The Six-Day War: How Did All Begin? (Part 1)

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  ויחן שם ישראל נגד ההר, כאיש אחד בלב אחד     The Arab States never accepted the existence of the State of Israel. From the birth of...

How to be poor for the rest of your life?

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איזהו עשיר? השמח בחלקו Who is wealthy? The one who enjoys his wealth. Abot, Chapter 4 HAVING MORE OR NEEDING LESS? Wealth is not measured by what one...

Rabbi Aqiba, the fox, and the fish

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Yesterday we explained that in the year 130 of the common era, 60 years after the destruction of the Second Bet haMiqdash, the terrible...

SUMMARY OF PARASHAT BEHAR

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Our Perasha Behar Sinai contains 24 commandments or Mitzvot. We will briefly look at some of them. SEVENTH YEAR God orders Moshe the Mitzvah of the...

BEHAR: Colombian Universities and the Sabatical Year

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In this week's Parasha we find a very interesting Mitsva, Shemita, or in English Sabbatical year. This means that the in the land of...

Honoring Parents as Heroes, a Biblical revolution

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We all know the importance of the Mitsva of honoring and respecting our parents. What is perhaps less known is the historical context in...

Showing Honor and Providing Care for Our Aging Parents

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The rabbis of the Talmud examined the matter of honoring our parents in special circumstances. We will now explore one of these cases. ...

What did Ezekiel see?

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  הִנֵּה אֲנִי פֹתֵחַ אֶת-קִבְרוֹתֵיכֶם וְהַעֲלֵיתִי אֶתְכֶם מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶם עַמִּי; וְהֵבֵאתִי אֶתְכֶם, אֶל-אַדְמַת יִשְׂרָאֵל יחזקאל ל"ז This is a very symbolic week, a week that represents...

The first Jewish Spies of the State of Israel

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יעקב בוקאי ז"ל Tonight and tomorrow, we commemorate "Yom haZikaron”,  Israel’s Memorial Day.  We remember the heroes of Israel: soldiers, spies, and martyrs who sacrificed...

Nissim Ginni, 10 years old, the youngest fallen soldier of the...

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The only extent picture of Nissim Ginni
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Yom haAtzmaut celebrates the Declaration of Independence of Israel on May 14, 1948. But that declaration of Independence was the...