Why was Half-Manasseh invited in by Moses? And given so much land?
R Yaakov Ettlinger and R Samson Raphael Hirsch: Why they dropped out of College and how they used their secular education
!.) Azariah Figo 2.)Ramchal 3.) R Yaakov Ettlinger 4.) SR Hirsch
This podcast is the first of two parts
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The old Ottoman policy of religious toleration has been abandoned for over a century and replaced by a policy of killing non Sunni Muslims whenever opportunity presents itself (as in Syria), and as they hope to do one day in EY. :(
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The kids lived in a rough neighborhood (מִפְּנֵי יוֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ), heavily armed and without paternal supervision for years. result? בְּגִלְעָד נְפִישֵׁי רוֹצְחִין!
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"Why are the Jews the only people who voluntarily switched their god? The Prophet tears into them.
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Every kind of curse and imprecation in the Hebrew language . How Rashi felt when he learned about the Crusader massacres of 1096
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Moshe (a former "Midianite") is told to lead the war. He tries to wiggle out, but as events unfold, he is dragged into the thick of it
Moses says הָרְגֵנִי נָא הָרוֹג. Pinchas says קַח נַפְשִׁי. What is the difference?
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The Existential Dilemma facing Bibi: Making Peace with Syria, but also bombing Syria to save the Syrian Druze (thereby giving מְנוּחַת הַנֶּפֶשׁ to the Israeli Druze). A very complicated story!
Many of the ideas in the מוֹרֵה נְבוֹכִים, הַכּוּזָרִי, הַחוֹבוֹת הַלְּבָבוֹת, יַד רמ"ה, הָעִקָּרִים, וְכוּלְהוּ actually were already written in the אֱמוּנוֹת וְדֵעוֹת
A South African "Jewish Jew" who went to wartorn Ukraine in 1920, then in the midst of massacres of Jews, and brought 200 Jewish orphans to safety in South Africa
Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
So many Jews have deluded themselves that they were building "alliances" only to discover on October 7th that they had been building on sand
Daniel fasts out of consternation at Cyrus' stop-order re: the building of the Second Temple
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Is the Messianic Utopia only for the Jews? Or for all mankind?
The Famous Trial in 1849: Is conversion to Judaism an indication of mental insanity?
Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the Bnos Moav
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Acc. to current reports, the Syrians may be willing to recognize Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights(!), just as Israel is cracking-down on the Haredi Draft. Sigh
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What was the historical context for Saadia's prediction that משיח would come in 965 CE?
