For over forty years I have been teaching the deeper significance of the amazing Redemption process of our times and the writings of Rabbi Kook in the English- Division of the Machon Meir Yeshiva in ...

On Simchat Torah, we were at a synagogue in Florida, and at the kiddish, the Rabbi was saying how the holiday is to celebrate the Torah—finishing one cycle of reading and learning it and immediately ...

What would you do if invited to participate in the unrolling of a 100-foot Torah scroll and an Israeli-style dinner at a synagogue? Don't know about you, but I eagerly accepted the invitation from ...

Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer. Rabbi: A rabbi primarily functions ...

From the words of the prophet, we learned that the question of why the Land of Israel was destroyed is a difficult question that only God could answer. As it is said: “Who is the wise man, that he may ...

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