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November 12, 2008 • 14 Cheshvan 5769Mishpacha Issue 233
In this pasuk from Mishlei we have the answer to the question “What’s going to be?” “What’s going to be” depends on each one of us, not on Obama. Shlomo HaMelech is teaching us that as soon as Barack Obama comes to the White House and takes up the scepter of leadership, free choice is taken away from him as regards public life
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Obama’s focus and tone will diverge sharply from what the world has become accustomed to during the Bush administration. This “strategic reorientation” will create significant challenges for Israel.
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A candid conversation with “Avner Gold” — otherwise known as Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman — a serious lamdan and scholar who’s managed “on the side” to charm a generation or two of Jewish children and adults. And he’s had a book banned as well.