Ruth Yael
Question: In Gen 1:26 it says, “And G-d said, ‘Let us assemble Man….’” Does that mean that there are other gods that exist, but the earth is His and we are only to follow/worship Him? Answer: Your question is well asked....
Question: What was Enoch’s main contribution? Answer: It isn’t clear. However, see Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler’s classic work, Strive for Truth (Michtav M’Eliyahu), in his Discourse on Loving kindness, where he writes that Enoch was...
We are witnessing a startling attempt by the Obama administration to set up a peanut gallery of Jewish backers of his anti-Israel designs. * * * The original “Peanut Gallery” was a packed audience of little kids who were used to applauded...
Today’s Golden Oldie is from 1989. I just did a cartoon the other day about how the situation with the current U.S. President is getting “Biblical”. I’d forgotten that I’d used the same line twenty years ago. It seems like...
Egyptian sources announced that week that August 25th will be “Palestinian Unity Day.” Ironically, that declaration chases months of losed out Egyptian-mediated talks within the two warring Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, to style a...
Question: What kind of prayer breaks the heavens? Answer: I believe that the prayer that opens the Heavens, as it were, is the simple and honest one that comes from your heart. It is true that G-d wants our prayers, and it is additionally the case that...
Question: I live in the United Kingdom. Do I consider myself a British Jew or a Jew who is British. Answer: While loyalty to one’s country is very fundamental (see Jeremiah 29:7) one’s primary job in life is becoming G-dly, which is done through...
In 1970, five years later, the truth of that translation was confirmed when the Lubavitcher rebbe of blessed memory, asked me to open underground yeshivot in the former Soviet Union. On my first day in Moscow I met a young man in front of my hotel, Leonid...
Rabbi Eli Brackman, co-director of Chabad of Oxford and chairman of Chabad on Campus UK, opened the evening reception at the Jewish Children's Museum in Crown Heights. He took note of the unprecedented growth in the number of Chabad-Lubavitch centers...
