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"No Segulah Like the Torah": Rabbi Reuven Zakai on the Most Proven Way to Secure Salvation

Ron, do you ever listen to yourself? Claiming you love Shabbat more than the religious sounds like a child declaring love for their parents while simultaneously disrespecting them. You trample and desecrate Shabbat, a precious gift given to us by Hashem, and still call yourself 'a lover of Shabbat'? Who needs enemies with 'Shabbat lovers' like you?

When my father wanted to convince me to eat, he would show me shapes of an elephant and a lion formed in a slice of cut bread. True, I was once small and convinced. But I've grown since. And I've come to understand that Judaism is a much more intelligent and wise affair than a collection of faces and bizarre imaginations.

Has the world changed overnight? Have we forgotten the age-old teaching "It is known that Esau hates Jacob"? What happened to the deep-seated dislike nations have towards Israel, ingrained in their history?

There's no such thing as a secular Jew, simply none. This story, which happened two summers ago at Elbaz's minimarket in Ein Yaakov, proves it.

When a reluctant government official heard Sephardic children singing “Shir HaShirim,” he broke down in tears and gave the green light for a school system that would change tens of thousands of lives