The little Jew said, “I think I can, I think I can”

You know I chose this holy place because I understood the significance of being so close to where the Ari taught kabbalah. For almost 1 year I prayed to be worthy to live here before Hashem allowed me to buy this home. I mostly slept, studied and worked in this room closest to the ari. [...]

Tonight is my fathers Memorial, Please put out a prayer for him. Shlomo Zavel Ben Yaakov. All my strength I owe to his influence & guidance. He taught me to love all people and do kindness. May his soul have an Aliyah, be elevated. AMEN!

Please pray for me that I should be in a position to be teacher of Torah full time. I cannot express to you in words the obstacles I face preventing me from learning and teaching. The satan has gps on my every move and thought. We must defeat him and put him to the dust. [...]

I am so busy work web design work and family matters but it has been a few weeks and it is rosh chodesh, maybe it is time for a torah video. Now very few people wrote back about the last couple of videos so quite honestly, that was really hard on me but I know [...]

As ground troops go into the unsafe terrain of Gaza. We have to continue to do mitzvos all over the world to protect the soldiers and southern Jews who are fighting terrorism. Feel free to leave your thoughts and blessings here. Are we overreacting? Well a recent poll this month showed that Fifty-four percent of [...]

My family has been taking turns getting the flu here and I am wondering why Hashem chose this time specifically that people generally get ill. Maybe your words will bring us comfort and refua, healing.

Every day I walk down to the Ari and I pray that Hashem shouldn’t take it all away. My mikvah, Synagoge, and Kollel. I reflect upon my life here in my home and its prime location to Kedusha. Why would Hashem want to take this all away? What would I gain from such an event? [...]

I just returned from the vort, it is weird at 29.99999 years of age (?stopped counting at 29), to have new step brothers and a step dad. When I met all the guys I told them, don’t worry I am cool, we will be alright. I mean, I already have 30,000 children, talmidim are like [...]

I have been thinking about all those people debating if they should order seats to their local Synagogue and community or prayer elsewhere. So many people tell me that they feel they are outsiders and not really apart of their communities in a strong way. Why are so many people like this who feel they [...]

I became a teacher of Torah when I was a young man of 21 years of age. My father had a stroke and was no longer able to speak or move. Knowing how he loved Torah and was a learned man, I took upon myself to prepare two times a week a 1 hour shir [...]

I have been asking myself this question for quite sometime. Can a person still have emunah, pure faith and at the same time be stressed out. For a while, I thought no! Emunah means totally trusting in Hashem and if you have real trust, you should never be stressed but now I beg to differ. [...]

I just returned from Betar where I spent Shabbos with the Biala Rebbe of New York. He has just opened a second shul in Betar, outside Jerusalem. I hope to share with you my experiences. My mother has also returned for a few months to Israel and I enjoyed seeing her with my children. I [...]

Someone asked me if I would be settling setting up RSS for the new podcasts, well as easy as that is, I barely have time to make the podcast itself to worry about spreading it (my wife is shocked that I started yet another project on no funding), so I put Hashem in charge of [...]

For a while now, I have been answering life’s questions on www.askreb.com but I thought now it is time that I ask the world my questions. So, here we go! 1. As you know, Israel is a dusty yet clean climate due to the use of stone buildings and dirt side roads. This causes my black [...]

/>For those that don’t know, my son had 2 &3 degree burns over a year ago. We all prayed for him and we took him to the best doctors but tonight, with a rare sad face since he is sick with the flu, he said, it hurts and the doctors made me a [...]