Get to Heaven Keep the Seven

Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Saturday, April 13, 2024

This land is whose land? & Will October 7, 2023 be remembered as a massacre or a holiday? & my letter to the Jerusalem Post regarding Kitniyot & Early mobile phone commercial & A hard look at Jerusalem's 'spicy' horse statue – and its Jesus connection


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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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My letter to the Jerusalem Post regarding Kitniyot

Aaron Reich wrote a well researched article on Kitniyot in today's In Jerusalem.
He could have added how much we are losing by not being united here in Israel, with the keeping of a minhag that has the ability to be overruled, because people hold onto traditions.

This is one of the trademarks of the Jewish People, and why G-d chose us because we stubbornly hold onto tradition.

We are, however, supposed to think and analyze when conditions change. This applies to defending ourselves as we are doing in the current war, and not being sheep led to the slaughter as we were during the holocaust.

When conditions change, minghags should and do change. Here is to defending ourselves from those that want to kill us and letting go off a minhag of kitniyot that no longer serves us.

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

This land is whose land?

Nearly a century after Winston Churchill's surrender of land that was intended for Jews to the King of Transjordan, the boundaries of the Jewish state remain a continuing source of contention.

Jerold S. Auerbach

http://www.israelnationalnews....

Jerold S. Auerbachis the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a "Best Book for 2019."

(JNS) "This land is your land, this land is my land," quoting from the famous song by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, continues to resonate in the Middle East, where Israel fights a bloody battle with Hamas over control of the Gaza Strip.

The question is: Whose land is it? History may help to answer the question.