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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.

Israel to grant new immigrants two-year income-tax exemption

Veterans Israelis who spent 10 or more years abroad will also be eligible.

Israel to grant new immigrants two-year income-tax exemption - JNS.org

'A Zionist and economic revolution'

New Jewish immigrants and citizens moving back to Israel in 2026 will pay no income tax during their first two years in the country, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Thursday.

The tax reform for olim, which is part of next year's state budget and was first announced during a ceremony at the Jerusalem headquarters of Nefesh B'Nefesh Thursday, seeks to attract immigrants and returning residents from Western nations amid a global surge of antisemitism.

"This is a Zionist and economic revolution," Smotrich declared, speaking alongside Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer.

"Zionism has always relied on three pillars—settlement, security and aliyah," he added. "These past two years, we invested heavily in security, and the State of Israel is now in a different place. The year 2026 will be a year of revolution in aliyah not as a slogan, but as a practical work plan."

Sofer called immigration "of Zionist, social and economic importance to the State of Israel," emphasizing that aliyah "strengthens our social fabric, brings high-quality human capital and directly contributes to growth, innovation and economic development."

Under the tax reform, new immigrants who make the Jewish state their home and Israelis who return after living abroad for 10 or more years will be charged a zero-percent income tax rate in 2026 and 2027.

Their tax rate will then gradually increase to 10% in 2028, 20% in 2029 and 30% in 2030 (according to income levels within the tax brackets).

The discounted rates will apply up to an annual income cap of 1 million shekels (about $305,000), and will be added to existing incentives for immigrants, including a 10-year exemption on taxes from passive foreign income and other tax credits, the Finance Ministry said.

Since Jan. 1, 2022, olim have been eligible for 4.5 years of tax credits—one in the first year, three over the next 18 months, two in the following year, and one during the final year. In 2024, each tax credit was worth 242 shekels ($65) per month, or around 2,904 shekels ($780) per year.

Since the Hamas-led massacre that sparked a seven-front war on Oct. 7, 2023, more than 50,000 new immigrants have arrived in the Jewish state, according to figures published ahead of Rosh Hashanah in September.

Amid the ongoing fighting, over 31,000 immigrants made Israel their home in 2024—a 31% decrease compared to the previous year.

Joseph Goebbels in Perspective

By Alex Grobman

Joseph Goebbels in Perspective - The Jewish Link

Turkey issues arrest warrants for PM Netanyahu and 36 Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in Gaza, citing hospital strikes, aid worker deaths, and obstruction of humanitarian relief.

http://ch7.io/cbL7Y$Fz

Tribute to Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D on the 35th anniversary of his assassination.

Rabbi Kahane's murder was the first major Islamic terror attack in NYC.

Today—35 years later—the recent election of "Mamdani Jihadi" marks what many view as the latest major jihadist assault on New York City.

🔥 Kahane Was Right

Now, more than ever, we must remember his prophetic warnings and speak his truth to help safeguard Am Yisrael.

A Reminder that Sunday, November 9, is Kristallnacht.

we are living through some of the darkest times for the Jewish people in living memory. The Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, was Nazi Germany's organized prelude to the Holocaust. Despite the street carnage and incarceration
of thousands of Jewish men in concentration camps, few governments around the world condemned—or acknowledged—the modern pogrom perpetrated on German Jews the night of November 9, 1938. Only the United States recalled its
ambassador to Germany in protest.
Eight decades after Kristallnacht, Jews and the Jewish state are again in the crosshairs of antisemites and their apologists. In the U.S., for example, synagogues are regularly torched, while Jewish students are increasingly isolated on college campuses. Support for Israel among young adults is at an all-time low, and so is young adults' knowledge of World War II and the Holocaust.
A significant portion of Americans believe the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023,
were greatly exaggerated—or invented—by Israel.
This year's commemoration of Kristallnacht is an opportunity to "Spread the Light,"
which is the name of an Israeli initiative for synagogues and other Jewish building to keep their lights on during Kristallnacht. The StandWithUs Holocaust
Education Center (HEC) is proud to partner with Spread the Light and its mission of elevating resilience and Jewish unity while commemorating Kristallnacht.

What You Need to Know About the Times for Each Prayer

By Yehuda Shurpin

https://www.chabad.org/library...

Prayer in Jewish law is closely tied to time—not fixed by a simple clock, but by the movements of the sun and the changing halachic hours of the day. With different prayers, blessings, and mitzvot tied to specific times, and those times shifting daily and by location, it's natural to feel confused about what to say when.

This guide lays out the primary prayer times, explains what each time is commonly called in halachic terms, and shows how they correspond to the times listed on a halachic-times calendar, making it easier to know the proper time for each prayer and blessing.

But first, some background.

Time in Jewish practice follows the rhythm of the sun, not the fixed 60-minute clock. Many mitzvot and prayers depend on zmanim, halachic time points determined by the sun's position above or below the horizon. Since sunrise and sunset shift daily and vary by location, these times change as well.

In this area of halachah, an "hour" is generally not a standard 60-minute hour but a sha'ah zmanit (proportional hour)—one-twelfth of the daylight period. As a result, the length of a halachic hour expands in the summer and shortens in the winter.

Key terms:

Alot hashachar (dawn): First light on the horizon.
Misheyakir: When there is enough light to recognize a familiar face from a short distance (used for Shema, tallit, tefillin).
Hanetz hachamah (sunrise): The sun appears on the horizon.
Chatzot (midday or midnight): The midpoint between sunrise and sunset or vice versa.
Minchah gedolah: First time you can pray Minchah (½ halachic hour after chatzot (more on this below)).
Minchah ketanah: Preferred earliest time to pray Minchah (9½ halachic hours into the day).
Plag haminchah: 1¼ halachic hours before sunset (relevant for early Maariv).
Shekiah (sunset): The sun disappears below the horizon.

Bein Hashmashot (twilight): The time between sunset and nightfall. This is a gray area of doubt: is it still daytime, or is it already nighttime? For the most part, this is dealt with stringently, e.g., on Friday, Shabbat starts at sunset, while on the following day, it's still Shabbat day until nightfall.
Tzeit hakochavim (nightfall): When three stars are visible; day ends and night begins.

These definitions help ensure each prayer and mitzvah is performed in its proper halachic time.

To see this time in your locale, see our halachic times calendar.

THE MOST DETAILED IMAGE OF THE SUN

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the images released by the Inouye Solar Telescope are astounding and are just the beginning of the chapters about to be written on solar physics research.

What you're seeing is the highest-resolution image we've ever had of our dear star's chromosphere, the area of the Sun's atmosphere just above the surface. It shows a region 82,500 kilometers in diameter at 18 km resolution (Earth is overlaid for size comparison).

The chromosphere, as the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere called the corona, is usually difficult to see because light from the photosphere, which can loosely be described as the star's surface, usually overwhelms it.

The granules that are seen are produced by the convective flows of the plasma.

NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope is the world's most powerful solar telescope, and its observations will transform how our nation and planet predict and prepare for events such as solar storms.