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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…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Pekudei
Every Jew Must Fight HereticsShlomo’s Admittance to Olam Haba And Moshe saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Hashem had commanded, so had they done; and Moshe blessed them. (39:43) The Baal Haturim writes (40:21) that the words “as Hashem commanded Moshe” appear 18 times in Parshas Pekudei, and this is…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Vayakhel
The Zionists Are Like Titus in the TempleA Wake-up Call to Separate from the Wicked 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 Zohar points out the difference between the wording…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Ki Sisa
For Whom Were the Tablets Brought Down?Take Off Your Crowns!What Makes the Holy Tongue Holy? And Yehoshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, and he said to Moshe, “The sound of war is in the camp!” And he said, “It is not the sound of cries of victory, nor the sound of…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Tetzaveh
Fighting a Defensive War And you shall put into the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Tumim (28:7) Rashi explains that they wrote the four-letter name of G-d and placed it inside the folded breastplate, and when they would ask a question, G-d would answer by causing the letters of the breastplate to light…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Terumah
I Am the Real King Solomon!Building the Temple Without MoshiachHeretics Destroy the Temple And they shall make Me a Sanctuary, and I shall dwell in their midst.” (25:8) The Midrash in Parshas Toldos tells the following story: In the days of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, the evil kingdom (Rome) decreed that the Beis Hamikdash be…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Mishpatim
It’s Our Vote that Counts in Heaven!The Insane Call the Sane InsaneThe Meaning of the Sapphire BrickWhen We Don’t Follow a Majority And he shall surely heal. (21:19) The Gemora in Bava Kama 85a says, “From here we learn that a doctor is permitted to heal.” Rashi explains that if not for this verse, we…