Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Tzadikim are godly

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Bamidbar Rabbah (14:4) when the tzaddikim decree, Hashem fulfills their words. Bereishis Rabbah (08:10) When G-d created Adam, the ministeri...

Law hidden from tzadik

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 Bamidbar Rabbah (21:12) AND MOSES BROUGHT THEIR CAUSE. Some hold that the law was hidden from Moses. There are cases where righteous men h...

Name of Tzadik like G-d's

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  Bamidbar Rabbah (02:12) When G-d created the world. Twenty generations came and went, but no good was found in them, neither did a single...

Old and Righteous - why commanded to respect?

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 Shemos Rabbah (31:16) THOU SHALT NOT REVILE ELOHIM. R. Meir said: Above all did G-d exhort Israel concerning their judges who teach them j...

Epstein files reveal Trump called police chief after arrest, saying ‘everyone has known’

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  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skutzitw11l A newly surfaced document from the Epstein investigation says Trump called the Palm Beach pol...

D.C. grand jury declines to indict six Democratic lawmakers

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  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/10/dc-grand-jury-kelly-slotkin-pirro/ A federal grand jury in D.C. refused the Ju...

Ghislaine Maxwell Asks for Clemency in Exchange for Testimony That Will Prove Trump ‘Innocent’

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  https://time.com/7375277/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-trump-clinton-innocent-congress-testimony-clemency-pardon/ The late convicted sex offen...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Canadians Hit Back at Trump’s Bridge Threat: ‘It’s Insane’

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  https://www.newsweek.com/canadians-hit-back-at-trumps-gordie-howe-bridge-threat-11494200 Trump wrote on Truth Social that he would block t...
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Hasidism and the Rebbe/Tzaddik: The Power and Peril of Charismatic Leadership

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  https://hakirah.org/Vol%207%20Schochet.pdf For many decades, the Conservative Movement sought to define itself as an authentic halakhic mo...
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Rav Sternbuch 100 years old

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sternbuch Rav Moshe Sternbuch born 15 February 1926 one of nine children of Osher Sternbuch, an Orthod...
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Monday, February 9, 2026

Birthdays - significance?

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  https://ohr.edu/explore_judaism/ask_the_rabbi/ask_the_rabbi/7740#:~:text=Rav%20Moshe%20Feinstein%20reportedly%20insisted,Orach%20Chaim%206...
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Israel requires Human Efforts

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 Vayikra Rabbah (25:5) : The hen, when its chicks are tiny gathers them together under its wings to warm them and get food for them. But whe...
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Mitzvah of Torah study - how to resolve contradiction pf Rashbi?

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Berachos (35b) Our Rabbis taught: And thou shalt gather in thy corn.6 What is to be learnt from these words? Since it says, This book of th...
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Exclusive Torah Study is not for everyone - Mishna Berurah

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  Biur Halacha (156:1): Torah study without work becomes lost & causes sin -  The seforim write that this rule is addressed to the masse...
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