Rabbi Mordechai Becher reads from an ethical guidebook given to all soldiers in the Israel Defense Force, and learns a major difference a Jewish army and a Gentile army. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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Usually, we classify the mitzvot, commandments, of the Torah into commandments that pertain to our relationship with Hashem and commandments that pertain to our relationship with other people. There are some who had a third category, the commandments that govern the relationship between body and soul, in other relationship with the self. When we think about the commandment to remember the Exodus, we would be inclined to define it as being ...
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One of the famous questions that is asked regarding the Exodus from Egypt and the whole issue of the slavery of the Jews in Egypt is that, indeed G-d had actually told Abraham that his children would be slaves in a foreign land, he predicted the exile, He said the Jews would be enslaved. If so, the commentaries ask, then the Egyptians should not get punished, because they were fulfilling ...
Read MoreRabbi Mordechai Becher was live in the village of Neve Michael, a village that has been home to Jews for nearly 3000 years, and has recently experienced a resurgence of Jewish residents during the past few years. View this video directly on Vimeo.
Read MoreRabbi Becher was live in the Old City of Jerusalem on the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet - a fast that commemorates the siege of Jerusalem - and wonders why we have a fast to commemorate a siege? View this video directly on Vimeo.
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – Calling Antisemitism What it Is: Jew Hatred – Vayigash 5780
The Jew-haters want to see the Jews DEAD, but the Chanukah candles remind us that Jews are here to stay, and the Jews will continue to bring LIGHT into the world. View this video directly on Vimeo.
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I recently gave a class on a Thursday night at a shul in Monsey on Forshay Road. Tragically, that was next door to the site of a horrific anti-Semitic attack this Chanukah. I taught using some ideas from two great Rabbis of Prague, the Maharal and Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (Noda BiYehudah). Prague was an extraordinary center of the Jewish community and Jewish learning. In Prague, the Altneu Shul, has been ...
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Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – Fossilized Jews and Antisemitic Pond Scum – Mikeitz 5780
According to all logic, the Jews should not be around today. But we are. And when you see Chanukah candles lit, you are witnessing a modern-day miracle! View this video directly on Vimeo.
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According to the Getty Museum ancient sculptors used canons—sets of “perfect” mathematical ratios and proportions—to depict the human form. The earliest known canons were developed by the Egyptians, whose grid-based proportions influenced Greek sculptors in the Archaic period (700–480 B.C.). Over time, sculptors and painters sought to create a canon that would allow them to depict the perfect human body—not a body based on a real person but a body ...
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Many people think that Chanukah is type of a festival of political independence, freedom fighters, patriots, something like a July 4th, or whatever, Jews fighting for political independence against the Greek Empire, or something to that effect. In truth, Chanukah is really a clash of cultures. It was the Hellenistic world view versus the Jewish world view. And these two cultures were diametrically opposed. The Greeks were bothered by the very ...
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