THE ANGELIC JEW
VOLUME 101 NUMBER 1Sivan 4, 5782June 3, 2022PARSHAS BAMIDBARCandlelighting Time 8:05 PM The Torah in this week’s parsha invests heavily in counting the number of men above the age of…
VOLUME 101 NUMBER 1Sivan 4, 5782June 3, 2022PARSHAS BAMIDBARCandlelighting Time 8:05 PM The Torah in this week’s parsha invests heavily in counting the number of men above the age of…
The Connection between Lag b’Omer and the end of the Nazis Y”S “Better for that man to make himself fall into a fiery furnace than to embarrass his neighbor publicly”…
“We have been waiting for 2,000 years. Is that hurrying?” Golda Mabovitch’s birthday is this Shabbat. You probably think of her as Golda Meir, but she was born to Blume…
Often we think of Poland as a place of pain for the Jewish people. That might be true, but there are also a lot of positive things that happened in…
7 Nissan This is not the story of the wine. Though this is from whom that delicious wine gets its name! On this Shabbat in 1488, Rabbeinu Ovadiah Bartenura arrived…
21 Adar So earlier this year I get a chance to write about Rebbe Reb Zusha and now I get to write about his brother Rebbe Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk…
14 Adar Most of you heard about Purim in the days of Esther and Mordechai, which was about 2,376 years ago in Persia. A most fascinating thing happened about 2,308…
8 Adar So besides being my son, Zusha’s, birthday this Shabbat, what else has happened on this day in Jewish history? Can you believe that the Soviets tried to set…
Spanish Golden Age1 Adar Ibn Ezra: While England was working to isolate and diminish the Jewish Community (see last week's Blast from the Past), around the same time the Jews…
Statute of Jewry24 Shvat Meanwhile in England: Did you know in England the Jews were known as the property of the crown? It’s interesting that the Jewish people have a…