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Why Free Will Belongs Only to You

While animals act on instinct and nature follows set rules, humans hold the unique key to transforming the universe. Discover your role as God’s partner in completing creation.

A Look at Tu B'Av
The enthusiasm in falling in love is meant to help a person take the step of getting married. However, it does not guarantee a happy marriage.
The Infinite Game
A Shiur by Rabbi Jonatahan Sacks for the weekly Torah reading of "Va'etchanan"
Is the Redemption Fixed or Flexible?
How a single word in the Seven Haftarot of Consolation reveals two opposing views on the Messianic era
The One Thing About the Jewish People That Drives the World Crazy
The world knows Tisha B'Av, but they can't handle what happens the day after. How absolute resilience became our ultimate secret weapon.

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What is the status of a remote control for a tv set on shabbat? Can one use it to change channnel and/or adjust volume on tv for a sick person who is in danger on shabbat or for a pscyhiatric patient undergoing intense debliltatiing anxiety?

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A TV remote control is Muktze on Shabbat as can’t be moved. The operation of the remote control involves breaking Shabbat and thus prohibited. One is allowed and actually must, if needed, to break Shabbat in order to save another persons life. In your cases above, is turning on a TV set on Shabbat save the patients life? I doubt. A doctor should really comment on this issue but as I said I find it hard to believe that these patients need the TV on Shabbat to survive…

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While animals act on instinct and nature follows set rules, humans hold the unique key to transforming the universe. Discover your role as God’s partner in completing creation.

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The enthusiasm in falling in love is meant to help a person take the step of getting married. However, it does not guarantee a happy marriage.

The Infinite Game

A Shiur by Rabbi Jonatahan Sacks for the weekly Torah reading of "Va'etchanan"

Is the Redemption Fixed or Flexible?

How a single word in the Seven Haftarot of Consolation reveals two opposing views on the Messianic era

The One Thing About the Jewish People That Drives the World Crazy

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Walking in Israel

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A Hot Summer

Summer in Israel is always hot but there are some that feel hotter than most others. To this old rabbi it certainly has felt so.

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The Politics of Memory

Weekly Shiur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for the weekly portion "Eikev".

COMPARE AND CONSIDER

In his final charge to Am Yisrael, Moshe Rabbeinu warns the nation of becoming too haughty & too full of itself

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resistance and giving away the Land of Israel

When Jews are settling in their home in Israel, and the government decided to expel the jews from their home, what is the proper response?

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The concept of a “false prophet” only applies to prophecy. The greatness of a Torah scholar does not depend on his ability to predict the future. It depends upon his greatness in Torah, his exemplary character traits, and his devotion to God.

To the Settlers of Gush Katif

People of Gush Katif, you are presently paining and perplexed, and we share in your suffering. Yet we are full of faith that by enduring these trials and understanding that they are “pangs of the Messiah,” you will ascend to a new and better reality.

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Armies Still Necessary for Balance & the War Against Wars

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Regulation of Land Rights in a Settlement Extension – part V

Regulation of Land Rights in a Settlement Extension – part IV

P'NINAT MISHPAT: REGULATION OF LAND RIGHTS IN A SETTLEMENT EXTENSION – PART III

P'NINAT MISHPAT: REGULATION OF LAND RIGHTS IN A SETTLEMENT EXTENSION – PART II

I Will Bring You Back Up – part II

I Will Bring You Back Up – part I

MORESHET SHAUL: THE STAFF OF PLEASANTNESS

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False Accusation of Non-Kosher Soap – #333

Date and Place: Yafo, 5 Nisan 5670 (1910)

Asking Restraint from Insulted New Yishuv – #334

Date and Place: Tammuz 5670 (1910)

Worse on the Outside, Better on the Inside – #332

Date and Place: 26 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo

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Date and Place: 21 Elul 5670 (1910), Yafo

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