Rabbi Harry Zeitlin

I’m fine. I spent an hour with my neighbors. I’m fortunate to have a bomb shelter in the basement, but the only real “fortune” worth having is never needing a bomb shelter.
Much more angry and defiant than scared, but much more grateful to The Creator הוא לא ינום ולא אישן, than anything.
Moving my thoughts on to a new year.

As Shabbat in chu”l approaches, my thoughts and heart are with everyone in Eretz Yisrael, under insane treat from Iran and its proxies.
May all their hate turn into dust while we focus on Ahavat Chinam, boundless love for each other.
May our holiness this Shabbat cancel the upcoming fast.
Shabbat Shalom.

Thoughts on Parshat Pinchas,

Peace: Eternally Elusive? Nothing is more dreamed of and sought after, especially these days with our soldiers dying every day and our hostages, languishing unspeakable torture in the tunnels of hell in Gaza, than peace. It…

Thoughts on 27th of Tamuz and the Three Weeks, a persistently challenging period for the Jewish People.

Restoring the Tablets As we reach the end of Tammuz 17, a multi-purpose fast day in the Jewish calendar, this year with Israel still engaged in an existential war that began with the barbaric attack of October 7, when a…

This prayer by Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo, for the 17th of Tammuz, which begins the three weeks which lead to the 9th of Av, our national day of destruction, may it soon be transformed to national Rebuilding and Repair, moves me deeply.

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/847421/127659269547885888

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/392684

Ma’alot: where the entire Torah was studied in a single week Wow! It includes the Tanach (Bible), the Mishnah, the Babylonian Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud, Midrashei Halacha and Midrashei Agada and the holy Zohar as well.

Is this week's parsha, Sh'lach L'cha, the most hopeful or the most despairing of the year?

MiMa’amakim–From The Depths Just when it seems we’re, once again, on the brink of disaster, we should find comfort that our yearly Torah cycle brings us to Parshat Shelach. When it seems we’re being abandoned by o…

As challenged as the Jewish People have ever been, we are about to receive Torah once again on this soon-approaching holiday of Shavuot.
The Torah itself is to make us think. Here are some of my thoughts this time around....
Chag Sameach

Descent A well-known principle in Kabbalah is that of descent for the sake of later ascent, as it says in Mishlei (24:16), “a Tzaddik falls seven times and then he rises.” Much of the world of…

In my rush to post before Shabbat, I forgot to add the link.....
Here are my thoughts on Parshat Bechukotai:

https://rabbizeitlin.com/2024/05/31/rational-vs-irrational-love/

Shavuah Tov!

Rational Vs. Irrational Love The Torah talks about Chokim as a class of mitzvot, commandments which have no reason, i.e. are irrational. There is no obvious benefit to performing that mitzva beyond, perhaps, demonstrating ones…

Thoughts on Bechukotai
Shabbat Shalom!