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Avinu Malkeinu - Bracha Jaffe ft. ZAHAV Girls Choir | For Women and Girls Only (video) - ------------------------------------------------------ *Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel* --------------------...
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Why Don’t We Make a ברכה on a Solar Eclipse? - Why Don’t We Make a ברכה on a Solar Eclipse? This past Shabbos, I proposed to מורי ורבי הרב הגאון ר׳ שלמה מילר שליט״א , suggesting the reason we don't make...
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An Amazing Solution When You Don't Know If You Have to Recite a Beracha - A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS
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Daily Reyd - Article summaries generated by AI: • The Power of One Sentence – Jewish leadership requires noticing each person’s unique strengths; a sincere, specific se...17 hours ago
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Federal appeals court revives Hasidic inmate’s claims over alleged Iowa prison religious violations - An inmate who identifies as a Hasidic Jew will get another chance to pursue several claims that Iowa prison officials failed to accommodate his religious p...1 day ago
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Murphy Says Israel ‘Not Aligned’ With U.S. National Security Objectives - Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday that he believes Israel’s current government is no longer acting in a manner consistent with American national secu...2 days ago
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Interview with the Authors of “The Science Behind the Mishnah” - Interview with the Authors of “The Science Behind the Mishnah” By: Eliezer Brodt Introduction Chazal teach that at ten years old, one is ready to learn Mis...5 days ago
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Parshas Re’eh: Seven Hundred, Either Way - On Rosh Hashanah, Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai saw in a dream that his nephews would lose seven hundred dinars in the coming year (Bava Basra 10a). He didn’t...6 days ago
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The Day Has Arrived - I wasn’t expecting this. The day that charedim in Israel would say, “Enough is enough. We work for a living, and refuse to be treated any longer as secon...1 week ago
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Hug Your Neighbor Like Yourself - I went out to lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. We often talk about a range of topics. Toward the end, we drifted into one we both knew we should avoi...3 weeks ago
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I finally wrote something worth sharing - https://open.substack.com/pub/shimonsteinmetz/p/ve-heishiv-leiv-avos-al-banim-ve4 weeks ago
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Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...5 years ago
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated in the ...7 years ago
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Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle the Menor...7 years ago
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R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
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Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...11 years ago
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the realm of ...11 years ago
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TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped being...12 years ago
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Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...14 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...15 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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