I woke up today feeling pretty ‘down’. I’m not really sure why. We went out for supper yesterday, and while there were a few people around and it wasn’t a ghost-town, it definitely wasn’t the ‘bustle’ you usually get in Jerusalem three days before Seder night. There was a kind of depressed, apathetic, despondent dust […]

Eugenics and the Anglo Palestine Bank

Even before the Rav kept mentioning the ‘Anglo-Palestine Bank’s role in funding the z-ist takeover of Eretz Yisrael during WW1, I’d been trying to pin down more of the money trail leading to the Holy Land. Increasingly, it seems to me…

Whoever didn’t believe in the Tzaddik HaEmet died in Egypt

Paraphrased comments from R Almaliach’s shiur from Sunday morning (I wanted to link to the video for this, but now I can't seem to find it on his Youtube page... My husband downloaded the audio of it on a stick. I am trying to upload that…

Talking heads and PTSD

Well, I just got the cable back for the internet. After 10 minutes of shufty-ing around the web - I understand again, 10000%, that I am missing totally nothing when I'm offline. Basically, I missed a whole bunch of hot air, 'talking heads'…

The best resource I ever found for understanding narcs

The site has gone down now, but it was called 'Light's House'. And the Wayback Machine has archived it HERE. Just click through, and then read as much as you can. And remember, that 'Cluster B' Personality Disorders and 'Erev Rav Traits'…

The Rav: Don’t be scared of Iran

This is a short video sent to me by a reader - thanks! ==== Rav Elmaliach explains that the Rav wrote this down at 11pm at night, after he'd given a shiur from the balcony after the evening prayers. And Rav Berland wrote: "We don't…

Missiles and meteor showers

This post is not going to tell you what to think at all. It's an exercising in truly 'thinking for yourself' and coming to your own conclusions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lohj1l0rXQw&t=21s ==== Watch the above 10 minute montage…