
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?
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?
A wise rabbi once said: “Though we cannot understand why things happen to us, but at least we can prepare for their eventuality”.
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.
What are the telltale signs of true love? The desire to be close to the person one loves; the need to communicate, to be understood and to understand each other; the desire to give more and more without expecting anything in return; and to see only the good and forgive that which is less than good.
On the 34th Yahrzeit (18th of Cheshvan) of my brother Ha’Rav Meir David Kahana Z.L.: Four Eulogies
This new phase in our redemption process will be followed by similar antisemitic actions across the western world and beyond. What transpired in Amsterdam is a prologue of what to expect in the near future in Paris, London, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid, and on the other side of the Atlantic – north, central and south.