Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny
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Having only recently completed their basic training, they...
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Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality from Rav Binny
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It was our first Masah...
Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality From Rav Binny Freedman – Parshat Bo
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 will also be able to rattle off to you their effective range, and threat capacity (the amount of time it takes to aim and fire, as well as which Israeli tanks will effectively pierce). He will also know instantly that this carrier is most likely to be seen in the Syrian theater of war.
The Israeli army takes the topic of enemy weaponry very seriously, and has a variety of often-sadistic methods for ensuring that its commanders become extremely proficient in this particular expertise....
(Portion of Vayera) Small Tastings of Torah, Judaism and Spirituality From Rav Binny Freedman
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, scouring the country and waking entire neighborhoods every time rumor had it he was somewhere in the vicinity. To judge by the heavily armed troops that were smashing down doors in the middle of the night, they must have feared him, though he was only one man, and not a particularly large or physically powerful one at that; and yet, he must have had a fire to him, to inspire such a determined manhunt.
He had been afforded many opportunities to escape, and find refuge overseas, in Europe or America, and even in England, yet he could not...