Some thoughts on not living in fear

Fear is a very normal human emotion. In fact, it’s probably at the root of almost every negative trait and reaction we have. I’m talking about ‘fallen fears’ – the idea that something or someone can harm us or hurt us, in total isolation from belief in Hashem. That Hashem is doing everything, running the […]

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The Hasmoneans were wiped out because Kohanim can’t be kings – more comments from the Rav

Shiur from Shabbat Parshat Vayechi, 5786 So, there was one person called ‘Sissai’. She jumped off the roof. Why did she jump from the roof? She simply committed suicide, jumped of the roof. It appears, she was ‘Shuvu Banim’... == So,…

BDE: R Moshe Tzanani

I heard yesterday that R Moshe Tzanani passed away on Shabbat afternoon. Below, I will put the text from One in a Generation I, that explains a little more about who R Tzanani was, and how he came closer to the Rav and then became a huge talmid…

The world is still good

Baruch Hashem, I spent today hiking around Tel Arad with my husband and a bunch of other people. The sun was shining, which after all the rain was very nice. The wind was blowing. The hills around Arad where sprouting green wheat, or…

Stromae on ‘smartphones’

This is a pretty old video, from the last decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU&t=3s It's how I got my kids to stay away from social media. I sat them down, showed them the video, and it scared the living daylights out of…

Reposting from 2021: Mad Martin Radziwill, the Belarussian ‘dracula’

It's a time when 'truth' is becoming so much stranger than 'fiction'. In so many ways. I went back to find the article I'd written five years ago, about 'Mad Martin Radziwill'. If you haven't read the post before this, go back and read…

Don’t be Jacob Frank’s friend – more comments from the Rav

Excerpt of a shiur given on 6th Kislev, 5786 They are fooling you, stop letting them pull one over on you. I’m coming to caution you – this is what Jacob Frank said. Jacob Frank was after Shabtai Tzvi, so they cut off his peyot. The…

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