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il1lj:' .N1'lN1N1' invites you to join us in paying tribute to the memory of ,,,.. SAMUEL AND RENEE REICHMANN n·y Through their renowned benevolence and generosity they have nobly benefited the Torah community at large and have strengthened and sustained Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah here in Toronto. Their legendary accomplishments have earned the respect and gratitude of all those whose lives they have touched. 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Please send' me my free, one-year introductory subscription to: (check one) Agudath Israel Planned Charitable Giving/ 0 The Jewish Observer or 0 V1Nn ))W>1'N 1'N1 {for non...::urrent subscribers only) Lessons in anEra ofRapid Change t is a year since the Gulf War and all its attendant threats and I miracles came to a close. During all those months that we experi­ enced the tensions ofconcern and subsequent relief-prior to the war, in its duration, and at its ultimate resolution-our rabbis, teachers, and mentors called on us to respond to the events as they unfolded. The public proclamations (Kol Korei) ofthe Moetzes Gedolei Ha Torah (Council ofTorah Sages) ofAgudath Israel of America, as well as a number ofaccompanying articles, were featured in these pages. ow that a year has passed, and we were witness to a number of N other extraordinary events that took place in the interim, we are publishing two essays based on free translations ofaddresses that examine these events from a Torah perspective, delivered at the recent National Convention ofAgudath Israel ofAmerica: by Rabbi Elga Svei (Rosh Hayeshiva-Yeshiva ofPhiladelphia) and Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg (Rosh Hayeshiva-Ner Israel, Baltimore), to bring these extraordinary events into perspective and to help guide us to respond to them as we should. hese are followed by a first-person report ofnoteworthy changes Tin two cities in the former Soviet Union, by Meshullam Klarberg, ofMelbourne, Australia. :l :i;-,K:l :11,t"I.:\ ,,,i), i\:l!JYi;J iiX'1:1 ;ixi'ii' A FERVENT CALL TO ALL JEWS A CALI- FROM THf MOHZES GH:IOUI HATbRAH Of AMfR!C/\ """m""'"·°''"~,~·~"'""~"'""~'""'W>">"'>O= ·~~• "'"'""""'~""""'~""~~"'m"""""""'"~" ""'""'~'""""""''""'~~~-'""-''"-''~"~'"'" ==->>--'•<»·~·,.,,""w"'""-"r"""""""""""'~"" -""""~'~·~'~"""""'""""'~"·-,.~ ,,Q_,.,,,_,._,_~,_....... ,_,,,_,,.,.,~~"­ ""-'"l... ,,.~~ ... ,,~..,.-,,,.,., mm.,..,"'""''~ ---~--rn~~~"' .,,,~,~-.~-~· ,..~~'""~~-~ ...,..,,,...,,,~-·""''"~~ ~-'="""-~"" ,,_, ., .,.,, ~ ~-~ ""'-'~""""-"'''"-"'~'"''"·"~-'-••"' """"""'""""'""" ....,,,.,~-=-·~""'~~·,~"'·~ ...,,,...,_~ ~-· '~......, ""'""' ......,,,, ~ """"" ~'"' ,.,.,,.,._.. ~...,,...,,,.,,,...,,=,,•"•·'~'"~'=',,.,...... ""'~''""'""""""~"'-~"''""'--"'·-- '°"'" Y"> ,.,., w~ "~"' ~~" '""'>."'"=I "''"' TheJewtshObseroer. March 1992 .5 Lessons in an Era ofRapid Change :m~111 IMPUCATIONS OFA OF EVENl'S Changes in the World ... Mandating Changes in Ourselves EARTH-SHAKING EVENTS Hajlaga. when all of mankind Based on an address by pooled their resources to build the Tower of Babel: possessions, labor, S past year, we were witness Rabbi Elga Svei N"V'?V, and even families were turned over o revelations of G-d's Hand in Rosh Hayeshiva ofthe to the community to be shared by TIthe events that surround us. If all. This violation of all standards of earlier generations would have seen Yeshiva ofPhiladelphia, ethical conduct and basic decency that which we lived through, they presented at the recent earned G-d's wrath who brought would have burst forth with shiros destruction on this effort. ve'sishbadws--Bcmgs of praise to G-d. National Convention of Indeed, the Torah's account of the Dor Ha.Jlagadescrtbes the entire Let us step back for a moment to Agudath Israel ofAmerica. world as being of "one language better appreciate what has occurred: (so/a echad), united Uni purpose At those very places where for genera­ (devarim achadim)," which Chnzal tions one was not even permitted to sung out with songs of praise to G-d! tell us were aimed against Echod­ mention G-d's name, youngsters to­ We, who did have the privilege to wit­ the supreme Oneness that is G-d. day are studying Torah. In buildings ness these events, certainly should be Unity-achdus-is a key ele­ ment in the strength of kedusha, "Shemd' where uttering the was for­ full of praise of G-d. Just as the Jews the forces of sanctity. Thus when bidden, five minyanim (myself among were enjoined by Moshe Rabbeinu Yaakov Avinu and his children trav­ them) thundered a public Maariv-in with the words: "You saw.. .," referring eled to Egypt, his family is de­ the Moscow airport, no less! I mar­ to having been at Sinai and witnessed scribed as "shivim nefesh-seventy veled at this and thought: the Giving of the Law, making them soul," in the singular, so completely Ifonly the Chafetz Chaim, who had answerable to a higher level of con­ were they united in thought, iden­ declared that we should take arms to duct. we too are members ofa genera­ tity and purpose. When the forces of tuma (depravity and destruction) battle against the depraved Commu­ tion that saw outstanding events.
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