by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Feb 18, 2011
BS”D Parashat Ki Tisa 5771 Part A: To my brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael Shemot 32:19 And when he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moshe’s anger was great and he threw down the tablets and shattered them near the mount. The Gemara...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Feb 10, 2011
BS”D Parashat Tetzaveh 5771 Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers, chapter 2): “And if you will be conscious of three things you will not sin. Know what is right above you: An eye that always sees you, an ear that always hears you and that all your actions...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Feb 9, 2011
From the past but very appropriate for the present, the following is an excerpt from With All Your Might, Volume 1, Chapter Parashat Va’Ayra 5768: Our experience of Egyptian bondage and subsequent miraculous exodus (yitz’rayim Mitzrayim) play a conspicuous role in our...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Feb 4, 2011
BS”D Parashar Teruma 5771 To my brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael Shemot 25:8 And they shall make for me a sanctuary and I shall dwell within them “It does not say ‘and I shall dwell in it’ (the sanctuary) but rather “and I shall dwell within...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 27, 2011
BS”D Parashat Mishpatim 5771 Quote from the UN News Center 27 January 2011 – The United Nations today honoured the memory of the estimated six million Jews and countless others who perished in the Nazi death camps of the Second World War with ceremonies around...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jan 21, 2011
BS”D Parashat Yitro 5771 (Shemot 18:9): ” Yitro was overwhelmed with gladness when hearing of all the good that HaShem had done for Israel; by rescuing him from the hand of the Egyptians.” Use of the word “him” in the singular would...