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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. To the People Who Sanctify the Seventh Day of the Week A new `innovation' called `Kosher Switch' has been brought to the public attention. Its inventors, who claim that it may be used on Shabbos, have even produced letters from rabbis permitting this. They are thus turning the holy Shabbos into profane, enabling one to turn electricity on and off at will. It is inconceivable that there are some who abet this terrible breach of the walls of Shabbos, a mitzvah which is as weighty as the entire Torah (See Medrash Rabba Parshas Beshalach and Rambam Perek 30 of Hilchos Shabbos).
Modern Refrigerators According to Mishmeres HaShabbos A letter from our gedolim and poskim was published last week forbidding the used of digital refrigerators and freezers (i.e. most such appliances currently sold) on Shabbos without neutralizing the effect of the user upon electrical and digital registering. After its publication and in light of the thousands of calls to clarify the problem and its solutions, the Mishmeres HaShabbos wishes to clarify the central point of this halachic prohibition and the various possible solutions thereof.
"Beis Ve'idas HaRabbonim for the Fortification of Das" Inaugurated In an exalted event including Roshei Yeshiva and rabbonim, the new "Beis Ve'idas Rabbonim for the Fortification of Das" was inaugurated in Bnei Brak as the headquarters of activities in everything connected to the struggle for the preservation of the kedushoh of all our generations and saving us from the ills of modern technology. It will be on constant vigil by the member rabbonim who are under the direction and guidance of our gedolei Yisroel.
Jewish Gravestones used to Build Power Substation in Vilna An electric power substation was built in the 1960s during the Soviet era using tombstones from a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. City officials now want to tear it down and return the tombstones to Lithuania's Jewish community. They're also investigating whether there are other examples of Jewish tombstones being used as building material during the Soviet occupation, when the communist authorities paid little attention to religious symbols.
The Merit of a Righteous Woman [ This article was first published by us in 5758-1998. This story is based on events which transpired in a small town in Lithuania nearly two hundred years ago. It was told by HaRav Yaakov Kamenetsky, zt'l and has been circulated by word of mouth among gedolei Yisroel, but until now it has not been known to the general public. The events related here produced fruits which continue to nourish the Torah world until the present day.]
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by Chaim Walder
"Where's your heart? What do you want from him, poor thing."
When Aryeh heard those words, he knew that he would always remember them - and not only them, but also the place he had heard them, as well as the day and the hour.
by HaRav Schneur Kotler zt'l, Rosh Yeshivas Lakewood
"Rabbi Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of talmidim from Gevas to Antipras and they all died in the same period, between Pesach and Shavuos, because they didn't treat each other respectfully. The world was desolate until Rabbi Akiva came to our teachers in the South and taught it to them. Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yossi, Rabbi Shimon and Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua - they are the ones who established Torah at that time" (Yevomos 62).
by HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
The Midrash Rabba (Parshas Bamidbor 2:3) tells us that when HaKodosh Boruch Hu revealed Himself at Har Sinai in order to give Klal Yisroel the Torah, thousands upon thousands of mal'ochim accompanied Him. Abounding with banners to organize their configuration, the mal'ochim appeared in perfect array. The Midrash describes Klal Yisroel's reaction, "When Klal Yisroel saw them all arranged in formation with banners, they too desired to be arranged according to banners. They said, `Hashem! We too should have flags like them.'
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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