haftarah
Haftarah Chaye Sarah: Avraham and Adoniah’s Lessons for Avoiding Another Altalena Affair
In June 1948 the five-week-old State of Israel desperately needed weapons and the Irgun arranged for a ship full of armaments to arrive at the Tel Aviv port. Upon arrival of the ‘Altalena’, David Ben Gurion demanded the weapons be turned...
Haftarah Noach: The Lesson of the Precious Stones off the Coast of Haifa
In 1988, the Lubavitcher Rebbe predicted to the then-mayor of Haifa, Aryeh Gural, that in the coastal waters adjacent to his city, there are hidden vast resources of precious stones. Â Some years later, upon learning of this conversation,...