| 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. Love Yehuda Lave Join my blog by sending me an email to YehudaLave@gmail.com
| | | | | 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. | | | | | | | Everything you need to know about kitniyot | | | | Ashkenazi Jews have a minhag of not eating legumes on Passover. By DAVID LEVINE Everything you need to know about kitniyot - opinion - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) Which present gadol hador (great leader of the generation) Ashkenazi rabbi, or even the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, will discuss and rule in favor of removing this mistaken custom? It is difficult enough to be Jewish; why not make this non-halachic issue go away? Change has precedence here. Consider that just one generation ago, peanut oil was certified kosher for Passover for Ashkenazim. Such a change might even have some unintended benefits. For example, along with mostly one-day holidays in Israel, being able to eat kitniyot might be another incentive for North American and European aliyah. It might lead to more inclusiveness between different cultural communities within Israel. It could contribute to Israelis become more of one nation. All of which are good things. The Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel should rule: "If you live in Israel, you may eat kitniyot or not." In other words, keep your customs (if you want) but don't let them stop you from sharing, learning, and adopting experiences and customs from other Jews to make you closer Israel and one nation. Without the kitniyot issues, instead of being Ashkenazi or Sephardi Jews, or Jews from Morocco, Ethiopia, or India, we would be one more step closer to simply being Jews of Israel. When we live in Israel, rabbinically and legally, we should not be Ashkenazi Jews or anything else, we should be one nation, Israel. And this small issue of kitniyot might be a good place to start. Dear Ashkenazi rabbis, when can we get this on your calendars? The writer is a former NYC advertising and marketing executive. He is semi-retired but continues as an instructor at Rutgers University School of Communication & Information and as a consultant. He made aliyah in 2015 and lives in Ashkelon with his wife. | | | | For those who dare to think Machon Shilo Who are we? Machon Shilo, under the leadership of haRav David Bar Hayim, is dedicated to the promotion, discovery, and dissemination of Torat Eretz Yisrael, the halachic approach and method that the Jewish people need to serve Hashem and keep his Torah as an independent nation in their homeland. The Rav defines this mission as "laying the groundwork for a restatement and reconstitution of Jewish thought and practice, based on the Written Law and the Oral Tradition (Torah ShebiKhtav and Torah SheBa'al Peh), in order to facilitate the realization of the Jewish nation's divinely mandated purpose and duty to establish "a nation of priests, a holy people (שמות יט:ו)". At present, though millions of Jews have fulfilled the dream of their forefathers to return home, they have brought with them their identity as members of a specific galut community. The local customs and traditions of Hungarian, Yemenite, Polish, Iraqi, Lithuanian, Moroccan, and other communities served an essential role in helping the Jewish people survive nearly two thousand years of exile. Today, however, we have more to do than merely survive: we have been given the opportunity, and therefore the obligation, to fulfill the command of the Torah to create a mamlechet kohanim v'goy kadosh, replete with a Jewish king, a Jewish Sanhedrin, and, of course, the Temple in Yerushalayim. The emphasis on preserving ethnic identities and traditions makes it impossible for religious Jews to work meaningfully towards these goals or to provide a credible model of national Jewish leadership. Only by embracing Torat Eretz Yisrael can we fulfil our national mission. Torat Eretz Yisrael The concept of Torat Eretz Yisrael combines many elements: - Using the full range of halachic texts bequeathed to us by Hazal, including the Yerushalmi and Tosefta, rather than arbitrarily giving the Talmud Bavli exclusive dominance.
- Re-examining established practices and rulings that contradict the primary halachic sources from Hazal.
Drawing on the liturgical tradition from Eretz Yisrael, which ended with the near-extinction of the community during the crusades. - An approach to p'sak halacha that is based on assumption that by adhering to halacha, as defined and transmitted to us by Hazal, we are fulfilling the will of the Creator and that His will is not dependent on which exile community our grandfathers lived in.
Back to the future The underlying principle of mainstream orthodoxy is not to change. This ideology was developed in response to the haskalah and resulting reformist movements, and the Jewish people owe an eternal debt to the titanic figures of the past 200 years who ensured the survival of halacha in the face of mass apostasy and assimilation. The truth remains, however, that in many cases the Torah and halacha themselves demand change and today we are clearly mandated to repair many broken elements of the halachic system, and to rebuild others that have not existed for generations. Machon Shilo draws on a tradition going back to the greatest of the rishonim – including the Rambam and Ramban – who were not afraid to correct errant practices according to their considered understanding of primary halachic texts. It also finds inspiration in the writings of haRav Avraham Kook, who articulated the need for an updated halachic system to meet the needs – and duties – of the Jewish people in the era of kibbutz galuyot. These teachings of Rav Kook have been forgotten by most of the National Religious world, but the urgent necessity of heeding them becomes more evident with each passing year. | | | | | See you Sunday bli neder, Shabbat Shalom Passover starts Monday night, first and only Seder in Israel, 2nd Seder out of Israel on Tuesday night We need Mashiach now! What is disliked by you, don't do to others. Be nice and kind and smile! Love Yehuda Lave | | | | | Yehuda Lave, Spirtual Advisor and Counselor | | | | |
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