I woke up today to the loud sounds of war planes overhead. It was before dawn, there were lots and lots and lots of them. A few minutes later, the ‘Allahu Akhbar’ chants started up from the mosques close to where I live. They’d turned up the volume, and there was a definite ‘edge’ to […]
I was just at the tefillot of the Rav tonight. He spoke for 30 minutes, and at times seemed close to tears. What I understood him to be saying about the situation was: It’s the most serious time for Am Yisrael, they are really trying to do another shoah, mamash. Everything that is happening is […]
This morning, before I wrote that last post, I was feeling pretty down. ***Excerpts from the Rav’s shiurim updated below – scroll down.*** After I wrote it, I started to feel a bit happier, but still not great. Then, one of my Breslov friends sent me this: “They” really didn’t want us dancing…. But today […]
Things are pretty bad here in Israel right now. Jerusalem is quiet, thank God. Things are still being ‘sweetened’ here. But what happened yesterday is awful beyond words. Do you think it was just an ‘accident’, a ‘security failure’? Please go and read THIS. There is a news blackout on a lot of the details […]
For anyone who is wondering why so many people aren’t ‘seeing’ the same things they are. (Shmirat Eynayim friendly.)
I have decided that I need to stop writing ‘from myself’ at the moment, and just bring you words of wisdom from the Rav and Rebbe Nachman. This is a translated snippet of a shiur given by Rav Eliezer Berland, on the evening of the 25th Av 5783, the week of Parshat Shoftim. Enjoy! == […]
Excerpt of Lesson 1:2, Likutey Moharan The main weapon of the Moshiach is prayer, which corresponds to the nose, as the verse says: “It is my praise to draw out My breath for you.”[1] That [i.e. Prayer] is the main life-source of the Moshiach. And all the wars he will wage and all the conquests […]
All is good. The old blog has gone again…. And I’m waiting for God to show me what to do next, that won’t involve lashon hara, walking around with a critical, cynical eye all the time, or getting caught up in never-ending machloket or the pointless puppet show. Moving forward, this needs to be about […]