The Jewish Worker

Thoughts on Torah, working, living in Israel and how they go together.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

A very interesting upcoming event

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On March 5th R' Feldman, R' Moshe Aharon Shechter, and R' Matisyahu Solomon, are going to be speaking in Teaneck on PERSPECTIVE...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Iran and Moshiach

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I usually don't like posting about these kinds of topics but today I am making an exception. Someone sent the following to me: The gemar...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

כפה עליהם הר כגיגית Why?

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I mentioned this idea recently offhand in a previous post ( How did the חרטומים turn blood into water? ) and I bleive that it bears repeati...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Can the actions of a צדיק cause a mishap to occur?

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The gemara in Kesubos 28b seems to say no. The gemara there is discussing testimony which allows a person to eat Teruma. The gemara brings a...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Standing up for the Aseres Hadibros

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I posted about this ( Standing up for the Aseres Hadibros ) a while back. What I wrote then is very relevant this week when we read the Ase...
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Thursday, February 09, 2006

In the end a bit of unity

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After months of bickering Degel Hatorah and Aguda agreed to run to together again. They expect to get 6 seats (1 more then last time) and th...
Sunday, February 05, 2006

A common misconception about קריעת ים סוף

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Most people picture the sea splitting and Bnei Yisrael going through to the other side. However, both Tosafos (ערכין ט"ו) and the Ramba...
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The cartoons that shook the world

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Here are the cartoons that the Muslim world is rioting about judge for yourselves: I don't really get this one. I don't really get t...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

How many people are learning fulltime in Israel? The official numbers: UPDATED

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Here are the current numbers for people learning full time in Israel according to the government (these are people who get money from the go...
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Some thoughts on Amona

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It is clear to me that the timing of this was political. There are literaly thousands of illegal houses in Israel with orders of destruction...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

The mitzva of Kiddush Hachodesh

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In this week's parsha (בא) we have the mitzva of Kiddush Hachodesh. A while back I explained how this mitzva works nowadays in the follo...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

The latest salvo in the Charedi culture wars - MP3 players

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I just read in this past week's Mishpacha magazine that there was a meeting of Roshei Yeshiva to discuss MP3 players. According to the a...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Hamas wins the parliamentary elections

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Believe it or not I believe that this is good for the Jews and Israel. The Palestinian mask has finally been removed. Since Oslo in 1993, th...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Peace Now actually brings war

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Nobel Prize winner Professor Auman said the following The Arabs always said they have time, and that they can wait 10, 20 or 50 years until ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

How did the חרטומים turn blood into water?

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The answer would seem to be that magic really worked in those days. Now the question becomes why did it stop working? The answer is that to ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006

The electoral system in Israel is broken ...

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and needs to be scrapped. It just does not work for many reasons. Some of the things can be fixed but many cannot. Here are some of the prob...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Freedom of Inquiry in Judaism

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How free are we in our intellectual pursuits? Does the Torah limit us as to what we can study? The UO world clearly holds yes, and therefore...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

A visit to a gadol

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I recently had the privilege of visiting one of the Gedolim in his house in Bnei Brak. The visit reminded me of a famous story about the Cho...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

אני יוסף העוד אבי חי What was Yosef asking?

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Yehuda just finishes telling Yosef the whole story including that his father is alive, so what exactly was Yosef's question. In addition...
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Sunday, January 08, 2006

Could Shlomo Hamelech have invented cars?

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This sounds bizarre but this actually came up in a conversation. Someone told me that his son came from home school and said that his Rebbe ...
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