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7 years ago
Tisha B’av
The Jerusalem Kollel Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz Tisha B’av {youtube width=”600″ height=”420″}BL_-wY3Hy0E{/youtube} ..
Written by Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz
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7 years ago
Sukkos – mamesh?
There is a debate in the gemarra (Sukkah 11b) as to what our Sukkahs commemorate. Rabbi Eliezer’s opinion is that we commemorate the clouds of glory that HaShem ..
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7 years ago
Double taking
Imagine the following case. You wake up in the middle of the night, pick up a lulav (with its accompanying three species), and hold them in your hands until a few minutes ..
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7 years ago
Yom Kippur – a day of two halves
Yom Kippur seems to have two contradictory natures to it. On the one hand there are five afflictions prescribed on Yom Kippur, but on the other hand the gemarra ..
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7 years ago
when are we like angels?
Where are you heading? Rav Shalom Schwadron used to say over the following idea in the name of his father-in-law, Rav Chaim Leib Auerbach (father of Rav Shlomo Zalman ..
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7 years ago
Actions speak just as loud as blasts
When Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbos, Chazal forbade the blowing of the shofar, lest we desecrate Shabbos by carrying the Shofar to Shul. However, the gemarra tells ..
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7 years ago
Rosh Hashanah; a day out?
Rosh Hashanah is the day of judgment, and as such one would expect it to be the final day of the year – this way we can be judged for what we have done over ..
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7 years ago
the simanim – what are they good for?
On Rosh Hashanah we start the meal with various simanim and their accompanying brachos and texts. For example, we eat a pomegranate and ask that our merits should ..
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7 years ago
Life and death
We are told (34:5) that Moshe had a particularly easy and painless death. Rav Dessler used to bring out of two gemarras that the easiness of death depends on how one has lived ..
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7 years ago
2 final accolades of Moshe Rabeinu
1) Man of God The opening of our sedra describes Moshe Rabeinu as an ish elokim, a ‘godly man.’ The Ibn Ezra explains this to refer to Moshe’s superior and unsurpassable ..
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