This week’s shiur, “The Roots of Secularization: Why People Leave Religion in the Modern Era”, was delivered by Rabbi Shlomo Vilk, Rosh Yeshiva of the Robert Mr. Beren Machanaim Hesder Yeshiva. https://youtu.be/TpFfnTyJ48s
This week’s shiur, “Considerations of Right and Wrong: Principles of Fertility Ethics” was delivered by Rabbi Shlomo Vilk, Rosh Yeshiva of the Robert M. Beren Machanaim Hesder Yeshiva, and a member of the Israel Fertility Association’s Board of Ethics. https://youtu.be/7hvdfEpg__Y
Tell Me a Story by Rabbi Shlomo Vilk, Rosh Yeshiva, Robert M. Beren Yeshivat Hesder Beren-Machanaim (Translated from Hebrew; read the original on Arutz 7) When our Sages tell us that stories relating the conversations of our Patriarchs and their servants are more desirable in the eyes of God than halakhic Torah texts, they must …
Parashat Noach: The ‘b’nei Elohim’ will meet their fate at Babel In this week’s Parasha, Hashem takes a new approach: rather than banish or annihilate, He empowers. The greater the knowledge, the rifer the controversy. Languages become muddled as the gate to heaven gives way to the utter pandemonium we call Babel. by Rabbi Shlomo VilkRosh …
Letting Go Rabbi Shlomo Vilk Rosh Yeshivat Machanaim, Named in Memory of Joseph and Leila Applebaum The soul has two primary ways of preserving the past: through nostalgia and memory. Nostalgia is a negative force insofar as it arouses longing again and again and again, and does not allow the future to shine through into …
Letting Go of All That Was Rabbi Shlomo Vilk Rosh Yeshivat Hesder Machanaim, Named in Memory of Joseph and Leila Applebaum The soul has two primary ways of preserving the past: through nostalgia and memory. Nostalgia is a negative force insofar as it arouses longing again and again and again, and does not allow …
קריאתו של הרוב הדומם הרב שלמה וילק ראש ישיבת הסדר או”ת מחנים הגמרא במסכת ראש השנה טז’ ע”א וע”ב מבררת כמה שאלות חשובות. שלש שאלות שואלת הגמ’ בנושא התקיעה בשופר – מדוע תוקעים בשופר של איל, מדוע יש תקיעה ותרועה ומדוע יש שני סטים של תקיעות – מיושב ומעומד? התשובות ידועות – תוקעים בשופר של …