Personal columns
Commanders, rabbis, combat soldiers and family members write from within the brigade.
“Educate a youth in his own way, from Chanoch the cobbler to the Charedi warrior”
Who decided that a boy who could not find his place on the yeshiva bench cannot find Hashem on the battlefield?
“Educate a youth in his own way, from Chanoch the cobbler to the Charedi warrior”
Who decided that a boy who could not find his place on the yeshiva bench cannot find Hashem on the battlefield?
“The terrorist in the shaft beneath our forces”
We were advancing up the mountain, through the center of the terrorist-infested Lebanese village we had captured two days earlier. Above us whistled…
“Moshe’s last war, the war of retribution against Midian”
At the end of the Book of Bamidbar (Pinchas and Matot), we encounter the command concerning the last war of Moshe Rabbeinu before his passing, the…
“Discipline, faith and devotion”
Last week I was privileged to attend the declaration ceremony of the Iyar cohort in the Chashmonaim Brigade.
“And Israel encamped there”: one brigade, one heart
The year is 2000 (5761), and for the first time in my life I find myself inside a deep social divide. In the years before, I had moved between two…
“The spies’ great missed opportunity, and the lesson we learn from it”
The new year is approaching, and it is time to make the decision that will shape your future. You do not have to give up on any of your aspirations:…
“Seeing the whole through the cracks”
About two weeks ago, in the middle of the Shabbat morning meal, my body signaled me to stop. Before long I found myself in the hospital: tests,…
