Rabbi Y Y. Jacobson - 2 mins
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Friday, November 4, 2022
11 Cheshvan: Yarzheit Rochel Imeinu
Jewish Mother's Day The 11th of Cheshvan
Rachel lost her own spiritual luxury - the privilege of being buried in the Cave of Machpeilah - in order to help her children. This represents the unparalleled quality of the "Jewish mother" who is always willing to sacifice her own needs, spiritual or physical, for the sake of helping her children.
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
Are We Witnessing the Prophecy?
Current News
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel: Not What You Think!
Monday, October 31, 2022
Father of Many Nations
Source: Chanan Morrison from the writings of Rav Kook
Notarikon in the Torah - [Notarikon is a method of deriving a word, by using each of its initial
(ראשי תיבות) or final letters (סופי תיבות) to stand for another, to form a sentence or idea out of the words]
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Hakhel Year: 8 things to Ponder
Rabbi Aaron L Raskin [28 min video]
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
The Post-Flood Era
Chassidic thought teaches that before the Flood, G-d sustained the world despite its low spiritual standing, due to His attribute of kindness. There was a limit, however, to how long G-d was willing to sustain a world without merit - hence the Flood.
- Noach was unaware of the above, so he was scared to repopulate the world, fearing it would be destroyed again. Therefore, G-d had to re-command him to ''be fruitful and multiply''. [Noach 9:1]
- The inner reason why Noach's generation failed to repent was because, before the Flood, the world was spiritually insensitive.
- Meat is an extremely coarse food that can lead a person to excessive physicality. Thus, it was only permitted to the spiritually-attuned post-Flood generation. [Noach 9:3]
- Before the Flood, people had extremely long lifespans because the world was sustained by G-d's kindness which was bestowed disproportionately to people's merits.
- Before the Flood, physicality was more coarse. This was true in a literal sense, to the extent that the clouds were too thick to refract light, so a rainbow never appeared. After the Flood, physicality become more refined, so the clouds began to refract light. Thus, the rainbow was not only a ''sign of G-d's promise not to destroy the world, it was also a physical consequence of the refinement of the world that ensured its permanent existence.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
The Purpose of Falsehood
Monday, October 24, 2022
The Yanuka
HT: AG
"A soul like his does not descend in every generation, it descends once in many generations"
Rav Shlomo Yehudah Be'eri, known as "The Yanuka", born in 1988 - knows the entire Torah, Talmud, Zohar by heart. You can read a lot more about him here.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Garments of Leather
by Rabbi David Pinto Shlita
It is written “Hashem made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and He clothed them” [Bereishit 3:21]
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Angelic Healing
Image: Dusteramaranth |
Every aspect of creation is governed by an angel. Even trees and plants (especially those with healing properties) have angels supervising their growth. As the Sages said [Bereishit Rabbah 10:6] "There is nothing below, not even a common herb, which does not have an angel on high that strikes it and tells it to grow". Each of these angels receives its life force from the particular Utterance which is the source of its creation. It then transmits a measured amount of this life force to its particular charge.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Third Rome #2: Russia, Iran, and Gog u'Magog
Thursday, October 13, 2022
18 Tishrei: Yarzheit Rebbe Nachman
Sunday, October 9, 2022
The Tikkun of David
Friday, October 7, 2022
Who Do You See?
Art: Gustave Caillebotte |
[Written by Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein]
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Hurricane Ian and the Revelation of God from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur
An exciting new shiur from Rabbi Mendel Kessin
The Kabbalah of Yom Kippur
Rabbi Efraim Palvanov
What is the deeper meaning behind the five afflictions of Yom Kippur? How do they serve to purify the five aspects of the soul?
Also discussed is whether the sons of Jacob actually sold their brother Joseph or not, the Ten Martyrs that are mourned on Yom Kippur, miracles of the Yom Kippur War, and the role of air and water in Creation.
For a written summary of the class, see here