Metal Detectors, What’s Good for The Goose…
I also hope and pray that Jews will be given full religious and civil rights on The Temple Mount. It’s time that we be allowed to pray in our Holiest Site in the World.
Category: Spirituality
Before The Window Closes
Having been given the greatest opportunity in many generations, we’ve surely made a big mess of it. However close we once might have been to the millennia-longed-for ultimate Redemption (Geula), we now have a tremendous amount of work to do, cleaning up the damage and getting back on track before …
Why THREE WEEKS to Commemorate Holy Temple?
And this is the true message of the Three Weeks, bookended by two fast days. We must remember that what may appear harmless, benign may very well be the beginning of a great tragedy, Gd forbid. It is always time to “recalibrate” and get on the right track.
Parshat Balak & All Who Try to Curse Israel
UNESCO can try to deny our sovereignty in Jerusalem, but…
Prayer at Kotel, Not Very PC
When a group brazenly breaks the status quo, like the Women of the Wall, demanding that everyone kowtow to their way of thinking, they are the ones who are going against this basic “Love your neighbor as yourself” principle.
Praying From The Floor
This is adapted from a post on RabbiZeitlin.com. Since I wrote and published that, I have been steadily recovering. As horrible as it was to experience, it has generated deep insights and even deeper questions which I hope to explore here in the future. What do we achieve when we …
Parshat Shlach, The “Mother of All” Pilot Trips Gone Bad
One of the big “misnomers” in Jewish Parshat Shavua, Torah Portion of the Week is calling this week’s parsha, Shlach-Send “The Sin of the Spies.” The very large and honorable delegation sent off to scout out, or more accurately to stake out the Holy Land weren’t called מרגלים miraglim, spies in the Biblical …
The Story of Ruth & Naomi is Not About “Loving the Stranger”
Maybe I should call this post: Jerusalem Post Promotes Intermarriage I got very aggravated on Shavuot after reading the first/main article in the Jerusalem Post’s Holiday Magazine, LOVING THE STRANGER: THE TIMELESS MESSAGE OF THE STORY OF RUTH by Lee Caspi, because Caspi got it all wrong. On my first reading, …
Fixing a 3000 Year Old Mistake Should Always be this Easy
I love the holiday of Shavuot…I don’t know why really. Passover is too much work. I do love Sukkot…Simchat Torah…Purim…Rosh Hashana – so really, oh…Hanuka…the point is…I really love all the holidays, but there is something about Shavuot…it isn’t just that it is on this holiday that we were blessed …
Elisha Davidson and The Shamir, Third of The Trilogy, A Book Review
Elisha Davidson and The Shamir by M. R. (Rhonda) Attar is the final book in the futuristic trilogy that could happen in the not so distant future. I reviewed the first two, ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Letters of Fire and ELISHA DAVIDSON and the Ispaklaria. Attar’s trilogy along with Catriel Sugarman’s The …
Right Now in This Up-Side-Down World It’s All a Clarification of Sparks
on Hebrew U opposition to HaTikva, former Miss Israel Mor Maman, BTS-enabler “Rabbi” Jonathan Sacks