Mashiach is coming

9 Nov 2016

The headline

What a headline at the ibtimes. - Israel Wants Jews To Pray At Muslim Mosque In Jerusalem: Temple Mount Tensions Grow In Middle East

Below is an excerpt from the State Department 11/09 briefing.

QUESTION: All right. And then just very quickly is specifically one of the things that the President-elect has said when he was a candidate. He said that he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This is something that previous administrations have not done – have resisted, in fact – since --
MR TONER: That’s correct.
QUESTION: And I’m just wondering, can you remind us very briefly why exactly that is? And if you want to do it as a TQ, that’s fine.
MR TONER: Well, sure. And I would prefer to actually get the policy out there as word-for-word as I possibly can. But there is a longstanding, as you note, policy from both sides of the aisle – so to speak – with regard to Jerusalem’s status
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2016/11/264198.htm

And the winner is

The speech winner - Mike Pence for uttering the words, "I come to this moment deeply humbled, grateful to G-d for His amazing grace, grateful to my family..."

The tweet winner - Boro Park Jew Dedicates His Vote to Slain Muslim American Soldier

Donald Trump - President of the States ? in bible code Glazerson

In the week of Parshat Lech Lecha, when Avraham Avinu was told to leave his homeland, it seems a number of celebrities will be leaving their homeland, as well. Cher will be moving to Jupiter while Barbra Streisand will be on her way to Australia or Canada according to this article.

Congratulations to Donald Trump, elected to be the 45th President of the U.S. In Hebrew, the equivalent of 45 is מה. Hopefully President-elect Trump will remember the words of Micha 6:8 which contains the word מה-what.

It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the L-RD doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy G-d.

8 Nov 2016

The choice

Rebbe on Choosing a President

R. Kanievsky’s medical miracle

How far a mitzvah goes

?הרבי מלעלוב הסביר לתלמידים: מה תפקידה של הנשמה

7 Nov 2016

Elevation

Women of the Wall make me sad

In the last post, I linked to an article in Hebrew regarding the recent petirah of HaRav Yosef Grossman z”l, brother of Migdal HaEmek Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman Shlita. Chadrei Charedim reported that the Rav appeared twice in a dream to a mekubal and told him that he wasn't being allowed into Gan Eden because he owed 100 shekel to someone.
This is not the first time I have heard such anecdotes. Someone related to me that a man appeared to his son-in-law in a dream, asking him to pay the money he owed for an aliya in the neighborhood shul which he frequented.

Nominations open in prize for outstanding English-speaking Israeli immigrants