by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jun 14, 2012
BS”D Parashat Shelach 5772 Part A: Our Parasha tells of the crucial battle for the soul of the Jewish nation. On the one side were Moshe and Aharon, together with Yehoshua bin Nun and Calev ben Yefuna, two of the twelve miraglim who had just returned from...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jun 7, 2012
BS”D Parashat Beha’alotcha 5772 Rashi on the first verse in next week’s parasha Shelach comments: Why did the Torah sequence the episode of the miraglim (the scouts or spies at the beginning of Shelach) with the episode of Miriam (at the end of parashat...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 31, 2012
BS”D Parashat Naso 5772 A message to the young Jewish adults in the galut “The very air of Eretz Yisrael makes one wise” (Zohar) My last message related to the tens of thousands of frum, chareidi Jews who congregated in Met’s Stadium to discuss the...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 25, 2012
BS”D The Book of Bamidbar Parashat Bamidbar 5772 Four sections. Part A: In our parasha Moshe, Aharon and the tribal leaders conduct a national census of men between the ages of 20 and 60 (excluding the tribe of Levi) with the final tally of 603,550. Of these...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 17, 2012
BS”D Parashat Be’chukotei (in Eretz Yisrael) 5772 Our parasha begins: When you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. Your threshing will continue...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | May 3, 2012
BS”D Parashat Emor 5772 HALLEL ON YOM HA’ATZMAUT No one is counting, but probably close to one million people in Eretz Yisrael recited Hallel on Yom Ha’atz’maut. No one is counting, but there are many who do not recite Hallel, and even some who recite tachanun...