rav Elmaliach’s class HERE on Youtube, that contains a message from the Rav shortly before Pesach 5784. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7ihS-Hikc (If you still think Bibi is MBY…