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3 Monsey Mevaser Marth20 2019 IM.Indd PURIM 5779 Parshas Tzav Licht Bentching: 6:52 בס"ד March 21, 2019 14 Adar II, 5779 YOUR WAY TO SHIP AUTHORIZED RESELLER FOR USPS DIRECT PARTNER OF THE USPS BUSINESS ALLIANCE DHL EXPRESS & DHL E-COMMERCE Our Goal and Mission is to Provide you with Personalized Service and Unbeatable Rates 1-845-425-4888 [email protected] We are a Division of USPS Priority Mail Services Corporation The #1 Killer in the US is Cardiovascular Disease, Arteriosclerosis, CAD. Have difficulty breathing, chest pain, dizziness, family cardiac history? FDA Approved Cardiac Diagnostics covered by all insurances. 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We men cannot chalopshes, sweet and sour tongue, meat with wrap our brains around all the tiny minutiae ketchup (yes, Dovi, with ketchup!) and a bottle that goes into being an eishes chayil - until we of wine or six - and Purim is truly a Mechaye! are thrown into the role of playing Mommy Founder/Publisher/Editor Much of the Purim divrei Torah center while thinking like a Tatty. Rabbi Dovid Hoff man around the heroes, heroines and villains of I do not advocate for wives and mothers Local Content/Chessed Events Editor that day. Of course, Queen Esther saved the to go away for extended periods of time, but I M.C. Millman Rabbi Dovid Hoffman day and she will be forevermore a role mod- can simply say that this week was challenging Rabbinic Advisor el of how a bas Yisroel acts with tznius and in ways I never knew before. But at the same Rabbi Chaim Schabes First and foremost - a Freilichen Purim! modesty, while accomplishing great things for time it was great to recognize a new-found Rabbi Boruch Hirschfeld And for all those who won’t be cognizant the klal. Last week, I came to appreciate a local appreciation of my spouse spouse - some Writer/Contributor (okay, conscious) to read this until aft er Purim heroine who also does so much in an under- people call them our “better half” and there is Rabbi Eliezer Abish has “worn off ” - black coff ee and Pepto Bismal stated way that I tend to overlook - or worse, to merit to that. I believe that every Jewish wife Binyomin Ebstein has saved many a day for me in my youth! forget - how important her role really is. and mother is so much more than what is Design and Layout Last Shabbos, I was at my daughter and A week ago Monday evening was the seen beneath the surface; each and every one Adam Negnewitzky - son-in-law in Lakewood and my daughter Pidyon Haben of my grandson, Shlomo Yaak- is the Queen Esther of her castle and must be Jewish Link Marketing Solutions was gushing over her memories of Purim ov Hoff man, in Eretz Yisroel. A carefully con- treated and appreciated as such. growing up in Monsey. She has the fondest sidered decision was made - with Daas Torah, If the Yom Tov of Purim is to simcha, Design & Production recollections and enjoyed Purim so much that of course - and I stayed here in America while what the nation of Amalek is to evil and the M. Kurov / Design2Pro she told me she is not sure she wants to come my wife went to Israel for the simcha. As it righteous Mordechai is to Tzaddikim - then Consultant to us for Purim because she doesn’t think it turned out, we had another family simcha as each Jewish wife and mother is to her chil- Moshe Kinderlehrer - can possibly live up to her expectations and well and my wife stayed for a week, while I dren, family and friends what Queen Esther Jewish Link Media Group recollections of Purim as a kid! I assured her was taking care of the remaining kids at home. represents for the Jewish people: a beacon of Additional Graphic Art that Purim today is just as exciting, fun and And that is how I came to truly appreciate the light, grace, ability, wisdom, tznius, action, Tzvi & Nechama Hoff man freilich as it was years ago. And it’s really true heroine she really is. I never understood that and - as my twelve-year-old constantly re- Bookkeeper - Purim in Monsey is amazing and now that there really are a million and one things that minds us - NOSH! 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Yaakov Serle Mailing By IN THIS WEEK’S MONSEY MEVASER Mailways Inc Distribution Yisroel Fishbain Monsey Mevaser Media 55 Union Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977 (845) 821-6200 Email: [email protected] Community News: [email protected] Sales Associate: [email protected] HealthCare Sales: Yaakovserle@Monseymevaser. com Bookkeeping: [email protected] Rabbi Chaim Reb Sholom Rabbi Eliezer Admor Reb Yaakov Rav Moshe Schabes Mordechai Abish M'Tosh-Monsey Kaminetsky zt"l Feinstein zt"l Rubashkin Th e Monsey Mevaser welcomes letters to the See page 17 See page 45 See page 19 See page 17 See page 19 editor, which can be emailed to See page 14 [email protected]. Letters and pictures may be edited or cropped for length, clarity and appropriateness. We do not wel- come personal attacks or disrespectful language, and we reserve the right not to print any letter or submission. We reserve the right to refuse advertising that does not refl ect the standards of the newspaper. 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