November 2023
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Emor
Why the Chofetz Chaim Stressed KodashimChillul Hashem or Kiddush HashemThe Non-Zionist Turkey PrinceThe Zohar’s Prediction Say to the Kohanim, the sons of Aharon… (21:1) And the Kohanim, the Levites, the sons of Tzadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel strayed away from Me – they will draw near to…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Kedoshim
When Lashon Hara is a Good ThingWorship of Molech and HashemRabbi Levi Yitzchok Condemned the Wicked You shall be holy. (19:2) The Chofetz Chaim says that this is the difference between a man and an angel: a man is commanded to work on himself to become holy, whereas an angel is created already holy, as…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Acharei Mos
G-d Wishes They Could Stay, But… And you shall keep My laws and My ordinances, and you shall not do any of these abominations, both the native and the proselyte who dwells in your midst, for the people of the land before you did all these abominations, and the land was defiled; and let not…
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Parsha Pearls: Tazria-Metzora
Why is Eliyahu Called the Angel of the Bris?The White Flag DemonstrationThe White Flag Demonstration in 1948 And the kohein sees him, and behold the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his rear or frontal baldness, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh. He is a leprous man; he is…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Metzora
The White Flag Demonstration in 1948 If a woman’s blood flows for many days outside of her period of separation… (15:25) The Midrash (Vayikra Rabbah 19:5) connects this verse with another verse containing the words “many days” (ימים רבים), a prophecy about the Jewish exile: “And many days will pass by for Israel without a…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Tazria
Why is Eliyahu Called the Angel of the Bris?The White Flag Demonstration And the kohein sees him, and behold the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his rear or frontal baldness, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh. He is a leprous man; he is unclean; the kohein shall surely…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Shemini
Making Fun of Avodah ZarahDead Ideologies and Live Ideologies An oven and a stove shall be smashed – they are defiled, and they shall be defiled to you. (11:35) The Satmar Rebbe said in the name of tzaddikim that the word “oven” (תנור) in this verse alludes to the Zionist movement, which could be considered…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Tzav
Eretz Yisroel is a Dangerous Place If he brings the offering for thanksgiving… (7:12) Rashi says that this thanksgiving is for a miracle performed for the person, in which he was saved from a dangerous situation, for example, one who returns from a sea voyage, a desert trek, one who was released from jail, or…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Vayikra
A Jewish Heretic is Worse Than a GentileA Torah Scholar Must be PerceptiveYishuv Eretz Yisroel: Obligation or Permission tags: Idolatry Heretics Eretz Yisroel Parsha-Pearls
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Parsha Pearls: Vayakhel-Pekudei
The Zionists Are Like Titus in the TempleA Wake-up Call to Separate from the WickedEvery Jew Must Fight HereticsShlomo’s Admittance to Olam Haba And Moshe gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that Hashem commanded to do…take from yourselves a contribution to Hashem…” (35:1,5) The…