editorial
13 tagged “editorial”.
- You Don't Count!Parshas NitzavimRosh HashanahRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1184“All a man’s provisions are allotted for him from Rosh HaShana until Yom HaKippurim” * The Aron did not occupy any space; its measure did not count.
- Elul: The All-SeeingElulRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1180How can we even be expected to feel for G-d the way we feel for a trusted friend? Is that a realistic, attainable goal?
- Repent – for what?Rabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1179A perfect tzaddik has no negativity in him at all. Struggling with seeing how it applies to him, the tzaddik asks – repent for what?!
- A House Full of AngelsRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1177What’s the point of seeing the Beis HaMikdash on Shabbos Chazon if on that very day it is destroyed, G-d forbid?!
- FirebrandRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1175Now Beis Moshiach is fresh, provocative – and yes, shocking at times. * No longer do we rest on the laurels of “heralding” the redemption.
- Who Are You?!Gimmel TammuzRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1173Who am I? Who is anybody?
- My Pinky FingerGimmel TammuzRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1172Gimmel Tammuz became a gamechanger to our senses. Of course, sources say that nothing changed.
- You Think We’re Fat...?Rabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1167What a peculiar tale. Such fascination with fat Sages? But maybe their waistline is not the point here, and the Talmud is hinting at something very deep…
- Like the Face of a DogRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1164Hauntingly reminiscent of prewar lampoons in Nazi Germany, depicting fanged, menacing, demonic Jews, here contemporary Jewish leadership is likened to a dog.
- The 10,000-Pound ElephantRabbi Boruch Merkur · Editorial · #1161Our vision is so distorted that the proverbial elephant we are so accustomed to and so adept at ignoring has camouflaged itself completely.
- Daze of Exile, Days of MoshiachParshas ShmosRabbi Boruch Merkur · Moshiach & GeulaThe exodus contains a secret of how we can break free from everything that holds us down or limits us in any way - something that is possible even now, before there’s a throne in Jerusalem.
- Face to Face with the SnakeParshas BoRabbi Boruch Merkur · Moshiach & GeulaWe are not meant to crush Egypt with sticks but to find a voice of leadership and confront even the biggest snake. Then the opposition itself willingly helps the redemption.
- Hunker DownParshas BalakRabbi Boruch Merkur · EditorialIs the concept of Armageddon, mass destruction, consistent with Torah? Should I take out a mortgage on an underground bunker?