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OPINION & COMMENT A Concept that Must be Changed The vile suicide attacks last September 11 which brought down the twin towers of the World Trade Center along with another 47 story building, stunned the United States and changed the way it and much of the world thinks about the future course of events. Yet it has now come to light that American security services had pointed to the possibility many times previously. Nothing was done; the scenarios were not even thought about to prepare a reaction. The Nozir's Holiness: A Shmuess For Parshas Nosso Chazal tell us that, "Whoever sees a sotoh's disgrace should separate himself from wine [by vowing to become a nozir]." Our master and teacher, HaRav Yehuda Leib Chasman zt'l noted that the words "whoever sees" make it clear that this recommendation is addressed to everyone, to great Torah scholars as well as to ordinary people. The Collapse of a Historical Bridge -- Relations Between
National-Religious and Nonreligious at the Breaking Point
"And You Shall be My Own Treasure from all the
Nations" Two opposing aspirations have clashed within us ever since we became a nation. The first is to fully and perfectly fulfill the Divine commandment that is stated proudly in the Torah: "And you shall be My own treasure from all the nations."
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