Sharona Margolin Halickman is the founder and director of Torat Reva Yerushalayim www.toratreva.org a non-profit organization based in Jerusalem which provides Torah study classes for students of all ages and backgrounds.
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A wise person doesn’t have to know everything, but they should constantly be learning from everyone, not just from those who they feel are on their own level of learning.
We must learn a lesson from King David and focus on overcoming our enemies once and for all.
Over the centuries, women have taken on positive time bound mitzvot which bring them nachat such as listening to the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah, shaking the lulav and sitting in the sukkah.
When it comes to Israel we want as much rain as possible in the winter so that our crops will grow and the land will flourish.
According to Ohr HaChaim: The kingdom of Israel will only endure if the heads of the people assemble together (keep the peace amongst themselves).
Rivka didn’t gloat to Yitzchak about the prophecies that she received. She learned from her prophecies and from her life experience about what needed to be done in order to insure proper continuity.
It seems that Eastern European Jews ate canned sardines out of necessity and certainly not as a delicacy. In Mediterranean cuisine, eating fresh sardines is an indulgence.
We must remember that these walls are considered holy as they are frequented regularly by Jews from around the world who come to visit and pray.
In the modern State of Israel, in 1980 the currency became shekels (replacing the lira), and in 1985 the shekel was replaced with the New Israeli Shekel (NIS), which we use to this day.
Sheitels are often necessary for work purposes outside of Israel where it would not be professional to wear a hat or a scarf. In Israel, there is no need to wear a sheitel for professional reasons.
In Israel, on Yom Kippur, everyone – religious, traditional, secular – is wearing white. We all stand as equals.
According to Collins dictionary, a spy is a person employed to obtain secret information or a person who secretly watches others. The twelve men in Parshat Shlach (Bamidbar 13:2) were not spies.
As it says in Tehilim 119:72: The Torah of your mouth is better for me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.


