Tisha B’Av: Taking responsibility (Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis)
A powerful message for Tisha B’Av: –
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A powerful message for Tisha B’Av: –
When the leaders of the tribes of Reuven and Gad approach Moshe and ask his blessing to settle in the lands east of the Jordan River, Moshe is aghast. He saw a great spiritual failing on the part of Reuven and Gad whose relationship and commitment to the land of Israel was apparently so conditional. […]
Chaim Kramer discusses the weekly Torah portion, Parshat Chukat. We learn that the ashes of the parah adama (the red heifer) make the pure impure and the impure pure, a concept that Rebbe Nachman explains in Likutey Moharan 55. The discussion continues with the story of Moshe Rabbeinu striking the rock; Moshe coming to the […]
Who would write such negative, detrimental, and destructive descriptions of the Jewish people? (from aish.com) The authorship of the Torah has one of two possibilities: either God wrote it, or a human being wrote it. Let’s take for argument’s sake the side that a human being wrote it. If so, we discover a very strange […]
Kol HaTor man-made laws?, More about Judaism 0
Read some astonishing hints to Oral Torah – straight from the written text: 1. Deuteronomy 12,21 If the place the Lord, your God, chooses to put His Name there, will be distant from you, you may slaughter of your cattle and of your sheep, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, […]
Kol HaTor 1. Bereisheet, 1.12. Va'yechi, Parashah 1
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Kol HaTor man-made laws?, More about Judaism 0
(by: Rabbi David Fohrman) Why do the laws from the rabbis end up looking so different than Biblical laws? And even more so – what does law have to do with God and spirituality? What is the point of the legalism inherent in our religion? In this video, Rabbi Fohrman argues that thought without action […]
Kol HaTor 1. Bereisheet, 1.11. Va'yigash, Parashah 0
Recognition and reconciliation. These two words are the key to parashat Vayigash and the key to the unity of Israel. We are all individuals and each one of us marches to a different drum, but it is the recognition of one another’s worth that is the glue that binds Israel together. Together as one, the […]
Kol HaTor Commentaries, Reconciliation 0
(Looking Beyond the Labels; By Yitzchok Schochet) Our strength as a people has always lied in our unity, but what is the key to transcending our differences? Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet explores the danger of religious prejudice and judgmental tendencies, and the fundamental imperative to foster loving respect for all. (From a talk celebrating the 19th of […]
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