Redemption to Redemption

Based on the book Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston, these lectures examine the deep connection between the holidays of Purim and Pesach. Even though Purim occurred after the close of the Torah, nevertheless, it is our preparation for the holiday of Pesach. If one understands the true opportunity of Purim, and takes advantage of it, then he will be in better position to experience the redemptive power of Pesach. And, to this, we must first better understand the story of Yosef and his brothers, as it relates to the Mishkan. Listen Now.

Redemption to Redemption: Introduction

Why is it so important to celebrate Purim in the month immediately before Pesach, even in a leap year?

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_intro.mp3

A Mouthful   and  Redemption

We may take our ability to speak for granted, but, as we will see, it was and is central to the concept and reality of redemption. Pesach: Chapter One from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass1.mp3

The Centrality Of Speech

Embodied in the concept of speech is the entire purpose of man’s existence. Pesach: Chapter Two from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass2.mp3

Adam  and  The Donkey

As it turns out, the separation between the Jewish people and the Egyptians has a primordial beginning, and matzah is the link between the two. Pesach: Chapter Three from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass3.mp3

Heavenly Bread and Amalek

... And the connection of the munn, the miraculously Heavenly bread, to Haman. Purim: Chapter Four from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim4.mp3

When Fifty  and Speech Meet

Understanding better the centrality of speech, we can now look at its connection to the Nun Sha’arei Binah—the Fifty Gates of Understanding— and see how Pesach is the redemption that Purim leads to. Pesach: Chapter Four from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass4.mp3

Seventy and Da’as

The role of the number seventy and its connection to Da’as is also an important key to unlocking the spiritual potential of Purim. Purim: Chapter Five from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim5.mp3

Da’as Moshe

This was the level of intellectual clarity that Moshe Rabbeinu achieved, which is why, incidentally, Bris Milah was such an issue for him.Pesach: Chapter Five from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

 http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass5.mp3

Toward A More Perfect Vision

The “bottom line” is one’s vision, that is, one’s ability to see not only with one’s physical eyes, but with the mind’s eye as well. We see this from the story of Yosef and his brothers. Purim: Chapter Six from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim6.mp3

Bris Milah: Covenant Of The Word

In fact, speech is so central to completion of the human being and achieving godliness, that, the central covenant of the Jewish people - Bris Milah is named for it. Pesach: Chapter Six from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass6.mp3
  

Twenty and Mishkan

The number twenty, it turns out, represents an intellectual blindness, one which the Mishkan came to cure. Purim: Chapter Seven from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim7.mp3

Avraham and Inspiration

Following this train of thought came only to Avraham, and the zealousness with which he served G-d, which is the measure of one’s devotion to the Creator and His plan for creation. Pesach: Chapter Seven from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass7.mp3
  

The Inside Story

Having understood all of this, it is now possible to see how the day of Purim, and its various mitzvos, act as a spiritual springboard to the freedom of Da’as. Purim: Chapter Eight from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim8.mp3

B’Yad Ramah

This realization is what elevates a person out of the everyday mundane reality, into the realm of the supernatural, and empowers a person to become a partner with G-d in his own self-completion and perfection of the world. Pesach: Chapter Eight from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass8.mp3

The Rite Of Passage
Redemption, Part One is complete, and it provides the bridge over which to cross over into the ultimate redemption of Pesach. Purim: Chapter Nine from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_purim9.mp3

Seder Night and The Haggadah

How the Seder puts all of this into practice, and activates the proper "switches" to bring the Holy Light to us. Pesach: Chapter Nine from Redemption to Redemption by Rabbi Pinchas Winston.

http://program.ouradio.org/audio/winston/redemp_pass9.mp3

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Daily Prayer / Your Soul's Purpose

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"Why are the Righteous Being Taken Away?"

Yitzchak Izik
12 Cheshvan 5772

Isaiah 57:1 - " The righteous man has perished, but no one takes it to heart, and men of kindness are taken away, with no one understanding that because of the evil the righteous man has been taken away."

A great Tzadik departed from this world on the yahrtzeit of Rachel Imeinu, a"h. [Jeremiah 31 - "Rachel weeping for her children...."] This Jew has made a huge self-sacrifice for the sake of the Torah. And he's only one of the many tzadikim who, in the last months, have disappeared from the world. Sometimes more than two per day; tzadikim, who, some of them are well-known like HaRav HaGaon Rav Natan Tzvi Finkle, ztz"l, and apart from this, very many lesser-known tzadikim in Olam Hazeh, but very distinguished in Heaven. This is the most fearful situation, because what will we do without tzadikim!? And the Tzadikim who are called gedolei hador - the great of the generation - the majority are much older Jews, and we tremble over their health daily. The question is asked: Why!? Why, at this moment in history, are we standing and observing daily how the magnificence of Am Yisrael is simply disappearing. [reference] What is the reason? Very simple. We are really right before the complete redemption, with G-d's help. And Am Yisrael is in a very difficult situation. If we give Am Yisrael too much musar, then Am Yisrael won't want to listen, usually.

[Tehillim 50:17 - "For you hated discipline and threw My words behind you."] And more than this, Am Yisrael is angry at those who tell them the truth, and run away instead of drawing close. Therefore, HKB"H is bringing down upon the Jews hard blows. In the last years, the blows upon Am Yisrael are big and hurt very much. Many Jews who died in a sudden manner, or in traffic accidents, lo aleynu, or in various other ways, lo aleynu, or from many difficult illnesses, lo aleynu. And we bury them and continue onward. We forget and go on, but we do not return in teshuva especially. [Isaiah 42: 25 - "And He poured out upon them the fury of His anger and the strength of battle, and it blazed upon them all around and they did not know, and it burned among them and they did not take heed."]

There are indeed some Jews who have returned in teshuva for real, but the majority continue to move away, and I'm speaking about the chareidim. They continue to move away, continue to drown within the Olam Hazeh and Eigel Hazahav. Indeed, they continue to stick hechshers on it, but it's treif, and it brings only to the end of life, so that a person will lose eternity, chas v'shalom.

But, HKB"H sees that it's not helping - so, He sends the tzadikim from us. Because without the tzadikim, we have no feeling of security at all. And the moment that they disappear from the area - then, everything is the most frightening. It's correct that in Heaven, they will pray for Am Yisrael, and it will help, but every single Jew is obligated alone to make a connection with HKB"H. And this is what will help us. And there won't be for us tzadikim to help, because they almost don't exist here. A little longer and we will really be orphans, Hashem have mercy, and like it is written, that at the end - before Mashiach - it will be a generation of orphans, orphans from rabbis, from tzadikim who direct us and give merit to the generation.

What can I say? Almost twenty years we're speaking, and there are people who are beginning to understand, but they're not the majority. They're continuing to fight Jew-against-Jew about nonsense; Jews doing against other Jews all kinds of evil acts, only from zealotry and hatred and all kinds of negative emotions. 'Machloket' - it's a name for a contest. And the situation is going to get worse. There is violence in the chareidi street and the situation is that whoever wants to raise children to Torah and mitzvot and good works, there is really almost no chance for a child to arrive at true yiddishkeit. Therefore, there must now be an end to the exile. There must be an end to the exile now! This moment! Because there is almost no hope for the future. We feel that the Shechinah is already no longer present all over the world. Many Jews are suffering in the worst way, but we're not waking up. We continue to be happy with ourselves, learning, keeping Shabbat - good Jews, but without heart. For the majority, they are without heart. Also, the yeshivas, also the Beit Yaakovs. Learning and learning, where is HKB"H on the horizon!? Where is HKB"H!? Not in the heart. Not in the heart of the majority of Jews.

Am Yisrael, what I'm saying is not new. Just one thing I want to say: Very dark clouds are on the horizon. [Zephaniah 1: 15 - "That day is a day of wrath; a day of trouble and distress; a day of ruin and desolation; a day of darkness and gloom; a day of clouds and thick darkness;..."] The dark clouds, it's war. The third world war. And this war will be the hardest. Hundreds of thousands and maybe millions will be killed. Two-thirds of the world will be destroyed. [Ezekiel 7:5,6,7 - "So said the Lord God: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it comes. An end has come; the end has come, it has awakened against you; behold, it comes. The dawn has set against you, O dweller of the land; the time has come; the day is near, confusion and not the shout of the mountains."] And Eretz Yisrael will not be destroyed, but the Jews, also in Eretz Yisrael, those who do not return in teshuva, those who continue their loitering in Olam Hazeh, they will not survive. That's not to say that there won't be anything in Eretz Yisrael, there will, but Eretz Yisrael will not be completely destroyed. I can only bless all Am Yisrael that we will return in complete teshuva and that our end will be the complete redemption, and that we will merit to this, because it will be the joy of all joys of the Olam Hazeh. But, I'm very worried that until we arrive to this, the world will be a ruined place. Really destroyed. Hashem will completely destroy all the evil, all the falsehood, and will bring us to the World-of-Truth. Without the yetzer hara. But - only with the truth.

Choose, Am Yisrael, choose. There's not much time. This war is standing before us. It's possible already to see it from afar, that it's advancing quickly toward us. A weapon - we shouldn't know of such - is in all the lands. Evil and falsehood are administering the world. There is no logic at all. The Satan leads them. The yetzer hara, the snake, rules over them. But at the end of the thing, in huge miracles, Hashem will erase them from existence. And to wait, even one minute, it's the most dangerous thing. We're obligated at this moment to change direction to the direction-of-truth, and to take out all the falsehood that you have in your lives.

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The 11th Hour

The eleventh hour is a colloquial expression meaning "a time which is nearly too late". So says
Wikipedia.... but there are some other origins of this expression, notably: This expression comes from the Bible. The 11th hour is the last hour before the end of the world.

Interesting...that number Eleven again ....even more so when you listen to Rabbi Winston's
shiur about Moshiach and the 10th Hour. (I know a lot of you don't have the time, so I've typed up the relevant bits)

Disclaimer: Any mistakes are mine, not his.[the following is taken from Rabbi Winston's shiur with a few added clarifications from me in blue]

5750 was a major turning point in Jewish history, as the Vilna Gaon explains:

Each 1000 years represents one day of Creation. The first thousand years represent Day One of Creation, the second millenium is Day Two.... and so on. Therefore this current millenium represents Day Six, the eve of Shabbat. And we know that Moshiach needs to come before Shabbat, before the end of 6000 years.

History Repeats

Everything that occurred at the time of Creation is going to have a corresponding reality in each millenium....each event will present itself again, in some way, every thousand years. History
literally repeats itself - on a different level - during each "day" (a "day" being a thousand years).

Knowing this, we can actually calculate the time Moshiach will arrive, so to speak, even though we are not permitted to calculate the date of His arrival, we can come close. {The Zohar says that as we come closer to the Geulah, even children will know how it will be.}

Moshiach's arrival is about tikkun - rectification. Therefore, Moshiach's arrival will correspond with the ideal time for tikkun as set out at the time of Creation.

The only reason we are all here is to rectify the original sin of Adam HaRishon in the Garden of Eden - the eating of the forbidden fruit. Adam ate from the tree of knowledge at the time of the
10th hour of day six of creation.

The gemara explains that during the 9th hour he was warned, and during the 10th hour (just before Shabbat) he ate the fruit.

The ideal time for tikkun/Moshiach will be in the period in history that corresponds to when he ate the forbidden fruit. 5750 was when the world entered that period of time - the time that
corresponds to the 10th hour of the sixth day of creation. (see Rabbi Winston's books at his website for all the details) 5750/1990 was the turning point, and the 10th hour lasts for 83.6 years (from 1990).

What happened in 1990: as a starting point, Russia imploded, Jews were allowed to leave: some went to Israel, some to America. Soon after in 1991 we had the Persian Gulf War. 10 years later, Y2K and then 911 when the world really did change for all to see.

The book that can change history

The one book that tells us what we're supposed to do at the end of history is Kol HaTor (The Voice of the Turtledove) based on the manuscripts of the Vilna Gaon and passed down through his talmidim until today. People don't talk about it, it gets pushed to the side, but that's the
book that can change history.

The Zohar tells us that Techias Hamaisim - the revival of the dead - takes place 210-214 years in advance of the year 6000, and the Zohar further says that Techias Hamaisim takes place AFTER the 40 years of the ingathering of the exiles. So according to the Zohar, history has to wrap itself up within 15 years from now. Techias Hamaisim is within 15 years. Hashem is bringing the end very fast.

I'm sure Moshiach ben Yosef has already come and gone, and there's reasons for that opinion - the Gra says that the job of Moshiach ben David is to conquer Yishmael - and this is the age of Yishmael - when Moshiach comes, Yishmael will go down. Before then, there are gevurahs (strict
judgments) which have to be rectified (sweetened). For example...last week's murder of the Fogel family in Itamar represented a bucket-load of gevurah.

The Gra says ultimately it depends on what we do. We should be talking about Moshiach, informing people... and reading Kol HaTor.

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Learn the Six Constant Mitvos/Commands

Six Constant Mitzvos - Charlie Harary Videos

Introduction: click here for video

Mitzvah 1 - Know There Is a G-d: click here for video

Mitzvah 2 - Refrain From Idol Worship: click here for video

Mitzvah 3 - Oneness of G-d: click here for video

Mitzvah 4 - Love G-d: click here for video

Mitzvah 5 - Fear G-d: click here for video

Mitzvah 6 - Do Not Stray After Your Heart and Your Eyes: click here for video


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The 31 Prohibitions and Positive Commandments Relating to Lashon Hara

The following is adapted from pages 13-26 of Guard Your Tongue – A Practical Guide to the Laws of Lashon Hara based on the Chofetz Chaim by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin; Gross Brothers Printing Co., New Jersey - publishers (1975):

PROHIBITIONS

1) “You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:16)

2) “You shall not utter a false report” (Shemos/Exodus 23:1)

3) “Take heed concerning the plague of leprosy” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 24:8)

4) “Before the blind do not put a stumbling-block” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:14)

5) “Beware lest you forget the Lord, your G-d” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 8:11)

6) “You shall not profane My Holy Name” (Vayikra/Leviticus 22:32)

7) “You shall not hate your brother in your heart” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:12)

8-9) “You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grudge against the children of your people”

(Vayikra/Leviticus 19:18)

10) “One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin”

(Devarim/Deuteronomy 19:15)

11) “You shall not follow a multitude to do evil” (Shemos/Exodus 23:2)

12) “You shall not act similar to Korach and his company” (Bamidbar/Numbers 17:5)

13) “You shall not wrong one another” (Vayikra/Leviticus 25:17)

14) “(You shall rebuke your neighbor) and you shall not bear sin because of him”

(Vayikra/Leviticus 19:17)

15) “Any widow or orphan shall you not afflict” (Shemos/Exodus 22:21)

16) “You shall not pollute the land wherein you are” (Bamidbar/Numbers 35:33)

17) “You shall not curse the deaf” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:14)

POSITIVE COMMANDMENTS

1) “Remember what the Lord your G-d did unto Miriam by the way as you came forth out of Egypt” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 24:9)

2) “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:18)

3) “In righteousness shall you judge your neighbor” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:15)

4) “If your brother be waxen poor and his means fail him when he is with you, then you shall uphold him” (Vayikra/Leviticus 25:35)

5) “You shall rebuke your neighbor” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:17)

6) “To Him shall you cleave” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 10:20)

7) “You shall fear My Sacred Place” (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:30)

8) “Before the gray-haired you shall rise up, and you shall honor the face of the old man”

(Vayikra/Leviticus 19:32)

9) “You shall sanctify Him” (Vayikra/Leviticus 21:8)

10) “Honor your father and mother” (Shemos/Exodus 20:12)

11) “The Lord your G-d shall you fear” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 10:20)

12) “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up”

(Devarim/Deuteronomy 6:7)

13) “From a false matter you shall keep yourself far” (Shemos/Exodus 23:7)

14) “Walk in His ways” (Devarim/Deuteronomy 28:9

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The Rebbe's Letter to a Prospective Rabbi

.....thinking xtians, muslims, mormons and the like should consider this also.....

By the Grace of G-d
23rd Adar I, 5717
Brooklyn NY


Mr. _____
Chelsee 50
Mass.
Greeting and Blessing:

I received your letter of February 12th, in which you give a brief account of your background and education, and that you are now considering entering the appropriate institution where conservative Rabbis are trained. You ask my opinion on this matter.

My opinion can only be based on the opinion of the Holy Torah, and as it has been formulated by Maimonides, to the effect that he who admits that the Torah is G-d-given, except for one verse which he holds was given by Moshe Rabbeinu himself, such a person is regarded as denying the whole Torah.

Even without the said ruling of Maimonides, this would be self-evident and logical. For one has to be consistent: Either one accepts that the Torah is Divine, in which case a human being with his limited intellect, inasmuch as all creation is limited, cannot possibly fathom the Divine Wisdom that is in the Torah, and cannot, therefore, select passages from it which appeal to his intellect and discard others which do not.

On the other hand, if a human being is so presumptuous as to use his own discretion with regard to the Torah, and accept or reject accordingly, this means that he regards the Torah as something which does not go deeper or beyond his human understanding. Consequently also, the Torah in his opinion has no greater binding force than that dictated by human reason, which in effect means no binding force at all, since no human being can impose his views on any other human being.

From the above, it is clear that Conservative and Reform Rabbis who follow the approach of reform and compromise on religion, completely misrepresent the true Jewish religion and, moreover, mislead those who are under their influence in believing that their own form of convenient "religion" is the kind for which our ancestors have given their lives for thousands of years. They will have their followers believe that their type of man-made religion is the religion revealed to us by G-d on Mount Sinai, and this is the greatest possible fraud. When a career is made of this type of religion, and human conscience and profoundest feelings are made a "trade-in-stock" in this unholy business, then a greater depravity cannot be imagined.

In view of what you write about your own background, I think it is superfluous to emphasize that there is a great difference between a person falling on occasion to withstand a temptation and therefore committing a transgression, and one who tries to justify such sins of omission and commission by saying that they are not transgressions at all, or that the Torah itself permits one to use one's own judgement, for in the latter case it is nothing but falsification of the truth, which is what Conservative and Reform preach. The fact that a Conservative Rabbi may himself be a thoroughly religious person, and observe in his private life all 613 Mitzvos, does not alter the situation if he represents the Conservative movement and disseminates its doctrines.

From the above, it is also evident that the use of the title "Rabbi" in its traditional sense is completely contradictory when it is applied to a conservative, and is in itself misleading and fraudulent to the unsuspecting congregations. Hence, to select such a career in the first place, in my opinion, is completely out of order.

It is well-known that there are many members in Conservative congregations, and sometimes even so-called spiritual leaders in the movement, who themselves negate completely the Conservative philosophy, accepting and following fully the whole Torah, and, in the latter case, have accepted positions as rabbis in Conservative temples for various reasons. This is also the case with regard to the person to whom you refer in your letter, who obviously does not belong at all in the Conservative movement, nor in the so-called "New" brand of Conservatism, which goes under the name of "Modern Orthodoxy". On the other hand, it is clearly obvious that such a situation is pregnant with constant inner conflicts, which are often even outwardly apparent. Therefore, it is certainly advisable and illogical to select a career which is bound to bring with it constant conflict and friction, both within himself and in relation to the environment, etc.

You write that hitherto you have succeeded in safeguarding your immunity from outside influence. But surely this does not jusify to place yourself in a situation which contains more than the average elements of temptations and trials, a road which is fraught with dangers and pitfalls. Rather the contrary, inasmuch as Divine Providence has been kind to you and has safeguarded you from such influences in the past, you should, once and for all, make up your mind to break away from that dangerous path.

If you are bent on a rabbinical career, surely it would be more desiarble for you to enroll into a proper Yeshivah which prepares and trains for the Orthodox rabbinate. If this seems a more difficult climb, nothing stands in the way of determination and will.
With blessing,
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Amazing Story of Gilad Shalit and Chabad Family

The amazing story of how Jerusalem Shlucha Chana Canterman befriended Aviva Shalit and the 20 year old dollar from the Rebbe that resulted in recent blessings.
By COLlive reporter

Aviva Shalit, mother of the now released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, placed a phone call Monday to Chana Canterman, a Chabad Shlucha in Jerusalem, to update on her son's health.

"He's fine! He's fine!" Mrs. Shalit joyfully said.

The connection between the two who live in the same country but spend time in different spheres began when the Shalit family began campaigning for their son outside the prime minister's residence.

Sgt. Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas terrorists on 25 June 2006 in a cross-border raid via underground tunnels near the border with Gaza.

Chana and her husband Rabbi Eli Canterman, the Shluchim in the Talbiyeh neighborhood in Israel's capital, were one of the volunteers who provided meals for the Shalits in their protest tent.

The Cantermans had the Sunday shift and have since become close friends with the Shalit family, visiting them often and praying together for Gilad's release from Hamas captivity.

Chana would spend hours shopping and cooking beautiful meals for the family, a friend of the Cantermans said.

"Slowly they had to bring larger amounts of food each week because everyone would visit on Sunday because they loved her cooking," the friend said.

CLOSE BOND

Naturally, they became close friends with Aviva and her husband Noam Shalit, providing not only food but emotional and psychological support during this time.

"When I flew in to New York for the annual Kinus Hashluchos convention on 24 Shvat, I asked Aviva what I could bring her back from the U.S.," recalled Mrs. Canterman in an interview with COLlive.com.

"She told me, 'All I want is Gilad. I don't need presents.' All she thought about was her son."

The Cantermans also made sure to come by for holidays, in addition to the Sunday visit. For Purim, they organized a festive meal for family and guests, and brought them Matzah on Pesach. During Lag BaOmer day, children came to the tent to say the 12 pesukim (holy passages).

On April 17th, the day before last Pesach, Chana Canterman brought a special gift to Aviva Shalit along with her meal: a dollar bill that she had received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe that was to be given to a worthy charity.

"Take this dollar," said Chana, "and may it be a Segulah (merit) that Gilad be released this year."

Aviva accepted the dollar gratefully and carried it with her wherever she went.

"It was a very depressing period for the family," Canterman recalls. "We wanted to give them an opening of hope and strength to continue waiting for the healthy return of their son."

SUDDEN PROGRESS

On the same day the Shalits received the dollar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Shalits he replaced the official mediator from Chagai Hadas to David Medan.

Miraculously, Medan began to receive messages from the Hamas with signs of Gilad Shalit being alive and in stable condition.

On Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Canterman came by to blow shofar for them. A week later, they heard that Gilad was going to be released on Tishrei 20 - on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.

The next day, Mrs. Canterman texted Aviva Shalit asking her if she can check the date written on the dollar from the Rebbe (Chabad chassidim often write on the bill when it was received).

Mrs. Shalit excitedly replied that the date on the dollar that Canterman received over 20 years before from the Rebbe, was Tuesday, 20 Tishrei, the date that Gilad Shalit was released by the terrorists.

And the year that dollar was given? 5751 - the Hebrew year chassidim spelled out as "the year we will see miracles and wonders."

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The 7 Laws of Noah

The 7 Laws of Noah
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HaShem said, "Be Happy!"

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Dating and Marriage

INTRODUCTION TO SHIDDUCHIM - Rabbi Avraham Braun

free audio here

Part 1 - Torah Perspectives for Dating & Marriage

Part 2 - Evaluating your Readiness for Marriage (A)

Part 2 - Evaluating your Readiness for Marriage (B)

Part 3 - Practical Skills - Do's and Don'ts of Dating (A)

Part 3 - Practical Skills - Do's and Don'ts of Dating (B)

Part 3 - Practical Skills - Do's and Don'ts of Dating (C)

Part 4 - What to Look For

Part 5 - How to Decide
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Meanings and Reasons of Your Faith

It is the bounden duty of all who are not intellectually incapable of independent thought, to search out the true meaning of the doctrines they accept, and the foundations of these doctrines in Reason.

FAITH WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE

The faith of the believer is not complete unless he knows the meaning and the reasons of his belief. And this knowledge that enables one to fulfil the duties of the heart, is the hidden wisdom that is the light of hearts and the bright effulgence of souls; and concerning it Scripture says: - (Ps.6) "Behold Thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden, Thou wilt make me to know wisdom." It is only those of weak intellect who are not culpable if they take on trust what it is man's duty to search out. But whoever has the strength of intellect, and the power to sift and prove, is sinful if he neglects to do so, and also even his lack of knowledge is a sin.

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