Reflections
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The Mabul – the Great Flood
David Sofer 04/11/2009 08:00On the 17th of the month of Marcheshvan in the year 1656 the waters of the great flood began to cover the earth, during the lifetime of Noach. Tremendous streams of water – torrential rainfall together with the wellsprings of the waters from the deeps – submerged the earth in a way that seemed to defy nature, and the entire world was destroyed.
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Jewish Settlement in Yerushalayim
20/10/2009 09:00The tale of Jewish settlement in Yerushalayim; a history beginning from the times of Dovid haMelech and spanning up until the present day. During almost all of the intervening years there was a constant Jewish presence in the holy city, a presence more constant than in any other centre of Jewish residence.
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Valley of Death: Babi Yar
Motty Meringer 29/09/2009 11:39One of the most notorious locations used by the Germans for their mass executions was the ‘Babi Yar’ valley near the city of Kiev, Ukraine. Here, the Nazis shot over fifty thousand holy Jews into a communal grave. May Hashem avenge their deaths.
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The Second World War
Motty Meringer 06/09/2009 16:01The Second World War brought immense destruction to the whole world. The forces of evil were set loose, and the effects of the years of battle, especially on the Jewish people, can be felt even up until the present day.
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The Black Death
Motti Meringer 28/08/2009 08:00The name ‘Black Death’ was given to the plague of pestilence that ravaged Europe seven hundred years ago. The collective suffering of Europe became the personal misfortune of the Jews, as they became the target of anti Semitic libels and pogroms which killed thousands of Jews
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Reflections on the Chevron Massacre
Avi Lazer 07/08/2009 10:00It was a long and bitter Shabbos for the Jews of Chevron. Hours filled with fear, horror and dread as death ran amok outside; leaving behind not a trace of Jewish Chevron as it once was.
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Babylonian Exile
Motty Meringer 28/07/2009 14:43From the time of the Babylonian Exile and the destruction of the first Temple, the Shechinah left its place of dwelling in the Beis haMikdash and went into a period of obscurity. Despite the many calamities that continued to befall the Jewish people in all their exiles, they never ceased to turn their eyes towards their Father in Heaven, in hope and in prayer.
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Bein Hameitzarim
Avi Lazer 17/07/2009 11:05“All her Pursuers overtook her between the Narrow Straits”
The Three Weeks. Days of physical danger, days that were replete with suffering throughout our turbulent history. And paradoxically, these are also days of spiritual preparation to meet the upcoming Days of Awe
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Libyan Jewry
Motty Meringer 16/07/2009 16:00Close to three thousand years of Jewish history are absorbed in the Sahara Deserts and the dangerous shores of Libya. All about the ancient Jewish community and its rich heritage, its prominent rabbis and its Torah giants whose teachings we still live by today
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The Pogroms of the year 5151
Motty Meringer 23/06/2009 08:00These pogroms were against the Spanish Jews and caused many conversions to take place.
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