I find this photo of a pakistani madrassa in today's nyt absolutely mindblowing
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Saw a video where a person worked for months constructing a 1:200 model of the Beis Hamikdash according to exact specifications. When the Lubavitcher Rebbe saw it momentarily he said the ramp is too long. model maker wasn’t immediately certain went back, checked - it was 3mm off.
Rebbe Nachman taught that it is also important to say Tehillim for good news as well, ב״ה
a cool thing about learning Torah is that you could basically have a great coherent conversation today with someone who lived well over a thousand years ago
look deeply at the face of Rav Naftali Tzvi Weiss הי״ד (left), son of the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka הי״ד and Rosh Yeshiva in Bilke, as he and his Talmidim await selection on the ramp in Auschwitz.
Mazal tov! Our family welcomed a beautiful, healthy baby boy to this world motzai shabbos. ישתבח שמו לעד.
Want to be holy?
Ignore false gods.
Honor parents and elders.
Leave a part of your field for the poor.
Keep shabbos, work is not the goal.
Pay your workers on time.
Dont take advantage of the weak.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
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lest this become some Rorschach for people's gut feelings about whatever, I'm blown away by the commonality of this image with our own Yeshiva culture, despite the immense chasms between. I suggest reading the article too: nytimes.com/2021/11/25/wor
Not even remotely embarrassed to say Im holding at a solid hour plus of JEM videos a week. The more you read and hear the Rebbe you start to grasp how big and beyond it all is. Nearly overwhelming.
This is so beautiful
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Rabbi Adin Eben-Israel Steinsaltz זצ״ל passed away today in Jerusalem. It's not an exaggeration to say he was one the most important Jewish scholars in history. I've always loved this video of R' Steinsaltz meeting with the Rebbe. They're both so excited to see each other.
Our Bubbe תליט״א printed out pictures of her grandchildren and taped them to her dining room chairs.
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Saw a video where a person worked for months constructing a 1:200 model of the Beis Hamikdash according to exact specifications. When the Lubavitcher Rebbe saw it momentarily he said the ramp is too long. model maker wasn’t immediately certain went back, checked - it was 3mm off.
Today we did “Hakhel” at BCHA’s early childhood and each student found their letter in the Torah. A unique zechus to visit my daughter’s class and to share a moment like this with her.
Savta was nifteret today. בד״ה
Her life in many ways encompassed the story of Jewry in the 20th century.
childhood in Vienna, surviving the Shoah, the birth of the State, and the growth of Orthodoxy in US. She was there for all of it, and most of all, our loving Savta. תנצב״ה
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dream:
an intentional community in the golan or upper galil, open to all but founded on Torah + Chessed above all, sunsets and eretz yisrael's hills. children rule the streets and fields. bonfires whenever we feel like it.
Very nearly got physically attacked by some antisemite tonight but remembered i have to finish preparing a shiur on bankruptcy and halacha for tomorrow and it actually helps alot
Hesitant to say but one of the nicest shabbosim in recent memory. Also a new appreciation for the gift of shul and community at the same time.
Shavua tov.
if youve spent enough time batteling in a beis medrash youve probably imagined what a fleet of these might be capable of
For a year, we had a preschachris chabura in LSS studying the Maharitz Chajes’ מבוא התלמוד. Changed my relationship to studying gemara completely. זי״ע
a page from rav shteinman zt"l chiddushim on bava basra
1) note entire chiddush crossed out as not emes
2) note top left corner, wow
more of this, am yisrael
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טוב, מפגש כזה באמת לא רואים כל יום: האדמו"ר מתולדות אברהם יצחק רוקד עם הגאון הרב יעקב שפירא ראש ישיבת מרכז הרב, בחתונת תלמיד הישיבה שהתקרב לחסידות.
Idk about you but Avraham Avinu pleading with Hashem for the sake of Sdom has got to be in top 5 wow Chumash moments. And then the Akedah. would love to do Vayera again next week. Real awe
If mordechai never reports bigtan and co., achashverosh gets whacked and the decree never gets carried out anyway, right?
pretty jarring antisemitic incident walking to shul on shabbos. on the upper west side. still going through it in my head. im fine and feeling especially Jewish.
shavua tov.
few thoughts about our Chaz, Cantor Sherwood Goffin z"l
1) He was one of the kindest, sweetest people you'd meet.
2) Served LSS community for over 50 years
3) Universally beloved & respected by all, a kind of small pulpit miracle
4) A שם טוב & true joy in Tefillah
יהי זכרו ברוך
First night in chispin, found my siddur lost on Jolt almost 5 years ago
