Parshat Ki Savo 5774

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Parshat Ki Savo 5774 Dedicated in memory of Rachel Leah bat R' Chaim Tzvi Volume 6 Number 31 Brought to you by Naaleh.com Tree of Life: The Centrality of Torah Study- True Dveykut Based on a Naaleh.com shiur by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller Torah is the force that gives us the ability to On the deepest level we know emunah, that up, to make him face many possible fight against the yetzer hara. Everything is an everything is connected. That should evoke a challenges and to say no to evil. Man is meant extension of Hashem’s will and contains a response within us that leads to making to strip away the layers of impurity and get at spark of divinity. If we dig deep enough inside changes. But it won’t happen without mitzvot. the tov. The Torah will help man do this, as it ourselves, we find goodness. But the only teaches us how to transform bad to good. The way to access it is through Torah. In the King David refers to chochma chitzonit negative mitzvot say, “Don’t do use this trait for creation narrative the Torah says, “Hashem (secular knowledge) as eitz hadaat tov v’ra, evil.” The positive mitzvot teach us how to use saw it was good.” Creation was meant to be the tree that gives us access to good and evil. it for good. We can attain perfection by taking unlocked by the Torah. The word tov is Chochma chitzonit by its nature tends to keep what’s bad in ourselves and turning it around. repeated six times in the first chapter of the one in the world of partial pictures. It’s the A jealous person can ask himself, “Am I Torah. If we multiply the gematria of tov by six observable little kernel of truth that is within jealous of what he owns or how he looks?” we get the same numerical value as emunah. one’s frame and range, with no sense of That’s going to fade. If I move inward I can This tells us that the essential good inherent source and purpose. It’s seeing everything say, “No, I’m jealous of who he is in essence. I in active creation opens our hearts to within one’s own limitations and defining want his key to being excellent and emunah. limitations as truths. This is the opposite of distinguished.” He could move even further emunah. Staying within the flat picture of and say, “I’m going to out- tzadik this tzadik There are three facets to emunah. The first is reality and not looking beyond makes for an and out-learn that learner – not in a way that’s recognizing that everything comes from easy life. There are no demands spiritually or hypocritical, phony or irrational, but in an Hashem. The second is believing that emotionally. But it’s as if one is dead while ambitious way. This is taking envy and moving everything was created with compassion. The alive. it to good. third is recognizing that everything leads us to tikun – self rectification and rectification of the The verse says, “Titen emet l’Yaakov.” Yaakov On the sixth day when Hashem created Adam, world. So when we say the Torah is emunah actualized the Torah. He chose holiness. He He said, “Tov me'od.” There was something we mean that it teaches us how to affirm took the Torah, the connective emunah, the beyond good there. When we learn Torah and these realities. When we celebrate the tzadik part of him, and developed the ability to access that spark of eternal light, there is no holidays or make a blessing on food, we see where it was all meant to go. The main limit to how far and how high we can reach. should realize that everything has one source. purpose of the yetzer hara is to lift a person Overcoming Adversity: Don’t Sell Yourself Short Based on a Naaleh.com shiur by Rabbi Hanoch Teller One early predawn morning Rav Lazer Yudel learn, we’ll make a yeshiva just for you.” This Finkel, rosh yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva, came meant constructing more buildings to house Rav Nosson Tzvi had this tremendous into the room where his young great nephew the ever expanding student body. Whenever compulsion to get the boys to learn as much slept. Rav Nosson Tzvi didn’t let on that he Rav Nosson Tzvi would finish another as possible. One program started by Rav was awake as he watched his great uncle go structure it would fill to capacity. And then he’d Lazer Yudel was to learn 12 hours a day over to the Shas on the bookshelf in his room start on the next project. He would be present uninterrupted. Rav Nosson Tzvi posted and kiss each volume. The profound love Rav when they would pour the cement and he’d sign-up sheets and said, “I want to see Lazer Yudel displayed for Torah made a deep beam with joy, he knew the building would be everyone’s name there.” But Dovi, who had impression on him. another citadel of Torah learning. This all never quite made it in yeshiva, didn’t sign his meant raising enormous amounts of capital. name. The rosh yeshiva grabbed his hand and When the mantle of leadership passed to Rav By nature he was a bashful person, not the held it firm and said, “I want to see your Nosson Tzvi, he felt unworthy of the position. type to ask people for tremendous sums of name.” So Dovi said ok with the greatest bli Not long after that he married off his son and money. With a budget of $23 million a year he neder. The chances of him learning 12 hours Rav Shlomo Wolbe came to the wedding. Rav raised the staggering figure of over a half uninterrupted was like a chicken sprouting Nosson Tzvi was taken aback. He was a very billion dollars in his tenure as rosh yeshiva. teeth. But he sat down and learned. And again young rosh yeshiva at that time and a famous the next day, until he managed to pull off a full mussar personality had come to grace his Rav Lazer Yudel’s philosophy was that week of uninterrupted learning. On the 8th day wedding. Rav Wolbe explained, “From yeshivos should be open for everyone. In fact he ran to the beit midrash and said, “Rosh responsibility you grow.” And that became he had the doors of the Mirrer yeshiva yeshiva! I want to tell my parents and high Rav Nosson Tzvi’s raison d’etre. He himself removed to show that anyone and everyone school rebbe but they won’t believe me. Last grew and he had no problem taking young was invited to learn there. Rav Teller recounts, night I dreamed about learning.” The rosh people and giving them responsibility so they “I distinctly remember coming in to the yeshiva drank a lechaim, took Dovi’s hand, would also grow. doorless yeshiva on a rainy day and encounter- and despite his severe medical condition did ing a shallow lake.” Years later the Knesset his best approximate of a crazy dance. Dovi The sages say, “A person will learn best when passed a law that for security reasons every went on to fulfill his commitment of learning 30 he learns a topic he likes.” Rav Nosson Tzvi building must have doors, and the yeshiva days uninterrupted. would tell his students, “Whatever you wish to doors were finally replaced. visit us online at: www.naaleh.com | for questions, suggestions, or dedication opportunities, email [email protected] 1 Dedicated in memory of Rachel Leah bat R' Chaim Tzvi Volume 6 Number 31 Brought to you by Naaleh.com Cancelled Agreements Based on a Naaleh.com shiur by Dayan Shlomo Cohen A number of halachic questions related to should have made a condition that if the river he didn’t, he doesn’t get paid. If neither side agreements arose during the recent Israeli dries up the workers wouldn’t get paid. If he knew he would get ill, then the rebbe loses and security situation. The first question came didn’t do this he would have to pay them half would not get paid. from a storekeeper who was renting a shop in the normal wages. But if the workers knew, Ashkelon, a city that came under heavy fire. then they should have made a condition that In the case of the teacher whose student left He signed a contract at the beginning of the the boss would still pay them. If they didn’t, for the states, the teacher wouldn’t get paid year with the owner. But then because of the they wouldn’t be paid anything. If neither of since extraordinary circumstances caused the war situation, people were afraid to leave their them knew it would happen, the workers will boy to leave. In the case of the school tuition, homes to go shopping. He requested a lose because they cannot prove that they no one knew the war would break out so the reduction on his rent. deserve payment. If they were paid up front, school loses and would not be paid tuition. however, they would not have to return the However, a special halacha applies in the case The second question came from the parents money. When both the farmer and the workers of a national crisis. When a large amount of of a boy in Sderot. Because of the missile knew, the workers would not get paid.
Recommended publications
  • Wertheimer, Editor Imagining the Seth Farber an American Orthodox American Jewish Community Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B
    Imagining the American Jewish Community Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor For a complete list of books in the series, visit www.upne.com and www.upne.com/series/BSAJ.html Jack Wertheimer, editor Imagining the Seth Farber An American Orthodox American Jewish Community Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Murray Zimiles Gilded Lions and Soloveitchik and Boston’s Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to Maimonides School the Carousel Ava F. Kahn and Marc Dollinger, Marianne R. Sanua Be of Good editors California Jews Courage: The American Jewish Amy L. Sales and Leonard Saxe “How Committee, 1945–2006 Goodly Are Thy Tents”: Summer Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Camps as Jewish Socializing Roseman, editors Lone Stars of Experiences David: The Jews of Texas Ori Z. Soltes Fixing the World: Jewish Jack Wertheimer, editor Family American Painters in the Twentieth Matters: Jewish Education in an Century Age of Choice Gary P. Zola, editor The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Edward S. Shapiro Crown Heights: Rader Marcus’s Essays on American Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Jewry Riot David Zurawik The Jews of Prime Time Kirsten Fermaglich American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Ranen Omer-Sherman, 2002 Diaspora Early Holocaust Consciousness and and Zionism in Jewish American Liberal America, 1957–1965 Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth Andrea Greenbaum, editor Jews of Ilana Abramovitch and Seán Galvin, South Florida editors, 2001 Jews of Brooklyn Sylvia Barack Fishman Double or Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna, Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed editors Women and American Marriage Judaism: Historical Perspectives George M.
    [Show full text]
  • Kapiloff Resume 16May04.Indd
    Whom It May Concern: My career experience and talents can be categorized under three major To headings. I have included my background in all three areas in one resume for the sake of the potential employer who is seeking a worker with a combination of skills. For the sake of organization and clarity I have divided my resume into three sections, presenting my varied qualifications as distinct skill sets, despite the overlapping that may occur in the actual workplace. Click on a heading to jump to the details. This category includes: Original multilingual typesetting, graphic design and layout, Multilingual DTP as well as localization (resetting existing material into other languages). Media 1 & Graphic Design produced includes: Books, booklets, brochures, manuals, advertisements and packaging materials. My experience in this area began in 1985. Web Programming, This category includes: Conceptualizing, designing, programming and 2 Design & Presentations maintaining commercial web presences and marketing presentations. My experience in this area began in 1996. This category includes: Writing technical manuals and instruction sheets, Technical Writing on-line help, translating technical materials from Hebrew to English and 3 Translation & Marketing creating marketing copy for high-tech products and services. My experience in this area began in 1999. The common denominator of all three categories is my responsible, dedicated attention to details, creative approaches to technical difficulties, ability to work well alone or as a team member, and
    [Show full text]
  • France's Jewish Community Threatened
    30 INSIDE www.jewishnewsva.org Southeastern Virginia | Vol. 53 No. 10 | 5 Shevet 5775 | January 26, 2015 France’s 12 Community hears Ira Forman on Jewish community anti-Semitism threatened —page 6 28 Dana Cohen Day at Indian Lakes High School 31 A Hebrew Academy of Tidewater story SILENCE WON’T REPAIR THE WORLD 3 Mazel Mazel MazelTov Tov MazelTov Tov 5000 Corporate Woods Drive, Suite 200 Non-Profit Org. MAZELMAZEL Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462-4370 US POSTAGE MazelTov Address Service Requested PAID MAZELMAZEL TOVTOVTOVMazelTov Suburban MD MAZEL Permit 6543 MazelMazel TovTov TOV 32 MazelMazel TovMAZEL Date with the State MazelMazel TOV Wednesday, Feb. 4 Supplement to Jewish News January 26, 2015 M azel Tov Supplement to Jewish News January 26, 2015 MTovTov azel Tov MM a z e l To v jewishnewsva.org | January 26, 2015 | JEWISH NEWS | 1 Redi Carpet - VAB - 12.5.14.pdf 1 12/5/2014 4:53:43 PM MakeMake youryour househouse aa homehome Come by and visit one of our expert flooring consultants and view thousands of samples of Carpet, Hardwood, Ceramic Tile and more! C M I was very pleased to have new Y CM “ carpet all in one day. It looks MY CY great. Wish I had done it sooner! CMY K I will definitely recommend Redi Carpet to others. -K. Rigney, Home Owner ” (757) 481-9646 2220 West Great Neck Road | Virginia Beach, VA 23451 2 | JEWISH NEWS | January 26, 2015 | jewishnewsva.org www.redicarpet.com UPFRONT JEWisH neWS jewishnewsva.org Published 22 times a year by United Jewish Federation “Our lives begin to end the day we of Tidewater.
    [Show full text]
  • Beth Jacob Atlanta
    BETH JACOB ATLANTA CONTINUING ADULT EDUCATION 2012-2013 / 5772-5773 Schedule of Classes What’s Inside: 5 Building Blocks continue with Rabbi Ilan and Rebbetzin Miriam Feldman Sefarim B’Shana, The Great Jewish Books Course - 12 An exciting follow up to the Tanach B’Shana course! Celebrating our 25 year New Parenting classes with Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich partnership with 14 Three full pages of Kollel programming including Bena, 15 Yesodai Hatorah and a new Beis Midrash program Youth Programming: From preschoolers to teenagers, there is 20 something for everyone What you are holding in your hands appears to be an adult education brochure, but is actually much more than that. It is the pulse, heartbeat, and blood stream of the vibrant Contacts community that has developed around Beth Jacob. It provides evidence that ours is a LEVI AFRAH , REALTOR® community with a ravenous appetite for that which has sustained the Jewish people Beth Jacob Atlanta throughout its history: the study of Torah as the word of G-d and its application to all 1855 Lavista Road Pinnacle Award Life Member circumstances of our lives. Atlanta, GA 30329 404-633-0551 In 5773, Beth Jacob marks its 50th year at its Lavista Road location. When the synagogue fax 404-320-7912 was dedicated on December 12, 1962, not even the most visionary could have imagined www.bethjacobatlanta.org R E A L T Y the kind of community that would develop around it. Ours is a community which P R E M I E R has come to be known for its passion, its commitment, its focus on upward spiritual Ilan D.
    [Show full text]
  • The Baal Teshuva Movement
    TAMUZ, 57 40 I JUNE, 19$0 VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 9 $1.25 ' ' The Baal Teshuva Movement Aish Hatorah • Bostoner Rebbe: Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz• CHABAD • Dvar Yerushalayim • Rabbi Shlomo · Freifeld • Gerrer Rebbe • Rabbi Baruch ·.. Horowitz • Jewish Education Progra . • Kosel Maarovi • Moreshet Avot/ El HaMekorot • NCSY • Neve Yerushalayim •Ohr Somayach . • P'eylim •Rabbi Nota Schiller• Sh' or Yashuv •Rabbi Meir Shuster • Horav Elazar Shach • Rabbi Mendel Weinbach •Rabbi Noach Weinberg ... and much much more. THE JEWISH BSERVER In this issue ... THE BAAL TESHUVA MOVEMENT Prologue . 1 4 Chassidic Insights: Understanding Others Through Ourselves, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Horowitz. 5 A Time to Reach Out: "Those Days Have Come," Rabbi Baruch Horovitz 8 The First Step: The Teshuva Solicitors, Rabbi Hillel Goldberg 10 Teaching the Men: Studying Gemora-The Means and the Ends of the Teshuva Process, Rabbi Nola Schiller . 13 Teaching the Women: How to Handle a Hungry Heart, Hanoch Teller 16 THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN Watching the Airplanes, Abraham ben Shmuel . 19 0(121-6615) is published monthly, Kiruv in Israel: except Ju!y and August. by the Bringing Them to our Planet, Ezriel Hildesheimer 20 Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, N.Y The Homecoming Ordeal: 10038. Second class postage paid Helping the Baal Teshuva in America, at New York, N.Y. Subscription Rabbi Mendel Weinbach . 25 $9.00 per year; two years. $17.50; three years, $25.00; outside of the The American Scene: United States, $10.00 per year. A Famine in the Land, Avrohom Y. HaCohen 27 Single copy, $1.25 Printed in the U.S.A.
    [Show full text]
  • The Monthly Publication of the Young Israel of Hollywood - Ft
    VOLUME 12, ISSUE 11 TAMUZ/AV 5780 / JULY/AUGUST 2020 EDITION THE MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD - FT. LAUDERDALE Alan Mendelsohn, M.D. Nathan Klein, O.D. 954.894.1500 Welcome to Eye Surgeons and Consultants! WE USE THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND CUSTOMIZE OUR SERVICE TO YOUR EYES! SERVICES For your convenience, we also have a full service optical dispensary Laser Cataract Surgery with the highest quality and huge selection of the latest styles of Laser Vision Correction eyeglasses and sunglasses, including: Glaucoma Laser Surgery Comprehensive Eye Exams Oliver Peoples • Michael Kors • Barton Perreira • Tom Ford • Burberry Macular Degeneration Marc Jacobs • Lily Pulitzer • Mont Blanc • Nike Flexon • Silhouette Diabetic Eye Exams Glaucoma Exams We provide personalized, professional care using Red Eye Evaluations a state-of-the-art computerized in-house laboratory. Dry Eye EXTENDED HOURS: MON: 7:30AM – 8:00PM Contact Lens Exams TUE – FRI: 7:30AM – 4:30PM • SUN: 7:30AM – 11:30AM Scleral Contact Lenses 4651 Sheridan Street, Suite 100, Hollywood, FL 33021 • 954.894.1500 PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE: www.myeyesurgeons.com for sight-saving suggestions! YOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD-FT. LAUDERDALE JULY-AUGUST 2020 PAGE 3 RABBI’S MESSAGE CONSOLATION THROUGH RECONSIDERATION The Shabbat after Tisha B’Av is referred to by the special Loving G-d must express itself in actions. Rabbi Avi Weiss Haftorah that we read, Shabbat Nachamu. The term “nechama” tells a story: Whenever his parents flew to New York, it was his is generally translated as “comfort” or “consolation.” In the responsibility to meet them at the airport.
    [Show full text]
  • THE BENJAMIN and ROSE BERGER TORAH TO-GO® Established by Rabbi Hyman and Ann Arbesfeld December 2017 • Chanukah 5778
    Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future THE BENJAMIN AND ROSE BERGER TORAH TO-GO® Established by Rabbi Hyman and Ann Arbesfeld December 2017 • Chanukah 5778 Dedicated by Dr. David and Barbara Hurwitz in honor of their children and grandchildren Featuring Divrei Torah from Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Rabbi Dan Cohen Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger Rabbi Joshua Flug Mrs. Chaya Batya Neugroschl Rabbi Ozer Glickman Mrs. Stephanie Strauss Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Rabbi Akiva Koenigsberg A Project of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future 1 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary • The Benjamin and Rose Berger CJF Torah To-Go Series • Chanukah 5778 We thank the following synagogues which have pledged to be Pillars of the Torah To-Go® project Beth David Synagogue Congregation Ohab Zedek Young Israel of West Hartford, CT New York, NY Century City Los Angeles, CA Beth Jacob Congregation Congregation Beverly Hills, CA Shaarei Tefillah Young Israel of Newton Centre, MA New Hyde Park Bnai Israel – Ohev Zedek New Hyde Park, NY Philadelphia, PA Green Road Synagogue Beachwood, OH Young Israel of Congregation Scarsdale Ahavas Achim The Jewish Center Scarsdale, NY Highland Park, NJ New York, NY Young Israel of Congregation Benai Asher Jewish Center of Toco Hills The Sephardic Synagogue Brighton Beach Atlanta, GA of Long Beach Brooklyn, NY Long Beach, NY Young Israel of Koenig Family Foundation Congregation Brooklyn, NY West Hartford Beth Sholom West Hartford, CT Young Israel of Providence, RI Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst Cedarhurst, NY West Hempstead West Hempstead, NY Rabbi Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • A Message from Vicky and Alumnae This Past Year, Am Yisrael Lost a Great Woman, Lady Amelie Jakobovits
    M Rosh Ha-Shanah 5771 IDRESHET MORIAH Dear Parents A Message From Vicky and Alumnae This past year, Am Yisrael lost a great woman, Lady Amelie Jakobovits. At her passing, she was mourned On the sevenShabbatot which follow Tishah as “the mother of British Jewry,” but in her lifetime, Be-Av, we read the “Shiva De-Nechemta,” a she was the wife of the late Chief Rabbi of Great series of specialhaftarot of consolation. We begin Britain, Lord Jakobovits, and an unusually dynamic on “Shabbat Nachamu” with “ Nachamu, person in her own right. Lady Amelie was a beacon nachamu, ami…”, and continue for seven weeks, Tofchesed and compassion and a source of down-to- until the Shabbat before Rosh Ha-Shanah. earth good sense and good counsel. Her emunah If we follow the haftarah was unshakable, whether during her experiences in carefully each week, we the Holocaust or after suffering the loss of close family members. sense a progression: I was one of the extremely fortunate people who had an unusually close Our relationship with relationship with her. Lady J, as she was affectionately known to her friends, Hashem rises from the was my aunt, and also often stepped in to act as my mother. I can honestly ashes of destruction, say that so much of what I became and so growing in strength much of what our children became was a result Lady Jakobovits each week, until, by the of the love she showered upon me and the provided us end of the seven weeks, we lessons she taught me.
    [Show full text]
  • Based on a Lecture by Rabbi Avrohom Pam 0021-6615 Is Published Monthly, Except July and August
    Neighborhood Bankers. A.rthur Stuart (right). and Joseph Henschel (o.•nler). with C:l'IH customer l'>rael l'roto~in. owner of ltindy'" Maternity. 11 "Doing business with bankers should always be such a pleasure. Here are It's particularly so with Arthur Stuart and Joseph Henschel of CNB. Not only do they provide all of the usual services, like busi­ Neighborhood ness checking. But they offer something more important - themselves. I can't think of any other Bankers who bankers who'd walk the streets. talk to our neighbors, come to all the council meetings, and become so thoroughly involved in the Support affairs of our community. Good Neighbor Business Loans from Community National Bank. The Good Neighborhood Neighbor Bank. When it comes to lending money, my Merchants'' neighborhood bank is no less generous. Within weeks - son1etimes even days - we can borrow thousands of dollars. And use them for anything from building up our inventory or accumulating working capital. Maybe even buying a new facility. For all these reasons, I'd say Community National Bank deserves your business. After three terrific years, they're still getting mine." @ !ll!IAL HOUSING LENDER MEMHt.:R fOIC I t.:QUAL Of'f'ORTUNITY LENDER Located in the heart of Bora Park at 5005 13th Avenue, (718) 436-6900 THEGISH BSERVER In This Issue ... 5 The Designs of Providence THE .JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN based on a lecture by Rabbi Avrohom Pam 0021-6615 is published monthly, except July and August. by the Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer Agudath Israel of America, 5 9 Fruit For the Soul, Beekman Street.New York.
    [Show full text]
  • CHANUKAH 8 Illuminating Facts PAGE 10 PAGE 16
    VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 7 כסלו תש"ף TORAT ERETZ YISRAEL • PUBLISHED IN JERUSALEM • DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD DECEMBER 2019 ISRAEL EDITION WITH GRATEFUL THANKS TO THE FOUNDING SPONSORS OF HAMIZRACHI – THE LAMM FAMILY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA RABBI HERSHEL SCHACHTER The Menorah: on why G-d ‘changed the rules’ CHANUKAH 8 Illuminating Facts PAGE 10 PAGE 16 RABBANIT SHANI TARAGIN Light in the Darkness: talks about antibiotic and probiotic education A Moving Story from PAGE 7 Rabbi Hanoch Teller PAGE 31 RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS highlights what really keeps Israel Insight: the Jewish spirit alive PAGE 18 Wars Without, Wars Within RABBANIT RACHELLE PAGE 38 FRAENKEL tells two jokes to make one serious point Ashkelon Under Fire: PAGE 14 A Personal Account RABBI YOSEF ZVI PAGE 50 RIMON discusses feet and marketplaces nowadays PAGE 8 SIVAN RAHAV MEIR AND YEDIDYA MEIR with eight light and INSIDE! SPECIAL FEATURE IN ADVANCE OF THE 13TH SIYUM HASHAS: bright insights Who Really Initiated Daf Yomi? PAGE 22 PAGE 54 dedicated in memory of our late beloved zaidie ,ז"ל Aaron ben Moshe Menachem who always brought a ray of light and spark of joy to those surrounding him www.mizrachi.org [email protected] +972 (0)2 620 9000 Chairman Mr. Harvey Blitz Chief Executive Rabbi Doron Perez Educational Directors Rabbi Reuven Taragin Rabbanit Shani Taragin PUBLISHED BY THE MIZRACHI WORLD MOVEMENT Editor-in-Chief Daniel Verbov Assistant Editor Esther Shafier Creative Director Jonny Lipczer Graphic Designer Hadas Peretz חנוכה שמח Production and Advertising Manager Meyer Sterman [email protected] Chanukah Sameach HaMizrachi seeks to spread Torat Eretz Yisrael throughout the world.
    [Show full text]
  • Jews, a Media Report By
    I Notjystacheese, a traClition•••. Haolam, the most trusted name in Cholov Yisroel Kosher Cheese. A reputation earned through ZS years of scrupulous devotion to quality and kashnith.\X!ith 12 delicious varieties. Under the strict Rabbinical supervision ofK'ha\ Adas Jeshuru~, N. Y. Haolam, a tradition you'll enjoy keeping. I I Kosher for Passover Cholov Yisroel ao THURM BRO::.. WORLllCHEESECO JN(: NEWYORX. NY AJ........ The Thurm families wish Kial Yisroel I a n'.li~ no.,rini n:i.,ri:J Look for the Green & White Box ,• I THE~SH OBSERVER I THE JEWISH OBSERVER (ISSN 0021-6615) is published monthly, except July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, N.Y. 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription $15.00 per year; two years, $27 .00; three years, $36.00 outside of the United States, US funds only. in this issue ... $20.00 in Europe and Israel. $25.00 in So. Africa and Australia. Single copy: $2.00, foreign $2.50. Send address changes to The Jewish I Observer, 5 Beekman St., N.Y., N.Y. 10038. Printed in the U.S.A. Bringing G-d ... Into The Classroom, Chaim David Zwiebel . 4 Civilization and The Jews, a media report by RABBI NISSON WOLl'lN Dr. Bernard Fryshman . • . • • . • . • . B Editor Junkies Without Drugs, Nehama Consuelo Nahmoud • . 13 Editorial Board Who Will Live and Who Will Die (Tra-La-La), OR. ERNST BODENHEIMER Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin . • . 18 Chairman L. RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS Hacham Shaya's Simhat Tora, M. Reisman .
    [Show full text]
  • Download Shiur Summaries
    abbi Yitzchak Breitowitzabbi Yitzchak Breitowitzabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz8686 1 2 Foreword 4 Opening words 5 Chief Rabbis and Senior Roshei Yeshiva opening words 8 Rav Yisrael Meir Lau, Rav Dovid Lau, Rav Yitzchak Yosef, Rav Shlomo Amar, Rav Avigdor Nevenzahl, Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Baruch Wieder Achdus 11 Chief Rabbi Berel Lazer, Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rav Yaakov Bender, Rav Moshe Hauer, Rav Doron Perez, Rav Moshe Taragin, Rav Hanoch Teller, Rav Reuven Taragin, Rav Jesse Horn Limud Hatorah 35 Rav Hershel Schachter, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Rav Noah Isaac Oelbaum, Rav Aharon Lopiansky, Rav Jacob J, Schacter, Rav Meir Goldwicht, Rav Shraga Kallus, Rav David Aaron, Rav Aryeh Lebowitz Kabalas Hatorah 62 Chief Rabbi David Lau, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Rav Elimelech Biderman, Rav Menachem Penner, Rav Yechezkal Weinfeld, Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon, Rav Judah Mischel, Rav Shalom Rosner, Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz Personal Growth 89 Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, Rav Mayer Twersky, Mr Charlie Harary, Rav Yoel Gold, Rav Yakov Horowitz, Rav Efraim Shapiro, Rav Ben Zion Shafier, Rav YY Rubenstein Shavuos 108 Rabbi Lord Jonathon Sacks, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Rav Yisroel Reisman, Rav Dr. Avraham Twerski, Rav Moshe Weinberger, Rav Steven Burg, Rav Zecharya Wallerstein, Rav Eytan Feiner, Rav David Fohrman, Rav Mendel Blachman, Rav Michael Rosenswig, Rav Zev Leff, Rav YY Jacobson, Rav Eli Mansour, Rav Steven Weil, Rav Ilan Meirov, Dr David Pelcovitz, Rav Menachem Leitbag Women Speakers 162 Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner, Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller, Mrs. Michal Horowitz, Mrs. Miriam Kosman, Rebbetzin Lauren Levin, Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi, Rebbetzin Lori Palatnick, Mrs. Sivan Rahav-Meir, Mrs.
    [Show full text]