Not Just Another Scenario 2
Rabbi Pinchas Winston, Torah scholar, teacher and author of Survival Guide for the End Of Days among dozens of other books, many with End of Days themes, took a departure from his usual writing style to compose Not Just Another Scenario 2. In Not Just Another Scenario 2, Winston combines his prodigious knowledge of Jewish […]
Ask Rabbi Tully Bryks: Science and the Bible
Question: Was the world really created in just 6 days or are scientists correct that it took 13.8 billion years? Rabbi Tully Bryks responds: Since God is the one who created the world, a world which contains all the laws of science and nature,[1] there can never be a conflict between science and the […]
Ask Rabbi Tully Bryks: Who is the Messiah?
Question: From Joanne, Hemel Hempstead, England “All the way through the Old Testament, the Jews are awaiting the arrival of a Messiah. Then Jesus arrives, performs miracles, etc. and many Jews follow him. Why did the rabbis not accept Jesus as the one that they had been waiting for and advise their people to all […]
Eleh Ezkera: The Midrash of the Ten Martyrs
Eleh Ezkera-The Midrash of the Ten Martyrs is a book published to awaken the masses to atone for their sins. This English volume, with the Hebrew original text (without vowels) on facing pages, brings to life an ancient story for the modern reader. Eleh Ezkera is the most moving part of the Yom Kippur (Day […]
Title of “To Kill A Mockingbird” Sequel Has Biblical Source
55 years after the debut of her iconic first novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, reclusive author Harper Lee has published its sequel, Go Set a Watchman, whose title is derived from a biblical verse in the Book of Isaiah. Lee, a native Southerner, has had a strong connection with the Bible since she was a child. […]
Temple Mt. Activist Yehudah Glick in Turkey for Ramadan Peace Mission
Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick is currently in Istanbul, Turkey, meeting with Muslim religious leaders and joining as an honored guest in celebration of the month-long holiday of Ramadan. Several leading religious figures and muftis had reached out to Glick, inviting him to visit Turkish mosques and participate in joint public condemnations of terror […]
How it Might Play Out, Part II
Sirens screamed everywhere. They were not the air raid sirens around Israel, but those too would start soon. These ones told pilots of the multi-nation force to man their planes and take for the skies. This occurred on land and at sea. Someone high-up made the call. The war was on. The Israelis already knew what was […]
How it Might Play Out
Very little is ever what it seems to be on the outside. Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes a bad one. That’s why there is a mitzvah to judge a person to the side of merit: what we see is rarely the whole story, or even just part of it. Who are Gog and Magog? […]
What is the Shemitta Year All About?
This year, from Sept. 25, 2014 through Sept. 13, 2015, Jews in Israel observe the laws of Shemitta, the Sabbatical year, set forth in the Scriptures (Leviticus 25), requiring us to completely desist from cultivating our fields. During this year we relinquish personal ownership of our crops, and whatever produce does grow on its own […]
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein ztz”l: Four Vignettes
Lessons from a Giant He was considered to be one of the greatest rabbis of this generation. His complete mastery of the entire gamut of Torah and Talmud reflected a level of proficiency that is possessed by only a few in this generation. His PhD from Harvard in English literature was a testament to his […]