Rabbeinu Reb Yaakov Shimshon zt"l was of the greatest among the talmidim of HaRav HaKodosh Rabbi Pinchos of Koritz zt"l and remained close to him in spirit even when physical distance separated them.

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Feature Giving The World An Idea Of What A Genuine Mussar Scholar Is . . .(from the Introduction to Ho'odom Biyekor) Glimpses of the Mashgiach, HaRav Shlomo Wolbe, zt'l by Rabbi H. Helman Part Two Rekindling Lives The Mashgiach's Regret In a shmuess HaRav Wolbe once gave in the Beis Hamussar on the topic of sharing others' burdens, he mentioned a regret that he still retained from his years in Sweden. It was during the period that he would travel the country between the various institutions in which thousands of Jewish girls were housed.

Opinion and Comment Proper Torah Chinuch by HaRav Shimon Moshe Diskin Part I The kushya is well known: The gemora tells us that after the Maccabees defeated the Romans they found a jug of olive oil that was tohor in the Beis Hamikdosh that bore the seal of the Cohen Godol. Although that amount of olive oil was barely enough to burn one day, it miraculously burned for eight days, until new tohor olive oil was produced. But why was the miracle at all needed? The halocho is that tumah is permitted when a mitzvah of the tzibbur is concerned, and since all of Klal Yisroel needed the Menorah of the Beis Hamikdash, the Cohanim could have used even oil that was tomei.

Opinion and Comment A Truly Schwer Rambam: Medieval Science and Modern Man by Mordecai Plaut Part I Ahavas Hashem is one of the six constant mitzvos. It is an obligation upon every Jew, all the time. In addition we have the additional mitzvah of Krias Shema which includes as a prominent feature, in its third verse, the mention of this obligation twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. We begin and end each day with a recitation of the mitzvah that we have to love Hashem.