There are those that speculate that the events that happened in the Torah (the ten plagues, the splitting of the sea, the conquest of Canaan by Yehoshua bin Nun, etc.) were overexaggerated, there are some non-Jewish sources from those time…
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Some Piamenta Music
Brothers Yossi & Avi Piamenta “Poteach Et Yodecha Piamenta – Asher Bara Men at work: Land down under!!!! Piamenta Ripped this one off to make “Asher Bara!”
Walk Like An Egyptian
Walk Like An Egyptian [gplayer href=”https://www.mywesternwall.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/05-Walk_Like_An_Egyptian.mp3″] Walk Like An Egyptian[/gplayer] Run From The Egyptians – Gershon Veroba [gplayer href=”https://www.mywesternwall.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Gershon-Veroba-run-from-the-egyptians.mp3″]Gershon Veroba – run from the egyptians[/gplayer] Personally I don’t find it surprising that the Bangles, all women, are being imitated by…
Eating Seeds on Purim
Why is there a custom to eat seeds on Purim? (Excerpted from “Inside Purim“) 1. We eat seeds on Purim in commemoration of a miracle that took place shortly before the Purim story. The first perek of Sefer Daniel describes how…
Rabbinic Terrorism and the Internet – revisited
A few weeks ago I wrote an article on Rabbinic Terrorism and the Internet, where leading Rabbis in Israel were banning Haredi websites left and right, thereby preventing the spreading of Torah through these devices. It now seems that they…
Bernard Lander Z”L – Touro College – A Man of Vision
Last week, on February 8th, 2010, we lost one of our leaders in the Jewish community, Dr. Bernard Lander. Many stories about him right now are vague and over-exaggerated, so I therefore want to clarify “all the facts” in order…
Don’t cook a kid in its mother’s milk
In Parshas Mishpatim, one of the laws we learned was one of the three instances where it says “Lo Tevashel G’di BaChalev Imo,” Don’t cook a kid (young lamb) in its’ mother’s milk. Classically, the first teaches that we may…
Mishpatim – A Hebrew Slave
In this past week’s Parasha, Parshas Mishpatim, we see a complete contrast from the Parasha before, Parashas Yisro. In Yisro, Yisro, Moshe’s father-in-law, went to give his son-in-law his wife and sons after Moshe redeemed the Jews from Egypt. Yisro…
Seven stages of MAN – Midrash on Koheles
There’s a particular Midrash about man’s lifecycle that I find very true. Shlomo HaMelech wrote in Koheles a Pasuk that uses the word “vanity” seven times. This alludes therefore to the seven stages of ones life, which is generally entrenched…
Y-Love
Introducing Y-Love Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is an MC unlike any other. He is a black convert into the Bostener sect of chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He is among the most innovative freestylers on the scene, weaving seamless…