Harry’s Video Blog – The IDF – Parshat Matot/Masei 5783
Let’s pray for our soldiers. View this video directly on VIMEO
Let’s pray for our soldiers. View this video directly on VIMEO
Moses does something very surprising in this week’s Torah portion. Why? And what is the message for us? View this video directly on Vimeo.
Can we count on you? View this video directly on Vimeo.
What can we learn from the connection between the negligent killer and the High Priest? View this video directly on VIMEO
The Jews have never accepted the fact that the Temples were destroyed; they never accepted the fact that they were exiled from their land and in fact are still in exile. That is why the Jews are still in mourning – still sitting shiva – because we refuse to accept the situation; because we refuse…
Despite the dreadful, heartbreaking nature of Tisha B’Av, an element of happiness is concealed within it. Tisha B’Av is called a mo’ed, meaning festival, and certain prayers associated with sadness that are omitted on happy occasions are, in fact, not said on this day. What is the source of the joy that lightens our mourning…
On the first Tisha B’Av, the Jews in the desert did not believe in themselves. Rabbi Mordechai Becher says we will reach the time of Redemption when the Jews believe in themselves as much as G-d Himself believes in us! View this video directly on Vimeo.
The first commandment God gave to the first Jew was to go to the Land of Israel God spoke to Abraham, and said, “Go for yourself, from your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”[1] Abraham, Sarah, their family and their retinue all came to…
The Seventeenth of Tammuz (in 2016 this falls on July 23) begins a three week period of mourning that culminated with Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av. The Mishnah states: Five things happened to our ancestors on the 17th of Tammuz — The First Tablets were broken, the daily offering ceased, the walls of Jerusalem…
Rabbi Mordechai Becher explains why it is important for all Jews to understand how to pronounce Hebrew words properly, which necessitates first learning the Alef Bet. View this video directly on Vimeo.