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At that time, the These were falling away and were being replaced by invitations ofthese lines was in a primary grade in a public school of acceptance and assimilation, and pressure to conform. Lin Seattle. I was no different from my older brothers After witnessing years of surrendering to an unyielding six­ or other Jewish children in Los Angeles, San Francisco, day work week and difficulties in keeping kashrus, and then, Vancouver. .. or Detroit. The closest Hebrew Day School in the 1940s and '50s, responding to new opportunities in was over 2,000 miles away, in Chicago. In fact, there were the business and professional worlds, one could well have no more than five day schools outside of New York City predicted the end of Orthodox Jewry in America. on the entire American continent. At that time, there were [ 1 Instead, there were stirrings of spiritual awakening, some three mesivtos, and no kollel for advanced study. When my 1 dedicated pioneering individuals, and the injection of ener­ oldest brother got married in 1952, and was accepted in Bais gizing, inspiring, heroic souls who survived Ch urban Europe Medrash Elyon in Monsey, NY, he was one of ten yungeleit and began to transform An1erica from a spiritual wilderness there. Add another ten in Lakewood's Bais Medrash Govoha, on the threshold of disappearance to a tentative pause in and a few more in Bais Hatalmud in the East New York sec- the melting away of Orthodoxy, and an ultimate, totally tion of Brooklyn. There were less than thirty in the entire unanticipated growth and revival. Western hemisphere. Photo: Smoke is seen billowing from Gaza following an airstrike that was part of the ID F's Operation Cast Lead (Yehuda Boltshauser) 5 JANUARY FEBRUARY 2 0 0 9 Today, there is a day school in every Living in an age whatever bones were thrown its way American community of at least 10,000 by its Zionist masters. One might families. In fact, there are over 780 day of miracles has as well have dreamed of planting schools across the continent, and over ramifications on a lush garden in the midst of a 200 yeshiva-Bais Yaakov high schools, parched desert as of sowing the seeds servicing over 250,000 students.' the battlefield. of a Chareidi community in such Bais Medrash Govoha in Lakewood It is incumbent unpromising soil. has five thousand students, including Today, the yeshiva world in Bretz several thousand married kollel fellows. on us to take Yisroel is burgeoning. Chevron, With the spread of community kollelim, Ponovezh, Mir, Brisk , , . in Yerushalayim, there are over 30 such institutions scat­ note of these Bnei Brak, Modiin, Tifrach .... Chinuch tered across the continent. Today, the miracles and to Atzmai - a network of chadarim - was American Torah community is led by founded by Rabbi Aaron Kotler, .,.. ~, rabbanim, dayanim, and roshei yeshivas respond to them just 55 years ago. Today, close to I 00,000 of high caliber who are American-born in a variety children are enrolled in these Torah and for the most part were brought up Schools, plus 45,000 in private chadarim. and educated in American yeshivos. of ways. And every town and city that has had And what was Bretz Yisroel like 75 a Chinuch Atzmai school for ten years years ago? We quote from Rabbi Shlomo can today boast a yeshiva ketana-high Lorincz's memoirs, published in JO one or two small yeshivos in which school, a yeshiva gedola-beis midrash, Jan.'06: the learning was al taharas hakodesh. and a kollel. Readers cannot imagine what a To send one's son to a yeshiva high • The declaration of Israel as a Jewish spiritual wasteland Bretz Yisroel was school, which combined secular and State in 1948, the massive immigra­ in those days. In 1933, not only was religious studies, was considered the tion that followed, and the phe­ the "well empty, lacking water," but pinnacle of Orthodoxy. nomenal build up of the religious it was filled with "snakes and scor­ Even those who remained loyal yishuv is beyond anyone's dream, pions.'' The concept of a ben Torah to Torah values did not dream of let alone anticipation.
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  • Parshat Vayishlach Dec 13-14, 2019

    Parshat Vayishlach Dec 13-14, 2019

    Thank you to Steve & Vivian Dorfman for sponsoring this week's Tefilla Notebook in memory of Steve's mother, Anne Gendis, Chana Braina bat Yosef a"h, whose yahrtzeit is on 20 Kislev. 16 Kislev ● Parshat Vayishlach Dec 13-14, 2019 Dearest Members and Friends, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 One of William Shakespeare’s best-known quotes is: “Be not afraid of greatness – some are 4:26pm CANDLELIGHTING born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” 4:30pm MINCHA/KABBALAT SHABBAT Those who achieve greatness often defy advance prediction. Such a man was the late Rabbi SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 Eleazar Menachem Man Shach, whose 18th yahrtzeit we commemorated last month. A 8:30am RABBI’S GEMARA SHIUR Lithuanian-born yeshiva-trained scholar lucky enough to emerge from Nazi-overrun Europe, 9:15am SHACHARIT in 1940 he settled in Palestine where he struggled to find income as a yeshiva teacher, despite his previous 3:45pm PRE MINCHA SHIUR experience running a significant yeshiva in Europe. He was eventually hired to teach at Ponevezh, a 4:20pm MINCHA remarkable institution created by the legendary Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman. Rabbi 4:40pm SEUDAH SHLISHIT Shach proved very popular with students, although he was initially overshadowed by his colleague Rabbi 5:25pm MA’ARIV Shmuel Rozovsky, a masterful pedagogue whose clarity and scholarship made him the undisputed superstar 5:30pm SHABBAT ENDS Talmud lecturer at the yeshiva. In retrospect, Rabbi Shach was typical of many rabbis like him who had survived the Holocaust – qualified, competent, pious, a scholar, and deeply committed to the cause of reestablishing the world that had been Sun.