Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Rabbi Drukman, Z'L, Was Not The Last Of His Kind
Regarding Rabbi Haim Drukman who passed away last night, there is one moment I will never forget. It was ten years ago at the funeral of Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, who was head of Yeshivat Kfar Haroeh. Rabbi Drukman, who studied at the yeshiva as a boy, eulogized Rabbi Zuckerman with great emotion and suddenly spoke […]
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / What Are The Chanukkah Lights Telling Us?
“I am about to speak in front of people gathered for a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony and I have nothing to say,” a friend wrote me this week. Here are a few suggestions I wrote in response:On Hanukkah we take note of the fact that the Hasmoneans rebelled against the Greeks and triumphed. The Greeks […]
Parshas Lech Lecha – O Say, Can You See?
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: times new roman, times;" _mce_style="font-size: large; font-family: times new roman, times;">Although after being challenged by G-d to leave his homeland, his relatives, and his father’s house, Avraham is promised to become a great nation in a land that will be revealed to him, Avraham just forges ahead with no obvious expression […]
