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Haftarah Pinchas: The Relationship between Pinchas and Eliyahu -Are they literally the same person?
Moses says הָרְגֵנִי נָא הָרוֹג. Pinchas says קַח נַפְשִׁי. What is the difference?
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1 year, 2 months ago
The Druze, Syria, Israel, and the USA - An Analysis
The Existential Dilemma facing Bibi: Making Peace with Syria, but also bombing Syria to save the Syrian Druze (thereby giving מְנוּחַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ to t…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Influence of R' Saadia Gaon on the Rambam and all the other Medieval Jewish Philosophers
Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the…
1 year, 3 months ago
Isaac Ochberg of Cape Town (1878-1937): Rescuer of Orphans from World War I
A South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in…
1 year, 3 months ago
פָּרָשַׁת פִּינְחָס תשפ"ה - The Bloody Discrepancies
Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
1 year, 3 months ago
Bilam's obseration of הֶן עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן and the current phenomenon of Jews being abandoned by their supposed "allies"
So many Jews have deluded themselves that they wre building "alliances" only to discover on October 7 that they had been building on sand
1 year, 3 months ago
What is the oldest source for the "Three Weeks"?
Daniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Temple
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1 year, 3 months ago
הַפְטָרָה פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק תשפ"ה - Will some Jews choose to remain in חוּץ לָאָרֶץ in the Messianic Era?
Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
1 year, 3 months ago
Quaker Ger Tzedek: Warder Cresson of Philadelphia and Jerusalem (1798-1861)
The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
1 year, 3 months ago
פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק תשפ"ה - Parshas Bil'am and the Current War in Gaza
Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the בְּנוֹת מוֹאָב
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1 year, 3 months ago