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Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh Adar 2021 / רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ אַדָר 5781 Rosh Chodesh Adar (Beginning of new Hebrew month of Adar) for Hebrew Year 5781 began on Thursday, 11 February 2021 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 13 February 2021.

Crazy for G-d

Chapter 10, Law 3 – Crazy for G-d How is the appropriate love [one should have for G-d]? It is that one loves G-d a great, excessive, extreme, and exceedingly intense love until his soul is bound with love of G-d and he is constantly preoccupied (‘shagah’) with his love.This is as a lovesick person…

Visiting Coronavirus Patients

Question: Can one fulfill the Mitzvah of visiting the sick by calling the individual on the phone or must one physically go and visit the sick person? Answer: In the previous Halacha we have explained the primary ideas behind the Mitzvah of visiting the sick which is meant to assist the ill individual and to take care…

DIVREY YA’AKOV Lesson12

CLOSENESS TO HASHEM CHAPTER TWELVETHE GREATNESS ACQUIRED THROUGH TORAH STUDYPart 1: A major feature of Torah study is that everyword one studies, one fulfils a positive mitzvah andmerits awesome reward. In the book ‘Shenot Eliyahu’ of the Vilna Gaon [which is anexplanation to the mishnayot, printed in at the back of someeditions] on massechet Peah…

Parashat Mishpatim / פרשת משפטים

There is a strange—little spoken about—law that my mind, particularly over the last few months, keeps re-visiting. The Talmud teaches that when one builds a synagogue or house of study the structure should preferably have windows (BT Berakhot 34b). Indeed, this idea is codified as law in the foundational legal code, the Shulhan Arukh (OH…

ADV Parsha Mishpatim

שבת שקלים משפטים בס “ד Parshas משפטים is jammed packed, besides the many mitzvos that are written in it. This Parsha is the conclusion, the נעילה of the ימי השובבים, in a regular year. It is also the first of the four Parshios that are read surrounding the great י”ט of Purim- שקלים. It is…

Parashat Yitro – A Truly Correct Judgement

From HaGaon Rav Zevadia HaCohen Shlit”a, The Head of the Batei Din in Tel Aviv(translated by our dear friend Rav Daniel Levy Shlit”a, Leeds UK) This Shabbat we shall read about Yitro, Moshe Rabbeinu’s father-in-law, who saw his son-in-law Moshe Rabbeinu adjudicating the people’s cases from morning until evening. He advised him how best to…

1st Century Truth

THE BIBLE BOOK OF JACOB / YA’AKOV (name changed by King James of England 1611 & the Church of England to “JAMES”& Wycliff)“Ya’akov (James) served as the chief Rabbi of this early Messianic Jewish community centred in Yerushalayim.He was a Torah teacher par excellence, spokesman for the entire community, and chief halakhic judge and authority…

The World Turned Upside Down – Ve’na’hafoch Hu

“What if the world suddenly flipped upside down?” asked a curious Quora contributor just over 4 years ago. This question was categorized as a “Hypothetical Planetary Science Scenario,” but last year alone has taught us that this is not a hypothetical scenario, nor is it strictly a physics question. In North America, just around the…

DIVREY YA’AKOV Lesson 11

CHAPTER ELEVENMITZVOT BETWEEN MAN AND HIS FELLOW Mitzvot between man and his fellow are of the basics ofJudaism. This means to endeavor to benefit another, and to takecare not to cause suffering to one’s fellow, as it says in thegemarah in massechet Yevamot that mercilessness and lovingkindnesses are the purpose of Yisreal – see inside…

ADV Parashat YISRO

A world of knowledge and information to help you grow and share your faith. בס”ד יתרו The purpose of creation was for כלל ישראל to receive the Torah. The question is why is this momentous Parsha, named יתרו? And why was Yisro זוכה to have the Parsha of מתן תורה named after him? Parshas Yisro…

Binding and Loosing, First-Century Style

By Pinchas Shir -September 13, 202011662 201In Matthew’s Gospel Yeshua said to his disciple Peter, “I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt 16:19). A couple of chapters…