V’zot HaBrakha: And to There You Shall Not Pass
byThe task of all the generations following Moshe (including our own) is to manifest & illuminate all of the powerful ideas hidden in Israel’s Torah.
The task of all the generations following Moshe (including our own) is to manifest & illuminate all of the powerful ideas hidden in Israel’s Torah.
The ‘two-state’ paradigm that ruled Israeli political & military thinking for a generation is what’s most directly responsible for the failures of October 7.
By adopting a Western political model, the Israeli system encourages corrupt & divisive behavior that is actually antithetical to the Jewish people’s values.
If the Torah shows us Sukkot taking place during the Exodus from Egypt, why do the children of Israel delay its celebration for a full six months?
While Israeli governments had once been careful not to antagonize the international community, the last four years have seen a dramatic expansion of Jewish farms, towns, & villages in the West Bank.
While every people, culture, & ideological tendency has a value, they must be prophetically harmonized by Israel in order to bring history to its goal.
The prophetic message of the Ha’azinu Torah portion clarifies the complicated relationship between Israel’s behavior & our inner Segula.
While this sanction war is clearly timed to influence Israeli elections, the rhetoric surrounding it reveals that London hasn’t forgiven Israel for the urban guerrilla war that forced Britain to flee the country.
At what point should the Jewish people graduate from one stage of our revolution to the next?
There appears to be a contradiction between the words of our sages in Pirkei Avot & in the Talmud.
Christian plans to take over the Western Wall, even if only for a day, should drive us to examine the boundaries of tolerance in a Jewish society.
Why are so many Israelis – including those deeply connected to Jewish identity – not sensitive to the missionary threat posed by Christian Zionists?