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God can only be comprehended (to some extent) through history, not philosophy!
Why did the Jews stop observing Purim a few years after they originally accepted it?
Has Sinwar ימ"ש caused the death of Khamenei and the fall of his regime? The ironies of the Purim season
Was the mountain held over their heads at Sinai to compel them to accept ALL the mitzvot? Did the Jews not want to accept ANY mitzvot? Or just some of them? In other words, what actually happened as a result of Purim?
Why would he deprecate the use of coercion on the non-frum? The answer lies in his own and his family's history...
וְנָתַתִּי לָהֶם בְּבֵיתִי וּבְחוֹמֹתַי יָד וָשֵׁם טוֹב מִבָּנִים וּמִבָּנוֹת שֵׁם עוֹלָם אֶתֶּן לוֹ אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִכָּרֵת
Had Esther's intervention not succeeded, would Mordechai THEN bow down to Haman to save the Jews?
Managing an unsolvable existential problem - the " זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק" in every generation,
Who was the ממוכן who recommended הֵגֶא ? The world of varied interpretations of מגילת אסתר
Abarbanel wrote three books on Messianic themes: a,)מַעַיְנֵי הַיְּשׁוּעָה b.) יְשׁוּעוֹת מְשִׁיחוֹ c.) מַשְׁמִיעַ יְשׁוּעָה
When Haman fell from power, did Mordecai gain possession of Haman's "Jeffery Epstein Files"?
Why is שִׂנְאַת חִנָּם the thing that prevents the Rebuilding of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ ?
Both leaders wanted the Jews-by-birth to accept the Torah, and discerned they would be impressed by sight of the non-Jews who now embraced Judaism
Built with forced labor, it doesn't seem to have captured the emotions of כלל ישראל. Instead, separation, במות, etc. Unlike the בַּיִת שֵׁנִי
Malbim's theory of the terminus post quem for the Redemption
R Menachem Tenenbaum (Cleveland) has translated the wonderful סֵפֶר יְשׁוּעָה גְּדוֹלָה (שֶׁהוּא מְלֻקָּט מִסֵּפֶר "יַעֲרוֹת דְּבַשׁ"), which contains the "Agadic Pilpul" on the Purim Story from the Gaon Y. Eibeschutz into readable English...in time for this Purim!
Was it a wave of גֵּרֵי צֶדֶק or an avalanche of opportunists, a new עֵרוּב רַב?
A box never to be opened, a symbol of Divine Mystery?
"Rise intellectually and struggle to comprehend the meaning of the Tetragrammaton." Like any ideal, you cannot get there but you must strive to constantly progress in that direction"
How the King and the High Priest had to come up with a fundraising plan whereby none of the money went to the solicitors! Rather all the $$ went to the Temple Plant refurbishing campaign.
How the King and the High Priest had to come up with a fundraising plan whereby none of the money went to the solicitors! Rather all the $$ went to the Temple Plant refurbishing campaign.
Malbim calculated Mashiach would come in 1927. To be continued...
This is the book that launched (and legitimized!) the rational (non-Kabbalistic) approach to Torah and Judaism. written to rescue the religious Jew "drowning in doubt" (in the author's words)
Jeremiah: "The Destruction of Jerusalem is unstoppable, but your physical torture by the captors IS preventable, IF you do the right thing and free your Hebrew Slaves whom you are holding beyond the six years"
The child who hit his father not knowing it was his father; he was kidnapped at birth!
A tale from the Victorian Era: In 1860 the Druze massacred the Christians in Lebanon, the Muslims massacred the Christians in Damascus, and now the Christians wanted to set-off massacres of the Jews there as well as in Baghdad, but Lord Palmerston & Lord Russel (thanks to Montefiore) prevented this.
WASP = "White (Secular) Ashkenazi with Protektsia"
a.) Smoke at Sinaib.) Smoke in the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippurc.) Smoke in Heaven in Isaiah's Prophetic Vision
If he came after the Ten Commandments, then how long after? Immediately after? After the erecting of the Mishkan?
Signed by the Noda BiYhudah himself when he was a teenager, soon to enter the Kloiz of Brody whose curriculum combined intense נִגְלֶה and נִסְתָּר.
Fathers in laws and sons in law in the Bible
Utopia is a necessary corollary of a God who is not only Omnipotent, but also Supremely Benevolent
Was Deborah a general? Josephus' version of the story...and more
R Shmuel Landau (son of the נוֹדַע בִּיהוּדָה) is engaged in a controversy re: the members of the Prague בֵּית דִּין, whom he accuses of violating the terms of a Prague communal foundation. The Maskilim tried to turn this into a cause célèbreDon't worry: אֶת וָהֵב בְּסוּפָה
They tried to buy him off, but it didn't workhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Ramban's three great works on the subject: a.) סֵפֶר הַוִּכּוּחַ b.) סֵפֶר הַגְּאֻלָּה c.) שַׁעַר הַגְּמוּלhttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
R Y Eibeschutz may possibly have been the the Rosh Yeshiva with the greatest number of students in history! This letter gives an insighthttps://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
The strange attraction of Jews to Egypt...https://thechesedfund.com/rabbikatz/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast
Why does the Torah say that in the Messianic Era, there will be even more עָרֵי מִקְלָט?
He gave orders to kill all the Gedolim when he died, in order to make sure there would be plenty of wailing and crying on the day of his death
Was there שִׂנְאַת חִנָּם in the era of the בַּיִת רִאשׁוֹן?
His princely/aristocratic upbringing in the Palace was not one calculated to make someone humble. Quite the opposite!
This is the second par of a two-part series
Divine "Chessboard": The Christians of Europe could have recaptured the Middle East centuries ago if the French had not blocked them from doing so. OTOH had that happened, Medinat Yisrael would never have come into being.
Boastful Pharaoh will have a ridiculous death: He will be like an Alligator dropped into the Middle of the Sahara Desert!
The remarkable and variegated Jewish Community of the capital city Czernowitz, which ran the gamut from Hasidim (Sadegur and Vishnitz) to Germanized Meshumadim ... and everything in between!
The American record of encouraging uprisings but not supporting them
There is a centrally-directed evil conspiracy to popularize Hitler and everything he stood for in order to attack Israel (which has benefited from the Holocaust Narrative) and to attack the Jewish People and provoke another Holocaust. Really.Such s the price of the unregulated internet...
Did God speak Hebrew or did He speak Egyptian when he addressed the Jews at the Ten Commandments?
This is the first part of a two-part series
If the אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם would allow the Jews' undisputed possession of אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל and follow the highest teachings of the Torah, the Human race would enter a Utopian Era
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