Friday, October 31, 2025

13 Facts You Should Know About Prayer By Yehuda Altein & Camera strapped to jaws of Nile crocodile – here's what it filmed & Archaeologist says Atlantis ruins found near Cadiz; giant tsunami likely caused its destruction & 2,000-year-old shipwreck discovered off Turkish coast with remarkably preserved stacked ceramics by Dario Radley & The Portion of Lech Lecha-When Is It Better to Be Childless? & with those we have lost


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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

2,000-year-old shipwreck discovered off Turkish coast with remarkably preserved stacked ceramics by Dario Radley

2,000-year-old shipwreck discovered off Turkish coast with remarkably preserved stacked ceramics | Archaeology News Online Magazine

13 Facts You Should Know About Prayer

By Yehuda Altein

13 Facts You Should Know About Prayer - Chabad.org

Archaeologist says Atlantis ruins found near Cadiz; giant tsunami likely caused its destruction

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Camera strapped to jaws of Nile crocodile – here's what it filmed

Despite their fearsome reputation, this amazing footage from inside a crocodile's mouth shows how gentle the large reptiles can be.

Camera strapped to jaws of Nile crocodile – here's what it filmed | Discover Wildlife

Those we have lost

Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas's onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023

Every day you can look at another victim and send him/her prayers

Those we have lost | The Times of Israel

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Civilians

IDF Israel Defense Forces soldiers and reservists

Police officers
Israel Police and Border Police officers

First responders
Local security team members, firefighters and medics

Supernova festival
Those who attended the Supernova or Psyduck festivals

Foreigners
Foreign workers, tourists and students

Chess teaches us about life: Only the female piece can do whatever she likes.

The Portion of Lech Lecha

When Is It Better to Be Childless?

After Abram frees his nephew Lot from captivity, G-d reveals Himself to Abram and says: "Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield. Your reward is exceedingly great (Genesis 15;1)". It appears that Abram has some doubts with regards to G-d's promise. "And I am childless…Behold You have given me no seed (Genesis 15;2-3)".

The commentaries have a hard time explaining Abram's doubting the Almighty's promise with regards to children. The Midrash in Bereisheet Raba states that Abram doesn't doubt G-d's promise but rather says that if You grant me children who will not observe the Torah then it is better that I remain childless.

This explanation is alluded to in the addition to the letter "ayin" in the word "ariri" (childless) in which part points upwards and part points downwards, as if to say that if the Torah which comes from above is observed below then I will not be childless, but if not- better that I remain childless. (based on Sefer Harokeiach)