Rav Binny Freedman – Issues in Israel

What went wrong? How could the Jewish people have come to a place where we are removing ourselves from our own Land? Rav Binny looks at our history in the Land, our responsibilities when living in it, and the work we need to do to not lose it again.

What is it about the Land of Israel? Why do the Jewish people need to be here? In his deep and sweeping style, Rav Binny takes a look at both Biblical and modern-day stories of our journeys back to the place where it all began and where it’s all coming to. Welcome back home.

Can a soldier refuse an order? In this hard-hitting two-part class which he gave before the ‘Disengagement’ from Gaza, Rav Binny asks the very hard questions that still loom over the Jewish people to this day. This first part looks at 20th century Israeli history and at the Rambam’s teachings about the kedusha of the Land of Israel.

Can you give away the Land of Israel? In this continuation, Rav Binny takes three approaches to answer the question, and examines the situations of refusing orders from biblical stories, to really be able to see this issue from its proper Jewish perspectives.