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A delegation from the Severance from Internet Gemach together with HaRav Binyomin Finkel, who has been guiding its heads, met this past Monday at the home of HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, where they received support for the expansion of their blessed activities in creating dozens of new headquarters throughout the country.
The Rishonim maintain, and thus is it ruled in the Mishne Berura, that ink used for sta"m be produced from certain materials, as sofrim have been doing all through history according to an unchallenged tradition.
A genuine breakthrough for the housing crisis of the chareidi public is finally in sight, thanks to the announcement of the Housing Ministry this past Monday regarding the immediate release of lands for the purpose of erecting 5,000 housing units in the new city of Charish. The site, five minutes from the trans-country Highway 6 and less than an hour from Tel Aviv, is located between Hadera and Netanya. This is one of the biggest single land allocations since the establishment of the State.
In anticipation of creating the new city of Charish, a committee of askanim was created a year ago with the blessings and encouragement of gedolim, comprised of seasoned figures representing the many sectors of the chareidi population in the country. The committee's purpose is to ensure the marketing of apartments at reduced and reasonable prices, while preventing unfair competition which would necessarily raise these prices and sabotage the very underlying principle of the city's establishment, which is to ease the burden of thousands of young couples in acquiring proper living quarters.
The Torah world mourned the passing of HaRav Chaim Dov Altusky zt"l, son-in-law of HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg zt"l and one of the roshei yeshiva of yeshivas Torah Ore. He was the author of the series of seforim known as Chiddushei Basra that deal with all parts of Shas and many other parts of Torah as well. A great masmid, he taught many talmidim both in America and in Israel. He finally succumbed to a sickness that had plagued him for more than a decade.
tatistics from the government's Central Department of Statistics show that within five years, 44% of the school population in the country will be comprised of chareidim and Arabs.
The level of the Kinneret has dropped by 70 cm. this past summer which constitute a volume of 117 million cubic meters and should fall no more than a total of 1.3 meters by the expected beginning of the winter rains. Despite last year's blessed rainfall, the Kinneret is still missing 3.2 meters to its top level, which translates into half a billion cubic meters of water.
On Wednesday, the 18th of Elul, a massive tzedakah campaign for the Bnei Brak based Kupat Ha'ir will be launched via a visit to holy sites in Vilna, Radin and Volozhin with the personal participation of prominent roshei yeshiva and Torah educators in Eretz Yisrael, together with many community rabbis and dayanim. The campaign, "Kol Hashem Bakoach", is described as a lofty preparation for the Yomim Noraim.
From Our Archives
Part I
At Rabbi Bulman's passing on 26 Tammuz (July 6, 2002), thousands of people were thrown into shock and grief. The mourners were drawn from every echelon of Jewish society.
What had attracted everyone to Rav Bulman was his rare combination of mind, heart, talent, and perception. Rav Bulman was a man of all seasons, a man for any situation. He was a person in whom one could confide and whose advice one could rely on; a person who could launch into a deep exposition of any historical or philosophical issue; a person who realized you were in the grips of despair before you did; a person who had the answers to intellectual conundrums; a person who knew how to put you gently in your place; a person who was forever busy but always accessible.
When there was no one else to turn to, there was always Rabbi Bulman.
R' Shemaryohu was asked to address a gathering for shemiras haloshon. For the week preceding the rally, he racked his brain about what to say on this vital topic and he was filled with anxiety. His salvation finally arrived on the morning of the rally, apparently as a reward for his efforts and in the merit of the target public. When his turn finally came to speak, he went up to the podium with confidence and began:
The first part quoted HaRav Moshe Blau saying that despite the trials and difficulties experienced, the key is not to lose our wits and our intellect. If we have our wisdom, our daas Torah, then we can hope for better days and we will know how to deal with what confronts us. The Ponovezher Rov, speaking in the middle of the War, said that Am Yisroel and Eretz Yisroel are permanent features of Creation.
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