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Parashat & Current Events

BS”D Parashat Acharei and Kedoshim 5785

HaShem who has chosen us over all other nations and has presented us with His Torah, yet they have eyes but cannot see, ears but cannot hear!

BS”D Parashat Tazria-Metzora 5785

Why do Chareidim prohibit their youth from serving in the IDF? Why do some of their leaders oppose making aliyah? What is their view of current State of Yisrael?

BS”D Pesach 5785

May HaShem bless all Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael with good health, peace and prosperity. And bless our brothers and sisters in the galut with the need, desire, courage and vitality to be free from foreign physical and spiritual bonds and come home to fulfill the most inclusive and challenging mitzva – yishuv Eretz Yisrael.

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BS”D Parashat Pekudai 5785

Israel has within it the greatest potential for sanctity. The land and the very air we breathe abound with kedusha, and yet there is a war waging over the soul of our nation.

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BS”D Parashat Vayakhel 5785

A while back, I shared my thoughts regarding where HaShem is taking us at this juncture in our long and circuitous history. With the fighting resumed, it is even more imminent than before to discuss where it is leading.

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BS”D Parashat Ki Tisa and Purim 5785

Where in our parasha is the one pasuk, actually the one word, that embodies the essence of HaShem’s relationship with Am Yisrael as a distinct and independent entity unrelated to any other nation or race and what is its parallel in Megillat Esther?

BS”D Parashat Tetzaveh – Zachor 5785

How can we explain why the Medina exists and thrives within a sea of Amalek, in a veritable sea of war and hate?

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BS”D Parashat Truma 5785

Let’s get to the root of the Israeli failures that allowed for the sadistic and murderous onslaught perpetrated by Hamas and so-called “innocent Palestinian civilians” on October 7, 2023 against Jews in Israel.

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license Tallit with tekhelet strings, resting on volumes of the Shulchan Aruch Source: Staff of Ptil Tekhelet https://www.tekhelet.com/

BS”D Parashat Mishpatim 5785

Rabbi Meir states that tzitzit with techelet initiate a chain reaction of sight and thought leading up to the Holy Throne. Tzitzit are basically woolen fringes hanging from the four corners of a garment, but their exalted function is to raise man’s sight and perspective from the routine and mundane to the exalted presence of the Creator.

US and Israel flags

BS”D Parashat Bo 5785

In our yeshiva we played a make-believe game centering around the question: if Israel and the US went to war against each other, on whose side would you be? Could it ever happen?

IDF soldiers pray at the Kotel

BS”D Parashat Va’eira 5785

A wise rabbi once said: “Though we cannot understand why things happen to us, but at least we can prepare for their eventuality”.

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BS”D Parashat Vayeishev 5785

Something big is happening now in our world; changes which are on a Biblical scale. Changes so sudden and extreme that political analysts, commentators, and rabbis preparing Shabbat drashot need to appraise events beyond the present and then wait for reality to set in.

Books by Rabbi Nachman Kahana

Reflections from Yerushalayim

Reflections from Yerushalayim by Rabbi Nachman Kahana

Thoughts on the Torah, the Land and the Nation of Israel

Described as an engaging and uplifting adventure of the spirit, bringing a vital message for the Jewish people, by Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold, Reflections from Yerushalayim is a compilation of original philosophic and hashkafic perspectives, ideas and opinions that Rabbi Kahana has gleaned during his many years in Israel. [Read more…]

Mei Menuchot Series

Mei Menuchot

Explanations of the Tosefot Commentaries

Rabbi Nachman Kahana is the author of the Mei Menuchot series and in celebration of his 50th Aliyah Anniversary in 2009, and the blessings that life in Israel has brought him, Rabbi Kahana made available *free of charge* these electronic versions of Mei Menuchot, which represents 40 years of his Torah work. [Read more…]

With All Your Might Volume 1

With All Your Might Volume 1
Volumes 1A & 1B

Based on Rabbi Kahana’s weekly parasha and holiday messages of the past several years, the title is taken from the verse in the kriyat shema prayer (see introduction below for explanation). The major thrust is to show that the Torah was given to the Jewish people to be kept in Eretz Yisrael, and that the 2000-year-old punishment of exile has ended. [Read more…]

With All Your Might Volume 2

With All Your Might Volume 2

On the Torah

“For Rabbi Kahana, a chacham, a Kohein, and a navi, is kol ku’lo Eretz Yisrael, his entire essence is the Land of Israel, and the embodiment of our sages’ adage, “Whoever resides in the Land of Israel is likened to one who has a God” (Ketubot 110:b). Indeed, the reader will find that studying Rabbi Kahana’s Torah is truly to see the Torah through the pure, unadulterated eyes of Eretz Yisrael.” Rabbi Chaim Richman [Read more…]

Photos of Yerushalayim & Surrounding areas

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