August 2011 Blog Posts (9)

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AGENDA ELUL 5771

Elul, the month preceding Rosh HaShanah enjoys a mystique that approximates a balance between joyous anticipation of a new year full of potential and blessing, a year of health and prosperity and the dread that one may not be worthy to live another year.



Historically, the first of Elul 2448 saw Moshe Our Teacher A’H ascended Mount Sinai for the third time. The first time was to receive the first set of Tablets which were destroyed forty days latter on 17 Tamuz in reaction to the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 26, 2011 at 5:46am — No Comments

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Re’eh 5771

שבת טעם החיים ראה תשע"א

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Re’eh 5771



Seek the Bais HaMikdash so that it will be Rebuilt

כי אם אל המקום אשר יבחר ה' אלקיכם מכל שבטיכם לשום את שמו שם לשכנו תדרשו ובאת שמה, rather, only at the place that HaShem, your G-d, will choose from among all your tribes to place His Name there shall…

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Added by Rabbi Binyomin Adler on August 26, 2011 at 4:29am — No Comments

INTERNET RADIO COMES ALIVE IN MONSEY

INTERNET RADIO COMES ALIVE IN MONSEY

 

BY: FERN SIDMAN

 

Anyone familiar with the glorious history of Jewish talk radio in the United States will surely recall the name of one of its chief progenitors. Back in the early 1980s, the redoubtable Rabbi Yaakov Spivak began his illustrious career on a small AM station in the backwoods of Staten Island with then partner Zev Brenner, and today he single-handedly commands the airwaves from…

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Added by Fern Sidman on August 24, 2011 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Eikev 5771

שבת טעם החיים עקב תשע"א

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Eikev 5771



Listen and Listen Well

והיה אם שמע תשמעו אל מצותי אשר אנכי מצוה אתכם היום לאהבה את ה' אלקיכם ולעבדו בכל לבבכם ובכל נפשכם, it will be that if you hearken to My commandments that I command you today, to love HaShem, your G-d, and to serve Him with all…

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Added by Rabbi Binyomin Adler on August 19, 2011 at 7:19am — No Comments

G-D IS WATCHING

The status of the Land of Israel in the Jewish psyche goes back to G-D’s promises to the Patriarchs and to Moshe (see Shemot 6:4). Therefore the basis for a national affinity to this particular place. Yet in Parshat Ekev the Torah reveals the land’s character, what makes it special.



Devarim 11:11-12 “ The land, which you are going over to possess, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the skies. A land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 19, 2011 at 5:54am — No Comments

WHO WE ARE, REALLY

The popular perception is to view the Shabbat following the intensity of the Three Weeks culminating in mourning over the Temple’s destruction and the reality of the nation’s exile as a time to take comfort and relax. However in less than three weeks begins the Month of Elul, the time of reflection and resolution so that the New Year to come can begin better. A time for each individual to graduate to deeper levels of faith and observance.



The Sidra of VeEtchanan is replete with… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 12, 2011 at 6:52am — No Comments

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Vaeschanan 5771

שבת טעם החיים ואתחנן תשע"א

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Vaeschanan 5771



Honor Your Parents Because You Owe Them Everything

כבד את אביך ואת אמך כאשר צוך ה' אלקיך למען יאריכן ימיך על האדמה אשר ה' אלקיך נתן לך, honor your father and your mother, as HaShem, your G-d, commanded you, so that your days will lengthened and…

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Added by Rabbi Binyomin Adler on August 11, 2011 at 8:56pm — No Comments

SEE CLEARLY SEE G-D

Rabbi Yehudah Chaim Cohen ZT’L ZY’A in Yehudah Ya’aleh observes that the first letters of the first six words in the Hebrew text of Lamentations (Eicha) spell the words Aivah Ra’ah, bad hostility. The Rabbi points out the significance that even though Eicha was written against the First Temple’s destruction, the First Temple being destroyed because the nation worshipped idols, behaved immorally and engaged in bloodshed, the three sins one must be prepared to experience martyrdom. However, the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 5, 2011 at 6:48am — No Comments

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Devarim 5771

שבת טעם החיים דברים תשע"א

Shabbos: Ta’am HaChaim Devarim 5771



Leave the Upheaval and Enter into Shabbos

ה' אלקינו דבר אלינו בחרב לאמר רב לכם  שבת בהר הזה, HaShem, our G-d, spoke to us in Chorev, saying: Enough of your dwelling by this mountain. (Devarim…

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Added by Rabbi Binyomin Adler on August 5, 2011 at 4:20am — No Comments

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