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A Kiddush Hashem in the Dignified Outcry at the Kosel on Rosh Chodesh

Contrary to sensational reports in the US press which highlighted the fact that a few marginal ruffians misbehaved, the early morning Rosh Chodesh Av prayers this past Monday were a Kiddush Hashem dominated by thousands of chareidi women and girls who gathered at the Kosel, per directive of our gedolei Yisroel, headed by HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, for the Rosh Chodesh shacharis service as well as to express a protest against the desecration of the holy remnant of our Beis Hamikdash. It served as a passive, dignified protest against those heretical women who come to this sanctified site each Rosh Chodesh in order to undermine the holiness of the place and to transgress universal prohibitions and customs.

World Jewry Shaken by the Bill to Imprison Torah Students

Throughout the entire world, a stormy and horrified reaction is being voiced at the passing of the new Israeli government law which, in the main, is geared to impose sanctions of criminal punishment to the drastic point of imprisonment of Torah students and kollel avreichim who ask only to be permitted to pursue their study and will refuse to be mobilized either to the army or to civil service in any form.

The Main Criminal and Economic Sanctions on Yeshiva Students

According to the forecast, approved two months ago in the Knesset committee headed by Science Minister Yaakov Peri, beginning four years hence, in 2017, yeshiva students will be obligated to enlist in the army or for civil service at the age of 21, excluding 1800 students from each civil year falling under the category of the elite scholars [masmidim] who will be permitted to continue their studies. The committee suggested that the bill include imposing criminal sanctions upon yeshiva students and kollel avreichim who continue to pursue their studies, per the approval of the Defense Minister.


The Arugas Habosem HaRav Moshe Grunwald, zt'l, rov of Chust
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 7 Av, 5670

Anyone who has heard of the Chuster Rov, has certainly heard of his great hasmodoh. Nothing would distract him from his learning. Even matters of great importance had to wait until Rabbenu closed his sefer.

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What is the Tikkun for Baseless Hatred? Not Ahavas Chinom!

Opinion by Mordecai Plaut

We are speaking about the tikkun of the problems that led to Tisha B'Av and, as Tisha B'Av is far from pleasant, we might expect that its tikkun is also difficult and unpleasant.

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Zevulun And Yissochor In Transition: A Shmuess Delivered By HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro


Part I
While on a visit to Switzerland some thirty-five years ago, HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, the Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov, delivered the following shmuess at a gathering of baalei batim, in which he discussed several issues whose relevance has in no way lessened in the interim. The current pressure generated by the recent governmental economic decrees as an attempt to draw avreichim out of kollel and into higher education, which is strongly opposed by the Torah leaders in Eretz Yisroel, lends the shmuess special interest at present. The Rosh Yeshiva's opening remarks dealt with the particular trials of the present period of Ikveseh Demeshicah and with ways of overcoming them. He continued with the following observations on the supreme importance of widespread dedication to Torah study at all times and under all conditions.



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Lessons of the Churban: A Letter From the Alter of Kelm Zt'l



The Alter of Kelm zt'l wrote the following letter and had copies sent out to the members of his circle. A copy of the letter, originally taken from a copy handwritten by the Alter's talmid HaRav Shmuel Hillel Sheinker zt'l (whose role in founding Yeshivas Or Chodosh in Yerushalayim was the subject of an article in the parshas Terumoh edition of our paper), recently came to light. At the end of the general letter, there is a personal note to the Alter's son, HaRav Nochum Zeev Ziv zt'l, which has never previously been published with the Alter's other writings and which is relevant to the present period of bein hametzorim.






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