chizzuk

You can do anything

Do you know that you have unlimited power inside of you? Do you know that it is there, bubbling beneath the surface? Do you know that you – yes you! – have the ability to change the world? There’s a voice that quickly snaps, “No, that’s not true.” But underneath the harshness of its tone,…

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Something Different

Here is a song that I wrote today, called Something Different. Please don’t distribute beyond this blog and/or my facebook page. Enjoy! There’s something different in the airThings are changing everywhereAll the walls are crumbling downEmptiness is all around Angry voices serenadetauntingly their music playsSomewhere in the raucous dinA quiet voice is there within Peel…

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דור שכולו חייב

Our Chachamim say that Moshiach will come either in a generation that is completely righteous, or a generation that is completely the opposite. As things look today, I think it is quite clear that we are not living in a completely righteous generation. If not for this statement of our sages, one would be hard-pressed…

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Important message

Last week, there was a horribly tragic story where R’ Shmuel Borger’s son Motty, who had just gotten married, died two days after his wedding. R’ Shmuel Borger is someone who has been involved in chizzuk for Klal Yisrael for many years, and specifically recently with the production of the Tisha B’av chizzuk videos on…

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Why are Jews in America?

Over the last two weeks, and for another week or so, I am visiting the United States for a family Simcha. I have not really had much of a chance until now to write any serious posts, but my thoughts have been rolling as always with ideas that beg expression. So, here I begin. Before…

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Making sense of world events

I am going to do something out of character with this post, and I accede that it represents a failing in myself. My better judgment tells me to never make predictions, and to generally try to avoid reading the news and hype that we, the Moshiach blogosphere, create for ourselves. For better or for worse,…

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On our own

On a short walk in Ramat Bet Shemesh, I had a most moving thought. As the Jewish people once again seems to find itself in a corner, with no one to rely on but Hashem, there is a striking parallel to another point in history that presaged a potential Geulah. This was actually in the…

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Come to Israel, now?

It’s been over a week since my last real post, and I had many thoughts that bounced around my head since then. On one hand, the post was nice for anyone in the US, because it made one feel rather comfortable kind of ignoring the urgency of some other blogs. It also kind of left…

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Moshiach, now?

The following comment was posted on the previous post: Please, Ari, please don’t fall into the trap of predicting a scary downfall of America. Just three months ago, I asked R. Chaim Kanievsky if I should move my family to E”Y. I was all excited about it. He replied that I cannot come without parnassah.…

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Fall of the US

Yeah, that title got your attention! It’s so funny, because the last place I would have expected to hear that the US is falling is in the misrad haklitah – the office for absorption. See, my wife and I officially made aliyah a little less than three years ago after living here for over five…

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