Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - HOMEPAGE

This is a translation of some of the remarks made by Maran HaRav Aharon Shteinman shlita almost 40 years ago, on 11 Adar II, 5778, to Kollel Ponovezh just before HaRav Shmuel Rozovsky zt"l was to undergo a very serious operation. The original remarks were in Yiddish.

The UN is not Our Only Problem; the High Court is also a Threat

"Eretz Yisrael is the Promised Land to the Jews but only on condition that we keep the Torah and its mitzvos." These were the words spoken this Monday in the Knesset plenum by MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni in a speech he made during the discussion on a vote of no-confidence presented by the Opposition regarding the political issue of the recent UN vote against Israeli settlements vis-a-vis the government's attitude to Sabbath observance and other religious matters. Rav Gafni

Asoro Beteves — Strengthening Torah Shebaal Pe

"If one would say, `Who am I and what am I worth that I should pray for Yerushalayim? Will the exiles be gathered in and will salvation sprout because of my prayer?' his answer awaits him. As we learned (Sanhedrin 37a), "Man was created individually so that each man should say, "The world was created for my sake.'" (Messilas Yeshorim, Ch.19, "The divisions of chassidus").

Rain and Kinneret Watch

Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret.

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