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OPINION
& COMMENT
On the Way to Forming a New Government
The main issue occupying Israel these days is the formation
of a government. Although not all the details are known and
some are still subject to change, the general outlines are
clear.
The Necessity of Suffering: Perfecting an Individual Jew's
Soul and Bringing Tikkun Ho'Olom
by HaRav Yechezkel Taub
Part I
Chazal write (Medrash Rabbah, parsha 65,
os 9): "Yitzchok asked for yissurim
(suffering). He said to G-d: `Ribbon HoOlomim! If a
man dies without yissurim, the Attribute of Justice is
stretched over him. But if You bring upon him
yissurim, the Attribute of Justice won't be stretched
over him [because the yissurim cleanse him of sin
(Yeffeih Toar)].'
The Egypt Vaccine: Key to All Exiles
by Aryeh Taback
There appears to be a great paradox regarding the generation
which left Egypt. On the one hand we are told by Chazal of
their degenerate moral state, that they were on the forty-
ninth level of impurity and immersed in idolatry. At the same
time we read in parshas Bo of their remarkable trust
in Hashem, leaving Egypt on His command without supplies for
the journey.
Herzl — the Visionary Who Did Not Envision
by Yisroel Spiegel
Theodore Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, was very
removed from the Jewish people, very severed from it. This
was true even after his vision of Zionism became the focus of
his whole life. A son of an assimilated family, he was unable
to grasp the complexity of Jewish survival, which is totally
based on pure spirituality.
Politica: The Battle for the Portfolios
By E. Rauchberger
With the chagim behind us the coalition negotiations
are gathering momentum in an effort to complete the formation
of the coalition and to set up the next government. Kadima
promised Labor they could be the first to join the coalition
and does plan to keep its word, but Kadima won't wait
forever.
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