MONDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2016 08:33
Should all mourners recite kaddish in unison? Hear Machon Shilo’s Rabbi David Bar-Hayim elaborate in the following video interview:
In English:
:בעברית
From Machon Shilo, here.
12 Adar Aleph 5776
BS”D
Discussion with Moishela (with his family)
A Handicapped child
3 Adar Aleph 5776 (Feb 12, ‘16)
Yearning for the Geula Sheleimah
Mommy, it is clear that life as we have known it is coming to an end on this planet. There is no question about it, it’s an absolute fact. The financial system is falling apart everywhere. Social unrest is reaching the peak everywhere. Our western countries are unrecognizable, flooded with hundreds of thousands even millions of so-called refugees. Racial hatred is at its peak everywhere. The people in what was the most affluent countries where starvation, almost nobody knew the meaning of, in actuality has become a reality in many homes that were once affluent. The great democracies that everyone was so proud of that seemed to rule the western world have been defeated once more by communistic dictatorship types of governments who are seemingly being very successful enacting their final plan which is one world government, one world religion, and bringing the population of the world down to about five hundred million instead of seven point three billion.
So it’s time we open our eyes and Daven to Hashem to save us. We don’t have much time. We are being threatened in every direction and it’s hard to be absolutely sure who the enemy is or where the final blow is going to come from. I still believe that Nibiru planet X will be visiting us very soon and then many people will immediately do Teshuva. It will be very frightening but whatever Hashem has in store will be according to the Nevuas which say that two thirds of the world will be destroyed but not Eretz Yisroel.
My words, I hope will encourage the true believers because the true believers are very tired of a world full of lies and are yearning for the Geula Sheleimah. Most of the people however don’t really want their lives to be changed so much. But in order to attain the Geula Sheleimah you have to yearn for it. Even if it’s only for a split second, you have to yearn for it.
There will be in the very near future a tremendous tragedy in all the world except in Eretz Yisroel. Two thirds of the world will be destroyed. Those that are left, the evil ones that are left, will come up against Eretz Yisroel. The Jews will enter their homes and wait. Hashem will protect them and Moshiach Tzidkainu will fight them alone, with the help of Hashem, against all the Reshoim and there will be none left, Be’ezras Hashem. Then we, Am Yisroel and all the Jews who are left in Chutz Laaretz, will be able to come and be Makriv Korbonos in the Bais Hamikdosh and feel for the first time true happiness and contentment.
Consider this: If one were to study Maimonidean or Vilnian halacha, he would come to see how each and every ruling fits with the Talmud. However, if one were to study, for example, the Rema’s glosses to the Shulhan Aruch, it would be an exercise in determining and explaining why individual rulings veer from those that seemingly emerge from the Talmud. Therefore, if one were seeking to approach any matter of practical halacha from a critical point of view, that is study halacha as a form of interpretation of the Talmud, he would do best to follow the Vilna Gaon’s methods. The result is usually an intellectually satisfying and honest understanding of the halacha.
From Avraham Ben Yehuda, here.