Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny – Portion of Behar

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(click here for print version) Having only recently completed their basic training, they’d been in the army for only eight months, but on the books they were paratroopers, members of the elite 202nd battalion, and this night, finally was their time to be tested. The youngest of the units sent in to clean out one of the toughest … [Read more...]

Rav Binny Freedman – A Journey to the State of Israel

Join Rabbi Binny Freedman on the history and mystery of the birth of the Jewish State. Listen Now … [Read more...]

Rav Binny Freedman – Making Aliyah

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. Listen Now … [Read more...]

Rav Binny Freedman on Har Herztl on Yom HaZikaron

Rav Binny Freedman shares his personal experiences and connections to fallen Soldiers on Israel's Memorial Day. Listen Now … [Read more...]

Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny – Portion of Emor

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(click here for print version) It was our first Masah’, our first forced march. We were barely two weeks in the army, and Itzik, a sadistic little first sergeant who had made it his mission to make us, or rather, break us into soldiers, owned us for the night. Whenever a unit in training goes out on any maneuver without an officer, the … [Read more...]

Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality From Rav Binny Freedman – Parshat Bo

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Wake up an Israeli tank commander in the middle of the night and flash a picture of a BMP-1 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) at a distance of 5 kilometers, when it appears to be little more than a speck in the distance, and he will instantly recognize it as a Soviet- made troop carrier that fires armor-piercing Sagger anti-tank missiles. He … [Read more...]

(Portion of Vayera) Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality From Rav Binny Freedman

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The small room wasn’t much to look at, and the sunlight filtering through the old shutters on the window just accented the old, tired-looking walls and cracked floor tiles. And yet, a man had died here in this room, mostly for the privilege of being able to live in this room, in this place. They had been looking for him for quite some time, … [Read more...]

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