SHELACH LEKHA: The Locust Generation
The psychological defeatism of the generation of the desert is also reflected in a detail I hadn't noticed for many years: the spies saw...
How to Calculate Shiva, Sheloshim, the 11 Months, and the Year (Sal)
Every count begins from the day of burial, not the day of death. Because we bury during the day, the burial day itself is...
Eliyahu Montalto (1567–1616), physician to the King of France
I am writing the second volume of my book "Forgotten Giants", in which I recount the history of lesser-known Sephardic rabbis (see here). This...
SUMMARY OF PARASHAT BEHAALOTEKHA
First Aliya: Aharon received instructions to light the Menorah, a seven-branched candelabrum illuminating the interior of the Tabernacle. The Menorah was crafted as a...
Natasha Hausdorff, replies to allegations that Israel is a genocidal and apartheid state...
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BAMIDBAR: Manna and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
The Tora recounts that during the forty years the people of Israel lived in the desert, God provided them with a miraculous food called...
BENEATH JERUSALEM: The World’s Greatest Archaeological Treasure
Beneath Jerusalem: The Hidden City That Rewrites History
In rabbinic literature, there is frequent mention of an upper Jerusalem and a lower Jerusalem (Yerushalayim shel...
Ben Gurion’s Prophecy
THE PROMISED LAND
The establishment of the Jewish State was not an easy process, even after the Balfour Declaration (1917) in which the British, and...
When The Temple Mount Was In Our Hands… (Part 4)
כימי צאתנו מארץ מצרים הראנו נפלאות
Today, on the 28th of Iyar, we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim; the day when Jerusalem after 1900 years of being...
