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Spreading Kedushoh to All Areas of Life

The story goes that when the first group of shochetim sent by Shearis Yisroel to South America came back to Eretz Yisroel, one of their first moves was to visit the rabbonim with a report of their work. Nothing of the sort had been done up to then by a mehadrin hashgochoh: to go into a non-Jewish meat factory overseas and shecht meat according to the highest mehadrin standard.

A Truly Schwer Rambam: Medieval Science and Modern Man
by Mordecai Plaut

Ahavas Hashem is one of the six constant mitzvos. It is an obligation upon every Jew, all the time. In addition we have the additional mitzvah of Krias Shema which includes as a prominent feature, in its third verse, the mention of this obligation twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. We begin and end each day with a recitation of the mitzvah that we have to love Hashem.

Sacrificial Avodoh Zorah and Avodoh Zorah Itself
by HaRav Aharon Yeshaya Roter

We have been fortunate that in the sea of licentiousness that surrounds us there are still valorous Jewish women who carry on the tradition established at the time of the Golden Calf of not worshiping idolatry. They were privileged to sanctify Hashem's name in public when they cast their `ornaments' behind their backs and donned the true Jewish ornaments upon their head.

Proper Torah Chinuch
by HaRav Shimon Moshe Diskin

Part I

The kushya is well known: The gemora tells us that after the Maccabees defeated the Romans they found a jug of olive oil that was tohor in the Beis Hamikdosh that bore the seal of the Cohen Godol. Although that amount of olive oil was barely enough to burn one day, it miraculously burned for eight days, until new tohor olive oil was produced.

Politica: An Opposition in Favor
By E. Rauchberger

Disengagement opponents are trying every way possible to thwart the plan from taking effect. They block roads, organize demonstrations, hand out ribbons, stop cars, fill intersections with signs and a long list of other activities all aimed at swaying public opinion and influencing the government to withdraw the plan.


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