24 posts tagged aryeh

The first question that one asks when learning Parshat Behar - the first question of Rashi - is why is it that the commandment of Shmittah is juxtaposed with 'Behar Sinai'? Why is that shmittah specifically was chosen to be said to be given at Har Sinai.

Warning - Clip has non tznius women in it Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman

TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL To the memory of Zvi Hurvitz: Pioneer, commander, and bereaved father. To be cocked like a rifle, the hand clutching a pistol, to walk in a closed, harsh line, even after the cheeks are filled with dust, and the seared flesh is fallen away, and the eyes can no longer focus on a target.

Sworn to teach Muslims a lesson about the cost of Jewish blood, the IDF's former Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Arye Eldad is a Knesset member who is responding to calls from the nationalist movement for his own party - to keep all Israel's recaptured lands. And he doesn't care what Washington, Riyadh, or anybody but God thinks.

He wrote The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer (a book I read twice in a week instead of praying at shul). We did this interview via email: LF: What do you mean by this: "Everything that is true (vertically) is also true like this (horizontally)?" Rabbi: What I meant was that our relationship with Gd (vertical) tends to reflect our relationships with people (horizontal).

By Aryeh Ben David "For education to be truly effective it has to penetrate into the depths of the soul of the student." The Disconnectedness of Standard Jewish Education In my opinion there is a serious problem in Jewish Education a problem that will not be solved by a change in the syllabus nor by developing more knowledgeable educators.

By Aryeh Ben David "The perpetual prayer of the soul continually tries to emerge from its latent state to become revealed and actualized, to permeate every fiber of life of the entire universe . . . Sudden spiritual clarity comes about as a result of a certain spiritual lightning bolt that enters the soul .

I have close to zero interest in spirituality, prayer and developing a relationship with G-d (if I want to feel the transcendent, I just listen to a good pop song). About the only rabbi who made any sense to me on these matters was Mordecai Finley.

Over Shabbat, I read a good book The Godfile: 10 Approaches to Personalizing Prayer by Aryeh Ben David. He writes on page nine: Many of us walk into a synagogue with the expectation that a spiritual experience will descend upon us, regardless of how much or how little we have written in our personal Godfile.

HOF performing Bloc Party’s Helicopter at herz french play. The video quality’s bad and the camerawork is favourable to the guitarist but it’s still HOF! ShareThis