Archive for October, 2007

Love Your Fellow Jew

“And you shall love your fellow Jew like yourself”Vayikra (Leviticus) 19:18The Torah commands us to love our fellow Jew like we love ourselves. that is one of the most critical mitzvot, considering many commandments depend on it. For example, whether one loves his fellow Jew thereupon he would not s…

Correcting the Torah Reader

What is the (Hebrew) title/name for the individuals who follow the Torah reading and unmistaken the person doing the Torah reading?

Thank you for your question. In general there is not one person who chases along and corrects. Usually all those present will follow along and exact the reader wheth…

Ability to Persevere

How is perseverance connected with self-control or hard work (Mesirut Nefesh) or repentance (Teshuva)? How we can acquire it and develop it? How do you connect perseverance with all the Jewish history? How do you apply perseverance in Jewish life?

Hi! You asked a lot of questions, and I will try …

Olmert’s Cancer and the Propriety of Linking Punishment With Sin

As reported on Hirhurim, Rav Shlomo Aviner said that one may not state that Olmert developed cancer considering of his present or future policies regarding Jerusalem, the settlements etc.He said that man does not know the reasons of the Almighty and that, after all, everyone knows that poor things h…

Dagan - Corn or Grain?

I’m looking for the meaning of corn from a Jewish prospective. What does it mean when it’s like in the field, a field of corn, and biblical definitions, particularly the scripture found in Zech. 9:17.

For some reason (which I personally have never understood), the prestegious JPS tra…

$5.5M Goal Set for New Lubavitch Center - The Daily Pennsylvanian - PA

The spiritual influence of Penn’s Lubavitch leaders will soon translate into something tangible: a new home for by 100 students… Slated for completion by fall 2008, it will triple the Lubavitch House’s usable space, currently located at 40th and Spruce streets… by the years, Lubavitch programmin…

Theft Allows Yeshiva Students to Get a Hands-On Lesson - The Bulletin - WA

One month after a handwritten Torah was stolen from Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, a scribe is working on writing a new one… Attention to the crime has additionally been far-reaching… one of the biggest Jewish Web sites Chabad.org carried stories about the crime.Origin…

Spooking Middle East Profs on Halloween: The Anti-MESA

The Middle East Studies organization (MESA) has come under fire in recent years for its members’ tendency to: replace politics with scholarship; engage in groupthink (producing very little in the way of new ideas); disregard the dangers of the region they study; and apologize for Islamist and/or vio…

Annapolis Game Plan

Haaretz, Israel’s left of center “intellectual” daily broke the story that wee hours: “According to Shin Bet analysts, there are concerns of a Palestinian “trick” during the negotiations, in which Israel will be tempted to offer recognition, in principle on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital,…

ISRABLUFF:5 Unanswered Questions

BY STEVE K. WALZ Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani suffered from a far more serious case of prostate cancer, which mandatory a distant surgery and targeted radiation process than what doctors revealed about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s prostate problem. Recognizing an opportunity to c…

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