Rabbi Mendel Kessin, new shiur
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Third Rome: Russia, Ukraine and Moshiach
HT: Yaak
Rabbi Efraim Palvanov
This is the one of the most exciting and interesting shiurim I have ever heard. Highly recommended.
Did the ancient Jewish Sages prophecy the Russia-Ukraine war? What does the coming of Moshiach have to do with it? An eye-opening talk on the intertwined history of Rome, Moscow, Kyiv and the Jewish people.
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Friday, April 1, 2022
Tikun HaGadol - Our Secret Weapon
Rabbi Alon Anava - short video, 27 mins
"In order to have a new beginning, there has to be a destruction of the old..."
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Power of Words
Pharris Art |
These parshiyot – Tazria and Metzora tell about the metzora. Chazal say that the word “Metzora” is a combination of the word “motzi ra – one who emits slander” [lit. spreading negative information], implying that tzara’at is retribution for one who slanders, since he spread derogatory information. But there is another meaning to tzara’at that a metzora suffers, as it is stated in Gemara about tzara’at [Berachot 5b]: It is nothing else but an altar of atonement. Suffering purifies a person from all evilness, since through suffering he is cleansed from all sin. This is the reason for the juxtaposition: “If a woman conceives … and on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” and following this is parashat Metzora, which signifies that just as through the mizvah of Brit Mila [circumcision] the child connects to the Covenant of Avraham Avinu, so too the suffering and pain that a person experiences because of his tzara’at removes all evilness from him and connects him to Hashem, since suffering is for the benefit of man and he should not despair when it comes upon him.
Source: Rabbi David Hanania Pinto
This shall be the law of the person afflicted with tzara'ath, on the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought to the kohen. [Metzora 14:2]
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Rav Chaim Kanievsky ZTL - A Living Sefer Torah
Monday, March 28, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Angels and Mashiach
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Tazria: Following Your Destiny, or Not
Friday, March 25, 2022
This is What You were Selected For
Source: Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Yarzheit: "The Rebbe of Rebbes"
Kever of Rabbi Elimelech in Lizensk, Poland [Photo: יהונתן וואקסמאן] |
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
A Sobering Thought
Art Rob Gonsalves |
"Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, so that you shall not die. [This is] an eternal statute for your generations..." [Shemini 10:9]
Sunday, March 20, 2022
The Death of a Tzaddik Atones for Us All
From Rabbi Mendel Kessin:
Friday, March 18, 2022
Purim: Russia Vs. USA ; Is This The Final War?
HT: Yisroel
Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Probing the Historic Tradition of the Vilna Gaon
Thursday, March 17, 2022
For Such a Time as This
What will Purim bring this year?.... we were all born for such a time as this. [not making a prediction, just being hopeful]
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Purim Code
It is fairly safe to assume that (a) Streicher did not know about the three small letters in the Megilla, (b) he did not know that these letters corresponded to the year in which he was being hanged, and (c) even had he known, he would have had no motivation to reinforce the validity of Jewish texts, traditions, or prophecies. One could not ask for a more independent confirmation of the all encompassing knowledge to be found in the Sifrei Tanach.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Queen Esther, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, & the Chabad Shluchim in Ukraine
Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson
In this lecture, around the 17:40 mark, Rabbi Jacobson speaks about the Rebbe's last talk
which I blogged here: The Rebbe's Eerie Prediction
The Clothes Have No Emperor
Art: Vladimir Kush |
The nucleus of this explanation was presented by the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760, founder of the Chassidic movement). It is quoted in his name by Rabbi Zee'v Wolf of Zhitamir (a disciple of the Maggid of Mezrich, heir to the Baal Shem Tov) in his Chassidic work Or Hameir on the Meggilah. Reference to it is made in Or Hatorah (by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, the Tzemach Tzedek, 1789-1876) Megilas Esther p. 72.
Monday, March 14, 2022
Rabbi Yochanan quotes Shimon bar Yochai on Gog u Magog
Transcription of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's talk on the war of Gog u Magog, taken from this video.
Megilla 2022: Understanding the Madness
HT: Rahel
Rabbi Lazer Brody has an interesting Podcast/video up [recommended listening if you want to understand a few things]
"We are in the final stages of Redemption.... this is so exciting...."