by Moshe Burt
Our Parsha opens with Hashem, as we understand, visiting Avraham Aveinu on the 3rd day after Bris Milah, when Avraham was at the height of his pain following the circumcision, as Rashi indicates, “to inquire about his welfare.” (Metsuda Linear Chumash rendering of Rashi on Perek 18, posuk 1)
It’s not like Hashem […]
Commentary:
Many of you may wonder why this blog has been silent for awhile, aside from the weekly Parsha HaShevua.
Frankly, it’s been a case of basically the same recurrent news, day after day. How many times and in how many different ways can one comment on the same news, again and again with only the […]
4 Katyushas Found, Dismantled in Southern Lebanon Launching Site
Katyusha Rocket Hits Galilee [Near Kiryat Shemonah], by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israel National News)
Katyusha Explosion Causes Fire in Upper Galilee
Palestinians Fire Kassam Rocket into Israel [Lands in Sha’ar Hanegev Area]
IDF Troops Arrest 2 Palestinians [Terrorists] Near Bethlehem
Weapon Seized [From “Israeli” Arab] in Umm el […]
by Moshe Burt
“Hashem said to Avram, Go for yourself from your land … to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation…” (Breish’t, Perek 12, posukim 1 & 2) Lech Lecha, the “Aliyah Parsha.”
Rashi writes on the posukim, “For your benefit and good. It is […]
by Moshe Burt
There is a Midrash Says at the end of Parsha Breish’t which is prelude to No’ach and the Mabul. It speaks about Hashem, as it were, Bemoaning His Making of man. The Melachim say to Hashem that they would do far better than man and would sanctify Hashem’s Name. […]
Kassam Rocket Strikes Open Area [Between Sdot Negev and Sha’ar Hangev Regions] in Western Negev
IAF Bombs Smuggling Tunnels in Northern Gaza Strip
IDF Releases Video of Hezbollah Arms Smuggling
IDF Tells Soldiers: Don’t Kill Firebombers, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)
4 Cars Stoned on Coastal Highway [in North Near Arab-Israeli Village of Jisar Azraka]
Rock Attacks […]
IDF Troops Arrest Palestinian [ARAB Terrorist Near Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron] Carrying Knife; Find 10 Molotov Cocktails
Rock Attack [by ARABS] at Wadi Haramia
Car Stoned at Beit Omer [Between Jerusalem and Hevron]
Woman Wounded After Palestinian [ARAB Terrorist] Hurls Rock at Car [Near Shechem]
Woman Seriously Injured in Arab Rock Ambush [Near Tapuach Junction]
Rocks and […]
by, Moshe Burt
Somehow, not being rabbinic or a Talmud Chacham, it has always seemed difficult to put a true and deep meaning of Hashem’s creation to words and so a similar theme is struck with the end and the beginning of Torah.
In Hashem’s expression of creation; “Breish’t, Bora, Kelokim.” (”In the beginning, Hashem created […]
We learn that on Hoshana Rabbah, Hashem’s decrees upon all individuals, upon the Jewish people, and indeed on everyone in the entire world are finalized, as Rabbi Artscroll puts it, ‘delivered’ (Succot Machzor, page 645). Many Kehillot stay up all of Hoshana Rabbah night praying, saying Tehillim, learning in hopes that the finalized, ‘delivered’ decree […]
This Jerusalem Post feature piece by Yehuda Avner is outstanding in that it makes a statement reaching far beyond the story’s placement in 1936, reaching today and today’s issues, tyrants and blood libels — both internally as well as externally amongst our enemies, in essence, The Little Booth, the Jewish people which cleaves […]