Every morning we pray to HaShem to protect us from negative individuals and cruel happenings. There are 20 threats we take into account. Some raise their eyes to the heavens and ask, “our Father, our King what kind of a world did you place us in?”!
Messages for the Month of Elul: Parts 1) Metaphysical and Empirical Worlds & their connection, and 2) Settling debts with our enemies.
Consideration, emancipation & fulfillment. In one word HaShem granted us – infinity. The vector of Jewish history in our long and challenging pilgrimage towards the goals set for us by HaShem is pointing upwards.
This week, we commemorate the 15th of Av – Tu B’Av. The Mishna in Tractate Ta’anit states: “There were no happier days than Yom Kippur and the 15th of Av.” Why is Tu B’Av elevated to that level of happiness?
I cannot determine if it is old age or the penetrating introspection that comes in the “nine days” that direct me to think “out of the box”, but here I am pondering several issues.
Rav Shalom Gold zt”l passed away on the Shabbat of parashat Pinchas, and I lost one of my closest friends and confidants. The bond that connected us has an interesting history.
