Trying to stay positive

Rosh Hashana was pretty good this year, BH. My husband was home, because his flight to Uman got cancelled during the ‘bombardment’ of Erev Rosh Hashana, and while we were both pretty disappointed, at least he got to pray with the Rav on Rosh Hashana. And the ‘day-to-day’ stuff of Rosh Hashana was baruch Hashem, […]

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Whitewashing Shabtai Tzvi

As part of trying to track down more info about David Moshe Valli's comments on Yoshki, I got to the Judaism Stackexchange site. HERE is the link for that. In turn, that had a discussion about an oldish video shiur from 'Rabbi Bezalel Naor'…

Gratitude and emuna, vs ‘fake gratitude and fake emuna’

Shavua tov! On Shabbat, (which btw, was one of the nicest I've had for quite a while, thank God I'm not buying into all the 'fear p*rn' and running off to buy a generator...) - I went to learn some Rabbenu with a new chevruta. We opened…

Shabbat Shalom

I went to the Rav's prayers again yesterday night, BH. The last few days, the prayers have been V. strong - lots of singing, quite a happy atmosphere (!) and the Rav himself seems to be in a good mood. He wasn't like that before Simchat…

The PEREIRA / AGUILAR / FONSECA CONNECTION (Hebron Sabbateans, Part 4)

Hold onto your hats.... This is a great post for ‘real Jewish history’ aficionados. The story begins when I was trying to track down a bit more about R ELIYAHU MANI, of Baghdad, then Hevron (with some places in between). There is a lot…

Chessed L’Avraham on how the Shechina protects Eretz Yisrael

I found a good English translation of some of the Chessed L'Avraham's teachings on the YeshShem site. ***UPDATE: This YESHSHEM site is put together by xtians, so I am de-linking from them, but for now, keeping up these translations, until and…

Rivka HaTzaddika – the full translation

Thanks to Nahman for the original idea - and also to ASD and especially, Yosef D, for completing it. Yosef D. put together a more complete translation of this video I put up yesterday, of Rivka HaTzaddika. You can watch that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEgX25Ifwog ==== I…