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Check out this new hit song! Gidon’s son Chaim Zvi is a budding musician. Here is his first song! I hope you like it! Here are the very special words, translated into English: Pour your heart out like water, facing God” (Lamentations 2:19) That’s how I want to bedon’t pretendbut face to facewith Godto
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click here!
A Rosh HaShana Message: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click
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Our musical friend Yehudah Katz would like to say a few words about his brand new song and video. Dear Friends, For the past 6 months to four years we have seen a very sad situation of growth of hatred and dissension in the world. In my humble opinion, this all began 60 years ago
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Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click here!
Over the last year every couple of weeks we have posted a video from AnaRina Heymann (now Kreisman) until we ran out of videos. But she has just posted a new one called: Seven Weeks of Consolation and the Festival that marks your Return to Zion. Here is the latest video which at 23
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click here!
Va’etchanan: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
Few stories in the Tanakh are as bazaar as the story in 1 Samuel 27 of the future King David, who came to live in Ziklag in the land of the Philistines. In Ziklag, he pretended to Philistine King Achish to be raiding the Israelites, but instead was raiding the enemies of Israel, such as
The summit of Pisgah is redundant, Pisgah means summit. Opposite of Jericho alright, but I would translate this as the highest summit across from Jericho which seems to sound more understandable. The situation is that Moses is standing on the top of mount Nevo east of the Jordan river across from Jericho. The western sea
Just Before the End: What Did Moses See Before He Died? Read More »
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click here!
Devarim: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
After reaching out to the “Stichting voor Boete en Verzoening met Israël en anderen,” the Dutch organization for Penance & Reconciliation with Israel and others, Gidon was invited to speak to their board on the topic of Repentance and Engagement. Your comments are appreciated!
On Wendesday, July 22, Gidon Ariel gave a Zoom talk to a small group of British friends about the looking fast day, the Ninth of Av. He focused on Britain, Israel in Exile and the Nations, Tisha Bav and the State of Israel, and we hope you will find it intersting. Please respond in the
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Watch Gidon Ariel’s video call with Pastor Mark Blitz of El Shadai Ministries!
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click
Chukat: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click
Korach: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
In the last two week we have been showing you videos from Ezra Tubi, an Orthodox Jew that lives in Samaria, who has a knack for revealing the unexpected. This week’s video is Ezri’s newest music video. Enjoy the excellent videography, music and great scenes of Jerusalem and Samaria in: The Call. (3:46) For more
Last week we showed you a video from Ezri Tubi, an Orthodox Jew that lives in Samaria, who has a knack for revealing the unexpected. In this second short video that we show from his site, watch what happens when a Muslim woman enters a Jewish town. Video (3:10) For more about what Ezri
We have recently come across some interesting videos from Ezri Tubi, an Orthodox Jew that lives in Samaria. Ezri has a knack for revealing the unexpected! In this first video that we show from his site, we learn the story of a Palestinian Sheikh that found shelter among the Jews. Video (3:38) For more about
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Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click
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It has been a while since we have published a video update by Avi Lipkin. We caught up with him in as he begins a summer speaking tour in the USA. In part 3 Avi talks about racial unrest, his concerns for the future. Then, after the talk, he gives Bob a brief summary of
It has been a while since we have published a video update by Avi Lipkin. We caught up with him in as he begins a summer speaking tour in the USA. In part 2 Avi talks about the Middle East conflict, and the conflict between the left and the right wings parties. Part 2 of
It has been a while since we have published a video update by Avi Lipkin. We caught up with him in as he begins a summer speaking tour in the USA. In part 1 we see the letters that helped convince Avi to make Aliyah to Israel and hear his take on what is happening
Dear Root Source friends, Here is the fourth of the Facebook links that you might want to share with those who don’t know the Bible as well as you do, but might be interested in appreciating the strong bond of friendship that exists between the United States and Israel. Episode four is less than 4
Episode 4: The Abolitionist Movement Inspired by Moses Read More »
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your chance! click
Beha’alotcha: Rabbi Gedalia Meyer’s Weekly Torah Study Read More »
Our popular Root Source teacher Rabbi Gedalia Meyer has begun giving a short weekly teaching on the Weekly Portion for the Temple Institute. We are grateful to our friends at the Temple Institute who have allowed us to provide Rabbi Meyer’s teachings here too. If you’ve never been to the Temple Institute’s website, now’s your
Bob asked me how connected The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14) is to the Holocaust and Israel in the eyes of Orthodox Jews. He probably asked me that because he remembered that once I told him that for me on a scale of one to ten it is an eleven.
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Dear Root Source friends, Here is the first of the Facebook links that you might want to share with those who don’t know the Bible as well as you do, but might be interested in appreciating the strong bond of friendship that exists between the United States and Israel. Episode one is less than 4
Episode 3: The Hebrew Language Embraced by the US Intelligentsia Read More »