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“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
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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?
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Feb 23, 20231 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, 20235 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 16, 20231 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 9, 20232 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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Feb 2, 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?"
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Jan 26, 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 19, 20231 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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Jan 12, 20233 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.
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Jan 12, 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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Jan 5, 20231 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.
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
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 29, 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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Dec 22, 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.
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Dec 15, 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.
Yonatan Chaim Sayag
Dec 8, 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?
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Dec 1, 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.
Yonatan Chaim Sayag
Nov 24, 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...
Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf
Nov 17, 20221 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 17, 202222 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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Nov 10, 20221 min read
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