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A couple of weeks ago, at the Rav, someone gave me this:

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It was a small card, in the memory of a fallen soldier called Yosef Yehuda Hirak.

He joined the army’s Engineering Corp.

He got married while he was still doing his army service.

And he was killed in Gaza, last year, after being married just seven months, aged...


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Shavua Tov!

The mad world continues to be mad… if you pay attention to it.

In the meantime, take a look at this, about a ‘meteor’ that apparently just exploded over Boston:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/427851

Snippet:

The sudden, invi...


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Excerpt from a shiur given on 14th Iyar 5786 (evening)

[The Rav begins by talking about the mechalel Shabbat, in Parshat Emor, then moves to the story of how the King of Israel sends three sets of soldiers to arrest Eliyahu HaNavi – but the prophet causes the first two platoons to be burned by fire from shamayim, before agreeing to go with the third. The Rav...


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It’s hard to believe that Shavuot was just a week ago…

In my dalet amot, so much has happened since then, I can’t really keep up with myself. First, we went on a family holiday for two days, to the Kinneret.

The Kinneret is actually very low this year, surprisingly low, given all the rain we had. I saw all the new reservoirs along the sides of the roads as we ...


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