Entries by Rivka Levy

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 […]

Waiting for the sea to split

The ‘chametz’ stickers just came off the kitchen cupboards. The Pesach plates and cookware got washed and put back in their boxes, then back in their cupboard upstairs. The plastic table cloths were removed. We are back to ‘normal’. Whatever that is, these days. I was waiting for the ‘sea to split’ today. If that […]

The Iraqi connection

The story begins back with the post I stuck up a couple of weeks ago about the BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL, where I was trying to unpack some of the Rav’s comments about it. You can go back and read that post HERE. To make the very long story short, a young Russian boy was found […]