Excerpt of a shiur given over on Monday, the week of Parshat Yitro 5785 (See part 1 HERE) == Here, Chapter 17 [of Pirkei Di Rebbe Eliezer], it’s talking about Jezebel, that she used to dance. Whoever dances, they don’t decay in the grave. When you jump, dance, so you won’t decompose. So, she used […]
Excerpt of a shiur given over on Monday, the week of Parshat Yitro 5785. (The Rav has been speaking about Purim, and about how the Jews in Bavel despaired of ever being redeemed, and so started marrying non-Jews.) == There is the story of Rivkaleh, that she married a goy. She had a massive cross […]
Yesterday morning, I woke up feeling ‘down’. Traditionally, I get seriously depressed every single year around the time of pre-Purim, for reasons that are still not totally obvious. Regardless of whether there is ‘stuff’ going on or not (although of course usually, there is always ‘stuff’ going on), when Adar begins, I start to sink […]
This year is going so fast, it’s hard to believe we’re at Purim already. Rebbe Nachman teaches that really, all beginnings begin from Purim. We need the ‘joy’ of Purim to have the ‘redemption’ of Pesach. Most years, I usually find the first half of Adar really hard going – you can feel the din in […]
Today for the first time in three months, I took a long walk. I walked downtown, to go get some meat for the Purim Seuda next week. And in the process, I thought I’d actually make a day of it, because the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, for the first time in three […]
Shavua Tov! Here’s some more super-interesting comments from the Rav, from a few weeks’ ago, while we’re all sitting here waiting to see what crazy turns the crazy world takes next. Enjoy! == Excerpt of a shiur given in Beer Sheva, during the week of Parshat Vayehi, 5785 (January 8th, 2025) Now it’s the yarhtzeit […]
A true story. A few weeks ago, I was pondering how the ‘miracle stories’ I used to hear all the time about Rav Berland, and which also helped me to get closer to the Rav, have kind of dried up, since the State started their persecution campaign against the Rav accepting any pidyonot. The miracle […]
Welcome back to part 3 of our investigation into the converted Jews that got to the very top of Imperial Russian society in the 19th century. In this post, we’re going to return to LUDWIG JOHANN, BARON VON STIEGLITZ (1779-1843). He’s connected to Di Muma Leah via her daughter JULIE STIEGLITZ – this woman: == In […]
In the middle of all the madness, there is still so much good news to celebrate. Last month, 12 brave young families accompanied 12 caravans to a patch of barren ground at the Northern tip of Gush Etzion, close to Jerusalem and Har Gilo. Long story short, they decided to move there to stop the […]
Honestly, I am down to two Telegram channels a day now – and that’s it, for my ‘news’ consumption. One of them is the La Quinta Columna site, that I google translate from the Spanish – and it tells me way more about what is really going on than if I were to sit online […]