Chibat HaAretz Beit Midrash 2/3

“The ancient, dormant love for our land has been aroused from its slumber. The voice of our Beloved is calling, shouting: Return home! R. Shimon and his team are here to help us respond with a resounding ‘Hineni!’”

-Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, Congregation Aish Kodesh, Woodmere, NY

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Feb 23, 20231 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 12

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf discusses the tachlis of Am Yisrael and addresses the question: Why were we created as a nation?

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Feb 16, 20235 min read

Ha'Aretz Asher Areka: Part 1

The first part a regular column with translated excerpts from the sefer Ha'Aretz Asher Areka by Rav Shnayor Burton.

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Feb 16, 20231 min read

Calling Us HOME

Rav Levi Yitzchak Lederman calls out to his brothers in Chutz L'Aretz, encouraging them to come HOME.

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Feb 9, 20232 min read

Calling Us HOME

Rav Mordechai Neugroschel, a leading Kiruv Rav in Eretz Yisrael, has now sets his efforts on bringing Jews abroad back HOME.

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Feb 2, 20231 min read

New Release: HaAretz Asher Areka

Rav Shnayor Burton releases his new sefer on Eretz Yisrael and shares the background story behind the sefer.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Jan 26, 20231 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 11

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf asks the fundamental question, "Why does Am Yisrael need its own land?"

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Jan 19, 20231 min read

Kol HaLashon Encouraging Aliyah

Kol HaLashon, the popular phoneline and website for listening to shiurim, began a series on the mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael . . .

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Jan 12, 20233 min read

Shabbos in Chevron with Kedushas Tzion

A friend of Operation Home Again sent us an impassioned description of his experience at the Kedushas Tzion Shabbaton in Chevron.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Jan 12, 20231 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 10

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf introduces an idea about how the two parts of the neshamah correspond with two different sections in Shmoneh Esrei.

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Jan 5, 20231 min read

HOMEward Bound: Ben Sion Abadi

Ben Sion Abadi shares his personal Aliyah story which started unexpectedly from a meeting with Rav Chaim Kanievsky, zt"l.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Dec 29, 20221 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 9

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf discusses the saying of our sages that there is no Torah like the Torah of Eretz Yisrael.

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Dec 29, 20221 min read

HOMEward Bound: Rabbi Menachem Gold

Watch Rabbi Menachem Gold captivate the audience with his personal Aliyah story and pointed guidance to the Jews in the Diaspora.

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Dec 22, 20221 min read

HOMEward Bound: Part 4

Rav Dovid Koleditsky focuses our attention on the unique nusach of Birkas HaMazon and the message to internalize when we are bentching.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Dec 15, 20221 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 8

Rabbi Shimon explains the meaning behind the Chazal that anyone who lives outside of Eretz Yisrael is considered as if he has no G-d.

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Yonatan Chaim Sayag

Dec 8, 20221 min read

HOMEward Bound: Part 3

Rav Dovid Koleditsky shares the Vilna Gaon's approach to Aliyah and how the lessons of the GRA's teachings apply to us today.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Dec 1, 20221 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 7

Why in certain berachos do we emphasis eating the fruit of Eretz Yisrael and what difference does it make what air we breathe?

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Yonatan Chaim Sayag

Nov 24, 20221 min read

HOMEward Bound: Part 2

Rav Dovid Koleditsky shares with us a story from the Chofetz Chaim and explains the unique opportunity available to American Jewry.

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Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf

Nov 17, 20221 min read

A Few Minutes From HOME: Part 6

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf shares an encounter he had on a bus in Eretz Yisrael this week and how three words that were said to him reveal a...

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Nov 17, 202222 min read

The Parsha Brings Us HOME - All Parshas

A compilation of selected sources highlighting Eretz Yisrael in the weekly parsha. (Updated 3.8.23)

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Nov 10, 20221 min read

HOMEward Bound: Part 1

Rav Koleditsky leader of the community Aliyah initiative Kumu V'Naaleh shares with us a short idea about coming HOME.

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