A few years back, my about-to-turn-18-years-old daughter announced that she was planning to go to Uman for her birthday, by herself, with a friend. I totally freaked. The last time we’d been in Uman was that horrible ‘Covid Rosh Hashana’, when we spent a whole day being guarded by a squad of Ukrainian soldiers in […]
One of the best books I ever read was the ‘Bad Middot Pirates’, by R Baruch Chait. The illustrations were by Gadi Pollack, who is in a class all by himself, and that’s what initially got me into buying those books ‘for my kids’. But really? I was reading them for myself, just as much […]
Shavua Tov! I got up to another interesting part of the shiur I’ve been translating, and I was debating whether to put it up here, because I am feeling a little ‘uncomfortable’ about it, re: the stuff about taking the measles shot. In the end, I decided I am not the Rav’s gatekeeper, and if […]
Someone left a message underneath THIS post that really rubbed me up the wrong way: The bad day I have no idea who the person is, what they’ve been through themselves, for sure they were trying to be ‘helpful’, I acknowledge all that. At the same time, the comment put me in a bad mood […]
You have no idea, how many readers I lost when I started calling Trump out as ‘bad’. That process began in earnest in 2019, when Epstein got ‘suicided’ on Trump’s watch – and Operation ‘Warp Speed’ got actioned, to shove ‘safe and effective’ shots full of GO into everyone’s bodies. Man, the amount of criticism […]
This is a very interesting part of the Rav’s recent shiur. Mamash, it also plays into the whole idea of ‘being real’, and understanding that every real tzaddik is surrounded by people who aren’t very nice, just as moths are attracted to a flame. This is not the first time the Rav has been surrounded by […]
My daughter sent me this a few days ago: View this post on Instagram A post shared by ליאור נאור (@liornaor__comedy) == For years and years and years, she kept calling me a ‘conspiracy theorist’, and hated it any time I’d suggest the MSM and government was perhaps not as truthful as we’d […]
Continuing the awesome shiur. Lots more hints here, for those can decode them, a little. == [The Rav now starts to speak about the Kohen Hadols in the times of the Temple, and how in the Second Temple unworthy people bought the office of Kohen HaGadol, and so they would die when they entered the […]
More comments from the Rav. You can read the first part HERE. Enjoy! == [The Rav starts talking about Shuvu Banim’s hakafot on Simchat Torah, and continues:] In Breslev, the dancing [on Simchat Torah] is not ‘simcha’ (happiness) – it’s in order to nullify all the harsh decrees in the whole world. If they would […]
It’s a strange thing, but when you’re really trying to be part of Shuvu, you notice there are ‘themes’ that happen to kinda everyone connected, all at once. Right now, the ‘theme’ really seems to be standing up to bullies. Especially, that narcissist-type of Esav-bully who likes to pretend that they are a kosher pig, […]