Week ending July 4, 2020 - 12 Tammuz Yisroel Yaakov Ben Avrohom Meir - My father’s 18th Yahrzeit July 1 -3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg July 4, 1863 - Day after the Battle of Gettysburg Independence Day - Imperfect Men with a Perfect God + + + + + + + + + + …
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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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Shabbos Parashas Shelach – June 20, 2020
Shabbos Parshas Shelach - June 20, 2020 Joseph Greenbaum Bar Mitzvah - Parshas Shelach 2015 For Want of Cholent - Thank you Rabbi Rael Blumenthal Toras Yonatan Glenner Meshech Chochma on the Sin of the Spies ______________________________________________________________ Rabbi Yonatan Glenner and his Uncle (myself) The Spies Reporting Back to Moshe: What a great bar Mitzvah: …
June 4, 2020 Parshas Va'era Shabbos 89B - Darash Rava June 4, 2002 On Thursday June 4, 2020 I was at my doctor’s office listening to Rabbi Sugerman’s Daf Yomi Shiur on YUtorah.org. Rabbi Sugerman said . . . דָּרֵשׁ רָבָא, מַאי דִּכְתִיב: I immediately was filled with joy as I felt that this …
Shabbos Parshas בהעלותך June 13, 2020
It is Eli’s birthday and we had a birthday Friday night meal. Tzvi came over. Davened at Sidney’s garage / driveway Minyan. I spoke before Musaf and these are my words: וָאֶתְּנָ֨ה אֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֜ם נְתֻנִ֣ים ׀ לְאַהֲרֹ֣ן וּלְבָנָ֗יו מִתּוֹךְ֮ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ לַעֲבֹ֞ד אֶת־עֲבֹדַ֤ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד וּלְכַפֵּ֖ר עַל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְלֹ֨א יִהְיֶ֜ה בִּבְנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ נֶ֔גֶף בְּגֶ֥שֶׁת …
Toronto Redux – November 7 – 11, Veterans Day Weekend 2019
Shabbos Parshas Lech Lecha My Bar Mitzvah Parsha - 1966 Monday – November 4, 2019: Woke up late and ended up davening at Chodorov. I was rewarded for my tardiness. I realized that the person who was leining also leined 53 year ago at my Bar Mitzvah at Rabbi Isaac Small’s Shul on Lawrence Avenue. …
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Shabbos Parshas Breshis 2019
October 25-26, 2019 Another great Shabbos at ASBI. Shabbos Mevorchim Cheshvan Shabbos in Lakeview Carlbach Friday Night Davening Rabbi Wolkenfeld’s Torah Midrash Mordechai on Breishis – Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Morgenstern I am excited. Nothing better than Shabbos in Lakeview. We are now starting from the Beginning of the Torah, Sefer Breishis. The Torah of the …
Shabbos Parshas Pinchos 2019
July 28, 2019 Shabbos Mevorchim AV Shabbos in Lakeview Carlebach Friday Night Davening Kotzker Vort: Moshe prayed that God not appoint Pinchos as leader The Ahavas Shaul said the opposite of the Kotzker, that Moshe prayed that God should appoint Pinchos as leader Sunday Morning Bike the Eruv Another great Shabbos at ASBI. Friday Night: …
Shabbos Parshas Bechukosi: June 1, 2019 – 27 Iyar 5779
How do I communicate the joy of this Shabbos, so the reader feels my joy. Highlights: Staying in Lakeview for Shabbos Friday night Carlebach Davening at ASBI Sholom davening with me Friday night Inviting a guest for our Friday night meal Eating by my kids on Shabbos Having great Friday night conversation with our guest …
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Speech on the Second Day of Shavous – June 10th, 2019
I said the following speech at N’elas HaChag Shevous 2019. The Sefer, Siach Sarfei Koddush, Volume 1, page 235 (Bnei Brak 1989) brings down the following Kotzker Vort on Shevous. In his second explanation, the Kotzker explains that we say that Shevous is Zman Matan Torasnu (the day of giving the Torah), and not Zman …
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