Difficulties are facts of life, however, how we respond to them is our choice From HaGaon Rav Yaakov Sasson Shlit”a, a grandson of Maran zt”l(Translated by our dear friend Rav Daniel Levy Shlit”a, Leeds United Kingdom) From Christina Mattison Ebert’s D’rash Designs series It states in the Parashah, “Meanwhile, Yaakov settled in the area where his father had lived in the land of Canaan” (Bereshit 37:1). Our Chachamim say that Yaakov sought to live in tranquillity and then the

by Elisheva The Power of Tehillim Tehillim  means “Praises” and contains many praises and pleas to HaShem. Most of the Tehillim  was written by Dovid HaMelech, and around half of the chapters are “ Mizmor L’Dovid .” The sefer  contains 150 perakim . The Midrash tells us that when Dovid HaMelech composed the Tehillim , he had not only himself in mind, but every Jew and every circumstance. No matter the situation, the words of Tehillim  speak words from the heart — from neshama

by Ram ben Ze'ev The War on Words: How the Nations Distort Our Holiest Language Language is not neutral. For ישראל, it is the vessel through which קדושה enters the world. When the nations take our sacred words, reshape them, and hand them back to us with their meaning hollowed out, something essential is lost. Holiness becomes obscured, and the identity of our people is quietly eroded. Few examples reveal this more starkly than the distortion of שבת (Shabbat, rest) into the C

by Ram ben Ze'ev Bitcoin, Strategy, and the Manufactured Illusion of Wealth Retail investors are once again being swept into the tide of Bitcoin euphoria—this time fuelled not by anonymous influencers, but by the relentless promotional machine of Strategy ($MSTR) and its frontman, Michael Saylor. His latest announcement proudly declares the acquisition of another 10,624 BTC at an astonishing price of more than $90,000 per coin, framing it as yet another milestone in the compa

by Ram ben Ze'ev The Snare Within: Idolatry in Our Land and the Consequences We Refuse to See Israel stands today at a crossroads not defined by borders or politics, but by spiritual clarity. We face enemies on every side, and yet the greatest danger is not external. It is the one we have permitted—welcomed, even—within our own gates. We are commanded by G-D with absolute precision. In שמות (Shemot) 23:33 the Torah states: לא ישבו בארצך פן יחטיאו אתך לי כי תעבד את אלהיהם כי

by Elisheva Kayla Haber-Goldstein & Rabbi Shmuel Goldstein When our faith and beautiful way of Torah life becomes a path full of struggle, questions, and answers that raise even more questions. Coming from a home and not being given the space to learn or to grow can be overwhelming. Kayla Haber-Goldstein grew up in a Charedi community in Israel as a daughter of a rabbi. When she married Shmuel Goldstein, she realised that she didn’t want to have the same family life she exper

by Ram ben Ze’ev The Digital Trap: Why Bitcoin May Be the Greatest Financial Ambush of Our Time The world has been conditioned to view Bitcoin as a revolutionary force—an escape hatch from the dominance of the U.S. dollar, a decentralised answer to global inflation, and a hedge against political instability. Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that Bitcoin may be functioning not as liberation, but as the most sophisticated instrument ever designed for America to export it

by Ram ben Ze’ev The Illusion of Stability: Why Strategy’s Bitcoin Model Is Cracking What happens when a company becomes so deeply committed to its core asset that it can no longer step away from it without causing its own collapse? That is the question now facing Strategy, and the answer is neither flattering nor encouraging. The company has become synonymous with its Bitcoin reserves. As of this writing, Bitcoin is trading around $86,700 per coin, and Strategy sits on a mas

by Ram ben Ze’ev Zahwa Arafat There is a great myth that has been sold to the world for decades – that a so-called Palestinian national identity, rooted in ancient history, culture, and land, has always existed and that this identity was somehow stolen. This myth did not develop organically. It was crafted, marketed, packaged, and distributed as propaganda by one Egyptian-born man: Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, later known by the more famous a