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!!

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Parents against aliya: It's your life & Map reveals dozens of ancient quarries hidden beneath modern Jerusalem & The commandment to write a Torah Scroll & New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident & Desecration of Synagogue: 'Acted out of hatred - every holy book was torn page by page' & with those we have lost & The Portion of Vayigash-It Doesn't Last Forever


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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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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.

Map reveals dozens of ancient quarries hidden beneath modern Jerusalem

Researchers chart 39 quarry sites from 117 excavations, shedding light on how "Jerusalem stone" built the city

https://www.jpost.com/archaeol...

A new geological and archaeological study
has mapped dozens of ancient stone quarries hidden beneath today's
Jerusalem, detailing how generations extracted the "Jerusalem stone"
that still defines the capital's skyline, according to a paper published
last week in Heritage.

An archeologist from the Israeli Antiquity Authority at the site of a

2nd Temple Subterranean System Discovered at the Western Wall tunnels

underneath Jerusalem's Old City

New York's Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident

A train wreck that caused the death of more than a dozen commuters near the turn of the 20th century was the impetus behind a monumental project that changed the urban landscape

The commandment to write a Torah Scroll

Every Jewish male is commanded to write a Torah scroll for himself. Today the practice is to fulfill the commandment of writing a Torah scroll in partnership. A woman too may study from the sacred Torah scroll.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

https://www.israelnationalnews...

Parents against aliya: It's your life

Parents cannot prevent their child from performing a mitzvah, whether it be learning Torah, marrying, praying, or moving to Israel.

Rabbi David Samson

https://www.israelnationalnews...

Question:

I am a 23 year old, living independently from my parents. For the past two years I wanted to travel to Israel to learn Torah but my parents adamantly refused, insisting that it was dangerous in Israel during the war. Wanting to honor them and not cause them worry, I conceded to their wishes. Now that there is a ceasefiire and peace plan, they remain steadfast in their opposition, claiming that the ceasefire could be broken at any moment.

My father ended our phone call with "We don't allow it and that's final." I would like to know what the halkhic view is on my situation.

Desecration of Synagogue: 'Acted out of hatred - every holy book was torn page by page'

Rabbi Chai Ratzabi, rabbi of the "Mishkan Shalom" synagogue of the Yemenite community in Kadima-Zoran, described this morning the destruction he discovered on Friday evening: "It looks like they spent hours tearing sacred texts. They really made an effort to find every book that existed and rip it page by page." Police have opened an investigation.

https://www.israelnationalnews...

Those we have lost

Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas's onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023

Every day you can look at another victim and send him/her prayers

Those we have lost | The Times of Israel

Categories
Civilians

IDF Israel Defense Forces soldiers and reservists

Police officers
Israel Police and Border Police officers

First responders
Local security team members, firefighters and medics

Supernova festival
Those who attended the Supernova or Psyduck festivals

Foreigners
Foreign workers, tourists and students

See you Sunday bli neder Shabbat Shalom

We need Mashiach now!

What is disliked by you, don't do to others. Be nice and kind and smile!

Love Yehuda Lave

The Portion of Vayigash

It Doesn't Last Forever

Joseph, recently appointed to the position of Viceroy of Egypt, begins to prepare the country for the seven years of famine which are to follow the seven years of plenty. Not only does he pretend not to recognize his brothers who came to Egypt to purchase food for their families, but he accuses them of being spies.

After Joseph's silver goblet is found in Benjamin's sack Joseph sentences Benjamin to servitude.

Judah turns to the Egyptian viceroy and asks that Benjamin be released in exchange for his remaining as a slave in his stead.

At this point Joseph reveals his true identity and shares with his brothers all that had transpired since they sold him, up to and including the fact that as viceroy of Egypt he was now in a position to be able to provide for his father and his brothers.

The royal appointment of Joseph seemed to harbor good tidings for years, and perhaps for generations, to come. But as we know "And a new king arose in Egypt who knew not Joseph (Exodus 1;8)". The good years ended and were quickly forgotten; the years of oppression and slavery began.

When Joseph related to his brothers how Pharaoh had appointed him as his deputy he said " and he made me a father to Pharaoh (Genesis 45;8) " . In these very words the Torah hints that this situation will not last and that ultimately the "rulers" will be turned into the "ruled". This is done by writing backwards the letter "nun" in the word "vayeseimaini" (and he made me).

(Remazei Yoel)