THE JONAH STUDY (#1)
Studying the Book of Jonah(#1) — The world Jonah lived in To listen to more podcasts and leave comments, go to PodCasts. Please do not play on Shabbat. THE PREDICAMENT OF JONAH’S SOUL
May He who makes peace in high places
Oseh Shalom Bimromav Moshe Kempinski A short time before Yoav Hattab, (H’yd) was killed in the Kosher market in Paris, he was visiting here in the old city of Jerusalem with his friends as part of the “Taglit” program. From the pictures and videos his friends have put up, it is clear that he was … Read more
An Open Letter to My Sisters and Brothers in France
Sara Yoheved Rigler There is no future for you in France. I appeal to you, come home to Israel. To My Sisters and Brothers in France, My heart weeps as I read about the ghastly attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris – the tragedy of the murdered, the precarious condition of the wounded, the … Read more
OUT OF CARNAGE, COURAGE
Eitan Glickman Ynet Baby from Apropo Cafe bombing is all grown up – and joining the IDF ( Note The Photo-The photo that moved an entire nation – policewoman Ziona Bushri carrying baby Shani after the bombing (Photo: Michael Kremer) Shani Winter was only 6 months old when her mother was killed in a terrorist … Read more
Sixty Years of Silence
Moshe Kempinski “A man of the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi. The woman conceived and bore a son, and [when] she saw him that he was good, she hid him for three months.”(Exodus 2:1-2) After Pharaoh’s decree that all the male children should be cast into the Nile River, a … Read more
The Concluding Study of the Book of Ruth (#10)
Studying the Book of Ruth (10) — Eternal implications from the book of Ruth To listen to more podcasts and leave comments, go to PodCasts. Please do not play on Shabbat. CONCLUSIONS
Eternal Perspectives
Moshe Kempinski In the land of Israel one has to be very sensitive to a higher and deeper subtext. Jewish history has been circuitous and at times very difficult. The voyage forward at times seemed to head in opposite directions. The people have been torn a part at times with severe sibling rivalry and jealousy. … Read more
GROWING UP IN PHAROAH’S PALACE
Moshe Kempinski Joseph brings his two sons to receive a blessing from his ailing father Jacob. His father prefaces the blessing with the following words; “So he blessed them on that day, saying, “Thusly , Israel shall bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and like Menasheh,’ ” (Genesis 48:20) To this very day … Read more