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DVEffrlSE'M·'''..·.·.'. ,',',.. •'' Dn A DlNNFN © COPYRIGHT 2008 (,!STING WUJSITE ADDRESSFS. !lUT IN NO WA'" 01n;s THIS IMPLY THAI l'Ht: Gr-:oouM OU THE JEWISH O!JSl·.nVER CONDONE Ci\SliAI. 77 ll1rnqa Road DECEMBER 2008 I VOLUME XLI NO, 9 '1k "" lid/ m ""' •\I '51R 11 IA fl-IE INTERNET. L ---- -""--- __J .. #i)/oY1t "-Shin[() A(IOflbai 7">1'1 RABBI GAVRIEL NOACH HOLTZBERG, i"'i1 REBBETZIN RIVKA HOLTZBERG, i"'i1 RABBI ARYEH LEIB TEITELBAUM, i"'i1 RABBI BENZI ON KRUMAN) i"'i1 NORMA RABINOVICH, i"'i1 Y OCHEVED 0RPAZ, i"'i1 OR DAYS, Kial Yisroeleverywhere was united in prayer, A recently widowed woman once came to the tzaddik concern, and longing for chasdei Hashem. Trapped Rabbi Aryeh Levin and showed him her Tehillim, pages Fin a building founded on chessed, menaced by thugs swollen from her tears. "What happened to all my tefillos whose own lives were as meaning1ess to them as those of the for my husband? Were they all wasted?" kedoshim they murdered, six holy Jews elevated us through "No;' he assured her. "No tefilla is wasted. Your tefilloscould their ordeal, making myriads recognize that we are one in not save your husband, but they saved other women's hus­ our e1nuna and ahavas Yisroel. bands, other mothers' children, other Jews from suffering." The rabbi and rebbetzin who lived in galus to maintain A few weeks later, she came back. "Rebbe, remember what a haven for fellow Jews in need of a minyan, you told me then? Tell me again:' a kosher meal, a Jewish corner in a hotbed of Our tefillos were not wasted. They avoda zara. A great talmid chacham and tzad­ Our tefillos brought us together in ahavas Yisroel and dik, murdered over his Gemara. A Chassid were not in emuna. Let us still remember that when going into galus to assure the rest of us that our emotions are no longer raw. In that our food was kosher. A baalas teshuva pre­ wasted. They way, may we merit chasdei Hashem for paring to turn her back on her past and her brought us ourselves and Kial Yisroel. face to Eretz Yisroel. A young woman who .il"::l:llln yearned for a Jewish atmosphere. together in For all of these we prayed. And for all of ahavas Yisroel these we mourn. PI-TOTO: Part of the crowd at the funer­ and in emuna. al of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Teitelbaum. 6 ---···.·---·-··-···-··-··-··-···-·-·-··-··--··-·-··=-i RING THE BURDENS OF OTHERS ···-··-"'"----···-···---··-·-"'"-·-------~·------·--···--·-··-·- ii fiving Kial Yisroel ITH CHESSED We live in frightening times. No less a personality than the gadol hador himself, Maran Hagaon Rabbi Yoseif Shalom Elyashiv N··v,7iv, has expressed in recent months to those closest to him that this is the most dangerous and frightening time in Eretz Yisroel since the founding of the Jewish State. IS GRANDSON questioned After Oslo, the expulsion from Gaza his illustrious grandfather - (not disengagement, but expulsion), H who is not usually known for and the debacle of the last Lebanese War, expressing these types of sentiments on he has come to the realization that not current events, unless asked by others one of the colorful cast of personalities for his opinion - whether that is not in leadership positions in Bretz Yisroel somewhat of a guzma (exaggeration). In today has a clue as how to move forward his 97 years in Eretz Yisroel, he's surely from here. witnessed indescribable difficulties and suffering. (In fact, Rabbi Elyashiv lost a TuRN 1 NG THE TIDE twelve-year-old daughter in one of the .. · .. · · · .. · · .. · .... · .. · .. · .. · .. · manybombingsofYerushalayimduring Is there anything that we can do to the War of Independence in 1948.) somehow turn the tide and bring And Rabbi Elyashiv responded briefly rachamei Shamayim (Heavenly and pointedly, "There is a madman who compassion) towards us in these trou- is consumed with hatred for Kial Yisroel bling times? The answer Ghazal teach and has or will have nuclear weapons, us is Yes. The Midrash relates that when and has every intent of using them on Avraham Avinu met Sheim for the first Bretz Yisroel. Is there anything more time, he asked him, "What did you do dangerous than that?" while you were in the teiva (Noach's If we are truly living in such a dan- ark) during the Mabul (Flood)?" Sheim gerous time, as the gadol hador posits, replied, "Our days and nights were spent what can we do about it - other than, providing food for the many animals of course, pour our hearts out in tefilla? that were with us on the teiva." Even the most ardent Zionist among The Midrash needs explanation. Why us, who always looked to some form would Avraham Avinu, who was not of political leadership to help us out of alive during the Mabul, want to know a mess, has:a~-change~outlook __ :o~they occupi~thei~me:] r-=···-_·---------~-=---·----=·--DE-C=_--E M-H=;-R ·=--0 0 8··-------~~~·-···········-=-i teiva? What practical lesson could he potent method of arousing Divine ated with chessed, as the passuk testifies: derive from knowing this fact? mercy. "Titein chessed leAvraham:' The Philadelphia Rosh Hayeshiva, Avraham absorbed this message well Our gedolei Yisroel have taught us Rabbi Elya Svei N"P''nl, elucidated and derived the following lesson: If by example that every small act of this Midrash with an extremely rel­ caring for animals can provide merit to chessed is of paramount importance, evant thought. He explained that what save people during the total destruction that one must make time for chessed in Avraham Avinu wanted to know was: of the Flood, how much more effective one's daily life, despite the multifaceted When the Flood was raging in all would it be to care for human beings, responsibilities that they carry in leading its fury, what did you do to arouse created in the tzellem Elakim, to invoke Kial Yisroel.
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