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He was fluent in 10 languages and had a broad knowledge of medicine, mathematics, and astronomy.
Rav Kreiswirth would say, “This young man is my Gan Eden.”
Rabbi Wertheimer further notes that wings create shade and thus serve as a metaphor for offering protection.
He headed one of the celebrated Jerusalem branches of the Brisk Yeshiva that had originally been established by his father in Europe...
Rabbi Scheiner was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah and venerated both for his erudition and wise counsel.
Not only has he yet to document his charge of the federal mandate and his directive mysteriously disappeared from the internet, he claimed that the directive permitted nursing homes to deny the admission of the corona infected.
Not only is this sort of thing counterintuitive, a parallel policy announced two days later covering the military shows that even Biden is not so sure about where he is taking the country.
Rabbi Twerski was a Talmudic scholar and a medical doctor with a specialty in psychiatry who became a leading authority on the treatment of drug addiction and other forms of addictive behavior.
He steered refugees to interviewers, found hiding places, delivered messages, and made deals with Marseille gangsters, but perhaps his most interesting contribution was marrying six different Jewish refugees so they could obtain American visas.
News From Across The Pond.
Blame for the continued spread is mostly being attributed to new mutations of the virus. And anti-Semites are just blaming the charedim.
Is it important to keep kids (who are old enough to come to shul) at their seats for Kerias HaTorah (as opposed to letting them play outside)?
Change throughout the generations are not only on a physical level, but on a spiritual one as well.
Force someone to utter – and believe – an untruth, and all you do is create resentment, which can explode in your face down the road. Moreover, justice must be based on truth. It cannot be based on a lie.
Chaim (not his real name), a frum addict in recovery, told The Jewish Press that he'd probably be dead were it not for Rabbi Twerski.
He wouldn't lean back on a chair so as not to enjoy the comforts of this world.
Using your successful relationship with your parents as a guide, you will be better equipped to maintain long-term relationships in the future.
By dvora
I ask only one thing from you. When you have the opportunity to help another person, don't hesitate to do it.
By dvora
Edith Pollak would go on to work 14 hours a day reading notes from survivors and gathering information for files needed to reclaim their stolen funds, such as age, town, and the concentration camp and ghettos where they were imprisoned.
The sale is valid since the food is essentially of the same type, and most people are not particular how an animal is raised.
My grandfather loved to show me all his books and would ask me if I was learning as well. He would always tell me a story from the Gemara, and his face would light up as he would tell it.
What did she have children for if not to personally and lovingly raise her precious jewels?
Against The Tide? ‘How Do We Roast the Paschal Sacrifice?’ (Pesachim 74a)
In the days of radical change and revolution, everyone is swept outside. Private matters are pushed off, family life does not merit any attention, no one thinks it’s time to invest in the home.
For four years, the media and their party, the Democrats, told us every day that Trump is a fascist, a dictator, a racist, and a white supremacist.
On days that we recite Hallel, why do we do so before Keri'at HaTorah? Shouldn’t the Torah reading come first based on the rule that whenever two matters face us, we do the more frequent one first (tadir v’she’eino tadir, tadir kodem)? Menachem
You are two individuals, and having varied interests should not only be expected, but can be encouraged.
To describe Rabbi Henkin by that singular – albeit incredible – accomplishment of advanced Torah study for women would be incomplete, to say the least.
Measure for measure, the Jews didn’t lift a finger against the millions of Egyptians who pursued them to the sea. Instead, the Egyptians drowned themselves by walking into the watery abyss.
The rest of his work remained in manuscript form, part of which is currently in the possession of the National Library of Israel.
The Mechilta D’Rebbi Yishmael comments that the Torah can only be elucidated by those who ate from the mahn.
Of course, if Israel had made several hundred Palestinian Arabs homeless, the usual suspects would howl.
The items wouldn’t be replaced or refunded. I was informed that they had been delivered by their use-by date and that I could have frozen them.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Look down at the difficulties and you can give way to despair. The only way to sustain energy, individual or collective, is to turn our gaze up toward the far horizon of hope.
By Marc Gronich
When you read this column, you can swap out the word “Asian” for “Jewish” and the meaning will be felt as though the resolution was written for our community.
By Tzvi Fishman
Heaven forbid to judge the Children of Israel in a less than positive fashion, but, to our sorrow, this is the situation.
After such a miracle, how could the Jews possibly think about accumulating material wealth?
News From Across The Pond.
Last year, Goldfarb rushed down the eastern seaboard to Elmhurst Hospital in New York to assist overwhelmed staff with treating coronavirus patients.
We now turn our attention to “eshnav.” This rather obscure word only appears twice in the entire Bible.
The enforcement of the lockdown regulations also continues to be quite contentious, particularly since it's only done in charedi areas.
In a move contrary to his own political interests – he hoped to win the 1940 Republican presidential nomination, and most Republicans were anti-immigration – Hoover fought hard for increasing American immigration quotas for Jewish refugees.
By Eve Glover
People who saved strangers are called ‘The Righteous Among the Nations’ because we have to understand that not only did they risk their own lives, but they risked the lives of their entire family.
Is it ever appropriate to get drunk?
Why Malliotakis had a problem with the release of an ill, 77-year-old, former Democratic politician, with no prospect whatsoever of returning to politics, simply eludes us.
It’s sometimes easier for me to pray mindlessly from a Tehillim than to search deep within myself…and cry out with heartfelt words.
One of my Jewish doctors explained to me that the bark of the willow tree was used as a pain reliever. This got me thinking that even an aravah can have a good influence.
If one can’t watch the simcha live, there is the option to view it in its entirety at a more convenient time.
So here he was – a devout rabbi who had traveled far on a mission to save the life of a fellow Jew, and the wife of the only person who could change the accused man's sentence wanted to shake his hand.
Out of nowhere, Ruti would feel herself growing annoyed without even understanding why she was upset.
It is always a blessing to find someone that you connect with. But in the often-complicated world of shidduchim, your psyche has thrown a wrench at your potential future together.
As Persian Jews lacked much of a printing press of its own, Morocco became the only country that still had an active Hebrew press that was not under an Iranian trade embargo.
Blood On His Hands! ‘It’s Praiseworthy for the Sons of Aaron That They Walk in Blood…’ (Pesachim 65b)
One important thing I have learned through making my own mistakes was to not approach single individuals at simchas or coming out of shul.
Ohr Chadash could very much use the additional funds, replied Mr. Klein. But I’m not sure it would be ethical to change the will at the expense of Toras Yisrael. I think it best for you to consult a halachic authority.
In the parshah we just read, G-d says to Moshe Rabbeinu: 'And I, too, heard the groans of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians are holding in bondage, and I remembered My covenant.'
Race-baiters such as Ibram X. Kendi or Ta-Nehisi Coates or White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo would never debate Larry Elder.
On days that we recite Hallel, why do we do so before Keriat HaTorah? Shouldn’t the Torah reading come first based on the rule that whenever two matters face us, we do the more frequent one first (tadir v’she’eino tadir, tadir kodem)? Menachem
One of the biggest consequences of this trend is the freedom it provides employees – and companies – to move to different locations. And both employees and companies have taken advantage of it.
The Rebbe refused to accept his mishloach manos until he promised to control his temper.
Those large panoramic windows that facilitate cool cross breezes on hot summer nights? Now they facilitate a less pleasant winter wind – even with the shutters tightly closed.
Peace doesn’t belong to one party or one religion, says Rabbi Lightstone. It belongs to mankind. But, we live in a region where talk is cheap and action is respected.
Saying that Hitler got one thing right indicates that he got everything else wrong.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
He could have stressed the evilness of slavery or underscored the responsibilities of freedom... Instead, though, Moshe spoke about children and education. At that moment, in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s words, “the Israelites were told that they had to become a nation of educators.”
Many countries vigorously tried to suppress and even eliminate the languages of their minorities or the peoples they conquer.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Moses’ insight was profound. He knew that you cannot change the world by externalities alone, by monumental architecture, or armies and empires, or the use of force and power.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you wanted to give the kids showers, you turned on the boiler and switched off the refrigerator. If you wanted to bake a cake, you turned off the heater.
Clearly, the plagues weren’t the result of chance; they pointed to the hand of Hashem.
By Baruch Lytle
Why don’t we open this up so we can help more people? Because the evidence was pretty clear. This is not like ordering from Amazon. This is way harder.
Companies, law firms, and colleges are being pressured to not hire, or to fire, anyone who had been associated with Trump or expressed support for his policies.
He concluded: “To me, after 10 years, if Iran is the same nation as it is today, we will be worse off with this agreement than without it.”
He thus encouraged everyone to utilize their talents and natural abilities to influence Jews to reinforce and advance their level of Torah observance.
Bet-Zuri and Hakim did use their trial as a means to draw international attention to British atrocities and malfeasance in Eretz Yisrael and to advocate for the justice of a Jewish state...
The Zohar interestingly seems to echo this idea (Bo 34a), stating that “Bo el Pharaoh” teaches us that G-d brought Moses into some sort of heavenly inner chamber that was somehow associated with the sea-creature that characterizes Egypt.
While Fatah’s claim to wanting peace with Israel is out there – which is laughable considering what’s taught in PA schools and on PA TV – Hamas still publicly denies the legitimacy of Israel and is publicly committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, illegal construction by Arabs remained rampant. And there were no changes in the status of endangered Jewish religious sites or politically significant areas.
Should a Jew avoid living in Germany? What about doing business there?
News From Across The Pond.
For the sake of peace, we are trying to be silent, and peace is very important. But I fear that is not the way you would want us to be.
Human nature is to get used to things and not wanting change.
One of the themes prevalent in Jewish ethics is to judge others favorably even when their behavior seems to indicate otherwise.
By dvora
In the grand room where the chuppah would be held, chairs were spaced apart. In spite of this needed distance, we felt only closeness from our guests.
Mazal Tov! ‘They Recited Shema Yisrael’ (Pesachim 56a)
Helping divorced couples remarry may seem unorthodox, but I have actually been involved in such cases and have, with siyatta d'Shmaya, helped divorced couples, who wanted to reconcile, remarry each other successfully.
Second guessing your decision when it comes to shidduchim is so difficult where clarity is the greatest gift you can ask for.
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