7. Parshat Vayetzei

HERE AND NOW WHEN HOLINESS IS LOCAL מאך דא ארץ ישראל Around 200 years ago, a disciple of the Tzemach Tzedek, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, decided that he wanted to settle in Israel. He went to his Rebbe to ask him for a blessing. The Tzemach Tzedek replied, “Mach doh Eretz Yisroel—Make the Land of Israel right here.” What if life’s greatest journeys are defined not by miles but by the degree of transformation? פסיקתא רבתי א' אָמַר ר׳ לֵוִי: עֲתִידָה יְרוּשָׁלַיִם לִהְיוֹת כְּ

THE SECOND SANAI DECODING THE NEW TORAH OF MOSHIACH תורה חדשה Determined to break the German Enigma codes, Alan Turing built the Bombe, a machine that rapidly tested possible settings for the scrambled letters. In his quiet room at Bletchley Park, he and his team decoded messages to assist Allied convoys in dodging deadly U-boats, eventually shifting the tide of World War II. But the greatest codes are yet to be decrypted in the future. ויקרא רבה י״ג, ג אָמַר רַבִּי אָבִין בּ

THE METAMORPHIS OF EVIL THE UNHOLY FORECASTER OF THE MOSHIACH PROPHECY נבואת בלעם: גדרו וכוונתו The League of Antisemites was created by a German journalist in 1897. The ideas espoused weren’t new, with the same old anti-Jewish lies and bigotry—but as atheists, the league looked for a definition to their hatred that could no longer be explained along religious lines. Thus the term “Semite,” a Middle-Eastern cultural grouping, was coined. This has created a new realm of conf