Week in Toronto Shem Hagedolim Hachadash and the Tur HaAruch Ateres Mordechai - Rabbi Bitterman Noam Horowitz - Matt Schwartz I purchased these two Seforim at the Lubavitch in Chabad Gate, the Shem Hagedolin Hachadash and the Tur HaAruch. It is interesting to note that in the Shem Hagedolim Hachadosh’s face page, the author’s name …
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Shabbos Parshas VaYeshev / Thanksgiving 2021
Kiddush for Beverly’s fifth Yahrzeit coming up on 2 Teves - December 6, 2021 Torah on the Sedra Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2021 Sholem made Thanksgiving dinner. Great meal with turkey, chicken, three types of vegetables, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and rice. Dessert was pumpkin pie. Friday, November 26, 2021 Cold day. An hour before …
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Week of October 31 – November 6, 2021
25 Cheshvon - 2 Kislav 5782 Shabbos Parshas Toldos - November 6, 2021 This is the first full week of living in our new house at 2936 W. Glenlake. Magnificent. Recalling Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik, TZL This Shabbos was Avrumi Bernstein’s Au Ruf in Sidney’s basement Minyan. The wedding is in Lakewood, Purchased of A …
Shabbos Parshas Shemini – April 10, 2021 – 29Nisan 5781
Tomorrow is Zedi Sklar’s mother Yahrzeit - see pictures at the end of this post. I saw this beautiful Kotzker. VaYikra 11:33 וְכָל־כְּלִי־חֶ֔רֶשׂ אֲשֶׁר־יִפֹּ֥ל מֵהֶ֖ם אֶל־תּוֹכ֑וֹ כֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר בְּתוֹכ֛וֹ יִטְמָ֖א וְאֹת֥וֹ תִשְׁבֹּֽרוּ׃ Rashi - (אל תוכו. אֵין כְּלִי חֶרֶס מִטַּמֵּא אֶלָּא מֵאֲוִירוֹ (חולין כ"ד Rashi - ואותו …
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Selichos, Eruv Rosh Hashanah – September 18, 2020
Kotzker Vort: אין שׁלם כלב שבור, אין ישר כסולם עקום, ואין עקום כבּדותת יושר (גלייך ווערטל) There is nothing whole as a broken heart, there is nothing straight than a crooked ladder, and there is nothing more crooked (deep) than a simple thought. I attended Selichos tonight, Eruv Rosh Hashanah. In Selicha # כט …
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Miketz: December 18, 2020
Gave a Chumash Shiur on December 17, 2020 for the family via Zoom. In attendance Karen Schwartz, Yosef Janowski, Avi Beer, Chanie Caplan, Alltie Beer, and Matt Schwartz at the end. We are still in quarantine in Toronto. My mother in law is coming back from Baycrest, the rehab this coming week. Bereshis - Chapter …
Parshas VaYetza 2020
November 28, 2020 Week of Thanksgiving. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at Eli’s condo in Lakeview. I spent Shabbos in Lakeview and davened at Anshe Sholem at their 7:45 AM minyan. At 10:40 I went to Chabad of East Lakeview to teach Torah. Parshas VaYetza Chapter 29 verses 16 -31 Outline of my Torah - …
Friday November 6, 2020: Torah on Parshas VaYera
This Torah is written in Bubbi Blanche’s Apartment for a Refuah Shelaima for Bubbi - Blima Bas Zelda Baila. Vort #1) The story of Avrohom continues. At the beginning of the Parsha it was three days after the circumcision and God came to visit Avrohom. Three days earlier God changed Avrohom’s and Sarah’s names. …
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Shabbos Teshuva – Parshas HaaZinu
The Torah in Breshis 37:29 - וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע רְאוּבֵ֔ן וַיַּצִּלֵ֖הוּ מִיָּדָ֑ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לֹ֥א נַכֶּ֖נּוּ נָֽפֶשׁ׃ . The Midrash says on this Pasuk: אָמַר לוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מֵעוֹלָם לֹא חָטָא אָדָם לְפָנַי וְעָשָׂה תְּשׁוּבָה, וְאַתָּה פָּתַחְתָּ בִּתְשׁוּבָה תְּחִלָּה, חַיֶּיךָ שֶׁבֶּן בִּנְךָ עוֹמֵד וּפוֹתֵחַ בִּתְשׁוּבָה תְּחִלָּה, וְאֵיזֶה זֶה הוֹשֵׁעַ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (הושע יד, ב): שׁוּבָה יִשְׂרָאֵל עַד ה' …
Shabbos Parshas Chukas – Balak July 4, 2020
July 4, 2020 - 12 Tammuz Parshas Chukas - Balak: Summer Heat Dvar Torah - Mei Merivah - Waters of Strife + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + …
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