by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 10, 2012
BS”D Parashat Aikev 5772 Devarim 8:9: A land where you will eat bread without scarceness, (a land) which lacks nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig for copper. The following was sent to me by E-mail before Shabbat and...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 3, 2012
BS”D Parashat Va’etchanan 5772 Part A: The Jewish Army One day many years ago, I received a distressing call from my father, HaRav Yechezkel Shraga Kahana zt”l. He asked to see me, and I heard in his voice that he was crying. After hurrying to my parent’s...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jul 29, 2012
* Note: this was written several years ago, but is still applicable today… Devarim 8:7-10 For the LORD your God brings you to a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valley and hills; A land of wheat and barley, and...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jul 27, 2012
BS”D Parashat Devarim Shabbat Chazon 5772 Part A: Many of the lamentable chapters we read on Tish’a B’Av were composed by Yehudah HaLevi (1080-1141), one of our greatest poets, who lived in Spain when it was under Islamic rule. He was a talmid chacham, a...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jul 20, 2012
BS”D Pinchas and Matot-Masei 5772 Three major incidents in parashat Pinchas were enacted by individuals who were nonconformist by acting against the national consensus. Pinchas acted quickly and zealously, while the nation’s leaders, Moshe and the Sanhedrin,...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Jul 13, 2012
BS”D Balak and Pinchas 5772 Balak: In the week of parashat Balak, the world’s scientific communities were in ecstasy. After spending billions of dollars and thousands of great minds who participated in the project, they finally proved empirically the existence...