I am putting this up ‘out of order’. It’s another excerpt from the Rav’s shiur on December 20th, (first part HERE), but it really spoke to me a lot, and I think it may speak to you too, dear reader. It gives so much chizzuk, for all those people (like me….) who have made so […]
Last week, the Rav turned 86. There was a request made that for his birthday, a new Sefer Torah should be written, dedicated to the soldiers fighting in Gaza. Shuvu Banim is now fundraising to get this Sefer Torah written ASAP. No promises at all, no guarantees, nothing like that. Just emunat tzaddikim that getting […]
The few real Tzaddikim in the world are really not like you and me. They see and understand things at a much deeper level, and that means that they often do things that appear to be strange, or even ‘mad’ to outsiders, who don’t understand the spiritual level that the few real Tzaddikim in the […]
Excerpt of a shiur given to Shuvu Banim in Bet Shemesh, Wednesday night, December 20th, 2023 (Part I – there’s a lot to translate here, and a lot of hints and allusions to what is going on right now. Enjoy!) ==== ….There are almond trees the whole route towards Ein Kerem. Whoever travels to Ein […]
Shavua tov! Lots to translate from the Rav this week. One thing he apparently said that I wanted to flag in a short post now is that: This war is going to last until at least Pesach. That personally didn’t make me feel very happy, but it’s probably realistic. (And of course, everything can always […]
This week, I’ve been finding it really hard to sleep. I keep waking up in the middle of the night. It’s not the first time this happened – usually, it coincides with an uptick of ‘earthquake energy’ in the world. While they are trying very hard to close down Dutchsinse, the earthquake forecaster I follow, […]
How’s that for a title? What are the odds this post will get totally ‘whited out’ before anyone even reads it (as mostly happened with that post about the Alter Rebbe’s ‘missing’ daughter….) Let’s find out. == The story begins, as so many of these stories do, when I was going through some of the […]
A few years back, Rav Shalom Arush put out a catchy song. ***IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW*** It was called ‘Or Emuna, or Gehinnom’. I can’t find the original, but here is an updated version, from a couple of years ago, that gives the idea: ==== The basic idea, is that a person either has emuna – […]
Yesterday, one of my ‘lawyerly’ friends sent me a few emails about what’s going on with the Supreme Court here in Israel. It began with this: 🇮🇱 Political news: The supreme court have overturned the law of the Knesset to remove their power of not allowing laws based on “reasonableness”. == Then moved to this: […]
Well, 2024 is getting off to an ‘interesting’ start. ***UPDATES*** In Israel, ‘Hamas’ launched a bunch of rockets to coincide with the countdown to the secular new year. Most Israelis don’t even pay attention to ‘New Year’s Eve’ – when you live here, you are totally immersed in the dates of the Jewish calendar, even […]