Posts about people I meet and my happenings
Shabbos Parshas BeShalach Thursday February 1, 2024 - 165th yahrzeit of the Kotzker Rebbe. 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 the Bar Mitzvah boy. The Rabbi spoke …
Continue reading January 27, 2024: Isaac Rothman’s Bar Mitzvah
Shabbos Chanukah - December 9, 2023 On Shabbos January 14, 2024 I finished reading the book, The Jewish Confederates, by Robert N. Rosen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Confederates Robert Rosen writes about why Jews supported the Confederacy. The Jewish leaders of the Confederacy, the Jewish fighters, antisemitism, and how the Jews reacted to the defeat of the South. On …
Aliza Feiga’s Bas Mitzvah Bereshis Pasuk 44:18 וַיִּגַּ֨שׁ אֵלָ֜יו יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיֹּ֘אמֶר֮ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִי֒ יְדַבֶּר־נָ֨א עַבְדְּךָ֤ דָבָר֙ בְּאׇזְנֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י וְאַל־יִ֥חַר אַפְּךָ֖ בְּעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י כָמ֖וֹךָ כְּפַרְעֹֽה׃ What Does בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִי֒ Mean Kotzker Rebbe on this Pasuk Rabbi Mark Dratch - Beverley Javasky-Lyons Bar Mitzvah Sunday the 24th is Aliza Feiga Siegal’s Bas Mitzvah. Shoshana came in from …
Continue reading December 23, 2023 – Shabbos Parshas VaYigash
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Torah - The Conflict of Brothers Yosef’s Forgiveness Resh Lakish and Repentance Life of My Mother Jean Morgenstern April 1865 - The Month That Saved America by Jay Winick President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant Surrender at Appomattox The First Ramban on Parshas VaYechi The First Kli Yakar on …
Verses Bereshis VaYechi 48:28 and 50:4-5-6 Reb Yosef Ber Soloveichik, the Rov Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Walked to Chabad and got there at 11:20 AM. I came at the end of leining. I gave the Dr. Leonard Kranzler memorial to Shiur. Attendees were Paul, Marcel, Henry, Peggy, Tamar, Jeff, Ray, Alex, Sara, Mia, Herb, and one …
Walk to Chabad of East Lakeview Genesis Verse 29:21 - כִּ֥י מָלְא֖וּ יָמָ֑י Maskil L’Dovid - Rabbi Dovid Pardo (1718-1790) Got up at 4:15 AM Shabbos morning to prepare for my Shiur at Chabad of East Lakeview. Left for the Shiur at 8:30 AM and arrived at Chabad at 10:30 AM. There was no minyan …
Continue reading November 25, 2023 – Shabbos Parshas Vayetzei
September 16 and 17, 2023 Parshas VaYerah Had a pretty good Rosh Hashana. Friday night's meal was with Serka, myself and Sholem. Shabbaos, Rosh Hashanah morning go up at 7:00 AM, read the Mizrachi magazine doing a retrospective on the 50th year anniversary of the Yom Kippur war Davening was called for 8:45 AM and …
September 21 and 22, 2023 Trip to FloridaSeptember 25, 2023 Yom KippurGenerosity of Sarah and Joel MillerOpen Heart Surgery of Joel MillerRabbi Zev Saunders, Rabbi of Delray Orthodox SynagoguePurchasing Hoshanos from Rabbi Ben SugermanDoing Tzadakkah on behalf of Joel MillerShemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah Sarah and Joel Miller graciously let us use their condo in …
Torah Yesharah Rabbi Charles Kahana Yosef Lindell Introduction of the Torah Yesharah Statement from the Agudas Harabonim in the Jewish Press In my blog post of August 6, 2023 on the translation of Verse 7:13 I used the translation from the Torah Yesharah. This is Charles - Yechiskal Shraga - Kahane’s explanation in English of …
The summer is moving by and it is now the first week of August. On Thursday Aaron Chase came with his two friends, Nadler from LA and Israel, and Tzvi Eliezer Katz from Far Rockaway. Aaron Chase is named after my brother, his grandfather Aaron Chase or as we called him Arela. He is Avrohom …
Continue reading August 6, 2023 – Parsha Eikev Verse 7:13 שְׁגַר־אֲלָפֶ֙יךָ֙ וְעַשְׁתְּרֹ֣ת
