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OPINION & COMMENT In Those Days and In Our Times More than 2,000 years ago, we faced a difficult test: "The evil Greek Kingdom stood against Your People Israel, to make them forget Your Torah and to force them away from the laws that You willed." Greece was a difficult and dangerous enemy, who attacked us at vulnerable points and succeeded in causing considerable damage before she was defeated. Her thrusts were effective and perceptive, and she won many converts to her idolatry from among the Jewish people before she was soundly and repeatedly defeated on the battlefield by the few weak tzaddikim and Torah learners who stood up against her. Subjugating Nature for Avodas Hashem In the first part, HaRav Meiseles first noted that one of the Greek decrees at the time of Chanukah was that the Jews had to carve on their ox's horn that they have no part in Hashem the Elokim of Yisroel and afterwards they had to plow with that ox. He also catalogued the differences between an ox and a donkey, noting that the ox symbolizes high spiritual levels while the donkey symbolizes matter: chomer. Also the ox is kosher while the donkey is not.
Complete Illumination: Lighting the Menorah Erev Shabbos
and Motzei Shabbos During the eight days of Chanukah we kindle a total of thirty- six lights (not counting the shammash). Kabbalistic writings explain that these 36 candles correspond to the thirty-six hours that the Ohr Hagonuz (literally, Concealed Light) was present during Creation before it was hidden away for the righteous in the World to Come (Rokeach). What does the light of the Ohr Hagonuz have to do with our Chanukah candles?
"These Lights . . . " The Truth About Poverty: Bnei Brak Works and the NRP
Cuts With regard to the proposal presented to Knesset Chairman Mr. Reuven Rivlin to summon the Knesset members and to hold a discussion on the poverty report specifically in Bnei Brak, the city defined as the "most impoverished," I would like to make two comments as follows: Politica Recently Tzvi Handel (HaIchud HaLeumi - a right wing party) turned to Knesset Chairman Reuven Rivlin and asked to appoint a different opposition chairman to replace Shimon Peres. Handel's claim was that Peres was not acting like an opposition figure at all, and certainly not like opposition chairman. Instead he was constantly trying to crawl to the government and provide the Prime Minister assistance and a safety net. All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is
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