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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. Agudah Urges Comments on New York State Regulations
The New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about "substantial equivalency of instruction" required for students attending non public schools.
This can have severe ramifications for yeshivos and day schools across the board in NYS, so the Agudah issued some answers to common questions they are receiving about this serious development.
A special meeting which took place last week for Taharas Hamishpocha was attended by hundreds of rabbonim involved in family purity. The purpose of this annual convention is to enable those rabbonim to upgrade their proficiency and expertise in the laws of mikveh and in the hashkofoh outlook of drawing families to the practice of family purity, all under conditions of leisure so as to recharge the batteries, so to speak, of those involved in day to day activity for the purity of the Jewish people.
The city of Ludmir in Ukraine is witness to energetic activity in anticipation of the yahrtzeit of the Admor Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin which will took place on Thursday, the 22nd of Tammuz. Public activists have organized this year, with the help of "Oholei Tzaddim", a suitable building to accommodate visitors with lodging, a mikveh and a shul near and visible to the ancient cemetery in Ludmir where the Admor is buried.
On Sunday, the 11th of Tammuz, HaRav Yosef Tzvi Ben Porat, Rosh Yeshivas Ashrei HaIsh, went forth, accompanied by two disciples, HaRav Aharon Razilov and HaRav Zalman Rubin, who officiated in the Pitiagrosk congregation, for a booster visit in that community which lies in the Caucasus region.
The essay was originally published by R' Elchonon to give perspective on the events of his time, and how they were seen and foreseen by chazal. Although it first appeared in Yiddish in 5699-1939, eighty years ago, its message is still fresh and vital.
Part IV
"In the generation in which the son of David comes, the face of the people will be as that of a dog" (Sotah 49b, Cheilek 97a). It is characteristic of the dog to run before its master, and it might seem that it goes according to its own free will, and its master follows the path set by the dog. In reality we know that the opposite is true; the owner goes where he likes, and the dog, while preceding him, obeys his whim. Should the master choose another direction straight away the dog turns also—and again proceeds to run ahead.
From Our Archives Who Can Endure the Day of His Coming, and Who Will
Withstand His Appearance?
by HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz
The following shmuess was delivered by the Rosh
Hayeshiva in Teves of this year. We have brought it to our
readers during the Three Weeks because of its timely
message.
One of the Thirteen Principles of Faith, which the Rambam
established as our basic emunah is: Ani ma'amin
bevi'as haMoshiach . . .
by Moshe Musman
Introduction
Inevitably, a picture built from afar of the thriving Torah
life of Yerushalayim is composed of images and information
that focus upon the largest groupings that dominate communal
news, such as the spiritual heirs of the old yishuv,
the large chassidic followings or the big yeshivos. Closer
acquaintance reveals that such a picture needs adjustment;
instead of being made up of a few large forms, it will be
more accurately perceived as an impressionist-style mosaic.
Numerous other groups exist, some larger, some smaller,
which may or may not exist as distinct communal entities but
each of which is certainly a distinct piece of the mosaic,
making its own contribution to the whole. One such group are
the rabbinical families of the Chalabim.
The Jews of Aram Tzovah, or Chalab (Aleppo),
in what is today Northern Syria, have a long and
distinguished communal history. According to tradition, the
community's roots extend to before the building of the First
Beis Hamikdosh, and while there was an influx of
refugees following the expulsion from Spain, the special
spiritual character that typified the community has survived
to this day.
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