HaShem wants a relationship with us, and He was kind enough to say, "You know what? I want a relationship with you, and I'll even tell you how to do it." We're so used to it all being about us. Like, in my shul, we daven nusach X, and in our kiddush, we serve Y. And […]
Every little kid knows and believes with all their heart and soul that one day Moshiach is going to come and we're going to have a Beis HaMikdash, right? It's such an important part of our existence. We have songs, culture, everything's about this idea that one day we're going to stand, and we're going […]
We humans have many different ways to communicate with each other: It began with writing letters, followed by fax machines, text messages, WhatsApp, and eventually, video calls! Long-distance relationships are fine, but nothing compares to a face-to-face meeting! In Judaism, it’s the same. Throughout 2,000 years of galut, we had basic ways of connecting to […]
If you look back in Jewish history over the last 3,500 years, Yaakov's children come down to Mitzrayim as strangers, they were never suposed to stay in the land, but rather they should've been there temporarily and got out. But, as the Kli Yakar says in a critical way, they took hold of it, and […]
It's Elul now, and we have the minhag to say, during Elul, the Mizmor of Tehillim, "L'Dovid." During this Kapital, Dovid HaMelech is asking G-d to protect him from all his enemies. But then he says something interesting: “Achas sha'alti..." He asks, "G-d, one thing I ask of you, is that I should be zoche […]
The Navi in Chagai starts off with a gevaldik mussar for Am Yisrael. He says, that Am Yisrael says, "it’s not yet the time for the house of Hashem to be rebuilt." So Chagai HaNavi responds with a very sharp statement saying, "So to sit in your own fancy homes, it is the time for, […]
The signs of Geulah are already unfolding before our eyes 🤩 The Rambam teaches that some of the conditions for Moshiach ben Dovid are that he will learn Torah, fight battles, and build the Beis HaMikdash. Today, we see a movement with the Beis HaMikdash at its center. Learning Torah with passion. Fighting battles with […]
In all due respect to people who want to go to Breslov for Rosh Hashanah, I have no problem. You want to go to daven, You want to go to the Rambam's Kever,You want to go to this Kever, You want to go to Europe, to the latest famous Kever... I'm not cynical against those […]
At Tisha B'Av, in Tefilas Nachem, we describe Yerushalayim as being mourning without his children, desolate without inhabitant. But let’s be honest: Yerushalayim is packed with hundreds of thousands of Yidden! So, how can we stand before the Ribbono Shel Olam and say something that is completely sheker?! The pasuk says: דֹּבְרֵי שָׁקֶר לֹא יִכּוֹנוּ […]
On Tishah B'Av, we sit on the floor and we cry. There's a famous Gemara at the end of Makkos, where the Chachamim and Rebbe Akiva were walking,when they reached Har HaBayis, the Chachamim began to cry. They saw a fox coming out of the Kodesh HaKadoshim. But Rebbe Akiva was laughing. They asked him, […]
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