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  • Indonesian Christian Challenges Rabbi Tovia Singer: Who is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53?

    05/06/2018 1:50:30 AM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 80 replies
    Rabbi Tovia Singer ^ | Tovia Singer
    Rabbi Tovia Singer is challenged by a Christian regarding Isaiah 53.
  • SHELACH: The Incident of the Spies

    05/04/2018 3:22:41 PM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 2 replies
    Chabad ^ | June 14, 2009 | Rabbi Adam Mintz & Rabbi Eli Popack
    G-d told Moses: "Send forth men, if you please, and let them spy out the Land." He chose distinguished princes and instructed them to determine whether the inhabitants were strong or weak, few or numerous. They reported back that the Land flowed with milk and honey, but that the cities were fortified, their inhabitants powerful: a Land of Giants. Caleb and Joshua calmed the people and assured them of victory. The others, though, gave an "evil report," that the Land devours its inhabitants. They complained bitterly that it would have been better to have died in Egypt. Having reported their...
  • Jewish Holidays Explained: Yom Kippur 2017 / 5778 - Three Great Things About A Difficult Holiday

    09/26/2017 1:56:59 PM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 24 replies
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_O7ZipVyE ^ | Sep 18, 2017 | Rabbi John Carrier
    Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement - getting right with God and ourselves - accomplished through fasting and self affliction.
  • FR Weekly Torah: Parashat Vayikra

    03/30/2017 8:31:18 PM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 11 replies
    YouTube ^ | Mar 27, 2017 | Rabbi Jonah Layman
    Parashat Vayikra / פרשת ויקרא Next read in the Diaspora on 01 April 2017. Parashat Vayikra is the 24th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Leviticus 1:1 - 5:26Next week: Parashat Tzav / פרשת צו Next read in the Diaspora on 08 April 2017. Parashat Tzav is the 25th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Leviticus 6:1 - 8:36
  • FR Weekly Torah: Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

    03/26/2017 2:57:40 AM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 7 replies
    YouTube ^ | Mar 21, 2017 | Rabbi Joshua Bittan
    Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei / פרשת ויקהל־פקודי Next read in the Diaspora on 25 March 2017. Torah Portion: Exodus 35:1 - 40:38 This concludes our Shemos (Exodus) -- The Book of Redemption -- readings for the year 5777.
  • FR Weekly Torah: Parashat Ki Tisa - Golden Calf & Depression

    03/16/2017 12:04:25 AM PDT · by Read Write Repeat · 14 replies
    YouTube ^ | Mar 13, 2017 | Rabbi Yitz Wyne
    Parashat Ki Tisa / פרשת כי תשא Next read in the Diaspora on 18 March 2017. Parashat Ki Tisa is the 21st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 30:11 - 34:35Next week: Parashat Vayakhel / פרשת ויקהל Next read in the Diaspora on 25 March 2017. Parashat Vayakhel is the 22nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 35:1 - 38:20
  • FR Weekly Torah: Parshat Tetzaveh

    03/08/2017 10:48:07 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 7 replies
    Breslov Research Institute - YouTube ^ | Mar 5, 2017 | Breslov Research Institute
    In this week's Torah video, Reb Chaim Kramer discusses the weekly portion, Tetzaveh through the lens of Breslov Chassidut. Learn about the pure oil of the menorah, and the connection regarding the midrash on the nature of the Jewish people which is like an olive tree and olive oil, and more. Reb Chaim explains the problem of assimilation, the many wars against and attacks on the Jews over time, and how the Jewish people miraculously rebuilt themselves again and again. We learn about the kohanim and their special begadim (clothing) and the spiritual correction each item of clothing effected as...
  • Parshas Terumah: "Be Prepared" - Rabbi Aba Wagensberg

    03/03/2017 4:36:14 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | 3/1/2017 | Rabbi Aba Wagensberg
    Parashat Terumah / פרשת תרומה Next read in the Diaspora on 04 March 2017. Parashat Terumah is the 19th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 25:1 - 27:19Next week:Parashat Tetzaveh / פרשת תצוה Next read in the Diaspora on 11 March 2017. Parashat Tetzaveh is the 20th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 27:20 - 30:10
  • Belarusian-Israeli nabbed trying to join Islamic State in Syria

    03/01/2017 4:05:04 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 15 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | March 1, 2017 | JUDAH ARI GROSS
    Father of 5, who converted to Islam while in the IDF, stopped at airport en route to Turkey with $1,000 A Belarusian-Israeli man was arrested as he attempted to join the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, after expressing support for the group over the past year and a half, according to an indictment filed against him on Wednesday. The suspect, Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, was arrested in a joint operation by police and the Shin Bet security service earlier this month, though details of the case were kept under a court-issued gag order until the charges were filed. As he...
  • The Jewish Neo-Nazi and the Chabad Rabbi

    03/01/2017 4:30:01 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 4 replies
    Chabad ^ | February 27, 2017 | Menachem Posner
    Csanád Szegedi grew up in a mildly racist milieu in Miskolc, a midsized town in northeastern Hungary. His father was the scion of an old noble family of Magyars, a point of pride for the young Szegedi, who was born in 1982 and came of age in the chaotic years following the fall of the Soviet-influenced Hungarian People’s Republic. Although the city had a large, crumbling synagogue in its center, like most of his peers, Szegedi chose to ignore it. For them, it served as a fading manifestation of the city’s Jews, many of whom had met their deaths in...
  • FR Weekly Torah Discussion: Parashat Mishpatim

    02/24/2017 3:40:20 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 24 replies
    YouTube ^ | Feb 23, 2017 | YIBONEH
    Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston YIBONEH Midrashiah in Baka, Jerusalem (Video Length: 42m) Ex 21:1 "And these are the judgments that you shall place before them." Parashat Mishpatim / פרשת משפטים Next read in the Diaspora on 25 February 2017. Parashat Mishpatim is the 18th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 21:1 - 24:18Next week: Parashat Terumah / פרשת תרומה Next read in the Diaspora on 04 March 2017. Parashat Terumah is the 19th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
  • FBI arrests man in Myrtle Beach allegedly planning attack 'in the spirit of Dylann Roof'

    02/20/2017 1:18:02 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 14 replies
    WCSC ^ | February 16th 2017 | Ian Cross
    MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – A man with connections to a white supremacy group was arrested in Myrtle Beach Wednesday after purchasing a gun from an undercover FBI agent, apparently intending to commit an attack “in the spirit of Dylann Roof.” Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, from Conway, was arrested at around 5 p.m. Wednesday by the FBI, according to records from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center. On December 26, 2016, McDowell posted to Facebook a message: “I love love to act what u think,” followed by a link to the Temple Emanu-El Conservative Synagogue in Myrtle Beach, according...
  • Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood

    02/08/2017 8:30:17 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 97 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | February 8, 2017 | ILAN BEN ZION
    Israeli and French researchers to excavate ancient site of Kiryat Ye’arim, outside Jerusalem, one of the few unstudied biblical tels One of the few remaining unstudied major biblical sites, where according to the Bible the Ark of the Covenant was kept for two decades, will be excavated by archaeologists this summer for the first time. Organizers hope the anticipated study of Kiryat Ye’arim (also transliterated as Kiriath Jearim) will shed light on the site’s significance during the Iron Age, the period associated with the biblical account of King David. Kiryat Ye’arim is mentioned over a dozen times in the Bible...
  • Trump: ObamaCare plan could take until next year

    02/05/2017 7:13:44 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 103 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/05/17 | PETER SULLIVAN
    President Trump said Sunday that it could take “sometime into next year” until his ObamaCare replacement plan is ready, a slower timetable than he and other Republicans have put forward in the past. Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly asked Trump in an interview before the Super Bowl if Americans can “expect a new healthcare plan rolled out by the Trump Administration this year.” “Yes, in the process and maybe it’ll take till sometime into next year but we’re certainly going to be in the process,” Trump replied. “You have to remember Obamacare doesn’t work so we are putting in a wonderful...
  • FR Weekly Torah: Parashat Bo

    02/03/2017 12:00:47 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 2 replies
    Hebcal ^ | 3 Feb 2017
    Parashat Bo / פרשת בא Next read in the Diaspora on 04 February 2017. Parashat Bo is the 15th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 10:1 - 13:16 Next: Parashat Beshalach / פרשת בשלח Next read in the Diaspora on 11 February 2017. Parashat Beshalach is the 16th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Exodus 13:17 - 17:16
  • At least 17 bomb threats called in to JCCs nationwide in third wave of harassment

    02/01/2017 6:53:55 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 10 replies
    JTA ^ | January 31, 2017
    At least 17 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with bomb threats in the third wave of such mass disruption this month. Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network — an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America that advises Jewish groups and institutions on security — said the threats were called in late Tuesday morning. Some of the messages were live, he confirmed. “[I]n the past we know that the numbers can grow exponentially,” he said, adding that perpetrators have been “leveraging technologies to make mass calls.” Goldenberg confirmed that threats had been called...
  • Weekly Torah Portion: Va'era

    01/29/2017 3:22:01 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 15 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan 25, 2017 | The Temple Institute
    The ten plagues that made G-d's name known in all the world happened many years ago in the land of Egypt. The process they began of bringing the knowledge of G-d's presence and power to all humankind for all generations continues till today. They resound and reverberate every time a Pharaoh arises and says "I do not know Hashem." RABBI CHAIM RICHMAN OF THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE / VIDEO LENGTH ~18m Parashat Vaera / פרשת וארא Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2 - 9:35. Parashat Vaera is the 14th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Next: Parashat Bo...
  • The Difficult Road to Redemption | Parshat Shemot

    01/17/2017 12:33:05 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan 16, 2017 | NetivOnline
    This week we excitedly begin a new book of the Torah. When we read a book, any book, someone might ask us: "What is it about?" It is sometimes difficult to encapsulate a book in a short phrase or comment, but it is a task that forces us to think about the central messages and to examine the storyline of the book in question. This is true about the Torah as well. Many of our sages tried to give titles or themes for the books of Chumash. As we begin Sefer Shemot, we might want to think about the central...
  • Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vayechi 5777

    01/11/2017 3:23:38 PM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | 1/9/2017 | Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz
    This week the Rabbi answers the question: "How can you live a great life despite all obstacles?" Enjoy this video of what we hope will be a weekly endeavor into spreading the educational words of our Torah. Parashat Vayechi / פרשת ויחי Next read in the Diaspora on 14 January 2017. Parashat Vayechi is the 12th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. This is the final Genesis portion. Torah Portion: Genesis 47:28 - 50:26 Upcoming:Parashat Shemot / פרשת שמות Next read in the Diaspora on 21 January 2017. Parashat Shemot is the 13th weekly Torah...
  • Parashat Vayigash - Get rid of the negativity in your life - Rabbi Alon Anava

    01/03/2017 9:32:29 AM PST · by Read Write Repeat · 12 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan 2, 2017 | Rabbi Alon Anava
    Often people hurt us in many different ways. The Torah is requiring me to forgive them. why? Why did Yosef Hatzadik was so quick to forgive his brothers?