The last few weeks I’ve been feeling so burned-out and grumpy. Elul is always a tough month, a month of teshuva, a month of trying to reorient ourselves in that space between the successes and failures of the last 11 months and the hopes and fears for the coming year. Perhaps, never more so than […]
Here are two recent prayers the Rav wrote, for people to say to help remove the spiritual barriers preventing him from reaching Uman for Rosh Hashana 5785. If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll remember that last year the Rav warned for many weeks before Rosh Hashana that if he was prevented from […]
The internet at home has been turned off, I don’t know why. While I’m trying to figure it all out (and how it’s connected to my husband telling B Fibre he didn’t want their services 3 seperate times last week….), I am very limited in what I can put up on the blog. Whatever else […]
This is the only post I’m planning on putting up this week. Baruch Hashem, we just married off another daughter, and I am taking a week off the blog, and the computer generally, to recuperate. In the meantime, I wanted to post this up about the prayer gathering happening September 12th, 2024, beginning 9pm, in […]
I’m just throwing this out there. *** PLEASE CHECK OUT THE UPDATE BELOW *** I am considering doing a ‘Breslov shidduch of the week’, or of the month, kind of post here on the blog. I know that a lot of my readers are that rare breed of sincere Anglo-Breslovers, or ‘Anglo-Breslov’-friendly, and it struck […]
Translated from Shivivei Or 374. ***UPDATE: I am getting unconfirmed reports that Rav Berland has said the war is over, at least for now. I will try to get more details, but that certainly ‘fits’ with this excerpt below, if it’s true. Bezrat Hashem, it’s true.*** You can read the first part HERE, excerpted from […]
I am willing to bet, you have no idea what the ‘Knesset Yisrael’ in the title is actually referring to. Even dyed-in-the-wool history buffs have probably never heard of the KNESSET YISRAEL organisation that was defacto ‘running’ the Jewish community in Eretz Yisrael on behalf of the British during the Mandate period, before the State […]
Excerpt of a shiur from Motzae Shabbat, Parshat Ekev, August 24th, 2024 (Translated from Shivivei Or 374) [The Rav begins speaking about lashon hara, and how difficult it is not to believe it as soon as you hear it. He then continues:] The whole test of a person is lashon hara, and so there is […]
Shavua Tov! There were some massive miracles in Gush Etzion over shabbat. Apparently, there were three seperate cars driving around, all designed to be used in car bomb attacks. For some inexplicable reason, they stopped before they got to Efrat, and went back to get petrol. In the process of that – one car exploded. […]
Following on from all of this discussion about ‘Sabbatean kabbalah’, and the xtian-mason inspired ‘Kol HaTor’, I girded my loins to actually read through the English translation of a book entitled: The Diaries of Rabbi Ha’im Yosef David Azulai [The CHIDA] With notes by Benjamin Cymerman. It’s very well translated, and the notes are useful, […]