by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Sep 1, 2011
BS”D Parashat Shoftim 5771 Part A: Devarim 20:16-18 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites as the LORD your God has commanded you So that they will not instruct you to follow all the detestable things they...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 26, 2011
BS”D Parashat Re’eh 5771 TWO VIEWS FROM BEYOND THE HORIZON Part A: In this week’s parasha, the age old ethical-philosophic problem of defining right and wrong and what is good and what is bad, is unequivocally and unambiguously resolved: See (acknowledge), I am...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 19, 2011
BS”D Parashat Aikev 5771 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 valleys and hills; A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 12, 2011
BS”D Parashat Ve’etchanan 5771 The continuous flow of world history with its myriad episodes, can be likened to a motion picture consisting of innumerous individual frames. But, unlike a motion picture where thousands of frames pass through the viewer’s eyes on...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 9, 2011
Don’t lie to HaShem There are three stages in the teshuva (repentant) process: to admit the sin before HaShem to feel remorse at having sinned to vow never to repeat the sin One who desecrated the Shabbat by having a great time on the golf course followed by a...
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 4, 2011
BS”D Parashat Devarim 5771 Part A: As a responsible Rav, leader and father figure, it was Moshe’s responsibility to shower praise on the nation for the good they did, and to reprimand and reproach them when they strayed from the Torah’s directives. The...