[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/827] Rabbi Teichtal's World View: Conservative or Innovative? By Rav Tamir Granot Translated...
Today is the Yahrzeit of the illustrious Talmudist and Kabbalist, Rav Shlomo Elyashiv (1841-1925), grandfather of the renowned Rav Shalom Yosef Elyashiv of...
The Mishne Sachir Center dedicated to the promotion of Rabbi Teichtal's works is in dire financial straits. Rabbi Teichtals family has had to sell property to...
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/831] The following lecture is the final installment of this series. Rav Granot's principal...
It is reported that when Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Rimnov reached the passage regarding the Four Sons at his Passover Seder, he would refuse to refer to the...
Shevet Mussar, Chapter 40, paragraph 5 (Quoting Midrash Maaseh Mercavah): The Holy One Blessed Be He said: When they [the Jews] recite the Kedushah prayer ...
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/835] As we saw in part 1, the Rebbe Rav Menachem Mendel of Rimnov taught that "the second son...
There are important respects in which Chazal expect the final redemption to follow the pattern of the redemption from Egypt – namely, insofar as the process...
This article appeared in Country Yossi, 2009 April, page 42: << Our seminaries are doing a terrible job in training our girls for the future. Today girls are...
The Imrei Emet (Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter), the third Rebbe of the Chassidic dynasty of Gur, was at once friendly to and critical of the Zionist movement....
Rav Zalman Baruch Melamed, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Beit El, declares his opposition to Jews visiting Poland, as reported in the following Ynet article. ...
We have previously examined two distinct modes of redemption that are operative in Jewish history, the supernatural model (Exodus from Egypt) and the natural...
Tomorrow is the yahrzeit of R' Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1837-1922), a posek of considerable stature and an important spiritual heir to the Chatam Sofer, of...
*Commitment of a Lifetime* By: Robin Treistman The time is Yom Hazikaron, May 1987. After 9 months of learning at a Jerusalem seminary, the 18-year old girl...
RABI AKIVA – THE INSPIRATION FOR RELIGIOUS ZIONISM By Rabbi Chaim Jachter [Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/842] THE...
Excerpted from "Where is Orthodox Aliya?" by Michael Freund (Jerusalem Post, May 5, 2009) It is truly wonderful that Orthodox Jews in America are sincerely...
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Behind the Beard, Without the Kippa By Elisheva Rosenblatt On a clear day in Gush Etzion, you can see for miles. And if you know the history of the region, you...
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Last fall, my family and I were guests in the sukkah of an alumnus of Beit Medrah Gevoha-Lakewood who, for decades, has continued learning in one of its...
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Apropos of Rabanit Katz's remarks, I received an off-line e-mail on the same post from another reader who questions, "why is it helpful to share your...
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B"H Isn't there a Ramban obm where it says that one who lives outside the Land of Israel is as if he does not fulfil the Torah and Mitzvot at all,...
... Yes, Aaron, that's the Ramban on Vayikra 18:25, cited in note 8 of my post (along with Sifre, Eikev 43 and Mabit, Beit Elokim, Shaar HaYesodot, Chapter...
Rashi on Vayikra, Parshat Behar, chapter 25, verse 25: A Jew may not sell his field [in the land of Israel] except because of poverty, and even then, he should...
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/845] EVALUATING MEDINAT YISRAEL A most important ramification of the Rabi Akiva - Rabi Elazar...
I don't think you are being fair here. Though I've never met David, I do not think that "c and d" exists. Worse than that, though, was your second claim. I'm...
A few comments: 1. I don't think that the fact that the youngsters couldn't immediately answer re "bach" should be taken so seriously. Had you brought them a...
HOW TO MERIT JERUSALEM (aka Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh) Tanach / Bible, Yirmiyahu / Jeremiah, chapter 17, from verse 19 to end of chapter: [19] So said G*D to...
[Continued from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toratimecha/message/854] OTHER RAMIFICATIONS OF THE RABI AKIVA-RABI ELAZAR BEN AZARIAH DISPUTE I suggest that...
RECTIFICATION OF THE SIN OF THE SPIES BY MEANS OF ALIYA AND BUILDING JERUSALEM from Kol HaTor by R' Hillel Rivlin of Shklov (1758-1838) The sin of the spies in...
IN NAME ONLY by Rabbi Joshua (nominally known as The Hoffer) Hoffman After God passed judgment on the people for their acceptance of the evil report of the...