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 […]

Life as ‘normal’

It's interesting that the less 'online' I am, the less interesting 'online' is becoming. According to the alternative reality that only exists 'online', something big was meant to have happened on Monday, to coincide with the solar eclipse…

Kimche de Pische

With all the Pesach cleaning, I didn't get any where near the other translations. BH, I'll see what I can do when I'm offline again now, until Thursday. There is a lot of stuff 'in the air' at the moment. There is a rumour the Rav is…

The ‘magnetic’ star – Rav Elmaliach

Rav Elmaliach is putting up a number of simply mind-blowing videos. They take a very long time for me to translate into English, as they are verbal, not written. There is one new 'message' from the Rav that I am hoping to get done and up…

The War Against Amalek – Part 4 – Everyone will be Breslov

The last and final part of the Rav's shiur. For what it's worth, I am totally not stressing about 'Iran', nukes, war in the North, or electricity black outs. If it happens, I'll worry about it then. In the meantime, don't give the lying…

Zorem-ing with God

‘Zorem’ in Hebrew means ‘to flow’. And right now, I am doing my very best to stp thinking things need to be a certain way, that I need to have things how I want them, and how I think ‘they should be’, and to just zorem with God’s…

The War Against Amalek – Part 3 – The awesome Midrash about the Jewish ‘pope’

So, no mitzvah is written in the Torah. (Continuing the Rav's shiur.... Read Part I and Part 2). It’s just written “You shall not kindle fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”[1] And, “Let no man leave his place on the…