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The US & the Birth of Israel
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024The Vilna Gaon looked at the US & understood that a Jew could become president. To him this meant the beginning of the redemption. So he sent his top students to Israel to begin the process of rebuilding the land. Share on Facebook
The Torah Is Not Up For A Vote
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024While a republican form of government is considered the best, there are some things that are not up to a vote. Torah Law is one of them. Share on Facebook
Getting Egypt Out of the Jews
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024The priests were commanded to burn the entrails of the sacrifices in the Tabernacle. This was to lead the Jewish people away from the Egyptian culture which used the entrails to divine the future. It was meant to get Egyptian culture out of the Jews. Share on Facebook
We’re Being Observed
Monday, February 19th, 2024The lesson on how the priest in the Temple were to be dressed is to remind us that we are the representatives of the Jewish people and therefore of God. How we dress and behave tells the world what we are. Share on Facebook
Clothes Make the Man
Sunday, February 18th, 2024The Torah is detailed oriented about how a priest should dress while serving in the Tabernacle. The question is why. The answer is we behave better when dressed properly. Share on Facebook
You Own Your Ideas
Friday, February 16th, 2024The family that made the shew bread for use in the Tabernacle kept the recipe a secret. Thus highlighting that the Torah recognizes that intellectual property is property and has to be treated as such. Share on Facebook
It’s Not Your Money
Thursday, February 15th, 2024The budget for the building of the Tabernacle was public. This was so that there would be no overspending in the construction of the Tabernacle. The Torah is against secret budgets and plans. It hold our leaders to a high ethical standard. Share on Facebook
It Doesn’t Matter How You Feel
Wednesday, February 14th, 2024God stresses that first we do the commandment no matter how we feel about it. Eventually, we will feel the wisdom of doing the right thing. Share on Facebook
The Tabernacle Was For Us
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024The reason that the Torah spends so much time on the construction of the Tabernacle is that it was meant for us, not God. We forget that God does not need the Tabernacle, we do. Share on Facebook
Never Give Up
Monday, February 12th, 2024A lesson that we can learn from the Super Bowl is that we should not give up on attempting to achieve our goals. When our people were down and it looked like it was over for us, we managed to achieve great things. Share on Facebook
About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, giving tours at the Grand Lodge of New York, being involved in Freemasonry, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then