THE CASE FOR ISRAEL. Class # 1
This is the first class, from 1840 until 1915. We dicussed how Zionism in embebed in our Tora; how the reform movement in 1840...
Rabbi Moshe Mitrani and what to do in times of an...
THE LIFE OF RABBI MOSHE
Rabbi Yosef de Trani (or Mitrani. Trani is a small town in Puglia, in South Italy, probably the family's origin...
The Importance Of The Name “Jacobo”
בשביל שלושה דברים נגאלו ישראל ממצרים: שלא שינו את שמם, ואת לשונם, ואת לבושם
TETOUAN
To speak of my father, about whom I never dared writing...
KI TISSA: Coronavirus and Staying Calm. By Rabbanit Coty Bitton.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/77an6p9d1c8yr94/COTY%20march%2013.mpeg?dl=0
This Shabbat I’m Staying Home
This is going to be one of the most special Shabbat of our lives.
Unlike other times, like Hurricane Sandy, when I remember that some...
Do You Remember Hurricane Sandy ?
I do. But I have to make a concerted effort to recall the memories of gas shortage, lack of electrical power, and our collective...
ESTHER 4:3. 70 days of terror
The idea that characterizes Purim, and distinguishes Purim from other celebrations, is venahafokh hu, a phrase mentioned at the beginning of the ninth chapter of the...
ESTHER 5:4: Black Knight Down
אם על המלך טוב יבוא המלך והמן היום אל המשתה אשר עשיתי לוEsther 5:4
Last time, we explained that Queen Esther risked her life by...
KEEPING HEALTHY. KEEPING CALM
First Speaker is DR. AARON E. GLATT, MD, CHAIRMAN, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE,CHIEF, INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST AT MT SINAI.
Second Speaker DR NORMAN BLUMENTHAL a licensed...
CORONAVIRUS: Handshake or Namaste?
CARE FOR OUR HEALTH
There are 613 precepts in the Tora. One of them is to “take care of our health.” As Maimonides explains, this...
CORONAVIRUS: Jewish Tradition and Disease Prevention
Washing your hands with soap and water … kills viruses that may be on your hands. W.H.O.
A LITTLE HISTORY
In 1350, Europe was hit by...
The Soft Heart of my Father in Law, Rabbi David Carciente...
The Mishna in Pirqe Abot 2:9 says that Rabban Yohanan ben Zakai assigned five of his students with an unusual mission. Find out "what...
The Magic Word of the First Commandment
THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD
The First Commandment is not simply a preamble.It indicates a specific order to be fulfilled: recognizing God as your ELOQEJA (אלוקך).
In...
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: What Does It Say?
אָנֹכִי ה ’אֱלֹקיךָ אֲשֶׁר הוֹצֵאתִיךָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים
I, God, am your Sovereign, the One who rescued you from the land of Egypt, from...
The Game of the Ten Commandments.
ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם והייתי לכם לאלקים
Shemot 6: 7
In a couple of weeks, when we get to Parashat Yitró, we will read in the...
Donald J. Trump: A President of Biblical Stature
THE INEVITABLE END?
The Jewish people were going through one of its worst crises. Jerusalem had been destroyed decades ago, in 586 BCE. Jewish...
The difference between Auschwitz and Jerusalem
"More than 40 world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to honor the victims of Nazi extermination, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the...
The tradition of Aleppo Jews
Rabbis and officials from the Great synagogue of Aleppo at the beginning of the 20th Century
The tradition of many Jewish families from Aleppo (=Halab),...
When a baby dies
If a baby dies at birth or before completing 30 days of life, the relatives do not do or keep any mourning for the...
SHEMOT: A story of Brotherhood and Envy
We finished the book of Bereshit. And this week we start the book of Shemot. The story is more or less known. Bereshit tells...
