Rabbi Ari Shvat
Rav Kook's Torah, religious Zionism, the Land of Israel & Original Songs
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NOT ALL HATE IS CREATED EQUAL
We read in this parsha about how part of the Tikkun of tzara’at, or punishment for Lashon Harah is that in…
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BETWEEN YOM HASHOA and YOM HAZIKARON
I was once asked to be a Sandak and hold the baby at a bris which took place precisely between Yom…
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THE WORLD IS READY FOR ISRAEL’S BODY-SOUL HARMONY
This week’s Parshat Shmini directs us regarding the details of Kashrut that “we are what we eat” (see Vayikra 11, 43,…
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THE MASTER PAINTER and the IDF
The master of parables, the Dubna Maggid tells: There was once a world-renowned artist who was commissioned to paint a landscape…
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Between CHAD GADYA and V’hi She’Amdah
We often are missing nice divrei Torah for those fun songs at the end of the Seder, so here it goes:…
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TODAY STATISTICALLY OUTDOES PESACH!
Q. You wrote last week about the “Kvetchers” in Israel in our war with Iran. But with all due respect, how…
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ON KVETCHERS and PROPORTIONS
As we approach Pesach, imagine if during the Ten Plagues, someone complained they can’t sleep because the Egyptians are crying too…
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Between the Labor Room and Bachelordom: Faith in the Fog of War
It has been 12 days since war erupted in Israel. Sirens, shelters, schools closed, and a nation mobilized for reserve duty.…
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MI LAHASHEM ELAY- THE TORAH MINDSET
Yishayahu (25, 1) calls the mitzvot, “counsels from long ago”, and the Rambam writes that the mitzvot teach us ideas, actions…
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WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN?
The 1,800 year old Midrashim on Esther, could actually have been written today! Our sages teach that King Achashverosh hated Israel…