I cannot know if by the time you read this, the war against Iran will have broken out again or not. Whether yes or no, Jews in Israel and throughout the Diaspora are desperately in need of Mashiach, and so, indeed, is this entire conflict-ridden world. Yet it’s hard to see if we are at all ready to receive Mashiach considering the raging divisions among Jews everywhere, an ongoing war waged by...
I regret that for some months I have not been able to maintain my usual schedule of classes and articles owing to some medical issues requiring regular treatments, which have been somewha enervating. I put my trust in G-d that all is for good, and as long as my mind works and I keep praying, studying and observing Torah as best as I can, I know that any hardship is in the category of “suffering...
Some time ago, watching how Israeli forces were repeatedly handcuffed by external, and, worse still, self-imposed restraints even while fighting endlessly against vicious enemies, I came upon the closing verses of the prophet Habakuk. He was appalled at the vision he saw of the destined return of the exiles of Israel to our land, only to face the armies of Gog and Magog against us. “I heard and...
We pinned many hopes on Donald Trump as against Obama, Clinton and Harris. But now he has started to reveal what MAGA, “Make America Great Again”, really means to him, and he is aggressively imposing it on the entire world. And our doubts are multiplying by the minute. Trump has shown that he is an extremely sharp thinker and strategist, as well a profuse talker if not a tactless blabbermouth...
I have just returned home to Safed after a four-week stay in Jerusalem for personal business and medical consultations (the outcome of which has been most encouraging) and for the festival of Shavuot. We stayed on after the festival because our granddaughter gave birth to a baby boy, and we waited for his circumcision, which took place in Bney Brak last Sunday. The surprise Israeli air attacks on...
These have been dramatic times in Israel as across the world, with many unexpected twists and turns. I am sorry I have been unable to offer commentary for several months as I have been quite poorly with a succession of health issues and, sad to say, a depression out of which only now, as we enter the season of our Redemption, do I feel I am starting to emerge. This bout of poor health began...
The festival of Chanukah was established as time to give thanks to the Almighty for miraculously saving His People from our enemies. This year we have especially much to be thankful for. It is little more than fourteen months since Israel was plunged into a multi-fronted war following the Hamas terror invasion from Gaza backed up by attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon and from other Iranian proxies...
Shalom, dear friend! Thanks to HaShem, my wife and I have returned safely home to Safed after spending six weeks in Jerusalem for the festivals and some personal business. Back here in the north of Israel we found our children and their families all safe and well despite the stress they have endured in face of continuing daily rocket, missile and drone attacks from the terrorists in Lebanon...
A week ago we were led to believe that a severe attack on Israel by Iran and her proxies was imminent with the risk of a swift spiral into a full-scale Middle East war. Since then here in Israel it has certainly been a very tense time of waiting, not knowing how to prepare for the totally unpredictable, trying nonetheless to carry on normally. Yet through G-d’s mercy, to date there has been no...
As a believing and practicing Jew, I am duty bound to await Mashiach daily, even if he delays. Yet I cannot help wondering, at this time when Jews in Israel and throughout the world are beleaguered by war, hatred and conflict, whether the present moment is really opportune for him to be revealed. Or does the intensity of our pain and suffering, coupled with our age-old yearning for Mashiach, make...
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