From the Sages, “One should not say ‘ I cannot stand the meat of swine.’ Instead one should say, ‘I desire it, but my Heavenly Father has forbidden it’” (Toras Kohanim cited by Rashi, Leviticus 20:26) “If one abstains from forbidden foods because they are repulsive, then if something […]
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The Holocaust envelopes the sum total of anti-Jewish actions carried out by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The German Jews were stripped of their legal economic status in the 1930’s, segregated and starved in various occupied countries. Close to 6 million Jews were murdered. The biblical word Shoah, שואה, means […]
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If not that Your Torah was my delight, I would have perished in my affliction ~ Psalm 119:92 The Rabbi of Rizhin made a frightening prediction. “A day will come,” he said, “when ignorance will reign. Mediocre men will feel at ease on earth and above, while men of […]
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