by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Sep 8, 2020
HaShem creates conditions to encourage introspection and change; COVID-19 is one such condition.
The virus is not going away. Difficulties in life are Hashem’s messages to improve our ways. It is our responsibility to decipher the messages and act upon them.
We must correct our faults in 6 major areas; our behavior in synagogues and yeshivot, the economy, the security situation, permissiveness, education, and divisiveness. And then come before the Almighty in teshuvah to request compassion.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Sep 2, 2020
If in the eyes of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), the Security Council, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and the Quartet, etc., we are the BAD BOY of the world. The UN’s blatant anti-Israel, pro-Arab and pro-Muslim stance has within it the potential to consolidate the international anti-Semitic powers into a potent force against our Jewish State. The UN wishes to forge the “BIG GANG”.
The rabbis explained why HaShem elevates the leaders of the enemies of Am Yisrael to high positions. It is analogous to a king who wished to punish a disloyal soldier but felt that it was beneath his dignity to deal with a person of such low rank. So, the king appointed the soldier to the position of army chief, and then afterwards had him hanged in the city square. Throughout our history, we see that HaShem took evil-minded criminals and endowed them with great authority in order to degrade, demean, and disgrace them in this world and in the next.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 26, 2020
Can you guess the author of each of these 8 quotes? Within them you’ll find the secret to success in defeating every enemy of Israel.
Do you understand the significance of the pandemic in the overall scheme of Jewish history and our future?
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 18, 2020
The agreement with the UAE joins with those previously signed with Egypt and Jordan, and soon possibly with Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the Maghreb states. It is a breakthrough of historic proportions, reversing the obstinate refusal of all the Arab states to recognize the Jewish state in the midst of what they believe to be the Arab part of the world.
Is it good for Israel or bad – and if bad, how bad?
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 11, 2020
This week’s parasha introduces the new generation of Am Yisrael to the calamitous City of Shechem. There they would participate in a ceremony marking the nation’s confirmation of being Hashem’s chosen people. Even though the confirmation was first done in chutz la’aretz in the Sinai desert, it had to be repeated in Eretz Yisrael, its predetermined natural habitat, because the confirmation in chutz la’aretz did not have the same spiritual energy as the holy land.
Our acquittance with the city of Shechem leaves a bitter taste.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana | Aug 5, 2020
The Gemara (Shabbat 30b) records a didactic strategy that the illustrious amora Raba ben Nachmani would employ in order to gain the attention of his students before entering into a complex halachic discourse. He would begin with a humorous story or joke. So, in the spirit of the 15th of Menachem Av, one of the two happiest days in the lives of our ancestor’s years ago, permit me to begin with a light story.
