David, I'm finally just getting through all the posts in the Ahavat Chinam series so I'm sorry this comment comes so late. I want to reinforce the point you...
At several points in Eim Habanim Semeicha (pp. 15, 213), Rav Teichtal quotes a remarkable Midrash in which the planting of fruit trees in Eretz Yisrael is...
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You'll be happy to hear that Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed wrote a piece called "Tu BiShvat - Clinging to God" that makes the same point and brings down the same...
... Thanks for sharing Rav Melamed's shiur, Talia. It is very much to the point of our original post regarding the mitzvah of working the Land and the...
1. Free Copies of Eim Habanim Semeicha We are pleased to advise that The Mishneh Sachir Center, an organization that our Chabura has assisted with donations...
In connection with the passage from EHS quoted in this morning's post, I received the following from David Glasner, in which he shares the words of his eminent...
Here is a brief essay by Rav Yaakov Zev on a topic in Eim Habanim Semeicha relating to the Parsha of the week. We previously discussed this theme in detail in...
The sanctity of Peirot Shvi'it (Israeli produce of the Sabbatical Year) justifiably receives a great deal of attention due to the many halachic ramifications...
Good post, thanks. I just read this shiur for Tu Bishvat from Yeshivat Beit El that that I want to share. It condenses some of the things we've been talking...
1. From Rav Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg's Tzitz Eliezer, Volume 11 (5733/1973), Hadran on Mesechet Ketubot, pp. 242 et seq. (as excerpted in R' Yisrael...
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We have had frequent occasion to study Rav Teichtal's teachings on Jewish unity, which is a dominant theme in Eim Habanim Semeicha (EHS).* According to Rav...
Yossi Baumol, who occassionally posts on this list, just published an intersting article. Here is part of it that relates to ideas in EHS. The whole thing is...
In Eim Habanim Semeicha (EHS), Rav Teichtal marshals a plethora of sources indicating that Keneset Yisrael – the Israelite collective, Israel as a whole –...
As recent posts demonstrate,* the thought of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook sheds a great deal of light on key premises of Eim Habanim Semeicha. It is...
In further commemoration of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda's Yahrzeit today, let us hear from the man himself. The following is an excerpt translated from Sichot HaRav...
I. New publication of works by the Gaon, Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner Subject: announcement to group Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:01:46 -0500 From: "Glasner,...
I was troubled and disappointed to learn that the Chief Rabbi of Holon, Rabbi Avraham Yosef (son of Rav Ovadia), has ruled that a parent may not name his child...
When I read this piece by Sheila Raviv, I couldn't help thinking of Rabbi Teichtal's lament that we have forsaken our true mother - Israel - and embraced an...
*Thoughts after the terror attack - Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav **by David Wilder* 29 Adar 5768, 3/6/2008 I was sitting in my office tonight, meeting with the...
Dedication This post is dedicated to the memories of the sacred martyrs of the terrorist massacre at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Yerushalayim on Rosh Chodesh Adar...
The first Chief Rabbi of Basel, Switzerland, Rav Asher Michael Cohn,* an important Religious Zionist figure, wrote as follows of Hertzl and the First Zionist...
In part II, we focused on the essential Claliyut (communality) of the Jewish nation, which entails that Israel is not, like other nations, a mere aggregation...
Our good friend Don Kates of Yeshivot Bnei Akiva in Israel was kind enough to forward the attached piece on one of the martyrs of Mercaz Harav to share with...
In evaluating Binyamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl, it is important to keep in mind that he died prematurely at the age of 44. He was penniless at the time of his...
«Go, assemble all the Jews who are in Shushan. Fast for me, do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens will likewise fast, and thus...
I received word today that the Gaon HaRav Yom Tov Haleivi Schwarz (sheyichyeh l'yamim tovim v'aruchim), was in a serious accident last week and sustained...
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