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This Google Custom Search looks only in this website. New Mikveh Fund Established in Memory of Bas Sheva Kanievsky
A deeply moving ceremony took place this past Sunday in the home of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky which heralded the new Keren Hamikvaos established in memory of his late wife, Rebbetzin Bas Sheva Esther Kanievsky, daughter of HaRav Yosef Shalom Eliashiv. In the course of the ceremony, the construction of the new mikveh, named "Beer Sheva," was announced, to be built in the moshav Evven Sapir near Jerusalem. The plan calls for the completion of the building by the Rebbetzin's yahrtzeit on the upcoming Chol Hamoed Succos.
We heard the following fact from HaRav Nosson Zochovsky, one of the roshei yeshiva of Geon Yaakov and Chochmoh Vodaas, as he heard it from HaRav Yechezkel Sarna zt"l.
By 2040, Israel is forecast to be the most densely populated country in the world with 610 residents per square kilometer. This figure was reported in a study of "A Scenario of Business-as-Usual" prepared by the Office of Environmental Protection. These studies should be taken with a big grain of salt as it joins a long list of doom-forecasting reports that have so far not materialized. Hashem still runs the world.
Tuvya Tennenbaum, an Israeli-American reporter, writer and playwright, has in his resume impressions of recent years, books and advertisements dealing, et al, with anti-Semitic phenomena throughout the world.
This shmuess provides the basic guidelines for success in Torah from one of the greatest leaders of recent times.
From Our Archives HaRav Avigdor Miller: The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva
by M. Samsonowitz
Part II
Family Chiding
It was not a simple thing to take away so much time from home and leisure and devote it to the mindbreaking study of Talmud. Each of the men also had parents, brothers and sisters who were rebuking them for neglecting their families.
by L. Jungerman
"And Moshe said to Chovav ben Re'uel the Midianite, Moshe's father-in-law: We are traveling to the place of which Hashem said, `I will give it to you'; come with us and we will do good with you, for Hashem has spoken good concerning Yisroel.
We have already presented two articles on this subject, this necessary bodily function which we highly underestimate - until something goes wrong.
by M. Steinberg
More than sixty years have passed since my father's family flew in fear from Germany as war approached. His sister made it to Zurich, a brother to Tel Aviv and another brother to far-off Melbourne. My father was already established in America when his parents finally came to live with us. For all the years of my childhood, my grandparents shared our home.
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