Moshe Kempinski The Land of Israel and its interconnected history with the people of Israel seems to be continuously intertwined with its produce and fruit . In the Torah portion of Eikev we read that the land of Israel described as “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a … Read more
Moshe Kempinski We can glean very powerful messages from the prayers of Moshe as he stood on the other side of the river overlooking the land of promise. The first thing to consider is to remember that Moshe Rabbeinu ( Moses) is the man who walked between Heaven and Earth. He is the man who … Read more
Moshe Kempinski “One thing I ask of HaShem, that I seek-that I may dwell in the house of HaShem all the days of my life, to see the pleasantness of HaShem and to visit His Temple every morning.( psalm 27:4) Shabbat Chazon is the Shabbat that precedes the fast day of Tisha b’Av . This … Read more
Moshe Kempinski In the last portion of the book of Bamidbar ( In The Wilderness/ Numbers) we read of the 42 stations in the wandering of the people of Israel in the wilderness until their arrival at the gates of the land of Israel. “These are the journeys of the children of Israel who left … Read more
The three weeks between the seventeenth of Tammuz , the anniversary of the breach of the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the ninth of Av, , the memorial of the destruction of the Temple, is both a time of mourning as well as a time of danger. So dangerous is that time, that our … Read more
Op-ed: Do human rights ‘activists’ really care about Palestinians, or are they just out to demonize Israel? Shlomie Liberow The recent shocking, but predictable and inevitable flare-up in south Israel and brutal murder of an Israeli citizen near the Egyptian border highlighted the unrelenting attempts by Hamas to threaten the very lives of Israeli civilians … Read more
Moshe Kempinski It was very difficult to watch the evacuation of the families from the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El, as visions of the traumatic Gush Katif expulsions rose before my eyes. The two expulsions were not the same , but nevertheless they were both expulsions. They were both a result of weak Israeli leadership … Read more
Moshe Kempinski It is not happenstance that the rebellion of Korach and his cohorts immediately follows the sin of the spies. They are simply two sides of an impaired relationship with Hashem. Regarding the sin of the spies the Baal HaTanya asks “What led the other ten spies who were clearly chosen because of their … Read more
