Entries by Rivka Levy

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 Torah, 5784. For a couple of months before Simchat […]

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: ==== I still don’t know what I really think about all this, to […]

Another quiet day in the North

It happens like clockwork. Yesterday, me and my husband were up in the North, driving all over the place, including to RASHBI in Meron. We saw some patches of burnt ground…. but it was otherwise totally quiet. Today – apparently, the failed State is trying to get it’s war in the North going again, on […]

Hebron: City of Sabbateans – Part 3

OK, we are finally up to learning more about ‘R ELIYAHU MANI of HEVRON’. According to standard history, he is born in Baghdad in 1818, and was the student of one of some of the biggest Iraqi rabbis of the time, including Rav ABDULLAH SOMECH. And he’s known as someone who has a real flair […]

Hebron: City of Sabbateans – Part 2

Welcome back to part 2, of what is becoming a very interesting series on the Sabbatean rabbis – and funders – of Hebron. Let’s begin by reminding ourselves where we got up to, and what we are researching. The Rav made some comments last week, like this: Four cities: Hevron – there, there was the […]

Beyond ‘superficial’

Do you remember 20 years ago, when there were all those ‘scamming’ emails being sent around? Always some Nigerian prince, or other minor royalty from Asia or Africa, who apparently had $50 million he was trying to smuggle out of his country, and he just needed your bank account details to help him do that? […]

Hevron, the city of Sabbateans – Part I

The Rav gave a bunch of interesting ‘clues’ about who is running things in the Holy Land, from behind the scenes, in the last shiur of his I translated. (Read the lengthier excerpt HERE.) As well as touching on more of the real story about how the charidee money apparently was getting siphoned-off into private […]