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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Decisions of the Meeting of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah
The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah met this past Sunday, the 12th of Adar A, in Bnei Brak in anticipation of the upcoming elections on the 4th of Nisan.
The Rabbinical Union of French Communities, which has the blessing of gedolei Yisroel headed by HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, met with the chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, Rabbi Moshe Gafni, in the Degel HaTorah headquarters in Bnei Brak, requesting his aid in helping the absorption of new French immigrants to Israel, a flow which is steadily increasing.
A report from the Central Bureau of Statistics regarding cities in Israel shows that at the end of 2017, the Israeli population stood at 8,797,000 residents of which 74.8% lived in cities. The density stood at 387.4 [people] per each square kilometer. There are 235 local authorities in Israel in 77 towns. There are 124 local councils and 54 district authorities. Sixteen Israeli cities have over 100,000 residents. The latest one to join this list is Kfar Saba.
HaRav Yehoshua Heller zt"l was a talmid of HaRav Yisroel Salanter zt"l. He served as the rov in the Lithuanian town of Flongian.
Rain and Kinneret Watch by Dei'ah Vedibur
Staff
Our weekly report of the rain and the level of the Kineret -
Winter, 5779.
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From Our Archives Our Fire, Our Flame And Our Future
by HaRav Aviezer Piltz
Part 2
An Exciting Moment
Whenever I encounter those precious Jews who engage in toil and bear the burden of earning a livelihood, with all that it entails, yet who still find time every day for Torah study, it moves me. See, am Yisroel is still alive! Every time, it affords fresh excitement to see that this group is growing in both numbers and quality. Here we see evidence that Am Yisroel lives, for only those who cleave to Hashem are alive, and the only way of cleaving to Hashem is by cleaving to the Torah: "And you who cleave to Hashem your G-d, you are all alive today" (Devorim 4:4).
The Shoel Umeishiv -- R' Yosef Shaul Natansohn
In honor of his yahrtzeit -- 26th Adar
Known as the Shoel Umeishiv, after his sefer of that name, R' Yosef Shaul Natansohn was truly the shoel umeishiv of all European Jewry of his generation.
(Even though I can zoom through English!)
Many people reading Hebrew feel frustrated. They can zoom through English, yet when they try to read Hebrew, they feel clumsy and handicapped. Not only people new to Torah, but also many who have been through cheder and gone on to yeshiva feel that their performance when reading Hebrew is very inferior to their English reading.
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