Thursday
Dec202018
BARZILAI’S PARTY
December 20, 2018The plane arched overhead. Its broad wings cut through the air easily and it flew with a silent whoosh toward its destination. Its pointed nose rammed my head.
Entries in 10 Teives (5)
Tuesday
Dec222015
POWER OF 10
This week was the fast day of the tenth of Teves. On that day, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nevuchadnetzar laid siege to Yerushalayim. Later, the city walls were breached, and on 9 Av of that year the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
Tuesday
Nov112014
IRON IN YERUSHALAYIM
The advantage of the feminine aspect is underscored by the order of the four Imahos of the Shvatim, spelling out the acronym “barzel.” * All together we go to our Holy Land, “a land of wheat, barley, grape, and fig, pomegranate, a land of olive oil and date honey,” “a land whose stones are barzel, iron.”
Monday
Dec092013
THE MONTH OF THE LION
Regarding the prophecy of 10 Teves and the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, the Navi (Yechezkel 4:3) writes: “And you shall take yourself an iron skillet and make it an iron wall between you and the city and direct your face toward it, and it will be in the siege and you shall besiege it; that is a sign to the house of Israel.”
Thursday
Dec052013
TEIVES AND MOSHIACH
As we get closer to Moshiach, the Geula aspect of Teives is becoming more and more apparent. There are quite a few Moshiach components in Teives that are highlighted in the Sichos of the Rebbe…