Parashat & Current Events | Rabbi Nachman Kahana

Very Relevant Today – from “With All Your Might, Volume 1”

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...

Teruma 5771

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...

Mishpatim 5771

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...

Yitro 5771

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...

Shemot and Va’ayra 5771

by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Dec 30, 2010

BS”D Parshiot Shemot and Va’ayra 5771 For my brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael Part A: If a single parsha of the Torah contained a full accounting of the past, together with an informative explanation of the present and a definitive projection for the...

Vayechi 5771

by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Dec 16, 2010

BS”D Parashat Vayechi 5771 A: In God We Trust or We Trust God Our parasha represents a milestone in the early history of the formation of the Jewish nation. The last of the patriarchs, Ya’akov, is put to rest, as are his sons, the progenitors of the twelve...