2017-09-05 03:54
by Reb Gutman Locks Going Off the Derech (Path) Ch wrote: Shavua tov Reb Locks, … Read More
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2017-09-03 03:51
by Reb Gutman Locks You're Late! It was around 20 minutes after sunset. We were putting the tefillin stand… Read More
2017-08-31 04:02
by Reb Gutman Locks Talking During Davening What should we do about the talkers during davening? The… Read More
2017-08-29 04:00
by Reb Gutman Locks Peace is the Goal Hashem created the world using Justice. Justice is based on Truth. This me… Read More
2017-08-27 03:50
by Reb Gutman LocksThere Is One "There Is One" is a collection of 146 very short articles that I wrote some thirty years ago. &n&hell…Read More
2017-08-24 16:18
by Fayga @ Mystical PathsThe Marat HaMachpela, the cave of the Patriarchs purchased by Abraham in parshat Chaya Sarah in the Torah (bible), is currently divided… the location of Jacob… Read More
2017-08-24 04:01
by Reb Gutman Locks Everyone Can Help The entire world is one, a single unit, and although this end is not… Read More
2017-08-21 09:23
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical Paths- The Jewish New Year is a few weeks away.It is a time when we come before G-d for judgement. Our deeds are pu… Read More
2017-08-21 05:59
by Fayga @ Mystical Paths(More from the 14th Jerusalem Wine Festival - part 3)Continuing about the booths around….Down in the open area there must have been about 20-35 booths, plus f… Read More
2017-08-20 17:41
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical PathsMoshe Chacohn commented on "Cruising the Jerusalem Wine Festival": “Dear Rabbi: is it kosher to visit an event selling non kosher wine?&r&hell…Read More
2017-08-20 03:47
by Reb Gutman Locks A Nice Jewish Boy When I asked this boy to put on tefillin he walked right over. He spoke English… Read More
2017-08-17 04:00
by Fayga at Mystical Paths(More from the 14th Jerusalem Wine Festival - part 2)It’s the start of (grape) harvesting season in Israel so all the wineries were not being represented by t… Read More
2017-08-17 03:50
by Reb Gutman Locks Don't Blow It Early this morning I showed one of the Kotel workers that someone lit a candle and pla… Read More
2017-08-16 16:48
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsTablet Magazine wishes to inform me that MY SILENCE ON CHARLOTTESVILLE is DEAFENING. Not to be outdone, the Forward wants to know...Hopefully my fellow co… Read More
2017-08-14 08:37
by Fayga at Mystical PathsJerusalem had its 14th yearly "Jerusalem Wine Festival" at the Israel Museum (and being in Jerusalem almost every offering is mehadrin kosher). As opposed to p… Read More
2017-08-13 03:40
by Reb Gutman Locks Where do you want to go? If you are a young Jewish man with a burning desire to find G-d there are… Read More
2017-08-10 04:23
by Reb Gutman LocksThe Aleph Bet Hashem creates the Universe with the Hebrew letters and the Aleph Bet reveals the wonder of it all; &nbs&hell…Read More
2017-08-08 18:59
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsLess than an hour ago, Palestinian Peace Rockets of Love and Firey Death were shot from Gaza at Israeli Jewish civilians in the southern city of Ashkelon.  &hell…Read More
2017-08-08 03:35
by Reb Gutman Locks Who Was Moshe Yelling At? Again, in this week's Torah reading Moshe is condemning the prior a… Read More
2017-08-07 09:12
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsIs the Times of Israel attempting to foment religious violence in Jerusalem? Or are they just trying to force culture change incompatible with t… Read More
2017-08-06 03:50
by Reb Gutman Locks What Should We Be Looking At? After the fast I spoke with a fine, religious, highly respec… Read More
2017-08-04 08:09
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical PathsA well known town in Australia has “banned the construction of a synagogue because it could be a terrorist target”.The ban was placed by the local ci… Read More
2017-08-03 06:19
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical PathsWife of Israeli Prime Minister may have used government funds to “buy a fancy meal”. Major police investigation announced.Wife of Israeli Prime… Read More
2017-08-03 03:45
by Reb Gutman Locks What If They Say, No! Moshe B. asks: I'd appreciate some advice on deal… Read More
2017-08-01 11:43
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical PathsA.B. Yehoshua is one of the secular sages of modern Israel. Writer, and dare I say, philosopher, Mr. Yehoshua is one who puts the positions of Israeli secu… Read More
2017-07-30 03:33
by Reb Gutman Locks The Idolatry of Molech There is a disagreement as to what the idol worship of… Read More
2017-07-27 03:39
by Reb Gutman Locks The Nine Days After the Torah reading Monday morning a young man in our… Read More
2017-07-25 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks How Will It End? Thank you Aaron for pointing out that my statement that someday the world will… Read More
2017-07-25 03:08
The tomb of Aharon HaKohein, the brother of Moshe Rabaynu (Moses our teacher) is located on a mountaintop near what today is Petra, Jordan. Religious Jewish Israeli tour groups head th… Read More
2017-07-24 09:08
People keep trying to make logical sense out of the current situation in Israel, and now Jordan and Turkey (more on that below), such as pointing out that large mosques in Turkey, Kuwait, Qa… Read More
2017-07-22 21:01
During Friday’s Day of Hairy Armpits, the Arab “Balastinain” leadership arrived at the riots in their luxury vehicles with diplomatic plates. Sipping black Turkish co… Read More
2017-07-21 13:17
by Reb Akiva at the Mystical Paths GrillLast week two Arab terrorists attempted to spark a HOLY WAR as well as earn their place in their version of heaven by sneaking weapons onto the Temple… Read More
2017-07-20 03:33
by Reb Gutman Locks Someone Prayed for This He came over, pointed to the tefillin and a… Read More
2017-07-18 03:20
by Reb Gutman Locks You Opened My Heart He lives in Washington DC. He is a professor teaching bu… Read More
2017-07-16 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks Father to Son When I called out to this Israeli he came right over to put on tefillin… Read More
2017-07-13 03:32
by Reb Gutman Locks Where Does It Say That? One of my Shabbos guests is learnin… Read More
2017-07-11 03:21
by Reb Gutman Locks Absolutely Not! A tourist from Canada was walking out from the Kotel when Shmuli ran over… Read More
2017-07-09 03:16
by Reb Gutman Locks The Purpose The Talmud says the reason G-d created the universe was so… Read More
2017-07-06 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical Paths- In his book “Strive for Truth” Rav Desslerasked, “What is wrong with hellfire mussar? [Strict Jewish ethics]… Read More
2017-07-04 03:17
by "Reb Gutman LocksJoin the Army Uriel wrote: "I don't miss war or killing or death all around me, but I do miss being a soldier." … Read More
2017-07-02 03:20
by Reb Gutman Locks A Time of Favor Some yeshiva students asked me for a Torah source for someth… Read More
2017-06-30 14:52
Yesterday I had the opportunity to be in Jerusalem, at the Ammunition Hill war memorial site, to see the investment of the newly trained battalions of Tzanchanim – the Israeli Paratroo… Read More
2017-06-29 03:30
by Reb Gutman Locks When Bringing a Chair… I've noticed that there are two very dif… Read More
2017-06-27 03:14
by Reb Gutman Locks Direct Your Heart I helped this soldier to put on tefillin. He read the Shema and then tur… Read More
2017-06-23 14:04
by Reb Gutman Locks What to do with x-ians Who Come to the Kotel My recent article about the Fij… Read More
2017-06-22 03:23
by Reb Gutman Locks Wigs – Huge False Alarm There is an enormous outcry within the re… Read More
2017-06-20 03:12
by Reb Gutman Locks G-d is One! An x-ian from Germany came up to me at the tefillin stand. He had seen one of my videos on Hinduism an… Read More
2017-06-18 03:17
by Reb Gutman Locks Idolatry at the Kotel Every year or so a group of some 30 x-ians from Fiji come to Jerusalem for a cou… Read More
2017-06-15 03:23
by Reb Gutman Locks Not All Not all sensitive people are kind, but all kind people are sensitive. Not all humble people… Read More
2017-06-11 04:06
by Reb Gutman Locks How Do You Get Happy? Why are some people always happy while others are always sad? Do we have a choice? What ma… Read More
2017-06-09 03:16
by Reb Gutman Locks ISRAELIS SMOKE "BREAKING WITH WESTERN WORLD, ISRAELIS SMOKE MORE IN 2016 THAN EVER… Read More
2017-06-08 03:19
by Reb Gutman Locks Hashgacha Pratis Mordechai is a cheder rebbe, a charedi teacher of small child… Read More
2017-06-06 03:12
by Reb Gutman Locks The Soul You Have Given Me "The soul You have given me is pure, You have created it, Yo… Read More
2017-06-04 11:21
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths(Ma'aaan News) Last night the infidels ran in terror before the holy warriors in Occupied London, with the ango-saxon settlers falling before the holy strength… Read More
2017-06-04 03:18
by Reb Gutman Locks Head Coverings One of the workers at the Kotel told me that a non-Jewish tourist had a… Read More
2017-05-30 03:14
by Reb Gutman Locks Mussar Mistake The mussar movement is some 200 years old. It was developed in… Read More
2017-05-28 03:10
by Reb Gutman Locks The Holocaust: Why? Without doubt, my worse subject; not only because I cannot s… Read More
2017-05-24 03:26
by Reb Gutman Locks Death Threat! This Muslim does not like the truth. He calls it "Islamophobic". &nbs&hell…Read More
2017-05-23 03:18
by Reb Gutman Locks To Fill What? Early this morning when we were all wearing our tallis and tefillin right befor… Read More
2017-05-21 03:16
by Reb Gutman Locks Defending Yoga? Brian comment on Din Torah's answer to my question, "Are Jewish Institutions… Read More
2017-05-18 11:13
by Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical Paths- What happens when a Jew dies?Is that the end for him, or do things still go on? Why am I me with my skillsand weaknesses and not som… Read More
2017-05-18 03:32
by Reb Gutman Locks Are Jewish Institutions Allowed to Teach Yoga? I sent this question to an online Jewish Law… Read More
2017-05-16 03:19
by Reb Gutman Locks To Be Kind A teenager came up to me at the Kotel early in the morning and asked, … Read More
2017-05-14 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks Peace Almost everyone lacks something in their life. It seems that Hashem holds… Read More
2017-05-11 03:33
by Reb Gutman Locks Who Has the Final Say? Veronica asked; Do you hold to the teachings of the Sages the sa… Read More
2017-05-09 09:08
by Reb Akiva at Mystical PathsLag b'Omer, the 33rd day after Passover and the 33rd day of the mitzvah of counter the Omer that follows Passover, is the hilula, the day of moving from this wo… Read More
2017-05-09 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks "Energy Healing" (Pertaining to the previous article where a number of rabbis wh… Read More
2017-05-07 03:29
by Reb Gutman Locks A Can of Worms A rabbi from a religious community in America who is also a big fan of altern… Read More
2017-05-05 13:54
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Much, if not most, of halacha regarding health boils down to "do what you need to do to recover your health or solve significant health issue (such as infertil… Read More
2017-05-04 03:46
by Reb Gutman Locks Spiritual Life Can Seem Frustrating Sometimes it seems that we are getting nowhere. It's l… Read More
2017-05-02 07:15
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths For generations they have attacked the Jews on holidays. Non-Jewish holidays and Jewish holidays. Pogroms were started on Passover, attacks planned… Read More
2017-05-02 03:30
by Reb Gutman LocksSmoking! Dalya Asks; Hey, hope all is well. I saw your post about smoking and wanted to ask you about quitting.&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-04-30 16:52
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths Moshe Rabaynu, Moses our Teacher, formed an army by G-d’s command and fought the wars of Hashem. Yehoshua bin Nun, Joshua the prophet, formed an army of… Read More
2017-04-29 18:44
by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths The gazelle leapt in front of my speeding car, almost joining me in the front seats. It sped off shaken, surprised by our almost intimate encounter. So d… Read More
2017-04-27 03:56
by Reb Gutman LocksArmy Service? There is a major problem going on again in Israel over the forced draft of religious youth into the IDF (… Read More
2017-04-25 03:36
by Reb Gutman Locks Israelis or Jews? Two angry viewers wrote; "Get out of Isreal. How dare you… Read More
2017-04-23 04:36
by Reb Gutman Locks Yikes! I was putting tefillin on an Israeli who stunk from cigarette smoke. I held back and d… Read More
2017-04-21 13:52
by Reb Gutman Locks The Key in the Challah Why the key in the challah? So many people misunderstand… Read More
2017-04-20 03:49
by Reb Gutman Locks Family I asked the younger boy who the man standing next to him was. … Read More
2017-04-16 04:13
by Reb Gutman Locks But Your Soul Wants To There is a nice guy who likes to help out at the tefillin stan… Read More
2017-04-14 04:15
by Reb Gutman Locks The King's Trumpet There is a song that has no words … Read More
2017-04-13 04:28
by Reb Gutman Locks Life What is the nature of life? What is its essence? What makes it drive so hard and… Read More
2017-04-10 12:05
A Kosher and Happy Passover to all our Jewish readers! Especially to our soldiers, many of which are spending this Passover defending the Jews, the State of Israel and all her citizens… Read More
2017-04-09 03:57
by Reb Gutman Locks What's the Most Important Thing? Although Passover is by far the most memorable and beloved holida… Read More
2017-04-06 04:06
by Reb Gutman LocksSunrise After davening at sunrise, walking away from the Kotel… looking back at this peaceful, quiet tim… Read More
2017-04-04 03:58
by Reb Gutman Locks Pesach Teachings Two life-changing Pesach teachings: First; the entire… Read More
2017-04-02 11:30
by Reb Gutman LocksCleaning for Pesach You never know what you will find when you clean for Pesach. Here is the guy who has been responsible… Read More
2017-03-31 05:01
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2017-03-30 04:16
by Reb Gutman Locks Sparks! Ben writes again: More on cleaving to Hashem; … Read More
2017-03-28 04:33
by Reb Gutman Locks Success! Signs of material success are such things as money or fame…a winner. &nbs&hell…Read More
2017-03-26 04:19
by Reb Gutman LocksTalking to Teens All good deeds are great. There is no way to tell which mitzvah is more important than the next. But s… Read More
2017-03-23 04:21
by Reb Gutman Locks Cleaving to G-d Ben asked: What does it mean to have devekus to Hashem? Beca… Read More
2017-03-21 19:23
This is a really beautiful version of If I Forget You Jerusalem, get’s better as it goes – which a matching beautiful video. Oh, and it’s available for free download. Direc… Read More
2017-03-21 04:20
by Reb Gutman Locks Hand Baked Matzah Factory On the edge of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem; It is so noisy, so hectic, expensi… Read More
2017-03-19 05:06
by Reb Gutman Locks The Greatest Joy There are different types, or levels of joy. Physical joy is wonderful and… Read More
2017-03-18 23:41
For many people, the reading of the Haggadah is a boring and tiresome experience. A typical response is to either skip pages or to buy a “shorter” Haggadah designed to make the… Read More
2017-03-17 11:13
Jordanian Soldier Terrorist Murderer of Seven 14 year old School Girls during a Peace Tour Every day when my daughter enters her school in Israel, she passes a memorial at the entrance to… Read More
2017-03-16 04:39
by Reb Gutman Locks Right and Kind Among the people we pray for in our daily prayers are the Tzadiki… Read More
2017-03-14 04:38
by Reb Gutman Locks A Good Guy He is from Shri Lanka. He is not Jewish so I was really surprised with his questio… Read More
2017-03-13 05:38
by Reb Gutman Locks We choose the costume we wear to have our outside look the way we really are on the inside I wonder who this guy really is?… Read More
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