Hidden Treasure: Bava Metzia 25b
My neighbour’s father was niftar some thirty years ago and the inheriting family sold his house, their birth home in Stamford Hill, London, to...
Beyond the headlines
Last week, the somber news emerged that Major Daniel Perez, previously reported as a hostage, was tragically no longer among the living. Our hearts...
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PASSOVER WHISKY
Dear Rabbi I wonder if you saw the advert for Kosher for Passover whisky. I am new to all this stuff, but I...
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IN MY OPINION
Dear Rabbi,
"I have read many of your remarks about Israel which I vehemently disagree with. Did you know that your comments last...
Escape From Shushan
Things in Shushan appeared to be humming along. Seventy years earlier, Yerushalayim fell to the invading Babylonian armies, and we scattered across the Middle...
Purim: Our Existential Battle Against Amalek
As we encounter Purim, let us delve deeper into the unique spiritual and existential battle that the Jewish People must continue to wage against...
It Didn’t Start October 7th
It Didn’t Start October 7th
Dear Rabbi,
I note your remarks last week about the United Nations being a mockery and completely unreliable. I am generally...
A shammash in the age of electricity
THE MIRACLE OF CHANUKAH
Chanukah is colourful, exciting, and popular, ranking with Purim in carnival spirit. Every type of talent is part of the festival:...
Chanukah, Hellenism, and Hamas
Jewish history isn't random. Selected to represent Hashem and inspire moral and religious spirit, our battles aren’t local and aren’t purely geopolitical. We stand...
Rebbe’s Chanukah campaign burns bright
Fifty years ago, The Rebbe launched his global Chanukah campaign.
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson's aim was to share the light of Chanukah with Jews around...
Tisha B’av: A Revolution of Consciousness
Rabbi Moshe Taragin
With every passing year, our mourning for the lost Temple becomes more difficult. The disastrous fall of Yerushalayim and the derailment of...
Israel Is Not a Start-up Nation
Rabbi Moshe Taragin
What happens when grand visions meet harsh realities? For hundreds of years, the land of Israel was a shimmering dream buoying the...
Ask Rabbi Shochet on Rabbi’s Sermons and Jewish Unity
Is Presentation Everything?
Dear Rabbi
I attend a Synagogue where the Rabbi, not originally English, struggles to express himself properly. We all understand what he’s saying...
Ask Rabbi Shochet on some Chanuka Customs
Dear Rabbi
I loved your reply last week explaining the idea of gift giving on Chanukah. So much so, that I also thought it was...
Reflections on the passing of Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu zt”l
By Rabbi Jeremy Conway
Somehow it was my great zechus to become a zanav l’aroyos – “a tail to lions” and in particular to the...
The “State” of Hashem in Our World
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin for Rosh Hashanah
"All of humanity pass before You as sheep.. ". On Rosh Hashanah, Hashem reviews all human behavior, scrutinizes...
Moving and Meaningful Tisha B’Av programme Whitefield Community Kollel in their new home, Shomrei...
Sunday Tisha B’Av saw a well-attended day long programme offered at Shomrei Hadas Shul Prestwich by Whitefield Community Kollel.
In the day’s programme, led by...
Donkeygate
by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
A lot was at stake. We were perched to enter the promised land, launch Jewish history, and assemble the kingdom...
Naso, a brave new world
The drama of a nazir illustrates our delicate interface with the physical world which surrounds us. God crafted us as spiritual creatures- more angel...
Parshat Bechukotai: what drives history?
Our sedra contains the tochacha, a whole litany of curses that will befall the Jewish People should they turn away from a life of...