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Wailing, Consolation and Redemption: Reflections on Yom HoaShoah
Rav Yair Dreifus • 2018Rav Nachman and the Rebbe of Piacezna offer different ways for coping with the World's Suffering. From the book 'A Wedding of the Lost Ones' shiuri...
To Count and To Keep
Rav Avishai Schreiber • 2007The Counting of the Omer is a preperation to the giving of the Torah because it stopps the race of time, and teaches us to live every day for himself.
The End of Concealment - The End of Wonders
Rav Yair Dreifus • 2018After seventy years of nationalism, perhaps it is finally time for a brotherhood of man. Part of A Drasha in Celebration of the 70th Year of Israel...
Camps and Journeys
Eitan Abramovitch • 2008The Midrash and the Izhbitzer Rebbe see the camping orders in the desert as a model for the balance between order and chaos, borders and transgress...
Journeys of Courtship: From Song of Songs to Megillat Ruth
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018Among the different holiday symbols, Shavuot, and especially Megillat Ruth, serve to represent the maturity of Passover and Song of Songs.
Rav Shagar Zt"l final request for his writings - the agony of publishing
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2013The story of the tangled relation of Rav Shagar to the publication of his writings. a chapter from the book 'Touching the heart'.
Simple Vessels and the Shame of Memory
Rav Dr noam samet • 2008To what extent can man's avodat Hashem be meaningful? the Midrash on parashat Behaalotcha teaches us to find meaning in our humble efforts.
To remove oneself or to rise
Rabbi Dr. Ori Lifshitz • 2018Moshe and Aharon decide not to remove themselves from the sinners, but to fall on their faces, to stay connected to those who find themselvs at the...
Torah and State in our time – Medinat Yisrael
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018Perhaps it is time for us to establish a new utopia - one that, God forbid, will not indulge the megalomaniac impulses of history, Rather, it will ...
?What does He really think of us
Elyashiv Cherlow • 2018Parashat Balak, which takes place outside of the plot, gives us an opportunity to hear what God says about us when we are not around.
Thoughts on Creation, Destruction and Messianism
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018Rav Shagar's Zionism was deeply related to the shadow of the holocaust and the Yom Kippur War. These traumatic events made him strive for a messian...
!Tzadik, eat to satiety
Eitan Abramovitch • 2008The Midrash on our Parasha deals with the meaning of the sacrifices, but it also has some things to tell us about our eating habits.
