by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 25, 2013
BS”D Parashat Be’shalach and Tu Be’shvat 5773 Part A: In our parasha, Am Yisrael marches out of Egypt as free men. After 210 years of galut, which included the tragic slavery experience, our ancestors breathed the air of emancipation, as they made their way to...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 18, 2013
Parashat Bo 5773 Part A: Paro of the exodus is more than just one more tyrant who used his power to torment others. Paro was a paradigm and exemplar of the gentile who never learns that anti-Semitism is insanity. Insanity as defined by Albert Einstein is repeating...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 11, 2013
BS”D Parashat Va’ai’ra 5773 The story of the Jewish midwives in parashat Sh’mot is informative and instructive in itself, but I believe that it was recorded as a prologue to a bigger idea. The Talmud, in several places, records the rabbinic discussion regarding...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 4, 2013
BS”D Parashat Sh’mot 5773 Part A: SCIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF TORAH Sh’mot 1,12: The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites There is a most surprising and indeed exhilarating and stimulating...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Dec 27, 2012
BS”D Parashat Va’ye’chi 5773 Part A: This week’s message is being written on the occasion of the 90th annual conference of Agudat Yisrael, opening today (14th of Tevet) at the luxurious, opulent and mehadrin specially kashered out Hilton in New Brunswick New...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Dec 20, 2012
BS”D Parashat Vayigash 5773 On the 5th of Iyar 5708 (May 14, 1948) Mo’e’tzet Ha’am (National Council) met in Tel Aviv to declare the establishment of Medinat Yisrael. The very next day, on the the 6th of Iyar, the armies of seven Arab states invaded the tiny...