Excerpt of shiur given on 17th Cheshvan, (Nov 17, 2024) 5785, in Tiveria PART 1 [The Rav has been sharing his famous story of R Galinsky, the mohel who is secretly asked by the head of the KGB – a Jew – to circumcise his son]. The Rav then continues: Like this, there are thousands […]
I’ve been having some very interesting correspondence with a few readers. First, I got sent this picture this morning – apparently, this is what is being displayed in UK airports at the moment: ==== I have no idea who this is being aimed ‘at’, or ‘against’. Or where this is coming from, or what it’s […]
Rav Berland gave over this shiur on the hilulah of Rebbe Nachman this year, 2024. I got overloaded with projects, so my husband kindly agreed to translate it – his style is a little different from mine, but he’s sticking to the text. After the Rav’s shiur, I’m also sticking up her English translations of the Chessed […]
As usual, I can’t keep up with the Rav’s hints. But as usual, I’m still trying to de-code them, as best I can. In one of the more recent excerpts from his talk to Chut Shel Chessed, the Rav said this (read the longer excerpt HERE): So, what did the Kedushat Yom Tov say, […]
Recently, I took a visit to the Friends of Zion ‘museum’ in Jerusalem. There is so much to say about all this, but let’s keep focussed on two things, for this post. Thing One: Was this very interesting video screened by FoZ – and also helpfully stuck up online, so you can see what I saw: ==== […]
Shavua Tov! I have some interesting translations from the Rav for you the next couple of days. We’ll start with this, a continuation of the Rav’s comments to the CHUT SHEL CHESSED Yeshiva from the 9th of Cheshvan 5785 (November 9th, 2024). (You can see the first excerpt of the Rav’s comments HERE). ==== I […]
Following on from all the comments about ‘aliyah’, I felt I should try and write something to cut through all the emotional knee-jerk reactions so many of us have about this subject. And to try and build more bridges between us, those who live in Israel, and those who live in chul. ==== On the […]
This post is an answer to asd’s comment. The Lazer Beams site is long gone now, but back on January 24th, 2012, R Brody wrote this: “Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz of saintly and blessed memory was a Kabbalist and hidden tzaddik as well as a Holocaust survivor. Little is known of him, for he lived his […]
I know there’s a lot going, as always, but I have no chiddushim to share about any of it. So, let’s get back to Newton, for a brief moment. You’ll recall that SAINT SIMON practitioners wanted to make NEWTON their ‘dead tzaddik’, and turn his tomb into a place of pilgrimage. Ever since I read […]
Freemasons and Bordeaux Marranos – the beginnings of secular ‘emancipation’. OK, welcome back to the second part of the series on THE JEWISH PROBLEM. In the first part, we set out how the nations of the world have always seen their Jewish populations as a ‘problem’, or a ‘threat’, that needed resolving or neutralising. And […]