Parshas Truma - Verse 25:2 - starts on Page 5 This past Wednesday night was Avrohom Chase’s Bar Mitzvah. He is Mayer and Chanie Chase’s son. Shabbos was at the Adas, Rabbi Kaufman’s Shul. I davened shabbos at the Bar Mitzvah and had an Aliyah. Sidney Glenner, Lisa Glenner, Esther Chase, Pesach Chase, Mitch Morgenstern, …
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February 17, 2024 Parshas Truma - Verse 25:2 - starts on Page 5 This past Wednesday night was Avrohom Chase’s Bar Mitzvah. He is Mayer and Chanie Chase’s son. Shabbos was at the Adas, Rabbi Kaufman’s Shul. I davened shabbos at the Bar Mitzvah and had an Aliyah. Sidney Glenner, Lisa Glenner, Esther Chase, Pesach …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Verses Bereshis VaYechi 48:28 and 50:4-5-6 Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Reb Yosef Ber Soloveichik, the Rov 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 …
Verses Bereshis VaYechi 48:28 and 50:4-5-6 Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Reb Yosef Ber Soloveichik, the Rov 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 …
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 …
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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 …
Week in Toronto Shem Hagedolim Hachodah and the Tur HaAruch Congregation Ateres Mordechai - Rabbi Bitterman Noam Horowitz - Matt Schwartz I purchased two Seforim at the Lubavitch in Chabad Gate. The first Sefer is Shem Hagedolim Hachadosh written by Ahron Walden. It is interesting to note that in the Shem Hagedolim Hachadosh’s face …
