In conversation with Shlomo Godsi of Alshech Academy in Tzfat, answering difficult questions and mysteries of Parashat Shemot, including why Israel had to be enslaved specifically in Egypt, the meaning of God’s name Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, secrets behind Moses’ “three signs”, and why the Torah strangely says that “God wanted to kill Moses”.
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Bringing Mashiach Today
What will it take to bring Mashiach today?
See here for the video on the Star of Jacob prophecy and ‘Will Mashiach Come This Year?’
See here for the series on ‘Third Rome’.
More information on Kapparot here, and on Portraits of Rabbis here.
Garments of Light, Volume Three, available here.
On Mixing Fish and Meat
This week’s parasha, Re’eh, contains one of three instances in the Torah prohibiting the consumption of meat and dairy together (Deuteronomy 14:21). There is another prohibition strongly linked to this one in Jewish tradition that has no source in the Torah itself: consuming meat and fish together. Unlike meat and dairy, meat and fish can be consumed at the same meal, but sequentially and not combined in the same dish. Where did this restriction come from, and what might be the deeper meaning behind it? Continue reading