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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Bamidbar
G-d Filters Out the WickedPeaceful Efforts Toward RedemptionWhen Silence is a Sin And they established their birth to their families, to their fathers’ houses. (1:18) Rashi explains that they brought documents or witnesses to prove their birth, to which tribe they belonged. In Parshas Pinchas (26:5) Rashi says that the gentiles ridiculed the Jewish people,…
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Parsha Pearls: Behar-Bechukosai
Can Living in the Zionist State Be Considered Exile?Giving Up the State Saves LivesEretz Yisroel Prefers Gentile RuleThe Sin of Questioning the Need for ExileThe Desolate Land And if his hand was not able to produce enough [money] to return to him, then his field will be in the buyer’s hand until the Yovel year.…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Bechukosai
Giving Up the State Saves LivesEretz Yisroel Prefers Gentile RuleThe Sin of Questioning the Need for ExileThe Desolate Land I will place your corpses on the corpses of your idols. (26:30) The Gemora says (Sanhedrin 63b): “The righteous Eliyahu walked among the people dying of hunger in Jerusalem. He found a child who was swollen…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Behar
Can Living in the Zionist State Be Considered Exile? And if his hand was not able to produce enough [money] to return to him, then his field will be in the buyer’s hand until the Yovel year. (25:28) The word “matz’ah” – meaning found, or was able – occurs only a few times in Tanach.…
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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…