This is the paraphrased remarks from the first part of Rav Elmaliach’s class HERE on Youtube, that contains a message from the Rav shortly before Pesach 5784. (If you still think Bibi is MBY and Pollard is MBD, please skip this. You’ll only upset both of us.) For ease of reading, I am going to […]

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’…

Previous lives and post-Purim explanations

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…