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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. HaRav Refoel Halevi Shmuelevitz zt"l The entire Torah world was shrouded in sorrow and pain at the bitter news of the passing of one of the great roshei yeshiva and Torah disseminators of our generation, HaRav Refoel Halevi Shmuelevitz, Rosh Yeshivas Mir, who taught thousands of talmidim over the span of fifty years through unimaginable devotion and dedication and passed on in the seventy-eighth year of his life amidst very harsh and difficult suffering.
Agudath Israel of America Yarchei Kallah in Jerusalem The Torah communities of the United States and Eretz Yisroel derived a boost of ruchniyus and mutual chizuk during the week of parshas Bo, at the annual Agudath Israel of America Yarchei Kallah in Yerushalayim.
Series of Rallies Throughout the Country to Thwart the Internet Gedolei Yisroel have insisted on the continuation of a series of rallies to thwart off the dangers of technological communication, in conjunction with the Rabbinical Committee for Fortifying the Walls of Jewry. Within this goal, massive gatherings have been held in Rechovot and Brachfeld Estates (Modi'in Illit). This past motzei Shabbos. such an assembly was also held for the general public of Ofakim, embracing all of its communities and circles, the members of which filled the auditorium to bursting.
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret.
In honor of his yahrtzeit, 26th Teves 5531/1771
A melamed of small children. This was the avodas hakodesh that the tzaddik nistar Rabbi Moshe chose to camouflage his true greatness, until the Gra instructed him to reveal his holy ways.
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Torah Min HaShomayim: Messages from Hashem to Man
by Mordecai Plaut
In preparation for the parsha of matan Torah in Yisro.
The Rambam takes almost 2,000 Hebrew words to discuss the 13 Yesodos of our Religion. Only two of those words are "emes," and only one instance is applied to the Torah as the last of a list of attributes: Vehakol Toras Hashem temimoh, tehoroh, ukedoshoh, emes - it is all the Torah of Hashem that is perfect, pure, holy and true.
By HaRav Mordechai Gifter zt'l - 23 Teves 5766, His Fifth Yahrtzeit
HaRav Gifter zt'l, was always an articulate and forceful spokesman for authentic Torah hashkofoh. Whether writing an essay or a letter, delivering a talk in the yeshiva, or an address at an Agudah convention, he always conveyed a pure Torah outlook on contemporary issues and affairs in the Jewish world, with sharpness and clarity.
by M. Lavi
Once, when the Chofetz Chaim was asked a very serious question which required a swift response, he said: "I can't answer it immediately, but have to delve into the sugya and clarify the halacha in depth. There is one man though, who is familiar with every aspect of the Shas, R' Sholom Mordechai Hacohen Schwadron. Only he is capable of answering such a question immediately."
Av, 5765 - Kislev 5766 (August-December 2005)
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