Ramchal

Ch. 4: “Man’s Standing in This World, and The Specific Ways Available to Him” Paragraph 4 Despite the fact that we’re bound to materiality from the first and our souls are so stifled, nonetheless on some arcane level 1 G-d arranged things in such a way that we’d be elevated in the end anyway. In…

Gospel of the Nazirenes

Originally posted on Yeshua Centered Judaism:
  CHAPTER 46: The Transfiguration on the Mount.   The Giving of the Law 1. After six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was near at hand, Yeshua took the twelve and brought them separately up into a high mountain, and as he was praying his appearance was changed ,…

Channeling Moses

EIKEV Devarim 10:12-11:9   Moses then told the Jewish people that G-d’s demands on them are not excessive, and certainly not disproportionate to the great mercy that G-d continues to show them.   ____________   INSIGHT  Channeling Moses   This “reverence” is the fear that G-d would see us doing something that we would be…

What Had to Be Said

D’var Torah Parshas Eikev What Had to Be Said By Rabbi Label Lam …lest you eat and be sated, and build good houses and dwell therein, and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold increase, and all that you have increases, and your heart grows haughty, and you forget HASHEM, your…

Replacing the Sabbath

The Catholic Church admits to replacing the Sabbath with Sunday. Q. Which is the Sabbath day?A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea, (AD 336) transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.  

Blessings of the Torah

The Law Regarding a Woman Who Forgets to Recite the Blessings of the Torah We have explained in the previous Halacha that if one forgets to recites the Blessings of the Torah and only realizes this after one has concluded Shacharit prayers, one may no longer recite these blessings, for one has already fulfilled his…

MOED KATAN

    (There is a matter of dispute among the Rishonim if the prohibition against performing labor on Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Pesach and Sukkos) is Biblical (Rashi) or Rabbinic (Tosfos). There are many different categories of labor that is permitted on Chol Hamoed. The first Mishna discusses the permissibility of performing labor…

Daf Yomi Digest

Moed Katan 4   Moed Katan 5   Moed Katan 6   Daf Yomi Digest is compiled by members of the Ruben Shas Kollel, edited by Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand. Halachah Highlights is not intended to be relied upon for halacha l’maase. It is intended for interest and information. For actual psak consult your local rav.  

Daf Yomi

he following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com:  Shabbos, August 16, 2014: Moed Katan 5  image of daf Friday, August 15, 2014: Moed Katan 4  image of daf Thursday, August 14, 2014: Moed Katan 3  image of daf  

Biblical Zionism

“And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, … to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their offering … to the house of the Lord.” (Isaiah 66:20) Whether you call yourself a Zionist or a Christian Zionist, both are rooted…

Biblical Zionism

Going Back to the Source The first “Zionist” was G-d Himself who ordered Abraham to leave his father’s home and to travel to “the land that I will show you.” Abraham passed into the land as far as the site of Shechem until the Plain of Moreh; and G-d came to him and said, “To…

Daf Notes

  Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf.  It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the injured Israeli soldiers.An extensive list of their names appears below. The Gemora cites a braisa: Rabbi Shimon ben Elozar said that Ezra established that the curses…