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 […]

Simcha on Purim is a mitzva d’orayta

Here in Israel, there was a 'debate' about whether we were allowed to be happy on Purim. I was hoping to get this shiur translated and up before Purim, but in the end that didn't happen, so I'm sticking it up now. I still have more to translate…

Reflection vs reaction

It's amazing how different life is 'offline'. Now that I am having a regular three days off from the ‘pace’ of keeping up with the internet, and the 24 hour (fake) ‘news’ cycle, that just keeps us all hopping from one manipulated event…

Earthquakes on the horizon?

I am super-dizzy today. I think there might be more earthquakes on the horizon. I am going offline until Thursday now, but in partial answer to SimchavSasson's query about what might be going on with solar flares and sunspots etc, this video…

Bombing Kiev, Carrington Events, and WWIII

One of my readers just sent me this: (These are screenshots, btw, don't try to 'play' the images.) In the middle of the night from Fri March 22 to Sat 23 (Shabbat night) there was a very large explosion on the sun, earth directed, from a huge…

Some thoughts on the ‘coming of Moshiach’

Shavua Tov! So.... What happened yesterday, motzash, down on Ido HaNavi? The short answer is: nothing much. Me and my husband got into our glad rags, we got there an hour later than planned, at 9.30 ish, because my daughter was running late…

Update on the party, and 100,000 more Tikkun haKlalis required

First, one of my readers sent me this: The Rav's kav (02 5326 502) posted a message from the Rav yesterday, where he is asking people to say another 100.000 Tikkun Haklalis until 24:00 motzei Shushan Purim (if I understood correctly). Say…