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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Fighting the Holiness Battles of Our Times Seventy community activists from across Israel gathered in Jerusalem under the auspices of the Rabbinical Committee to Fortify the Walls of the Religion to discuss the scourges of modern technology. The event took place at the Prima Palace hotel at a melave malka. The main speaker was HaRav Dovid Cohen, rosh yeshiva of Chevron Yeshiva and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. He said that the Internet and the instruments of tumah constitute a grave danger to the Torah world.
The Coronavirus is spreading in China and elsewhere and it has already killed hundreds. The whole world is in fear and lockdown, hoping to stop the spread of the plague. The effects are spreading from people to financial markets and to factories throughout the world. This situation, where an anonymous virus just pops up out of nowhere and presents an unanswered threat to all of humanity, shows modern man in his correct proportions. Sometimes the impressive achievements of modern technology seem to have made man all powerful and fully in control, from the depths of the oceans to the skies above. There seems to be no limit. When suddenly a microscopic creature that we cannot even see can stand the entire world on its head and attack at will.
The Torah community is just days away from its annual golden opportunity, as the Agudath Israel of America's annual Yarchei Kallah is set to unfold in Yerushalayim.
One result of the blessed rains this season is that the old mikveh of the Eitz Chaim shul in Tiveria has water in it for the first time in twenty years. The water in the mikveh is, so far, about 1.20 meters deep. It gets filled up by the rising of lake Kinneret.
We have had a break in the rain, but the level of the Kinneret continues to rise. As of last Monday morning, the Kinneret had added another 2.5 cm in the last day, and the surface was then at -210.22 meters. The weekend weather is predicted to be stormy. Since the beginning of the winter, the Kinneret has risen a total of 1.65 meters, with 1.27 of the coming in January. There are only 1.42 meters until the Kinneret tops out. At that point they have to open the dams at the southern end to keep the lake from flooding its banks.
by HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira zt"l
![]() Part II In the first part of the essay about the unique qualities of Shabbos, HaRav Shapira stressed how Shabbos and the Jewish People enjoy a unique relationship. He explained that the rest we have on Shabbos is a special, positive experience that brings brocho and kedusha. Spiritual Levels on Shabbos The Rishonim write at length about the special qualities of Shabbos. Rabbenu Avrohom the son of the Rambam, in Maspik Le'Ovdei Hashem (introduction), while presenting the first rule in avodas Hashem, writes that every mitzvas aseih and lo sa'aseh is identical for every Jew. No difference exists between Moshe Rabbenu, Yehoshua bin Nun, and the most ordinary person in Am Yisroel. Either a person fulfills or annuls the mitzvah. No differences in the general fulfillment or annulment of mitzvos exists.
by Dei'ah Vedibur Staff Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret - Winter, 5780.
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A view of the Kineret in Tiveria -- this year and last year
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005) May-July, 2005
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