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In this weeks parsha the first thing Yaakov does when he meets Rachel is kiss her and start to cry. This has always bothered me. Why did Yaa...

This headline in Haaretz says it all. The government decided on a ceasefire without taking into account many of the security aspects. The P...

you can only lose doing that. It is amazing but the leaders of Israel have never learned the most fundamental tactic of negotiation, never n...

Could it be that Yaakov Avinu hated Leah? R' Baruch Simon quoted from the Rebbe R' Simcha Bunim the following explanation which is v...

Olmert and Tzipi Livni listed as one of the main accomplishments of the war that the international community in the form of UNIFIL was going...

I guess no one in the Israeli government has ever heard this famous saying. The latest "ceasefire agreement" with the PA has alrea...

See this post from last year which tries to explain why both Avraham and Yitzchak had children who were not their spiritual heirs.

Rashi in this week's parsha (Chayei Sarah) comments on the pasuk (25,6) ולבני הפילגשם that פילגשים is written חסר and therefore we learn...

Why does the Torah make such a big story about Avraham Avinu buying the Meoros Hamachpela? Rabenu Yona explains that this was the last of th...

This post from last year What was the purpose of the Akeda? is very relevant today as well.

If you just read parshas לך לך you get the impression that first Hashem told Avraham to go to Eretz Yisroel, then came the story with לוט et...

Today in Israel the true power is the Supreme Court, not the Knesset and the not the Prime Minister. A perfect example is the Court's ac...

After listening to the radio (especially Charedi radio) I am convinced that that this is going to be an all out war. The Charedi leadership ...

The Ran in his Derashos (Drasha א) has an interesting explanation about the הטא of the דור הפלגה. He explains that really they did no sin an...

This is really a misnomer as these were actually commanded to אדם הראשון. If so, why are they called the ז' מצות בני נח? The answer is b...

Believe it or not I heard on the radio this morning that there is a group working to get the Knesset to pass a bill renaming this month from...

The Gemara in Sanhedrin 59a tells us that a גוי who learns Torah is חייב מיתה. If so what were they allowed to learn in Shem and Ever's ...

The ספר העיקרים has an intersting p'shat. He says that קין and הבל had an idealogical dispute. קין held that man was on the same level a...

With all the talk these days about Lieberman's proposal for a Presidential system and various other proposals for changing the system, t...

Haaretz has an interesting article How great are the words of the sages? where in light of Shas's support of Moshe Katzav they look bac...