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Delegations Begin Arriving for the Massive Siyum HaShas Rally of Dirshu
Dozens of delegations have begun landing this Wednesday for a week stay highlighted by the Grand Siyum Hashas to be held on Tuesday, the 12th of Av. They will be taken to visit the various gedolei Torah and hear shiurim from them. The climax of their stay will, of course, be the Dirshu Siyum, where tens of thousands are expected to attend the first stage of the Kinyan Halacha program on the first three sections of Mishne Berurah.
Wednesday morning 28 Av there was a sudden serious relapse in the condition of HaRav Eliashiv. All the yeshivos were called upon to offer urgent prayers for his recovery, including shifts of prayer and study non-stop. The battle for his life was pitched throughout the day until at 16:46, the heavenly legions won and claimed him for their own to the fervent cries of Shema Yisrael exclaimed by throngs of close students and family by his bedside in the Shaarei Zedek hospital.
The passing of Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv plunged the Jewish world into deep mourning which was highlighted by eulogies held in many Torah centers. Thousands of avreichim and bnei yeshiva attended the hesped in Yeshivas Chevron, where the Mashgiach, HaRav Dan Segal, addressed the assembly. In Yeshivas Rashbi, Bnei Brak, HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman was the keynote eulogizer.
High powered activity round the clock is taking place to prepare the huge grounds at the edge of Maalot Dafna in Jerusalem to hold the enormous crowds expected for the imminent 12th Siyum HaShas scheduled for the 12th of Menachem Av, under the leadership of prominent gedolei Torah and Chassidus.
With the progression of World War II, the large city of
Vilna became a haven for Jews of all the areas around
it. Hoping that the Nazi scourge would take longer to
reach and overcome Vilna, they converged on the city,
swelling its population day by day.
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The Jews of Libya were never a large community, numbering no more than 38,000 at its largest, which was just before almost 90 percent left for Eretz Yisroel preceding Libya's independence in January, 1952. Yet it is an ancient community and there is evidence of Jewish settlement there dating to the time of the Second Beis Hamikdash.
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"By the rivers of Bovel; there we sat, we also cried, when we remembered Tzion." The Yalkut Shimoni (Tehillim 137) explains that Klal Yisroel was crying over the departure of their prophet Yirmiyohu. Yirmiyohu escorted his newly captive nation to the farthest point and then, when our exile from Eretz Yisroel was inevitably about to begin, he left us to return to Yerushalayim.
This is another year we have to mourn the destruction. With all the truly wonderful things that we have experienced in recent generations, with the vast increase in wealth and the tremendous growth of Torah, still the overall situation of Jews throughout the world is bleak enough today that there certainly is no one who questions the need to mourn -- as some did in the early exuberance after the founding of the State of Israel more than 50 years ago.
Now, as always is a good time to work on middos.
I can't believe it. I did it again!
Why do we seem to stumble over the same areas time after time? We insult someone, daven without kavonoh, let some loshon hora slip out, and then we sincerely regret it. Hopefully, we go through all the steps of teshuva and honestly expect never to repeat such behavior. But often we get caught in familiar patterns, act without thinking, and make the same mistakes again. Why is this? And more importantly, what can we do about it?
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