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Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Oct 13, 2025, 11:02 PM

V’Zot HaBrachah – Moshe’s Finest Hour

Many great leaders and thinkers have their single defining moment in history. Through these they will be remembered for generations to come. Albert Einstein is remembered for the discovery of the Theory of Relativity, Mikhail Gorbachev for the destruction...

Oct 13, 2025, 12:35 AM

To See Jerusalem: Simchat Torah, Assassination, and the Soul of Civilisation

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A Journey from Assassination and War Toward Moral Clarity, Faith, and the Future of Civilization There are moments when civilisation itself trembles — when the line between good and evil blurs, and humanity loses its moral compass. Assassinations, terror, and ideological...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Oct 12, 2025, 4:46 PM

Future Israeli Gold Rush (Vezot Haberachah)

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”— Peter Drucker They came by boat. They came by wagon. They traversed oceans and jungles and deserts. They died by the hundreds before ever seeing their destination. By 1849...

Oct 10, 2025, 5:32 AM

Moshe: A Human Being, a Burning Bush (Vezot Habracha)

And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses...

Oct 9, 2025, 11:26 PM

Reflections on Sukkot and Simchat Torah

On Sukkot, we are explicitly commanded to be joyful: “And You Shall Rejoice in Your Festival--ve-samachta be-chagecha.” This is the only holiday where such a command appears. But the question arises: What is there about Sukkot to be happy...

Oct 8, 2025, 8:43 PM

Resilience: Benjamin’s Enigma and Simchat Torah

How the story of the quiet youngest son became a tale of resilience - revealed on Simchat Torah two years ago Benjamin is a mystery to me (and also the name on my passport). He’s the youngest son of Yaakov,...

Oct 18, 2024, 6:02 AM

Reviewing a Difficult year: Sukkot and Simchat Torah

For me, last year ended on October 7th. I never thought that would be the case when I started writing my first blog in June 2022. By nature, I am somewhat pessimistic, as those of you who have been...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Oct 15, 2024, 5:26 PM

The Teacher’s Sacrifice (Vezot Haberachah)

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle Jewish law dictates significant esteem and honor to one’s teacher – sometimes...

Ilana Sober Elzufon

Dec 29, 2023, 4:12 PM

Yaakov’s 12 sons gather around him, eager to hear his final message. The aged patriarch speaks to each brother directly, mostly with words of blessing. But he addresses one pair of brothers together, harshly: Shimon and Levi are brothers, weapons...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 9, 2023, 10:24 AM

Why is Simchat Torah also called the Eighth Day?

It's not the Feast of Tabernacles already, so what's the connection? The non-answer is that it follows the seven days of Sukkot. That doesn't entitle it to be called the Eighth Day. There are several connections. To find out why...

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