Entries by Rivka Levy

Still 60% to go on the Rav’s Torah

There was a siyum today by the Rav, for the completion of ‘Sefer Bereishit’ of his personal Torah. If you remember from THIS post, back in January already  (!) the Rav said that when this Sefer Torah is finally completed the war will stop. So far, they only managed to raise 40% of the money required. And […]

The nations wanted a chareidi Jewish State here

BH, I translated a bunch more stuff from the last Shivivei Or (358). There is always so much to unpack with even the smallest of the Rav’s comments, and I’m still working on the stuff about Menashe ben Yisrael, aka ‘MBY’, so we’ll get to an indepth look at the gay representative of the Eida […]

They just cancelled Meron

A couple of weeks ago, I was pondering on how ‘quiet’ the Rav has been about Meron and also about Uman. Usually, the Rav is prepping us for long months in advance, about the importance of being by Rashbi for L’ag B’omer, and the importance of being by Rabbenu in Uman for Rosh Hashana. Even […]

Passing (and failing…) the test of anger

Shavua Tov! ***UPDATE: Scroll down to download the full English / Hebrew Kuntres as a PDF*** You probably noticed that I’ve been in kind of a bad mood the last couple of weeks. On the one hand, that’s totally understandable. The stress of ‘whatever that was’ when the ‘Iranians’ bombed the country combined with the […]

The Rav is back in hospital

An hour before Shabbat, my friend sent me an unconfirmed report that the Rav was in intensive care in Hadassah. ***UPDATE: I managed to talk to a gabbai of the Rav now, and this story is a lie. The Rav is in hospital, but only because he went for a check-up Friday, and the doctors decided […]

The heart aches

Yesterday, my kid was standing behind someone she used to work with in the supermarket. He used to be a construction supervisor. Then, his son, a soldier in the IDF, was killed on October 7th. He got so discombobulated emotionally, a month later he was let go from his job, because he just couldn’t do […]

Rav Arush: How to know who is really ‘Moshiach’

Confusing times, isn’t it folks? Every blogger and their donkey is putting up stuff claiming to know who Moshiach is. (I’m also in that category, with the stuff I’m posting up here from Rav Elmaliach – with the difference that he’s actually one of the hidden tzaddikim, getting stuff straight from the Tzaddik HaEmet she be dor, Rav […]