With all the Pesach cleaning, I didn’t get any where near the other translations. BH, I’ll see what I can do when I’m offline again now, until Thursday. There is a lot of stuff ‘in the air’ at the moment. There is a rumour the Rav is back in hospital – I’m trying to verify […]
Rav Elmaliach is putting up a number of simply mind-blowing videos. They take a very long time for me to translate into English, as they are verbal, not written. There is one new ‘message’ from the Rav that I am hoping to get done and up before I’m offline again on Monday for three days, […]
The last and final part of the Rav’s shiur. For what it’s worth, I am totally not stressing about ‘Iran’, nukes, war in the North, or electricity black outs. If it happens, I’ll worry about it then. In the meantime, don’t give the lying news your koach, pull your soul out of all the pointless, […]
‘Zorem’ in Hebrew means ‘to flow’. And right now, I am doing my very best to stp thinking things need to be a certain way, that I need to have things how I want them, and how I think ‘they should be’, and to just zorem with God’s decisions. It’s really hard. My neighbor downstairs […]
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 seventh day.”[2] This is what is written, because the Pesikta [Rebbe] […]
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 should take it upon themselves to bring fifty [people]. There are 70 men here – 50 [each]. […]
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 ‘Shimon Kaifa’, who became the first ‘pope’ […]
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 as the ‘cream of the crop’ comes from….Chabad. […]
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 I note at the back, that says […]
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’ in my own life, and my own ‘narcissistic tendencies’, that I was just waking up […]