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 …
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Parshas VaYeira – November 8, 2014
It is getting colder in Chicago, but still nice. I received the Sefer Sholem Yershalim and we will have our Shiur at Kins this Sunday night at 8:45 PM. Chapter 18, Verse 19 (from Chabad.org): 19. For I have known him because he commands his sons and his household after him, that they should keep the way of the …
Toras Lech Lacha – November 1, 2014:
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon Another great Shabbos of Torah. I attended three classes given by Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion http://www.haretzion.org. They classes were on the Mitzva of Shmitta, letting the land of Israel lay fallow every seven years. Rabbi Rimon is one of the foremost experts on the laws …
Parshas Noah
The below is Martin from LA's comment on this weeks Torah potion, Parshas Noah. In red are my comments. Martin from LA is a student of Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks. As as result I consider myself a student of the Chief Rabbi and have been inspired by the Chief Rabbi's Torah. Martin from LA is my …
Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda, TZL
I received this unfortunate e-mail on Friday, Eruv Yom Kippur. The funeral is later today in Beit Semesh. The comment sums up the loss we all feel. It is the passing of an era. Mitch, I am so sorry to send you sad news. I had such joy from reading your remarks about Rav Yehuda on your blog. Now, an era has …
THREE SHABBOSIM AND FOUR SYNOGAGUES
Over the last three weeks I davened at four different Synagogues. Sephardic Shul of East Boca Raton - Parshas Re’ah - August 22, 2014 – Congregation Yagdil Torah. East Boca Raton - Parshas Ra’ah – August 23, 2014 Anshei Sholem, Chicago - Parshas Shoftim – August 30, 2014 KJBS, Rabbi Franks Shul, Chicago - Parshas Ki Tza’zah – …
RABBI TZVI YEHUDA
I was in Boca Raton two weeks ago and Boruch Hashem I went to visit Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda who is recovering in a nursing home. He is no longer able to give his Shabbos morning class. Unfortunately, his class has been taken off the Boca Raton Shabbos pamphlet. The last time I was at the Boca Raton Synagogue, I felt a …
Parshas Eikev
The Siege, The Story of Israel and Zionism This morning September 6, 2014, I saw my friend Hart Hasten in Shul. I mentioned to him that I was reading the book, The Siege, The Story of Israel and Zionism, written by Conor O’Brien, an Irish diplomat. Hart Hasten mentioned that he brought in Conor O’Brien …
Megilah 12A – Missed Opportunity – History Repeats Itself
July 24, 2014 The war in Gaza is continuing. Let us hope for peace and security. This morning in Daf Yomi I learned an amazing Gemara. It almost mirrors events in the Jewish world from the late 1700s to 1948. It mirrors the period of time when the students of the Besht and Gra start to move back to …
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Binyomin Zev (Theodore) Herzl
Yahrzeit - 20 Tammuz 5664 (1904) May 2, 1860 - July 3, 1904 This past Friday was the 110th Yahrzeit of Binyomin Zev - Theodore Herzl. I did not know about Herzl's Yahrzeit until Elykum Schwartz told me this past Shabbos. I saw in Amos Elon's book, Herzl, that in 1903 the Sefas Emes came out against Herzl and said the Messiah and settlement of …
