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Parshas HaAzinu: The Powerful Pessimism of HaAzinu
A frustrated Moshe Rabbeinu lets loose on Klal Yisroel, calling them every harsh name he can
3 years ago
The basic three sets of blasts correspond to מַלְכִיּוֹת זִכְרוֹנוֹת וְשׁוֹפָרוֹת
Now מַלְכִיּוֹת זִכְרוֹנוֹת וְשׁוֹפָרוֹת are three sides of the Jew-God relationship
3 years ago
Why is Moshe's rhetoric harsher in סֵפֶר דְּבָרִים than elsewhere in the Chumash?
God sent a three-person team to lead כְּלַל יִשְׂרָאֵל . By Deuteronomy, two are dead
3 years ago
Eating Before Shofar: The Historical Source for the Yeshivos Having a Kiddush Before Shofar-Blowing
Did this practice start in the 19th century in Lithuania?
3 years ago
R Joseph Ottolenghi, the one whose work you skip over in the back of the Gemara.
When Cremona was a center of Torah, Torah printing, and Torah burning
3 years, 1 month ago
Rabbi Katz is leading a tour of the Bible Museum in DC on חול המועד סוכות
The tour will take place on Tuesday Chol haMoed
3 years, 1 month ago
R’ Menachem Mendel Gluskin of Minsk and Leningrdad: Trying to Be Jewish Under Stalin
The suffering of religious Jews at the hands of the regime and of the Jewish Communists
3 years, 1 month ago
Genazym offers the first Zohar ever printed-Cremona 1559
The same Pope who burned all the gemaras and סִפְרֵי נִגְלֶה permitted publishing the Zohar...for nefarious reasons
3 years, 1 month ago
Isaiah's vision of the future : Redemption, but not followed by peace
Jerusalem is attacked. No one helps her, so Hashem personally intervenes and executes bloody vengeance
3 years, 1 month ago
Parshas Netzavim-VaYelech: Moses' Demand for Perfection Runs into Human Nature
Although he originally demanded the Jews circumcise their own hearts, in the end he acknowledges it will have to come from G-d
3 years, 1 month ago