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What are the Values Behind the Objections to the Disengagement?

This is a question to which we do not know the answer. However we do know that whatever they are, really, they are not values with which we can identify.

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A Happy Home, Past and Present

A Selection of Rulings, Comments and Pieces of Advice Heard From the Steipler, zt'l, on Raising and Educating Children

Rav Avrohom Yeshayohu Kanievsky, a grandson of the Steipler's, writes in his biographical work about his grandfather, "I asked our teacher for his opinion of all the modern gadgetry that is to be found today in every Jewish home, and about the current way of life where the wife earns a living while the husband is occupied in the tent of Torah.

Bein Hametzorim
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman

Shiva Ossor BeTammuz, when we fast because of five bad events that occurred on that day, starts off the period of bein hametzorim that ends after Tisha B'Av. During this time, the Jewish Nation is enveloped in mourning for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh — may it be rebuilt speedily in our days!

The Fasts — A Fundamental Value in Observing Torah Umitzvos
Compiled by HaRav Shlomo Yitzchok Rosenstein, Editor of Misoviv Lashulchon

Megillas Eichoh was Written before the Churban

Yirmiyohu Hanovi wrote Megillas Eichoh at the time that Jerusalem was still vibrant, bustling with people and all roads still led to the royal capital. Its streets hummed with lively activity, as Yirmiyohu Hanovi describes.


Operation Last Chance: Has it Had its Chance?

To the Editor:

I just came across your negative assessment of our "Operation:Last Chance (O:LC)" ("Operation Last Chance Has Had its Chance") which appeared in the parshas Bamidbar edition of Yated Ne'eman, and I want to correct at least some of the numerous factual errors in your article and to update you on some recent developments which seem to indicate that your criticism of the project may have been a bit premature.


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