Fishel Jacobs, at The Blogs

Nov 24, 2023, 1:34 PM

Hamas Hostages Aren’t Israel-Held Terrorists

Why This Piece, Now Currently, the issue of exchanging hostages held by Hamas in Gaza for the release of terrorist inmates in Israeli custody is a burning discussion worldwide. Understandably, an otherwise uninformed public may assume an incorrect correlation. In other...

Oct 10, 2023, 6:22 PM

The Inspired Fighter Always Wins

B”H Premise We will present as generally accepted fact that winning is a matter of spirit. Were all other factors to be equal: training, fitness, readiness, the following is always true: The fighter who wants it more will win. Israel Is At War We have...

May 18, 2022, 7:00 AM

Spreading Family Purity – Article

Of course, family law is the cornerstone of everything. Naturally, the basis of everything is the individual. But, when we look at society as a whole, it's been said that the family is the building block. The individual is the brick,...

Feb 15, 2021, 6:28 PM

A broken nose and my rabbi

Often we don't get it, until we get hit. I got it, when I got hit. In 1977 all I wanted was to fight in the olympics. Things were looking good. I'd been training for almost a decade. Black belt. Competing....

Mar 25, 2020, 10:03 PM

Corona: Attacked With No Enemy!

B"H If we've ever found ourselves attacked, but there's no 'enemy,' it's now! The 'state' as we know it has been around for five thousand years. Since that time, there has always been military activity — war. There have been 14,500 wars,...

Mar 19, 2020, 10:54 AM

Coronavirus: Let’s Finish Victoriously

It’s March 18, 2020. The world is in home quarantine. I’m in quarantine. You’re in quarantine. We’re all in quarantine. No one knows for how long. A month. Six? A year? That’s the million dollar question. That question is for our researchers and their...

Oct 3, 2019, 2:18 PM

Forced Israeli Citizenship – Bad Law

This post isn't really a "post," per se. It's more of a call for input. Over the years, I've seen too many people who were born and raised outside of Israel, but their parents (or one) were Israeli citizens, who...

Sep 15, 2019, 5:35 PM

Careful — Not Anxious — Mikvah Preparation

I receive a reoccurring question very often. Actually, it's not always presented in a question form. Sometimes it appears in other ways. Sometimes, I simply sense it underlying the communication between people writing or calling me with halachic questions. The...

Sep 8, 2019, 7:26 PM

Remember Your Angel — Finding Strength

It's amazing. The author opens the book of Tanya with a story! Tanya is the basic book of Chabad. After all, we have an encompassing school of thought, two hundred years old, tens-of-thousands of scholarly tomes, based in Talmud and Kabbala,...

Sep 7, 2019, 12:39 AM

Prison and dealing with others

When presenting your agenda with other people, don't forget that they, too, have their own agenda. You learn a lot in prison. It's a rough place, put mildly. Put straight, it's a jungle. I spent thirteen very long years in maximum...

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Fishel Jacobs was as a major in the Israeli Prison Service and Chabad campus chaplain at Tel Aviv University. He authored numerous bestselling books on practical Talmudic law in use worldwide. And is responding rabbi for numerous websites. He speaks worldwide.

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