OPINION & COMMENT

Who is Yated's Intended Audience?

Soon after the English Yated began publication, we had an opportunity to visit Maran HaRav Shach zt"l. In the course of our short conversation, we asked if the intended audience of the paper is "bnei Torah." Maran answered that the paper should be written for "all chareidim."

A Letter of Admonishment Regarding N. Slifkin's Opinions
by HaRav Shlomo Miller

The following is a letter written by HaRav Shlomo Miller, the rosh kollel and av beis din of the Kollel Avreichim of Toronto. The letter was written in loshon hakodesh. Accordingly, its colloquial form has been maintained wherever possible in an attempt to preserve its original flavor.

Meaningful Prayer
by Dovid Leitner

Chazal added five extra pesukim, that are said as an introduction to our tefillos in order to put us in the correct frame of mind from which to approach prayer. They also serve to awaken the zchus Ovos — the merit of our ancestors — that established our daily tefilloh.

The Sweetness of a Svora
These stories are from a comprehensive work on the life of Maran HaRav Boruch Ber Leibowitz ztvk'l and Yeshivas Kamenitz.

Politica: Netanyahu's Plans
by E. Rauchberger