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Eliyahu Mitterhoff
Member since 29th December 2005
Occupation: Rabbi
Rabbi Eliyahu Mitterhoff is the director of the Global Yeshiva. The Global Yeshiva is devoted to creating a warm and friendly yet serious place for people of all levels to share and discuss Torah and Orthodox Judaism. He envisions this as a great and unprecedented historic opportunity to share, learn, teach and spread Torah on a global level.
20th February 2006
Now Moses' father in law, Yisro, the chieftain of Midian, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, His people - that the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt. (Shemos 18:1)
What news did Yisro hear that made such an impression on him, that h...
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20th February 2006
"And an angel of God called to him from heaven and said, 'Abraham! Abraham!' And he said, 'Here I am.' And he said, 'Do not stretch forth your hand to the lad, nor do the slightest thing to him, for now I know that you are a God fearing man, and you did n...
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20th February 2006
"Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojourning, in the land of Canaan." (Bereishit - Chapter 37:1)
Rashi explains that when Jacob sought to dwell in tranquility, the troubles of Joseph sprang upon him. The righteous seek to dwell in tranquility bu...
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20th February 2006
"I will lie with my forefathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and you shall bury me in their grave." And he (Joseph) said, "I will do as you say." And he (Jacob) said , "Swear to me." So he swore to him, and Israel prostrated himself on the head o...
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01st January 2006
The Maharal explains that the spiritual world of the after-life is not available to us in this world because it is beyond our senses and we have no way to represent it to ourselves or to perceive it's reality.
Similarly Rav Yisrael Salanter emphasized ...
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