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"Distance Your Path from It" - The Dangers of Academic Study
Today, boruch Hashem, there is a tremendous increase in Torah study, both in quantity and quality, amongst tens of thousands of avreichim. Households are being financed mainly by the wives who increasingly fill all the jobs in teaching, bookkeeping and computer programming which are limited. It is natural that some women seek out areas where there are available jobs which often require academic training to obtain the necessary degree to work in those areas. As is well known, our Torah leadership forbids these courses, as has been publicized so many times verbally and in writing.
Beware of Water Meters that Violate Shabbos
Rabbonim and poskim warn against the installment of digital water meters for families by water companies under a `kosher' label. Outwardly, they don't look any different than the permissible ones but HaRav Chaim Kanievsky has ruled that "it is tantamount to eating chometz on Pesach, relying on the label declaring the product to be `Kosher lePesach'."
The Revitalized Shearis Yisroel
Hundreds of rabbonim, mashgichim and others connected with Shearis Yisroel recently marked the 27th anniversary of its founding
Jerusalem Farmers Who Keep Shmittah Will not Pay Arnona
Owners of farming land within the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem municipality who do not work their land in 2015, the Shmittah year, will not have to pay the local arnona municipal tax starting on January 1, 2015.
Rain and Kinneret Watch
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret.
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by L. Leiner
Maran HaRav Eliyohu Dessler's extensive understanding of the psyche, or kochos hanefesh, certainly endowed him with a deeper understanding in the subject of chinuch which is based on the kochos hanefesh of the student/child. We have not been fortunate enough to have an organized thesis on the subject, apparently due to the lack of the proper opportunity. But a bit here, a smattering there, provide us with insights from talks and writings and also from specific oral messages given to students (see boxes).
by Mordecai Plaut
The Core Program of the Ministry of Education is nothing more than a raw exercise of the power of the majority to coerce the chareidim to agree to their cultural destruction.
by HaRav Yisroel Ehrentreu
The gemora (Beitzah 38) brings the following: "Rabbi Abba said: `May it be the Will of Hashem that I speak words that will be accepted (by my audience)." Rashi there explains, "That I will not be shamed."
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
Excerpts from volume 3 of the series HaRav miBrisk - a biography of HaRav Yitzchok Zeev Soloveitchik in Hebrew. HaRav Shimon Yosef Meller opens new vistas for us with his unique revelations.
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