Posts about people I meet and my happenings
November 8, 2025 Parshas VaYarah Professor Lucy Davidowicz Bill Gladstone Professor Nancy Sinkoff I am writing a book on the history of the Kotzker Rebbe. The main book I am using is הרבי מקאצק וששים גבּורים סביב לו. The book published in 1959 is a Hebrew translation of the 1938 Yiddish book, Der Kotzker Rebbe, …
Continue reading Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart and Rabbi Yehuda Leibush Noble
October 25, 2025 Thoughts on the Sedra Bereshis Verse 9:20 - וַיָּ֥חֶל נֹ֖חַ אִ֣ישׁ הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה וַיִּטַּ֖ע כָּֽרֶם Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz The Kotzker and his Years of Seclusion David Sokoloff's portrait of the animals and the ark. This is a little raw but I am still posting it. Davened at Anshei Chesed and Rabbi Billet spoke …
July 12, 2025 - 16 Tammuz 5785 Shabbos Parshas Balak My father, Yisroel Yaakov ben Avrohom Meir’s, 23rd Yahrzeit on 11 Tammus, July 7, 2025 Dr. Leonard Kranzler’s 6th Yahrzeit on 18 Tammuz, July 14, 2025 Torah from Shabbos and Sunday אֶ֥רֶץ בְּנֵי־עַמּ֖וֹ The Importance of Money How to Explain Bilaam’s Actions My Charity Torah …
Continue reading Shabbos Parshas Balak: July 12, 2025 – 16 Tammuz 5785
Shabbos Parshas Behaaloscha Chabad of East Lakeview Torah from Shabbos Torah 1 - Verse 8:2 Torah 2 - Verse 12:1 June 13, 2025 Eruv Shabbos. I learned with Tzvi Morgenstern, my son, Chapter 2 from the book, הרבי מקאצק וששים גבּורים סביב לו. Tzvi is an intellectual and he pushes me to think and express …
July 1, 2023 Updated June 4, 2025 Notes for a Shiur I gave at Chabad of East Lakeview. It is based on a Shiur given by Rabbi Meir Yaakov Solovechik in his April 2023 lecture series on the Jews and the Civil War Rabbi Sabato Morais Rabbi Sabato Morais Sermon given on July 4, …
Gainesville, FL Professor Jack Kugelmass Tovah Levy I drove 4.5 hours to Gainesville, FL to meet with Professor Jack Kugelmass. We were there for two hours and then drove back home to Boynton Beach. I drove 9 hours to visit Professor Jack Kugelmass. It was well worth the drive. My granddaughter Tovah Levy accompanied me …
May 6, 2020 Parshas Emor I dedicate this to the Yahrzeit of my grandfather, Reb Sholem Sklar on 12 Iyar, this past Wednesday; and to my Rebbe in Chumash, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda, a Talmud of the Chazon Ish and a teacher at Boca Raton Synagogue. I struggled mightily on Emor - Verses - 22:2 through …
Continue reading Yahrzeit of my grandfather Reb Sholem Sklar
Updated May, September, and November 2025 Rabbi Meir Yakov Soloveichik Abraham Setsuzo Kotsuji Jundai Yamada Pictures Given Out at the Shiur Commentary Article from March 21, 2023 Rabbi Moshe Shatzkes On Saturday night, I took my granddaughter to Boca Raton Synagogue and we heard a beautiful shiur from Rabbi Meir Yakov Soloveichik. The topic was: …
November 23, 2024 Updated May 18, 2025 In Florida for the third week. Friday night davened at Chabad of Boynton Beach and ate by Shoshana and Danny, my kids. Shabbos morning davened at Netzach Israel. I learned the following Torah #1 Ramban: I went through the first Ramban in the Sedra. The Ramban argues with …
Isaac Rothstein’s Bar Mitzvah Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 166th Yahrzeit of the Kotzker Rebbe Izzy Janowski - Blanche Janowski’s Twin Brother We drove to Toronto on Wednesday, January 23, 2024. We stayed at Chani Janowski’s house which was an 8 minute walk to the Shul, Aish Hatorah of Thornhill. The Rabbi is the grandfather of …
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