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Grave of Rebbetzin Shmuelevitz o"h Discovered

The family of the deceased Maran Chaim Shmuelevitz is in a state of excitement with the recent discovery of the gravesite of the rebbetzin, mother of HaRav Shmuelevitz, now almost a century after her passing.

The Prize to Transportation Companies who Operate on Shabbos Should be Rescinded

Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, Rabbi Moshe Gafni, expressed his protest to the fact that the heads of the umbrella Organization of Environmental Quality, Chaim Usviva, plan to award a prize to transportation companies operating on Shabbos in Jerusalem.

Emergency Meeting of Administrators

By the behest of HaRav Shteinman and HaRav Kanievsky and with the attendance of gedolei Yisroel, an emergency meeting is planned for this upcoming Friday, erev Shabbos Parshas Bolok, to which chareidi administrators of institutions, organizations, heads of businesses and companies are invited by the Ve'idas HaRabbonim, the Committee for Fortifying the Walls of Yiddishkeit. It will be addressed by leaders of Torah and Chassidus, community rabbonim, as well as experts and advisors of the Committee's control center, so as to arouse awareness of the importance of maintaining purity in workplaces.


HaRav Yaakov Shimshon, zt"l of Shepetovka


In honor of his yahrtzeit 3rd Sivan 5561

Rabbeinu Reb Yaakov Shimshon zt"l was of the greatest among the talmidim of HaRav HaKodosh Rabbi Pinchos of Koritz zt"l and remained close to him in spirit even when physical distance separated them.

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Giving The World An Idea Of What A Genuine Mussar Scholar Is . . .(from the Introduction to Ho'odom Biyekor) Glimpses of the Mashgiach, HaRav Shlomo Wolbe, zt'l

by Rabbi H. Helman

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The Mashgiach's Regret

In a shmuess HaRav Wolbe once gave in the Beis Hamussar on the topic of sharing others' burdens, he mentioned a regret that he still retained from his years in Sweden. It was during the period that he would travel the country between the various institutions in which thousands of Jewish girls were housed.


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Proper Torah Chinuch

by HaRav Shimon Moshe Diskin

Part I The kushya is well known: The gemora tells us that after the Maccabees defeated the Romans they found a jug of olive oil that was tohor in the Beis Hamikdosh that bore the seal of the Cohen Godol. Although that amount of olive oil was barely enough to burn one day, it miraculously burned for eight days, until new tohor olive oil was produced. But why was the miracle at all needed? The halocho is that tumah is permitted when a mitzvah of the tzibbur is concerned, and since all of Klal Yisroel needed the Menorah of the Beis Hamikdash, the Cohanim could have used even oil that was tomei.


Opinion and Comment

A Truly Schwer Rambam: Medieval Science and Modern Man

by Mordecai Plaut

Part I Ahavas Hashem is one of the six constant mitzvos. It is an obligation upon every Jew, all the time. In addition we have the additional mitzvah of Krias Shema which includes as a prominent feature, in its third verse, the mention of this obligation twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. We begin and end each day with a recitation of the mitzvah that we have to love Hashem.




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