יום שישי, א׳ אלול תשפ״וFriday, August 14, 2026
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Chayim Lando is the practice manager at Maryland Neuro Rehab & Wellness Center and has been a Jewish educator for over three decades. His favorite activities are studying and teaching Talmud and spending time with his grandchildren.
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The 30th of Cheshvan is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman (1908-2003).
He begins with a general overview of Teshuvah discussing topics such as Teshuvah rooted in fear vs. that rooted in love, how we establish our true identity through the process of Teshuvah, the need to maintain a positive attitude through the process, and creating a real connection with Hashem.
As a teenager he desired to go to Eretz Yisrael, where his grandparents were living, but the realities of WWII made that impossible.
Flora Sassoon personally responded to all requests for financial assistance and helped to build a Jewish hospital in London in 1907.
He wished to return to Palestine but was unable to due to the outbreak of WWI. He decided instead to travel to the United States to raise money for the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael.
When the Volozhin Yeshiva appointed the Netziv and Bais HaLevi as roshei yeshiva, Rav Dovid Luria (RADAL) was asked to be the first to sign the declaration of appointment.
From the reviewer’s perspective, being asked to review this booklet has given me the chance to engage in introspection as to my own relationship with Viduy.
He powerfully argues against the stereotype of Jews marching like sheep to the gas chambers: The great majority remained honest, dignified, pristine and heroic…
I believe that exposure to many of the concepts of Kabbalah would quell the questions of many of our youngsters and quench their thirst for something more spiritual.
Avraham would never have been told by Hashem, ‘Lech Lecha,’ had Avraham not first passed through the obliterating crucible of Nimrod’s furnace.
It is often a challenge when the story told by Chazal is at odds with modern scholarship.
August 14, 2026 
