This 92-Year-Old Russian Jew Reads Tehillim Every Day for Israel
A video from St. Petersburg by the Rostov Rabbi. Seeing this elderly Jew praying with his magnifying glass for all of us Jews in Israel makes me feel so loved and supported. ❤️ 🇮🇱 Shabbat shalom!
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Happy Jerusalem Day #57 by Sivan Rahav Meir
These are challenging days in Israel. In the North, in the South, and especially in the heart. This week is the anniversary of the Six Day War. An important reminder of what we are capable of, with God’s help. The small state of Israel was 19 years old in 1967. It faced an existential threat, […]
Read MoreMy Blessing for My Son, the Child of a Convert and a Baalat Teshuva
[Our 11-year-old Yaakov is going into junior-high school next year, and his rabbi asked for us parents to write blessings for our sons in preparation for this momentous transition. Here’s the blessing I wrote for Yaakov):To our dearest Yaakov,In the “Al HaTsadikim” prayer, all kinds of people are mentioned who are an inspiration, who are […]
Read MoreBleachers at Mt. Sinai
Tonight my neighbor, Shirel, invited over Rabbanit Eliyahu, the daughter-in-law of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, to give a class about Shavuot in honor of the yahrzeit of Shirel’s father.Rabbanit Eliyahu told us something I never knew, that these days between Lag Baomer and Shavuot are among the spiritually highest days of the year.And then she shared […]
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