The Kotzker and Sachachover May 13, 2024 We see that the Kotzker learned all the classical Seforim and he valued the same Torah as the Litvisha world. Amud HaEmes starting on page 246 details what the Kotzker said about various leaders and Seforim. The Kotzker talks about the Rambam, Korban Nesaniel, Maharal M’Prague, the …
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Sunday, May 8, 2022
Sunday, May 8, 2022 Rabbi Revah’s Shiur The Kotzker Rebbe on the Tzidkus of Chanoch Chovos Halevavos and the Kotzker Rabbi Revah is learning Chovos Halevavos in Shiur. The portion we are learning today deals with the reasons why the Torah does not describe the reward for doing Mitzvos are in the next world. …
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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Parshas Vayera: November 3 – 4, 2017
What a Shabbos. On Friday, I had to drive to the western part of the State, 30 miles from the Iowa border. I listened to Rabbi Goldberg’s Chumash Shiur from 2015. Excellent Shiur. At the end of the Shiur, Rabbi Goldberg gave four reasons why Monarchy and/or Moshiach had to come from Lot and his …
156th Yahrzeit of the Kotzker
This coming Tuesday night, February 3, 2015 and extending into Wednesday February 4, 2015 is the 156th Yahrzeit of the Kotzker. The following is a piece I wrote last year and did not have a chance to put it on my website. I offer this as my 2015 Yahrzeit speech for the Kotzker. THE KOTZKER …
The Kotzker Rebbe and the Crimean War:
Expressions of love for Jewish soldiers I saw this Vort from the Kotzker mentioned in Harry Maryles’s Blog, Emes V’emunah, by a commentator named Ephraim. I have not seen this Vort in a sefer, but it is true to the Kotzker and keeping with the feeling of his responsibility to the entire nation of Israel. The Kotzker said: …
Kotzker Rebbe’s Yahrzeit 2011
Family e-mail: January 26, 2011 It is now 7:44 PM and I have just finished for the day. I did go to Sidney for Mincha and Maariv. I gave the Daf Yomi Shiur last week and enjoyed it. To prepare I used the Daf Yomi shiur on ou.org, the most widely listened to Daf Yomi …
Kotzker Rebbe’s Yharzeit 2013
154 years 22 Shevat 5619 – January 27, 1859 Takhe Kotzk (click to listen) This Shabbos is the Kotzker Rebbe's 154th Yharzeit. Everyone is invited to the Glenner residence for a Yhazeit seudah this shabbos after minchah. Years ago my father sent me a Cantor Paul Zim tape of Yiddish songs that included the song …
Pesach at the Kotzker Rebbe’s Seder Table
The Lesson of Maror A Chosid who used to travel to the Kotkzer, approximately 56 years earlier, was on his way home from Gur after the holiday of Succos. He travelled by way of Sochatchov and visited the Sochatchover Rebbe. This event took place in the early 1900’s. The Sochatchover Rebbe was Rabbi Avrohom …
The Avnei Nezer’s Pshat in a Rambam (told over at Avromi Perl’s Bar Mitzvah)
Background to the story: The Avnei Nezer also known as the Sochachover Rebbe,married the Kotzker older twin daugher, Sarah Tzinah, in 1853+-. The Avneir Nazar at the time of ths story was maybe 18 years old. This story took place during the years of the Kotzker’s “Hisbotidus” - years that the Kotzker limited his contact …
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