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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Interview with Malcolm Hoenlein: Warning Bells in America "An extreme Leftist Jew is no novelty. We are familiar with several such Leftist precedents, as in Russia, Germany and other places. Jews were an inseparable part of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and Communism, and elsewhere. This doesn't mean that the extreme leaning of the Left today, including blatant expressions of anti-Semitism, is less serious because of it."
Last week the wife of prime minister Netanyahu was allowed to make a deal in a long-standing legal case against her. Though leaks in the case that were reported in the press throughout the years that the investigation and the case dragged on suggested that it showed criminal corruption on the part of Sarah Netanyahu, the nature of the deal finally reached was typical of cases in which the infraction was minor.
 In the first part of the discussion about success in Torah learning, R' Michel Yehuda discussed the life of learning Torah mitoch hadechak — while living in a condition of material deprivation. He explained that in this state, it is as if one receives his wisdom directly from Hashem yisborach. He talked of the difficult material conditions that prevailed in yeshivos in the days he was young in Europe, but how such things as having no food on Sundays had no effect on the level of Torah learning, and such conditions produced true greatness in Torah. Importantly, he suggested that today one can "simulate" that condition by attaching no value to material pleasures and sets Torah study as his main aim in life. He quoted the Chofetz Chaim as saying that the seforim he owned were acquired with money that was time that is in turn life itself.
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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