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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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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Torah Study & Working: Shulchan Aruch (156) vs Mishneh Berura

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Shulchan Aruch  (O.H.#156): After a session of Torah study go to work. This is because all Torah which is not combined with a job will event...
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Thirty Righteous Goyim

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 Chullin (92a) And a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley:’ these are the forty-five righteous men on account of whom the world conti...

Forced to Sin?

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 Avoda Zara (04b) R. Johanan said in the name of R. Simeon b. Yohai: David was not the kind of man to do that act (Basheva), nor was Israel ...
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Sun in sheath?!

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 Avoda Zara (03b) There is no Gehenna in the Future World, but the Holy One brings the sun out of its sheath, so that it is fierce: the wic...
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The cost of Trump’s madman theory on tariffs

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  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/08/trump-tariff-threats-taco-india-greenland/ Tariffs drive up prices for consumers and hu...

Compensation for idolatry?

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  Sanhedrin (103b) With regard to that which is written: “And He shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall strike the waves in t...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Trump has 1 AM MELTDOWN as HORRORS UNCOVERED!!!

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Trump video

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