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S Agudah Convention: See Program Below “The Time is Now” to Prepare for This Year’s Agudah Convention: See Program Below November 24, 2020 It was a vision that was truly 20/20. With the pandemic hitting Klal Yisroel with a deadly fury, the Novominsker Rebbe ztz’l penned a final letter to Klal Yisroel, his prescient words reminding us all that the time to strengthen ourselves in unity and dedicate ourselves to an existence of Torah and mitzvos was now. The Novominsker Rebbe’s words have sustained us and inspired us for nearly eight months and today they are the heart and soul of the 2020 Agudah Convention. The convention, whose theme is “Davka Achshav: The Time is Now,” will be an all-remote event, accessible by phone and livestream. The convention will have prominent gedolim, rabbanim, roshei yeshiva and professionals addressing timely issues in Thursday night and Motzoei Shabbos sessions, with a special dedicated women’s track offering insights from respected leaders and personalities. This year, the lobby may be empty and the meeting rooms may be dark, but the 2020 convention will inspire like never before. The time is now to shine away the darkness of COVID with the Novominsker’s vision as we fortify ourselves to face the challenges ahead, k’ish echad b’lev echad. The live call-in number for the convention is 718-298-2077 (in Canada, 647-797-0056). See the image above for the extension list for individual sessions – the full list will also be available from this Thursday morning by calling 212-797-9000, extension 105. The convention program can be accessed by clicking here. 97 Years In, Agudah Convention Going Strong November 24, 2020 The crowds flowing to the Agudah Convention’s sessions, shiurim, and keynotes yesterday and Friday bore witness to the drive that is apparent even today in the Agudah that Mike Tress founded. Mendel Tress, Motzoei Shabbos’s keynote chairman, and son of the Agudah hero R’ Elimelech Gavriel “Mike” Tress, put it best when he said, when it comes to Avodas Hashem, there is no room for any cheshbonos. Only do the Rtzon Hashem. “This was my father’s life’s mission, and this is what I believe he implanted in every fiber of Agudas Yisroel.” State of Klal Yisroel Today Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, Novominsker Rebbe and Rosh Agudas Yisroel, noted that in certain ways Klal Yisroel’s growth is phenomenal. “There are more bochurim and yungerleit learning in Lakewood today than in all the pre-war yeshivos of Lita put together.” This was echoed by Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rav of Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin, in the Shabbos Mini-Keynote, who shared the podium with R’ Sholom Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, in a session chaired by Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, Director of New York Government Relations for the Agudah. In that session, Rabbi Lieff noted that Klal Yisroel has grown, in both Gashmius and Ruchnius, It should fill us with pride to be ehrliche yidden, he said, and if we can show that pride in our homes and to our children, it will help us raise the next generation to even greater heights. But, as Rabbi Perlow added, there are also significant challenges. Chillul Shabbos, unfortunately, has become rampant in Eretz Yisroel, and he reminded those present that the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah recently proclaimed, in a Kol Korei, that we, here in the United States, need to be mechazeik in Shemiras Shabbos in response to this. Threats to the Klal There are other issues as well. Rabbi Berel Povarsky, Rosh Yeshiva Ponovezh, Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah b’Eretz Yisroel, described the financial straits that Chinuch Atzmai in Eretz Yisroel is experiencing, and the potential consequence of thousands of young children not being able to go to Yeshiva. He asked for help from b’nei Yisroel in America. And, in the same Motzoei Shabbos keynote session, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President, Agudath Israel of America, remarked that it’s not just anti- Semitism that is a danger to Klal Yisroel. Religion itself, and religious people, are suffering a tremendous decline in this country. But the klal faces threats on the individual level, too. Our teens face rejection more than ever before – whether from classmates, from schools, seminaries, in Shidduchim, or from bullying. “Rejection hurts, it hurts a lot,” said Matis Miller, LCSW, Founder, Director, and Supervisor of The Center for Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy of New Jersey, in a session titled, “Rejection Hurts: Prevention and Intervention.” If we want to fight the power of the street, said Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein, Menahel, Ohr Naava, we have to make sure to accept our children. That’s not always so easy, said Dr. Faye Zakheim, Ph.D., LCSW, Co-Chair United Task Force; Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work, as today, many times parents are afraid of children. In their session for women, “Since When Have Children Become the Parents,” she and Dr. Norman Blumenthal, Ph.D., OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services; Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, noted that the boundaries between children and their parents have become eroded, and they suggested ideas for closing the gap. Askanus Agudah’s work on the askanus level was also a focus at the convention. During the keynote session, a video highlighting some of the work of four of the regional offices of the Agudah in such areas as school choice funding and fighting anti-Semitic zoning laws, was shown. But some problems are more difficult and need a more holistic approach to combat. The Agudah’s new Shidduch initiative – the Compass Shidduch Network, was the subject of a Friday morning session, “Compass – the Next Steps: No Single Left Behind,” and was opened by Agudah’s CEO Shia Markowitz. He introduced Compass Shidduch Network’s new director, Rabbi Yechiel Rhine, who sketched out his vision of what needs to be changed in the Shidduch process. Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rav, Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin, noted that we have to remember we’re not in the driver’s seat when it comes to Shidduchim, and Rabbi Benzion Kokis, Rav, Khal Zichron Mordechai, Monsey, discussed the problem he is seeing more lately: Connections between couples are becoming shallow – both in dating and married couples – partly because technology is making communication both more prevalent and more impersonal and able to be misinterpreted. Growing at the Convention We beat ourselves up, we don’t give ourselves credit, we don’t take risks because we’re afraid to fail – but if we were given talents by Hashem, said Rabbi Doniel Staum, LCSW, Principal, Mesivta Ohr Naftoli, there’s a reason for that, and we have to make sure to use them. “No one will ever pay you what you’re worth. They’ll pay you what they think you’re worth, and that’s often based on how you present yourself.” His co-presenter, Alan Proctor, Regional Business Director, Madison Title Agency, in the session titled, “How to Make Friends and Influence People,” concurred. “Sometime one sentence can change the way we view something.” When we discuss stories, the theme of this year’s convention, invariably stories of our greats come up. In a fascinating session called, “Stories of Gedolim: The Writer’s Perspective,” two veteran storytellers, Rabbi Yisroel Besser, Editor, Mishpacha Magazine, and Rabbi Shmuel Bloom, Agudah’s Executive Vice-President Emeritus, and author of the recently published, “On the Shoulders of Giants,” discussed some of the thoughts that go into writing about Gedolim. A recent example of a question that concerned Rabbi Besser was whether to include a mention of a personal difficulty in the life of someone he was profiling. Upon consultation with the family, they made it clear that their father would have wanted people to be inspired by his example, to realize that it’s possible to go beyond personal difficulties and to ultimately find success. Lilmod U’lelamed Some of the Torah sessions over the last two days of the convention included a Yarchei Kallah Shiur b’inyanei Tefillah, delivered by Rabbi Yitzchak Lichtenstein, Rosh Hayeshiva, Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, as well as a Yarchei Kallah Shiur on the Halachic Aspects of Amirah L’akum, given by Rabbi Yerachmiel Fried, Rosh Kollel, Dallas Kollel-DATA. But Limud Torah as a hashkafic concept was also covered. The “lilmod” aspect was discussed in the “Ki Heim Chayeinu: Torah – The Elixir of Life” session, where Rabbi Yosef Ozeri, Rosh, Yeshivat Mekor Haim, and Rabbi Eliezer Gewirtzman, Member, Machon Chayim Aruchim, discussed the importance of learning. In Rabbi Ozeri’s words, “It’s an unfortunate misconception that a person could think, ‘I only learn two hours a day.’ We have to know that a balebas that learns is very choshuv in the eyes of Hashem.” U’lelamed: The second half of the phrase was elaborated on in “Learning and Earning: Opportunities for Harbatzas HaTorah for Balabatim” was the intriguing title of a session which was chaired by veteran Maggid Shiur Yossi Gleiberman, and included speakers Harry Rothenberg, Esq., Partner, The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP, Barry Lebowitz, Portfolio Manager, Millenium, and Rabbi Mayer Zuckerman, LCSW. But the biggest Torah topic discussed, was, of course, the upcoming Siyum HaShas: The Siyum HaShas A topic that was close to many speakers hearts was, unsurprisingly, the Siyum HaShas, which is happening one month from today. As Rabbi Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshiva, Mirrer Yeshiva, and Chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, said in his keynote address on Motzoei Shabbos, “Hundreds of thousands of us will be shteiging because of the Siyum HaShas.” Rabbi Yaakov Perlow noted that same evening that Talmud torah d’rabim is being celebrated now in a way that was never celebrated before – something that the Agudah is very proud of, being the engine that is the driving force behind the Siyum HaShas.
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