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https://cross-currents.com/2025/10/05/vizos-habrachah-the-bridge-idea/ Vizos Habrachah - The Bridge Idea - Cross-Currents The Chasam Sofer notes that the Torah’s last word, “Yisrael” and its first one, “Braishis,” share the letters aleph, shin, resh and yud… spelling ashrei.... cross currentsbridgeidea https://cross-currents.com/2025/09/15/nitzavim-putting-a-hold-on-gold/ Nitzavim - Putting a Hold on Gold - Cross-Currents There is idol worship and there is idol worship. As Rav Elchonon Wasserman wrote, even today, when the urge to worship literal idols is absent, there are a... gold crossputtingholdcurrents https://cross-currents.com/2025/09/21/vayeilech-complementary-curses/ Vayeilech - Complementary Curses - Cross-Currents The fact that the word tzaros in the phrase ra’os rabbos vitzaros – “many evils and troubles” (Devarim, 31:21) can mean not only “evils” but also... cross currentscomplementarycurses https://cross-currents.com/category/general/ General Archives - Cross-Currents general archivescross currents https://cross-currents.com/ Cross-Currents - At the Intersection of Torah and Current Events At the Intersection of Torah and Current Events cross currentsintersectiontorahevents https://cross-currents.com/2025/11/10/processing-the-rally/ Processing the Rally - Cross-Currents If you still haven’t figured out whether the rally was a good thing, a bad thing, or both – you might be interested in the latest episode of my podcast, Two... cross currentsprocessingrally