Nine days before the election, the prime minister unveiled a German map that gives Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, Washington is reportedly scripting his exit, and Riyadh has.......
On Sunday night Binyamin Netanyahu stood in front of a map drawn by Germany’s Social Democratic foundation. It labels Judea and Samaria “Palestinian Authority (West Bank)” and colors them the green of the Saudi-Turkish bloc’s friends. His doctrine, released the same evening, does not contain the word sovereignty.
Three days earlier Israel Hayom reported *Washington’s two-year plan for him. Nine days before the election, the prime minister has shown his hand. What will your vote sign?
*cannot find the article now, but Trump 'suggested' that the PM form a govt. with ....... and then in two years he should retire. Is this what Israel Hayom is referring to??
France is facing growing unrest MAYHEM, nuclear tensions with Russia, and a wave of Jewish families returning to Israel.
But did the prophet Obadiah foresee something extraordinary? Over 2,500 years ago, Obadiah spoke of Esau, fire, and a place called Tzarfat, traditionally identified with France.
Rabbi Aron Sokol explores Obadiah 1:18–21 and the remarkable connection between ancient biblical prophecy and the events unfolding in France today.
[Not only France, but “Flames of Wrath: 8 Shocking Sights From France, Italy & Albania As Explosive Unrest Grips Europe". This is IRAN (using hamas and …….) burning the Earth with their evil. https://youtu.be/HKOfJANaVyk?si=BwrG03R_zZ5lULv1].
France is burning. And Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says he isn't surprised at all.
Within hours of the looting, burning and mobs filling the streets of Paris, Rabbi Shlomo Farhi opens Parashat Lech Lecha with a question: when is it time to leave, and when is it time to fix the place you're standing in? Avraham is told "Lech Lecha" by Hashem. But in the very same parsha, "there was a famine in the land" and Avraham reads the writing on the wall and leaves on his own. A man in the shiur was born on October 15, 1942, the very day the Nazis wiped out his mother's city of Brisk. She had read the signs and escaped.
The irony, Rabbi Farhi says, is that we read that same morning about a world destroyed over petty theft and looking the other way, and then watched exactly that play out in one of the most famous cities on earth. When governments reward criminal behavior and turn the victims into the criminals, you've told people it's okay. But his message is not "run." Only a prophet can say that. It's the hotel room with the toilet nobody flushed: you've asked for a new room, so why sit in the stench for the 20 minutes you're still there? Flush it. Vote. Demand the rule of law back. Be the school that said no to smartphones. Be the families who cap the simcha spending so everyone else can breathe.
By the end, Rabbi Farhi hands the room a gift: "I gave you back your own No." Either we watch it burn like the generation of Noach, we build a teiva and set our own terms inside it, or, when nothing else is left, we go somewhere else and build.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and dedications
1:06 France is burning
2:25 Lech Lecha: forced out, or choosing to leave
3:47 Born the day his city died
4:47 From petty theft to anarchy
10:08 Would you flush the toilet?
14:29 Strategic capitulation
21:54 A challenge to our community
30:06 Burn, build a teiva, or leave
33:09 The gift: the word "No"
What is one thing you've accepted as "just the way it is" that you could actually change? Tell us in the comments.
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What if the Tower of Babel wasn't really about building a tower at all?
Thousands of years ago, humanity united around an extraordinary ambition: to build a tower reaching toward the heavens. But what were they really trying to accomplish—and why did Hashem intervene?
In this fascinating Torah shiur on Parashat Noach, discover the surprising significance of the bricks used to build the Tower of Babel, the deeper danger behind mankind's obsession with control, and what this ancient story reveals about our modern technological world.
Known As: founder of Daf Yomi , Rosh Yeshivah Chachmei Lublin
Father's Name: Yaakov Shimshon Shapira
Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro of Lublin’s father, Rav Yaakov Shimshon Katz of Shatz, Romania, was a descendant of Rav Pinchas Koretz, a talmid of the Ba’al Shem Tov.
His mother, Margala, was the daughter of Rav Shmuel Yitzchok Shor, mechaber of Minchas Shai, and a descendant of the Tevu’as Shor.
He was also a descendant of Rav Bechor Shor of Orleans, one of the Ba’alei Tosafos.
He was married in 1906 and took his first appointment, Rav of Galina, in 1911. In 1921, he became Rav of Sanok, then in 1924 Rav of Piotrkov. It was while there that he wrote his sefer Or HaMeir.
Also in 1923, he began the first cycle of Daf Yomi, having shared this idea at the first KnessiaGedola of AgudasYisrael the previous year. That first cycle began on RoshHaShana in 1923 and was completed 2702 days later on Tu Bishvat in 1931.
His other major project was to found the Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin in 1930.
