Parashat Tazria-Metzora
The Parsha and Current Events: Military Conscription
This week’s message deals with military conscription - in the United States of America...
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Rabbi Nachman Kahana
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The Parsha and Current Events:
A tale of one family - two worlds
Two brothers, one the galut and the other in Israel - and two very different seders.
Parashat Tzav/Shabbat Hagadol:
The Parsha and Current Events: Two unique Shabbatot
Shabbat Hagadol, prior to the holiday of our freedom, reaffirms our identity as the Jewish nation. Shabbat Shuva reaffirms our identity as a God-centered people. In their land.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Impossibilities
The Iranians are suffering from obsessive, compulsive hatred of the Jews and of Israel and do not hide their intention of using any and every means to eradicate the lives of 8 million Jews in Israel. Is it wise to wait and see?!
The Parsha and Current Events:
: Held hostage
Jewish life has evolved into a kaleidoscope of concepts, values, commentaries, hopes, halakhic decisions, conflicts, etc., where everyone is so sure of himself, but no one really has it right.
Parashat Shemot:
The Parsha and Current Events: Halakhic Implications
Were it Halakhically permissible, we would have to recite Hallel every day here in Hashem’s Holy Land!
The Parsha and Current Events:
Binyamin
Hashem is sending a coded message of encouragement for the Jewish nation.
The Parsha and Current Events: Vayeshev
Refusing to be comforted
The prophet Jeremiah brings G-d's comforting words to Mother Rachel, but how can she find comfort when the promise of redemption is far into the future?
The Parsha and Current Events:
Suicidal galut and the new Sheriff
One cannot deny Mamdani’s contribution to the efforts of encouraging Jews to return home.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Vayera: Our Rabbi, teach us
What is so significant about these two affirmative mitzvot of brit milah and the Pesach sacrifice that places them in the Karet category?
The Holiday and Current Events:
Torah - the Voice of Hashem
The magnitude of Hashem's voice is perceived in accordance with the spiritual intensity of the respective place and situation.
Torah and current events:
What determines our victory?
Victorious we shall be! However, the essential condition that determines the degree of our victory is the spiritual level of the Jewish nation.
The Parsha and Current Events:
The US Department of War
It is to my religious brothers and sisters who are still stuck in the galut that I dedicate the following article.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Ki Teitze: Spiritual lighthouses
"He who walks with the wise will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm”.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Beyond comprehension
Hamas leaders and followers are no better than Ben-Hadad of Aram. They have forfeited any rightto live.
The Parsha and Current Events:
An irresistible force meets an immovable object
At the end of the day, even if sanctions and other measures are introduced, we all know that no one will be shot at while delving over a complicated issue in the Gemara.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Taking time out to think
Because of the ongoing political-military-religious fireworks our concentration becomes distorted, and we are often oblivious to that factor which is closest to us, namely - ourselves.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Korach: Trump bombed our enemies, FDR refused to bomb tracks
Iran will remain a world threat because the U.S. and Israel did not finish the job in the fashion dictated in the Torah. But we must recognize that Trump made up for FDR's refusal to bomb the tracks leading to Auschwitz.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Your holy Jewish name
Our sources deal with the spiritual aspects of naming a child - boy or girl.
The Parsha and Current Events:
The Torah as a way of life
The ultimate CHOK, which is beyond all human understanding, is the day-to-day lives we lead in Eretz Yisrael, with our phenomenal success in all walks of life.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Once the axe falls there is no turning back
With an unpredictable, albeit pro-Israel, president in the US, this is the time to make aliya - do not postpone it!
The Parsha and Current Events:
Global natural disasters
We might be seeing now the beginning of the period where one evil nation wages war on another evil one, while in the background their countries are being ravaged by Hashem’s manipulation of natural disasters.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Thoughts after Yom Ha'atzma'ut
During WWII, we begged the major ally nations to use their air forces to bomb the concentration camps, today the world is holding its breath and counting the minutes until our Israeli Air Force bombs the Iranians after it has already bombed the Houthis!
The Parsha and Current Events:
The Haredi View
It is time for the Haredim to come out of the cold and recognize the wisdom of Hashem in history and the great potential that this Medina brings to all parts of Am Yisrael.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Tale of one family – two worlds
MY FOREVER RELEVANT PESACH TALE.
The Parsha and Current Events: Pekudei
The war over the soul of our nation
We have no option but to succeed in revealing the hidden sanctity in the inanimate stones of Hashem’s holy land and in the deep recesses of our Jewish souls.
The Parsha and Current Events:
To where is the renewed fighting leading?
Look at a map of ancient Israel and compare it to where the IDF is today - and where it may be soon.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Megillat Esther: Hashem's relationship with Am Yisrael
Where is Hashem’s partiality for Israel made real in the 167 verses of Megillat Esther?
Tetsave and Zachor:
The miraculous survival of the Jewish nation
Hashem’s revelation of His intimate relationship with the descendants of Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’akov was identical to the process of sanctifying Aharon and his sons as Kohanim.
The Parsha and Current Events
Tzahal’s failure to protect has to do with its upper echelons
There are very many religious and Torah educated officers in Tzahal, but there is a glass ceiling covering the general staff that leaves no room for Torah-oriented generals. That must change now.
Mishpatim:
The Parsha and Current Events: Be a Rosh Gadol!
What is lacking today among many Torah leaders is the will to achieve “rosh gadol”.
The Parasha and Current Events: Bo
Existential challenges
Tje hareidi and religious Zionist total 22% and the others 78% of Israel's population. These numbers parallel the demographics of our ancestors on the eve of the Exodus!
Parashat Vaera:
The Parsha and Current Events: Prepare
There are serious reasons to suspect that the Egyptians are preparing for war, although they are not seriously threatened by any enemy. This is a sign of the pre-Mashiach period.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Sudden and extreme changes
Something big is happening now in our world; changes which are on a Biblical scale.
The Parsha and Current Events:
A many splendored thing
To love being Jewish is to strive to be as close to Hashem as humanly possible. And to be close to Hashem means to live in the land He gave the Jewish people.
Chayei Sarah:
The Parsha and Current Events: Four eulogies
On the 34th Yahrzeit (18th of Cheshvan) of my brother Ha’Rav Meir David Kahana z"l
The Parsha and Current Events:
Virtue and deficiency
A significant portion of the Dutch population remains passive and even hostile towards Jews, maintaining virulent anti-Semitic sentiments. That explains what has occurred on a deeper level.
Lech Lecha:
The Parsha and Current Events: What Trump could mean for Israel
Beware becoming too intertwined with America.
The parsha and current events: Haredi draft
We who make up the chosen people of Hashem are now being put to the test to see who will take part in the grand master plan of the restoration of the glory of Hashem and His nation in Eretz Yisrael.
When the Jewish Nation is blessed, all humanity is blessed
“And all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Bereishiet 12,2-3).
The Parsha and Current Events: Yom Kippur this year
Our success in defeating those Arabs who value death over life could possibly set off the prophetic insights regarding a future international war between the descendants of Aisav and those of Yishmael. Who knows?
The Parsha and Current Events: Forgiveness
There is one scenario which prevents the gentile world from forgiving us for living. It is Jewish boys, born in our Alt-Neuland, sitting under the canopies of F-16s and F-35s and bombing the hell out of Arab Nazis who live only to annihilate the Jewish people.
Nitzavim-Vayelech:
The final Shabbat of 5784
The coming year of 5785 will be a crucial one for all Jews. Make no mistake about it. We will defeat all our enemies to the amazement and dismay of the world. Our status of “chosen people” will advance before the enlightened family of nations.
Re'eh:
The Parsha and Current Events: The ugly truth
Jewish history of 3000 plus years can be likened to an accordion that produces music by intervals of expansion and contraction.
Vaetchanan:
The Parsha and Current Events: Use it or lose it
Seventy-six years ago, the gates to Eretz Yisrael were thrown open to all Jews. The call was sounded to return home and receive immediate citizenship under the "The Law of Return". Where were you?
The Parsha and Current Events:
Devarim: David vs. Goliath
When the two combatants - the Jewish David and the pagan Goliat were staring at each other’s eyes, what were they thinking?
The day the world began to die
When is the moment that can be pinpointed as the beginning of one’s death process?
The fine print of the Jews' right to Israel
Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the others that claim to be connected to Yishmael are demanding the land of Yisrael in contradiction to the fact that Yishmael severed all ties with Avraham, including any rights to the holy land. Read how this occurred.
The Parsha and Current Events: We need each other
From the time of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai through such time that we will have proven ourselves worthy of the honor of being the chosen nation, we remain steadfastly Am Israel.
We are fragile, yet strong
The Jewish nation will outlive all of its arrogant, evil, demented enemies, who in the words of Daniel "will be reduced like chaff on a threshing floor”.
A message to young Jewish men presently in the galut
Free will distinguishes us from all other species in Hashem’s creation - mineral, flora, fauna and angels - we alone have the freedom to choose. So?
The Parsha and Current Events: The writing on the wall
If the Prop;het Daniel were here, who would he single out as today's Belshazar? Perhaps all of them...
The Parsha and Current Events: Time
Predicting the future is more precarious than walking on thin ice in June.
The Parsha and Current Events:
Aftershocks
Torah commentators suggest, each according to his world outlook, how one can achieve kedusha - holiness. But there is a common denominator.
Why will this Seder night be different than other seder nights?
My annual Pesach essay - always timely - but with a twist for today.
Measure for Measure
When the time for retribution for the evils perpetrated on His nation Yisrael arrives, Hashem will wait for no man.
The Parsha and Current Events: The King’s scepter
The best of all choices is to thank Hashem for returning us to Eretz Yisrael, a holy home that we can love and defend in all circumstances.
Rabbi Nachman Kahana
Vayakhel: And he gathered
Gather together and come home voluntarily before it becomes impossible.
Ki Tisa: Favoritism and Tikun Olam
The chances of a national state of Indians in the heartland of America are more probable than a “Palestinian” state bordering on Israel. Never!
Consider the implications of your words
The State of Israel will never come to the point of Shimshon, because when push comes to shove, we will use all the weapons at our disposal to kill our enemies.
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