by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 17, 2013
When we become bar or bat mitzva, an “account” is opened in our names in Olam Haba. As we keep mitzvot, the account keeps growing so that after 120 years we withdraw the capital together with its accumulated Heavenly interest.
When a kohen recites the birkat kohanim, there is no general pool of goodness and blessings to which he connects and retrieves for the community’s benefit. The kohen gives his own personal bank account of Gan Eden to the community; and at the end of the blessing, the kohen’s “account” is totally depleted.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 10, 2013
The two paths are very clear: a life of partnership with our Father in Heaven and the feeling of being part of the eternal history of the Jewish nation, or a life of dull, insignificant,undistinguished, uninspired mediocrity.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 2, 2013
The table was set, the aroma of culinary mastery filled the air, the bottles of fabled wine were opened – but the invited guests did not come.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 19, 2013
Without being judgmental, I thought about how either one of these giants could have – with one sentence – changed the path of Jewish history in a way not done since the times of Moshe Rabbeinu or Ezra Hasofer. I cannot know what went on in the minds of these two great people, but the facts speak for themselves.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 11, 2013
What we call “humanity” is very much a part of the bestial, animal world. I know that this is a difficult concept to accept, especially in view of the “righteous gentiles” who endangered their lives to save Jews…
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Apr 4, 2013
Aharon remained silent because he understood the message that HaShem had sent to the Jewish people. It is incumbent upon each Torah Jew to try and understand the messages HaShem is constantly sending us, as Aharon was able to do at the demise of his two sons.
