I had a long trip to make today, which gave me the chance to listen to some shiurim from Rav Shlomo Elmaliach, from post Purim. I’m just going to paraphrase what Rav Elmaliach was saying, the main points. If you have Hebrew, I highly recommend you listen yourself, as there are undoubtedly some nuances and […]

Time to reclaim ‘normal life’

The last few days, I was feeling not so happy, and also pretty ill. Migraines, not sleeping, eyes funny, stomach issues, anxiety, 'suppressed anxiety', despair, worry - all of it. Until yesterday evening, when I sat down with my husband…

“The tools of Hamas are their weapons”

Excerpt of a shiur given December 11th 5784, 4th night of Chanuka More hints and insights from the Rav, translated from Shivivei Or 338. == Now, Yosef comes to Dotan. He asks the angel,  where are my brothers shepherding? He says to…

The whole thing stinks

This whole story of how the IDF apparently just shot dead three of the kidnapped people in Gaza.... It just sounds so very wrong, for so many reasons. Yah, Hamas just 'left' them, just abandoned them... you know how that is. And then,…

More clues from the Rav

Excerpt of shiur given on Wednesday, 2nd Kislev, 5784, to the Hoshen Mishpat Kollel in the Old City of Jerusalem Now we need to travel [to Uman]. Here, he’s organising flights for us, so we can fly to Uman, even three [planes, each containing]…

Waiting for the miracle

I have to say, I'm feeling quite down at the moment. For a few different reasons. Every day, more dead Jews in Gaza - and I'm sitting here thinking what, 60-100 billion shekels goes to the army EVERY SINGLE YEAR and yet they couldn't figure…

Karma

Or to give it it's proper Jewish term, midda kneged midda. From the beginning of this 'war', it seems to me that Hashem's hashgacha pratit has been far more pronounced, than in the past. Without going into details, all the people who have…