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Problems with No End in Sight

Massive, world-changing events are taking place and there is no way we can do anything about them -- for we do not even have any idea what is better for us or worse for us. It shows clearly how fully dependent we are on our Father in Heaven.

HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkovitch on Learning Issues

Excerpts from questions and answers from the book Imrei Daas. The answers are often taken from replies directed to those who wrote letters, and are printed as they were originally written.

Who Would Have Believed?
by Yitzchok Roth

It was not a mere slip of the tongue or mistaken phrasing. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon read words he had written himself for a press conference he held following the downing of a Russian plane carrying dozens of Israeli citizens and the bloody attack in Afula.

Between "Yitzchok" and "Metzachek"
by L. Jungerman

Laughter plays a central role in two separate events in this week's parsha. Yitzchok Ovinu was given his name because of the laughter evoked from Sora and Avrohom when they were told the tidings of the future birth of a son. Later we find Yishmoel, the son of the concubine- maidservant, banished from the house of Avrohom after Sora noticed him "making folly" with Yitzchok.

He Can't Control Himself
by E. Rauchberger

About two weeks ago the Chairman of Shinui, Tommy Lapid, was given a "note in his file" by the Knesset's Ethics Committee because of incitement against chareidim. However, if anybody thought that this step would encourage him to change his ways or at least tone down his level of incitement, they were mistaken. Kishmo ken hu and the flame (lapid) of incitement continues unabated.


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