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Yabia Omer Used This Incident As Proof That You May Not Visit Churches – In Reality the Incident Was Referring to a Sufi Muslim Tekke In Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s article on visiting churches and mosques in Yabia Omer, Vol. 7, … Continued
The Muslim Prayer Rug Should Not Be Used In A Jewish Synagogue In the Responsa of the Rosh, Klal 5, Siman 2 it states: That which you have asked in the matter of the small rug (or mat) that is … Continued
The Messianic Rule Breaker Where The Hebrew letter, Pronounced As Mem, Changes From Its Normal Shape in the Middle of a Word According to two out of three views mentioned by the Talmud and according to archaeology, there was … Continued
Trump in the Torah Version 22 of the Bar Ilan Responsa Project has an option to allow searching for words in code in equal intervals between 1 and 100. Out of curiosity I checked where does the name Trump appear … Continued
Happy Nakba Day and Israeli Independence by Ariel Natan Pasko Most Israeli Jews celebrated Israeli Independence Day (according to the Hebrew calendar) recently. Meanwhile, thousands of Israel’s Arab citizens decried the “Nakba” (The Catastrophe), namely the establishment of the State … Continued
On Kedushah, Kedoshim, and Kiddush HaShem by Ariel Natan Pasko This week, we saw the intersection, of another murder spree at a synagogue in America, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, and the weekly Parsha (Torah reading), Kedoshim. This intersectionality brings … Continued
Former NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and staunch supporter of Israel Speaks At A Rally Against “New York Times” Anti-Semitism A Video of Dov Hikind Speaking at the Rally can be heard at https://twitter.com/i/status/1123126768087465984 This blog post is located at https://vilnagaon.org/dov-hikind/ … Continued
Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer: For the Anti-Semitic Dummies Who Can’t Read, The New York Times Is Helping Them Out With Cartoons Excerpt from https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23790 Der New York Stürmer New York Times Jew-hatred has now been translated into pictures for those … Continued
Talmud – Mas. Berachoth 5a as translated by https://halakhah.com/pdf/zeraim/Berachoth.pdfIt has been taught: R. Simeon b. Yohai says: The Holy One, blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts, and all of them were given only through sufferings. These are: The Torah, … Continued
Update: NY TIMES IS THE NEW “DER STURMER”? Another Anti-Semitic Cartoon, Day After Phony Apology The Blog Home Page: https://vilnagaon.org/blog/