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The Debate in the Mishna whether the Shliach Tzibur should be motzi the intelligent worshipers on Rosh HaShanah - שֶׁהוּא יוֹם הַדִּין
Who was the first Shliach Tzibur in Jewish History?
1 year ago
Haftarah Nitzavim: Delighting in G-d - "How is that done?
Not relief. Not gratitude. Not romantic love. Delight! Not the love of bride and groom, but the delight at the wedding.
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1 year ago
The Middle East: G-d's Chess Board - R' Katz discusses current events in Egypt, Israel, Yemen, and Ethiopia
Egypt and Ethiopia - A Tale of Two Dams
1 year ago
A Suggested History of Tekias Shofar - Involving the Masses, the Satan, and Chazal
Thoughts re: the existential tension between the public and the religious elites in the Second Temple period and afterward.
1 year, 1 month ago
The Haredi Who Spied for Iran and Committed Sabotage on Their Behalf
The disconnect between ritual practice and sound hashkafic fundamentals, particularly ahavah and achrayus for The Jewish People
1 year, 1 month ago
Parshas Nitzavim: Trying to match the glorious prophecy with recent Jewish history
The ingathering of the alienated Jews: The נִדָּחִים מִקְּצֵה הַשָּׁמַיִם עַד קְצֵה הַשָּׁמָיִם
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1 year, 1 month ago
The "shouting match" between Primie Minister Sanchez of Spain and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel: The Freudian aspects
Bibi's father wrote THE book on the Spanish Inquisition and Spain's successful persecution of the Jews, especially the sccessful (and brutal) erasure…
1 year, 1 month ago
הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תָּבֹא תשפ"ה - יְמוֹת הַמָּשִׁיחַ בְּלִי מִלְחָמָה
Isaiah's vision of a Messianic Era characterized, not by World War III, but by a world in moral darkness turning to Klal Yisroel for Enlightenment. A…
1 year, 1 month ago
A suggested history of shofar blowing
What came first in Jewish History? The תְּקִיעוֹת דִמְיוּשָׁב or the תְּקִיעוֹת דִּמְעֻמָּד ?
1 year, 1 month ago
פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תָּבֹא תשפ"ה - "הַגֵּר אֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבְּךָ יַעֲלֶה עָלֶיךָ מַעְלָה מָּעְלָה וְאַתָּה תֵרֵד מַטָּה מָּטָּה"
Abarbanel - The gentile minority in Eretz Yisroel.
Netziv - The gentiles who move into Jewish neighborhoods in the Diaspora and economically displace …
1 year, 1 month ago