Importance of the prayer gathering on Sept 12, 2024

This is the only post I’m planning on putting up this week. Baruch Hashem, we just married off another daughter, and I am taking a week off the blog, and the computer generally, to recuperate. In the meantime, I wanted to post this up about the prayer gathering happening September 12th, 2024, beginning 9pm, in […]

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The War Against Amalek – Part I, The Elections

The war against Amalek – Part I This shiur from the Rav is totally awesome.... So I decided to translate almost all of it. As it's so long, I have split it into 3-4 parts. If you only read one of them, it should be the Midrash about…

Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, and the real history of Chassidut – Part II

Part II (Read Part I HERE.) I would say that about 97% of ‘the story’ that we’ve all been told about how Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch took over from the BESHT; and then how Shneur Zalman of Liadi basically rose to the top of chassidut…

Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, and the real history of Chassidut – Part I

The story begins, as these stories so often do, when I was working on something totally different. One of my readers emailed me a few of weeks ago to ask me if I knew how R Berland descends from David HaMelech. I went back to the OIAG Volume…

The Titanic Test of spotting narcs

A few years ago, I did a deep-dive on ‘narcissists’ and so-called ‘Narcissist Personality Disorder’ (NPD). By ‘deep dive’, I mean I read tens of books, did hours and hours and hours of praying about how to handle the ‘narcs’…

Previous lives and post-Purim explanations

I had a long trip to make today, which gave me the chance to listen to some shiurim from Rav Shlomo Elmaliach, from post Purim. I’m just going to paraphrase what Rav Elmaliach was saying, the main points. If you have Hebrew, I highly recommend…

Simcha on Purim is a mitzva d’orayta

Here in Israel, there was a 'debate' about whether we were allowed to be happy on Purim. I was hoping to get this shiur translated and up before Purim, but in the end that didn't happen, so I'm sticking it up now. I still have more to translate…