The War Against Amalek – Part 3 – The awesome Midrash about the Jewish ‘pope’
So, no mitzvah is written in the Torah.
(Continuing the Rav's shiur.... Read Part I and Part 2).
It’s just written “You shall not kindle fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”[1] And, “Let no man leave his place on the…
The War Against Amalek – Part 2 – The Chilonim will wake up in a second
People make teshuva in a moment.
Army commanders, and everyone. Everyone wants to go to synagogue, just they are embarassed by each other. They are simply ashamed!
And now, it’s possible to bring everyone back in teshuva.
Everyone…
The War Against Amalek – Part I, The Elections
The war against Amalek – Part I
This shiur from the Rav is totally awesome....
So I decided to translate almost all of it. As it's so long, I have split it into 3-4 parts.
If you only read one of them, it should be the Midrash about…
Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, and the real history of Chassidut – Part II
Part II
(Read Part I HERE.)
I would say that about 97% of ‘the story’ that we’ve all been told about how Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch took over from the BESHT; and then how Shneur Zalman of Liadi basically rose to the top of chassidut…
Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, and the real history of Chassidut – Part I
The story begins, as these stories so often do, when I was working on something totally different.
One of my readers emailed me a few of weeks ago to ask me if I knew how R Berland descends from David HaMelech.
I went back to the OIAG Volume…
The Titanic Test of spotting narcs
A few years ago, I did a deep-dive on ‘narcissists’ and so-called ‘Narcissist Personality Disorder’ (NPD).
By ‘deep dive’, I mean I read tens of books, did hours and hours and hours of praying about how to handle the ‘narcs’…