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The petty crook ac-cused of s h o o t i n g down NYPD Offi cer Peter Figoski was marched to court Tues-day wearing the murdered cop’s own handcuff s.

L a m o n t Pride, 27, was ordered held without bail - an announce-ment that was met with ap-plause in Brooklyn Criminal Court, which was packed to the raft ers with cops.

Officer Figoski “was tar-geted for homicide because he was wearing the uniform of a New York City police offi cer,” said prosecutor Kenneth Taub.

Pride’s four accused hench-men will also be charged with murder. The men were all hunted down within 24 hours of the death of Figoski, a decorated 22-year veteran of the NYPD and father of four daughters who was shot in the face during a botched home invasion in Brooklyn.

“Some have significant criminal histories,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kel-ly said Tuesday.

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Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the posek hador, aft er being told about yes-terday’s shameful protest in Meah Shearim by so-called chareidi Jews who refused to let an Egged bus pass through the streets since the bus does not provide separate areas for men and women, said that gender seg-regation cannot be enforced pub-licly.

“Rav Elyashiv feels that it is commendable for a private bus company to separate men and

women, but it is impossible to ob-ligate a public company to adopt this standard,” said Reb Chaim Cohen, a gabbai of Rav Elyashiv. “You can try to persuade them. You can explain to them that it is a smart fi nancial decision. But you cannot force a public com-pany to do something like this.”

The number one bus route which ran through Meah Shearim had been rerouted to avoid the area for eighteen months due to attacks by some protestors who wanted the bus to enforce sepa-rate areas for men and women.

The bus resumed its run through Meah Shearim on De-cember 1. At yesterday’s protest, 100 men who used their own bod-ies and baby carriages to block the bus. It was the fi rst demonstration against the bus line.

Rav Elyashiv: Separate Gender Bus Routes Cannot Be Forced Or Enforced

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And Yisrael loved Yosef more than all of his sons, since he was a child of his old age, and he made for him a fine woolen tunic. His broth-ers saw that it was he whom his father loved most of all his broth-ers and so they hated him. They could not speak peacefully to him (37:3,4).

The dispute between Yosef and his brothers requires explanation. It is an error to understand it as a situation akin to petty sibling ri-valries for a parent’s affection or money. Nothing could be further from the truth, because Yosef and his brothers were tzaddikim who formed the very foundation of K’lal Yisroel.

The following historical epi-sode can put this parsha into

proper perspective: In the middle of Cheshvan, 5618 (1857) a great din Torah began in Volozhin. The Yeshivah Eitz Chaim, founded a half century earlier by Reb Chaim of Volozhin, the chief disciple of the Vilna Gaon, had been going through a period of turmoil. Con-tention arose due to the differences in the styles of learning of the two Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Naftoli Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (the Netziv) and Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (the Beis HaLeivi). The dispute escalat-ed amongst the respective students of these two men, and threatened the very existence of the yeshivah.

Four great rabbonim were sum-moned as a Bais Din to adjudicate the dispute and formulate a work-able compromise. They were Rav

Dovid Tevel of Minsk (author of Nachlas Dovid), Rav Yosef Feimer of Slutzk, the young Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spektor, then the rav of Novardhok, and Rav Velvele, the maggid of Vilna.

Before the deliberations began, Rav Velvele asked to speak. He said, “As a maggid, I always speak on the parsha. But I must tell you that as I stand here in the presence of great rabbonim, I see parshas Vayaishev. You may ask me how I see Vayaishev just a few weeks af-ter Sukkos and I will explain.

“For each parsha from Beraishis till Vayaishev, it is easy for me to prepare a drosho (sermon) because the Torah clearly contrasts the tzaddik to the rosho. In Beraishis,

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FJJ Fights DrinkingI applaud your decision to in-

clude on your front page the story of the Flatbush yeshiva bochur who was arrested last week for DUI. This is an issue that needs front page exposure to alert par-ents and mechanchim in our com-munity about the epidemic of drinking that goes on in the frum circles.

This boy who was arrested should consider himself lucky that nothing worse happened to him or to some pedestrian walking the street. The only way we can curtail this behavior is by publicising it, and by meting out harsh penalties to those who drink and drive. For starters, revocation of a license for a number of years and publicis-ing names of offenders might go a long way in helping to stop this type of behavior.

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Dangerous MothersI was just looking out of my

window and I saw something which upset me very much.

A mother was wheeling a stroller across a two-way busy street in the middle of the block. As she came out from behind the line of cars which were wait-ing for the light and pushed the stroller into the next lane, a van was turning in. Baruch Hashem

it was going slowly and the driver saw the stroller and waited.

If a person wants to take chances with his own life, that’s bad enough. However, if someone is pushing a baby stroller and tak-ing chances with their baby’s life, it’s just unforgivable.

My father is a driver and he’s always complaining about the mothers who push their strollers into the street in front of them, before checking both ways to see if it’s safe. It’s much harder for a driver to see the stroller because it’s so low down. So please, before you push that stroller across the street, make sure it’s really safe for both yourself and your innocent child.

Sincerely, E.B.T.

Flatbush Coffee AdditionI am writing today not about

tznius or lack of kavod hatorah but about a different issue that is prevalent in our community and has not been discussed. I am refer-ring to the coffee addiction in our community. Besides for the bittul Torah this addiction causes, when people become addicted to coffee and it is not available, they be-come cranky and short tempered and do not function properly. Yet most yeshivos in our community even have coffee gemachs. This is outrageous. Do our yeshivos have

gemachs for drugs and alcohol also?! How can we encourage this dangerous addiction by making it easier for people to obtain coffee? Steps must be taken to resolve this crisis. The first step should be to abolish coffee gemachs in yeshivos. We also must have rab-banim give speeches about this great danger and hold “coffee anonymous” meetings so that people can discuss their addic-tions and get help. We must put in the effort to try and fix this prob-lem and then b’ezras Hashem this crisis will be resolved.

M.S., Flatbush

The Unappreciated FJJI am truly disappointed by

some of the letters to the editor that appear in your newspaper; but not for the reason of which you are thinking! How could people tell you what material you should or should not print in your paper? The FJJ is a unique publication that has enhanced many homes over the past year and a half. It is a FREE publica-tion delivered to everyone’s door-step, rain or shine. For those read-ers who do not approve of any content which may appear, be it an ad, a letter or an article just don’t read it! Instead have hako-ras hatov to Mordy Mehlman and

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Drinking in Flatbush

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Letters to the Editor

Last week, The Flatbush Jew-ish Journal had the courage to run as its main cover story; "Ye-shiva Bochur Arrested for Driv-ing While Intoxicated". Although I received many commendations for it, I was shocked to also re-ceive criticism for "washing our dirty laundry in public".

I, too enjoy drinking, wether at a simcha, a kiddush, or at my Shabbos table. When utilized in moderation, as an adjunct to zemiros and divrei torah at the seudah, it enhances the joy. As Chazal teach us: "ein simcha elah b'bosar v'yayin" - there is no joy except with meat and wine.

However, drinking by teenag-ers in our community has truly gotten out of hand. Frequently, when I attend a simcha or kiddu-sh, the whiskey bottles have been moved by the bochurim from the buffet to their own tables,

reserved for their private drink-ing. This becomes obvious by the frequent rowdy behavior they ex-hibit afterwards.

I don't know the solution to this problem, but I know it is a problem. I also know that Rab-bonim in our community are concerned with it, some have even prohibited whiskey at their kiddushim.

I would appreciate Rabbonim, mechanchim, communal leaders, and all members of our commu-nity sending in their comments on this crisis, and suggestions for its solution. In the meantime, I would like to reprint an impor-tant article I clipped some time ago from the Yated Neeman, written by the esteemed Avro-hom Birnbaum. It is titled "The Shalom Zachor: An Escape From Life". Please read it carefully:

It was a beautiful shalom zachor. A wonderfully joyous and uplifting atmosphere, held at the home of the baal simcha.

Just after midnight, an hour when I would have expected the simcha to be winding down, a group of about 8 bochurim piled in. They made themselves com-fortable around the very long, extended table and joined enthu-siastically in the singing. They ate, drank some beer and even some hard liquor.

After a while, I approached an older bochur, a relative of the baal simcha, and asked him who the bochurim were? To which mechu-tan were they related? He replied that, “as far as I know they are not related to anyone. They are just bochurim who came off the street


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כ”ק אדמו”ר מנאוואמינסק שליט”א ה הגאון רבי יעקב הורביץ שליט”א ד הגאון רבי בנימין אייזענבערגער שליט”אNovominsker Rebbe Shlit”a • HaRav Yaakov Horowitz Shlit”a • HaRav Binyomin Eisenberger Shlit”aכ”ק אדמו”ר מנאוואמינסק שליט”א ה הגאון רבי יעקב הורביץ שליט”א ד הגאון רבי בנימין אייזענבערגער שליט”א

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בית יעקב לכו ונלכה באור ה‘

To all our brethren, Bnei Yisroel, located worldwide, שיחיו

The good name of Beth Jacob of Boro Park is well known for its serving as a holy “Mosad Hachinuch” for the entire neighborhood and its environs for over 70 years.

The goal has never changed – to be Mechanech our Bnos Yisroel in the ways of our forefathers with Yiras Shomayim, Middos Tovos, and Torah knowledge. Witness the ten thousand Talmidos that were educated in the school, who have since built Yiddishe homes worldwide – the pride of our Bais Yaakov.

Among the 1,900 students presently in the school, many are from families that can not pay even minimal tuitions due to Tzoros and hardships that have befallen their families ר"ל. Additionally, due to the present economic hardships, many more parents are incapable of meeting their tuition obligations. Beth Jacob of Boro Park, is a community school – not belonging to nor aligned with any group. It serves not only Boro Park and Flatbush, but other neighborhoods and communities in the Brooklyn area. It is a Mosad that relates to all of Klal Yisroel, and therefore carries the burden of all these children and families with understanding and pride.

However, due to cuts in government funding and donations, Beth Jacob of Boro Park finds itself in dire financial distress. A new Board of Directors and administration has expended tremendous efforts to save the school.

We therefore turn to the entire community, all the former Talmidos of this school, and their parents, asking you to assist us at these trying times. Please help us subsidize the tuitions of these aforementioned unfortunate Talmidos. They clearly qualify as עניי עירך, who halachically come before all other worthy causes.

We are sure that all those that open their hearts to help this most worthy cause will be blessed with an abundance of Yeshuous and Hatzlacha, until the coming of Mosiach in our times, Amen.

אליכם אחינו בני ישראל די בכל אתר ואתר,ה' עליהם יחיו,

ידוע ומפורסם בשער בת רבים שמו הטוב של המוסד הקדוש 'בית יעקב ד'בארא פארק’ שמתנוסס לתפארה זה שבעים שנה, ומשמש חינוך לבנות על טהרת הקודש, לתושבי שכונת בארא פארק בית

והסביבה.

תכלית ומטרת 'בית יעקב ד'בארא פארק’ מיום היוסדו ועד היום הזה, אחת היא; לחנך בנות ישראל ליראת ה' טהורה, צניעות ומידות טובות ברוח ישראל סבא. יעידו עשרות אלפי התלמידות שהתחנכו לאורך ומבורכים, ישרים דורות והקימו זה, קדוש מוסד כותלי בין השנים ובכל קהילות הקודש תעמודנה לנס ולגאון לתפארת 'בית יעקב’.

כותלי בין כיום המתחנכות התלמידות מאות ותשע כאלף מבין יד יוסיף ה' עליהן, רבים מביניהן שאין יעקב ד'בארא פארק’, 'בית צרות מפאת לימוד לשכר מועט תשלום כדי אף משגת הוריהן המצב מפאת האחרונה, בתקופה ל"ע. עליהם, העוברים וקשיים נוספו לטובה, הגלגל ויתהפך ה' יתן אותנו, הפוקד הכלכלי הקשה לימוד כבעבר. ידם משגת לשלם שכר אין הורים רבים ששוב עוד הבנה מתוך אלו, הוצאות במלוא ברצון נושאת המוסד הנהלת וידיעה ברורה שהמוסד הקדוש הלזה איננו מוסד פרטי ואינו שייך לחוג ועדה כלשהם, אלא לכלל ציבור היראים, וזכותו וחובתו לדאוג

דאגת הכלל והפרט בשלימות!

והנדבות התמיכות צמצום לצד המרובות, ההוצאות עקב ואולם עצומים. לקשיים פארק’ ד'בארא יעקב 'בית נכנס ומבחוץ, מבית כדי לחלצו ממשבר, צורפו כוחות חדשים ורעננים להנהלת המוסד,

ונעשים מאמצים עילאיים להעלותו חזרה על דרך המלך.

תלמידות ואליכן ישראל, בני אחינו אליכם לפנות הביאנו זה דבר 'בית יעקב ד'בארא פארק’ בעבר, בכל מקומות מושבותיכם, ולבקשכם אנא! פתחו זו. לצידנו בשעת מצוקה לעמוד לשון של בקשה בכל של לימוד שכר כדי עצמכם על וקבלו תרומתכם, והרימו לבבכם היא הלכה והרי משגת, ידן אין אשר היקרות מתלמידותינו אחת

בידוע בשולחן ערוך )יורה דעה סימן רנ"א סעיף ג'( עניי עירך קודמין.

סמוכים ובטוחים אנו בשוכן מרומים, שכל העוזרים והמסייעים למען ברכות רב, שפע משמיא עליהם יושפע זו, ונשגבה נעלה מטרה וישועות עד בלי די, ובשובה ונחת יוושעו בתוך כל כלל ישראל, אמן.


Why Blood Libels?Th ey took Yosef ’s tunic, slaughtered a goat,

and dipped the tunic in the blood. (37: 31)As Jews, we have been accused of vari-

ous and sundry crimes in our long history. Among other dastardly deeds, we are ac-cused of being greedy, of believing that we are superior to others, and of being con-sumed solely with our own self-interests, not those of the countries we inhabit. But perhaps the most devastating accusation we have faced is the blood libel. Th e no-tion of accusing Jews of using any sort of blood in our food, let alone incorporating the human blood of a Christian child in our matzos or wine, is absolutely ludicrous. Th e Torah exhorts us time aft er time never to taste blood. We are halachically obligated to salt and soak chicken and meat, to ensure that all the blood is drawn out before we take a morsel into our mouths. We check eggs for blood spots to make sure that we don’t ingest the smallest measure of blood.

Nevertheless, those who make the claim that we do use blood in our matzos have had an easy time convincing the masses of the veracity of their fabrication. Th ese charges did not end in medieval Europe — we haven’t heard the end of blood libels in our days. Th e Arab world has now adopted the canard from the Christians. Th ere have been several books and dozens of newspa-per articles published in the Arab press ac-

cusing Jews of murdering Arab children to use their blood, including a series of articles that appeared in a Saudi Arabian newspa-per in 2002 with a new twist: Jews don’t just use blood of Arab or Christian children on Pesach for matzos and wine, we also use blood on Purim for our hamantashen. In the long history of blood libels, any hon-est individual who would have bothered to investigate our attitude regarding blood would have ascertained that we would have nothing to do with blood. Yet we were compelled to ward off these false accusa-tions generation aft er generation, and we may still be haunted by these charges in the future. How did we become the subjects of an accusation that runs so contrary to our beliefs?

Ma’aseh avos siman labanim (the ac-tions of the forefathers guide the children) is conventionally used to explain (a) the positive traits instilled into Klal Yisrael by our Forefathers, and/or (b) the accomplish-ments that we have achieved on a grand scale because our Forefathers did so on a smaller scale. If ma’aseh avos siman laban-im is a pivotal factor, however, then it can also work the other way around. In the rare cases in which the founders of Klal Yisrael did not meet their challenges, even to the minutest degree, we have had to struggle with those challenges for several millennia.

Parashas Vayeishev begins with an event that is a precursor to one of the most seri-

ous challenges Klal Yisrael faces: internal strife. Far be it from us to judge the behavior of the Shivtei Kah (Twelve Tribes) in their decision to kill Yosef, or their subsequent determination to sell him instead of killing him. Th is incident is obviously not a simple case of sibling rivalry; despite the deep-seated hatred the brothers had for Yosef, the ruling that Yosef was to be put to death was based on halachah, not emotion. But no matter how justifi ed the hatred between the brothers was, it was sure to aff ect the spiri-tual genes passed down to the generations that followed. Th e baseless hatred that has plagued our nation throughout history — eventually causing the Second Beis Hamik-dash to be destroyed — probably took root in the hatred the brothers had towards Yo-sef.

Th ere is a frightening implication in this thought. Th e brothers may have been justifi ed in their hatred of Yosef, but be-ing “right” does not exonerate them from the implications of displaying their hatred. Once the seeds of hatred were sown into the history of our nation, there was no way out. Hatred is a problem that Jews will have to deal with until Mashiach’s arrival.

Reb Elchonon Wasserman zt”l takes this concept one step further. How did the shevatim explain Yosef ’s absence to Yaakov? Th ey dipped his tunic — the special tunic that Yaakov made for him — in blood, and showed it to Yaakov, who then assumed that Yosef had been killed by a wild animal. By using blood to hide their behavior, says Reb Elchonon, the shevatim sealed the fate of Klal Yisrael. Th eir use of blood to deceive their father has caused us to suff er from de-ceitful blood libels until this very day.

a Napoleonic SermonIn another three days Pharaoh will lift

up your head and will restore you to your post, and you will place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as was the former practice when you were his cupbearer. For if only you will think of me with yourself when he benefi ts you …. (40:13-14)

Following a crucial victory in Napo-leon’s campaign to conquer Europe, the general’s senior army offi cers threw a party to honor their leader. Speaker aft er speaker was called upon to speak and praise Napo-leon, but their speeches just fell fl at. As the hours ticked by, Napoleon grew impatient, and fi nally demanded that the soldiers fi nd a Jewish rabbi. Th e troops fanned out in all directions, and aft er a lengthy search they were given the address of a rabbi in the neighboring village. Th ey galloped off in that direction, reaching the village in the wee hours of the morning, and hurried to awaken the rabbi. When the rabbi recovered from the shock of being roused from his sleep by the soldiers pounding on his door, he did what any self-respecting member of the rabbinate would do when off ered an op-portunity to speak: he eagerly accepted the off er.

Th e rabbi was rushed to the banquet hall and sent directly to the podium. It hap-pened to be the week of Parashas Vayeishev, and the rabbi told the incident of Yosef ’s incarceration, and his subsequent role as

dream-interpreter for his jail-mates, Pha-raoh’s Sar HaMashkim (cupbearer) and Sar HaOfi m (baker). “Th e only issue I have with this episode,” the rabbi told his esteemed au-dience when he fi nished relating the events, “is Yosef ’s choice of words. He tells the Sar HaMashkim that he will be returned to his post, and immediately adds, ‘Ki im zichar-tani — for if only you will remember me.’ “What does one have to do with the other?” the rabbi asked. “Yosef should have con-cluded his interpretation, and then asked the Sar Hamashkim to do him a favor and mention his plight to Pharaoh. What did Yosef mean when he said, ‘for if only you will remember me’?”

“In logical terms,” answered the rab-bi, “there was no way to explain the Sar HaMashkim’s reinstatement. In those days when a high-level governmental offi cial was indicted on criminal charges, he rarely served a jail sentence — capital punishment was generally the order of the day. If a top offi cial was lucky enough to end up in the dungeon, you could be sure that he would never see the light of day again. “Now if for some odd reason the government does de-cide to pardon the offi cial, they certainly do not bring him back into the government — they send him to some faraway city, to make sure that his crime does not refl ect poorly on those who freed him. “In the highly un-likely event that they do bring him back into the government, they would be careful not to give him the same position that he held when he committed his crime; if they do reinstate him they would be indicating that they were wrong for deposing him in the fi rst place, and no government is ready to admit its own wrongdoing.

“Against all logic, according to Yosef ’s interpretation, the Sar HaMashkim was about to be reassume his position in the government. Th e Sar HaMashkim would have been happy to convince himself that his reinstatement was based on his own merit. Yosef disabused him of that notion, by showing that there was no logical reason for him to be reinstored. “‘Th e entire reason for your reinstatement,’ Yosef told the Sar HaMashkim, ‘is ki im zichartani — for if only you will remember me.’

“Yosef explained that G-d had orches-trated a long series of events — the Sar HaMashkim was indicted, deposed, im-prisoned, and later reinstated against all odds — for one reason: to enable the Sar HaMashkim to mention Yosef ’s plight to Pharaoh and have Yosef freed,” the rabbi said, bringing his dvar Torah to an end. Th e rabbi then turned to face Napoleon. “Many people look at Napoleon’s rise to power,” the rabbi declared, “and wonder how he man-ages to be so successful. Napoleon conquers land aft er land; no one can stand in his way. “We Jews know the answer. Napoleon has always treated us well. He emancipated us, and allows us freedom to practice our reli-gion in peace. Th is is why G-d is with him, and He allows him to be victorious in one battle aft er another. “Th e key to Napoleon’s continued success,” the rabbi concluded, “is to continue to treat G-d’s people fairly.”

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY

17 Kislev 5772

December 13, 2011

To Acheinu Bnei Yisroel,

Tragedy has once again struck our community. A young mother was tragically nifteres yesterday, leaving behind a

grieving mishpacha in the heart of Flatbush. The future looks very bleak.

Her young children, have suffered enough the past many years, as their mother spent much of her time in

various hospitals. Despite her debilitating illness, she showered every available moment on her beloved children,

selflessly tending to their every need. Every ounce of strength was devoted to her family, which they cherished and

reciprocated in kind. Her husband cared for her every need, and his attention to her and the children left little time

for him to succeed at his job, and earn a proper a living.

This young mishpacha has accrued heavy debt, with tens of thousands of dollars past due to their mortgage, Con

Edison, and other basic needs and services. In addition, tuition and other educational expenses have not been met.

Throughout these challenging years, the nifteres and her husband have stood valiantly beside their children, with

bitachon in Hashem, and remarkably, a smile on their faces. The coming years, however, will be more challenging

than ever. They must creep out of their debt, and somehow rebuild their family, and hope for the future.

Who will help them survive these trying times, if not for the entire community? Who will help them pay their debt

and hope for a better tomorrow? Who will raise the funds to marry off these children, when the time comes? Who

will care, if not us?

We personally plead with Acheinu B’nei Yisroel to open their hearts and their pockets to help these precious

souls. Please do more than you can, as quickly as you can, to make their Chanukah just a little bit brighter.

In the zechus of your tzedaka v’chesed, may your families be blessed with good health, nachas, and success in all your

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Chanukah candles are beautiful but they also present a fire risk. In recognition that the observance of Chanukah makes December a time in which Jewish homes are particularly susceptible to unwanted blazes, the Orthodox Union today an-nounced that December once again will be OU Fire Safety Month.

This year, the festival of Chanukah will be celebrated from Tuesday evening, De-cember 20-Wednesday, December 28.

The initiative is the latest aspect of the OU’s “Safe Homes, Safe Shuls, Safe Schools” program, and was instituted, according to Frank Buchweitz, OU Na-tional Director of Community Services and Special Projects, because “we want to protect our families. Chanukah presents us with the opportunity to sensitize the community to dangers associated with use of fire in many of our observances.”

The OU has posted six fire prevention guides on its website, www.ou.org/cha-gim/chanukah/prevention.htm.

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tion tips, which not only include candles, but the making of latkes as well; it advises women to be particularly careful of their sleeves and hair when lighting and bless-ing candles;

Torah Tots/Play it Safe for Chanu-kah, which has a variety of safety tips, including keeping a 10 lb. ABS fire extin-guisher near the kitchen, away from the stove;

Fire Safety for Jewish Observances, which among other items advises that candles should be kept at least four feet away from curtains, draperies, blinds, kitchen cabinets and bedding;

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Over two weeks ago, I was invited to speak at the Jewish Fair & Expo, in Union, NJ. My subject was eating healthier over Chanukah.

Whenever our family gets together for our annual family Chanukah party, several recipes are most often requested. Instead of the usual fried potato latkes, I have made Potato Puff Clouds.

I do bake the quiches ahead of time, earlier in the day, with the “mini” version of the respective recipes. They do freeze very well, so don’t worry about having left-overs when made fresh for that day. I love having the ability to go to my freezer days later, and pull out 2-3 mini quiches per person for a quick dinner from a Tupper-ware Freezermates container. Just add two quick side dishes and dinner is done!

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ries and olive oil 240 = 1070 divided by 4 = 268 calo-ries per serving.

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I’ve just returned from PTA, and for me it was the last Parent Teachers confer-ence I will be attending in a girls’ school as a mother. My daughter is graduating high school, and although I have a younger son, and have years of yeshiva PTA ahead of me, this evening brought the stark realization that life does not remain still and when one chapter ends, another begins.

Th at being said, one of the most preva-lent aspects of PTA night is the wish in every mother’s heart that her daughter be “successful” and appreciated in school. As parents, there is a universal desire on our parts that our children be successes, and nothing warms a mothers heart more than those glowing reports she receives from teachers about her precious daughter (as I did tonight! Boruch Hashem). Nothing feels as depressing when we hear otherwise…

About a month ago, an article appeared in a prominent newspaper entitled: “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?” In it, the author, Paul Tough, focused on the head-master of an intensely competitive school, who examined the classical approach to schooling, and determined that our school system is a “patently unfair system” which evaluates students almost entirely by I.Q. “Th is push on tests said the headmaster Randolph, is missing out on some serious

parts of what it means to be a successful human.” He went on to say that a critical missing piece is character. “Th ere’s been this idea in America that if you worked hard and showed real grit, that you could be successful. Strangely we’ve now forgot-ten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that every-thing they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we’re actually setting them up for long-term failure. When that person sud-denly has to face up to a diffi cult moment….I don’t think they’ve grown the capacities to be able to handle that.” He set on a career path to determine how schools could im-part good character. He tracked the prog-ress of his alumni as they entered college, and noticed that the students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who were excellent students in school earlier on. “Th ey were the ones with exceptional char-acter strengths, like optimism and persis-tence and social intelligence. Th ey were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fi ght with their parents; to resist the urge to go out and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help aft er class.” He then set out to do research, to “list a set of strengths

that were especially likely to predict life sat-isfaction and high achievement: zest, grit, self-control, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity.”

How does this parallel the Torahs’ defi -nition of success? In our Western society, the focus is on external accomplishments. Man needs tangible accomplishments in order to justify himself. He measures his success by the wealth he has amassed, the many possessions he has acquired, the es-teemed position he holds, the expanse of his house, the expense of his car. In contrast to that type of thinking, Yiddishkeit starts with the premise, says R’ Noach Weinberg zy”a ,that man is created with a soul, a che-lek eloka memaal, a divine spark of G-d that distinguishes him from animals and allows him to have a relationship with G-d. And while we do agree with Western society that the more he accomplishes the greater he becomes, what diff ers is our defi nition of what constitutes “greatness.” Yiddishkeit says it’s the eff ort that a person puts in to developing himself, as it says in Pirkey Avos: “lefum tzaara agra”, according to the eff ort is the reward. Our relationship to Hakadosh Boruch Hu is how much eff ort and hard work we put into our relationship. It is the struggle that matters. Whether we see it as a success or a failure is irrelevant! In Judaism, when there is a moral struggle and the per-son overcomes it, whether we see tangible results or not, that is success.

R’ Noach gives an example to illustrate it:“Imagine you were watching two men

compete in a 100 meter dash. One man

runs it in a record breaking time of 9.3 sec-onds. Th e other does it in 30 seconds. Who would you think is the success? Th e record-breaker, of course. Now what if I told you that the man who took 30 seconds had de-veloped polio as a child, was unable to walk until he was 14 years old and had invested years of painful, grueling exercise until he fi nally made it to the point of being able to enter the race? Suddenly, you’d view him in a whole new light. Now that you know what he’s had to deal with, he’s earned your re-spect.” “All of us, says R’ Noach, know people who have achieved worldwide acclaim and admiration, who have climbed to the pin-nacle of what the world defi nes as achieve-ment, however they have not succeeded as people.”

Th ose seven character strengths listed by the headmaster are undoubtedly impor-tant qualities which we need to employ in order to grow as a human being. However, Judaism teaches us that we are not in con-trol of the outcome of our eff orts! Th at is determined by Hakadosh Boruch Hu. If one is doing as much as he can, he is already suc-cessful. To be a success in Hashems’ eyes is not where you are on the ladder but rather how many rungs you’ve climbed!

Keep this in mind when you attend PTA next! When that report card seems to be lacking, just remember: Th e secret to suc-cess is oft en failure!


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In the following few Parshios the Torah focuses to a large extent upon Yosef Hat-zadik and how he interacts with his broth-ers, father and the overall society he is in (Mitzraim).

In next week's Parsha the Torah tells us how Yosef Hatzadik interprets the chalo-mos (dreams) of Paroh. As a result, Parohdeclares that Yosef is someone that “RuachElokim Bo”, someone that has the spirit of Hashem in him.

Because of this, Paroh decides to ap-point Yosef to become the Mishneh Lamel-ech, whose job it is to help Mitzraim to save up during the seven years of plenty, and eventually distribute the produce stored up during the seven years of famine.

Paroh said that “Rak Hakisay EgdalMimeka” (only the chair of Kingdom will be bigger than you) (Beraishis 41,40). Rashi (ibid, S.V. Rak) explains that Parohwould still remain the one called the king, but otherwise Yosef would have the power of a king.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva asks why it was nec-essary for Paroh to make Yosef into the act-ing king, while he would remain only with the position and title of King? Why wasn’t it enough to appoint Yosef as an advisor to the king, while the complete kingship would remain in the hands of Paroh?

Th is is especially diffi cult given the fact that the Mitzriim despised the Yidden and wouldn’t even eat at the same table as a Yid. In addition, Yosef was convicted in the courts of Mitzraim for a severe crime, and presumably Paroh believed that the courts were honest. Why would Paroh take some-one that was from a despised nation, who had been convicted of a crime, to become the acting monarch of the whole nation?

Th e Rosh Yeshiva explained that there is a great diff erence between how a person acts when he is merely a worker in a com-pany and when he owns the company. A worker will merely do his job, but doesn’t care that much about the company, be-cause it is not his. In contrast, someone who owns the company will go all out to do his best to make sure the company is successful and improves, because it is his company.

Th is is also the reason that Chazal say that someone is believed in one taanah(claim) if he had a better claim to say (referred to in Chazal as Migo). How did Chazal know that the person who was ar-guing knew to mention the other claim, so we can believe him on the fi rst claim? We must say that when someone owns money (or a company) he has such a connection and attachment to this money that he will make sure to say the best taanah in order to win the case so he can keep the money.

Now we can understand why Paroh felt that Yosef had to be made the acting ruler of Mitzraim while he would merely be an

“honorary King”. If Yosef had only been an advisor to Paroh, then he would have only worked to a certain extent to help out Mitzraim, but wouldn’t have gone all out to help the country. Only if Yosef felt that Mitzraim was completely his, would he make sure to do everything he could to help them to be successful.

{Perhaps we can explain that the situ-ation and danger of famine was so severe, that Paroh felt that an extreme solution had to be used, by having Yosef apply all of his Kochos, due to his feeling that Mitz-raim was his.}

Th e Rosh Yeshiva zt”l said that with this in mind we can understand the state-ment mentioned in the beginning of Te-hillim, “Ki Im Besoras Hashem CheftzoUvesoraso Yehege Yomam Valaylah” (only in the Torah of Hashem he has desire, and in his Torah he will delve day and night).

Why was it necessary for the Pasuk to switch from Toras Hashem to Toraso? We can explain that if a person remains at the level that the Torah is “fremd” (not com-pletely attached to him) then he will not give his all to learn and understand the To-rah. Only if he moves on to the next stage of viewing the Torah as “Toraso” (his own Torah) will he completely devote himself to learning and understanding the Torah.

{Perhaps this is hinting to the famous statement of Chazal that “Mitoch SheloLishma Ba Lishma”, one should start learn-ing Torah and fulfi lling mitzvos for ulterior reasons and eventually reach the level that these are done for their own sake. Maybe this is hinted to by saying that fi rst the To-rah is referred to as the Torah of Hashem, when a person reacts to the Torah as if it belongs to Hashem and he is not so con-nected to it. Eventually, he can reach the level that the Torah becomes his, as he will view the Torah as his own, as was ex-plained previously.}

Th e Rosh Yeshiva said that this can explain why so many more Gedolim were produced during previous tekufos (peri-ods of history), whereas in the current day there are not as many Gedolim as there were in pre-war Europe.

We can explain that the issue is not whether the people nowadays have lesser Kochos or Kishronos (capabilities or power of intellect) than in previous generations. Rather, in previous Doros, there were peo-ple that viewed the Torah as their own, and therefore they put all of their kochos into learning and understanding the Torah. In our generation, not as many people view the Torah as their own, and therefore we have not merited to produce as many gedo-lim as previous generations.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva said a story involv-ing his rebbi, Rav Elchonon Wasserman zt”l. Th ere was a member of the Brisker mishpacha that was not learning, r”l. Rav Elchonon asked him why this was so,

and he justifi ed himself by saying that he didn’t have a head to learn. Rav Elchononsaid that “success in learning is not depen-dent upon one’s head, but rather on the amount of harvanya (eff ort) that one puts into learning.” Rav Elchonon said that one can learn this from himself. He felt that he didn’t have such a great “kup” (intellect) but nonetheless succeeded in Limud Hato-rah due to the eff ort he put into learning Torah with ameilus.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva said that perhaps, in addition to “harvanya”, Rav Elchononviewed the Torah as his own, and therefore he put all of his kochos into learning it, and therefore was successful, despite any intel-lectual limitations. Similarly, one who has a limited intellect can grow and become great in Torah if he views the Torah as his own.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva said this “vort” in a hesped for the Menahel of the Mesivta of the Mirrer Yeshiva, Rav Yosef Chaim Klein zt”l.

Rav Klein didn’t merely view himself as an “employee” in the Yeshiva, but rather felt that he owned the Mesivta, and had com-plete responsibility to help the talmidimbecome successful and grow in Torah and Yiras Shamayim. Th is was what helped him to be such a successful Menahel.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva mentioned that Rav Klein, as Menahel, could have easily de-cided to give high level shiurim and assign other rebbeim to give the lower level shi-urim to “shvache bachurim” (weaker stu-dents). Despite this, the Menahel decided to davka give the lower level shiurim to the weaker talmidim.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva explained that this was because he didn’t view himself as an “employee” who merely had to do a job. Rather, Rav Klein viewed himself as one that “owned” the Mesivta, and had the re-sponsibility to make sure everyone was learning up to their capacity. Th erefore, he took on a more challenging and less intellectually stimulating shiur, because he felt that he would be more successful with these talmidim than perhaps some other magidei shiurim.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva said that we fi nd a similar thing by parents. A parent will of-

ten spend more time with his/her weaker children than with the ones that have less problems. Th e reason for this is that a par-ent feels an acharayus (respon-sibility) to make sure every one of his children is successful, and therefore will spend the extra time with the child that needs extra help.

{It was also known that Rav Klein would also spend hours preparing shiurim for these weaker students. Th is included writing out the entire shiur he was planning on saying in pen-

cil, and oft en rewriting it if he felt that it could be said in a way that would be more understandable to these talmidim.}

Th e Rosh Yeshiva himself represented tremendous acharayus to both learning and teaching Torah to talmidim, both those in Yeshiva and those that had already joined the professional world.

Once someone was looking for the Rosh Yeshiva aft er a taanis (fast day) and went to the Rosh Yeshiva’s house. Th e Reb-bitzen Shetichye told the individual that probably the Rosh Yeshiva could be found in his offi ce.

Sure enough, the person found the Yeshiva learning in his offi ce. Th e per-son asked why the Rosh Yeshiva had not gone home to break his fast? He answered that he was working on a shvaire Sugya(diffi cult portion of Gemara) and he could not go home to break his fast until he came to understand it.

Th is showed how the Rosh Yeshiva had such an appreciation of Torah that he was willing to give up on other things in order to understand it properly.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva was also known for his hakpadah not to leave second Seder early, even to attend the simchos of his talmidim. If a talmid wanted the Rosh Ye-shiva to be Mesadeir Kidushin (as most did) then they had to arrange that the chu-pah should start aft er the end of second Seder.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva had great acharayusto the learning of his talmidim, and would spend hours learning in the Bais Medrash, and being available for the talmidim (or anyone else) to ask him questions or speak in learning. Even if a talmid didn’t under-stand something, the Rosh Yeshiva had no problem spending time repeating the peshat he wanted to say numerous times until the person understood it.

Even when the Rosh Yeshiva was un-dergoing diffi cult medical treatments due to a severe machalah, r”l, he still was will-ing to speak to the Doctor (who was a religious Jew and knowledgable in Torah) shortly before a procedure, about diffi cult concepts in Gemara.

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Th e Rosh Yeshiva used to say that Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l had made a “revolution” in enabling thousands of Bnai Torah to learn Torah Yomam Valaylah. However, we still have to make a “revolution” to enable Baalei Batim (laymen) to devote them-selves to a greater extent to spending more time in learning Torah. Th e Rosh Yeshiva did his best to encourage this “revolution” in a number of ways.

Once the Rosh Yeshiva went with yb”lRav Handelsman Shlita to Toronto, to raise money for the Yeshiva. A person they met there gave the Rosh Yeshiva a check for $5,000. Th e Rosh Yeshiva asked him how much time it took to make this amount of money? He answered that it took a week’s time. The Rosh Yeshiva said that you should take this check back, and come to the Mirrer Yeshiva for a week to learn To-rah. Th e person took the Rosh Yeshiva up on the off er and came to the Yeshiva for a week.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva gave a whole host of shiurim to Baalei Batim, including Mussar, Halacha and Minchas Chinuch.

II. Aft er Yaakov Avinu died, the broth-ers of Yosef were concerned that at this point, Yosef would take revenge on them for what they did by selling him down to Mitzraim.

Yosef told them that they should not be worried, as I am not in the place of Hash-em. Th en Yosef said, “Veatem chashavtemalay raah Elokim Chashavah Letovah le-maan asoh Kayom Hazeh Lehachayos Am Rav” (and you thought against me for bad, Hashem thought for the good, so as to do like this day to give life to a big nation). (Beraishis 50,20).

Th e Rosh Yeshiva asked the follow-ing question: We can understand how the years of Yosef ’s being Mishneh Lamelech were divinely orchestrated so as to give life to many people, as Yosef provided for his brothers and for so many others. However, it can still be asked, why was it necessary for Yosef to be a slave and a prisoner for so many years, in order to provide for others. If this whole story was “Min Hashamayim” in order to provide for others, then why did he have to go through with the fi rst part of being a slave and prisoner?

Th e Rosh Yeshiva answered as follows: We all are familiar with stories of people who are in a position to help others, and yet are extremely insensitive to their needs, only thinking about themselves. If Yosef had gone down to Mitzraim and immedi-ately become the Mishneh Lamelech, then he may have likewise become insensitive to the feelings and needs of others.

Only because he went through the same diffi cult situation of going through tzaros and being a slave and a prisoner, was he able to relate and commiserate with others who were going through tzaros. Th is en-abled him to be able to help them.

{Th ere is a similar story said about Rav Elya Chaim Meisels zt”l, the Rav in Lodz. Once he went to raise money for poor peo-ple who needed wood for heating. When he went ot the house of a gevir, he stayed

outside with him for a long time, until the gevir got very cold and begged that he should come in. Rav Meisels later ex-plained that the gevir may not know what it means to be very cold and suff er from a lack of heating. Th erefore, he put him in such a situation, so that he could under-stand what this entails, and would be will-ing to help those who lacked in resources to heat their houses.}

Th e Rosh Yeshiva zt”l was known for his being “nosei be’ol im chaveiro” (carrying the burden of his friend). He understood the pain and diffi culty that others were un-dergoing, and did his best to help them in the situations they were in.

Th e following is a description of what the Rosh Yeshiva did on Erev Yom Hakip-purim, fi ve years ago (5767).

Aft er davening shacharis in Yeshiva, the Rosh Yeshiva told his driver, yb”l Rav Yehu-da Eckstein Sheyichye, that he should get ready to go on a trip. Rav Yehuda said that today we must eat! Rav Shmuel answered that “today we will eat mitzvos”.

Th eir fi rst stop was at the Pesin mishpa-cha in Monsey, where they were menachemaveil. Aft er a long trip back to Brooklyn, the Rosh Yeshiva spent time on the phone raising money for Bnai Torah in Eretz Yis-roel.

Th en the Rosh Yeshiva went to a hos-pital for mentally disabled individuals. Th ere was a person there who came from a chashuve mishpacha, that had lost his mind, r”l, and was in a padded room. Th e person was so happy to see the Rosh Yeshi-va that he demanded that they dance, and they danced for many minutes together.

Aft er they left the hospital, the Rosh Yeshiva went to visit a certain Gaon that lo aleinu was in diffi cult fi nancial circum-stances, and was not paying up his electric bills. In fact, the city was planning on cut-ting off his electricity.

Th e Rosh Yeshiva came into his house, and shortly aft erwards wrote him a check for $15,000. When the Gaon was embar-rassed to accept the check and initially re-fused to take it. Th e Rosh Yeshiva told him that we are friends, and if you don’t accept it I will be insulted.

Aft er Yom Kippur, when other people heard how much the Rosh Yeshiva was moser nefesh to help this individual, they helped pay off the rest of this man’s debts, which were more than $100,000.

Only aft er all of this did the Rosh Ye-shiva go home to eat the Seudah Hamaf-sekes, with just a short time left before Yom Hakippurim would start.

In conclusion, the gematria of “Yosef Hatzadik, with three Kollelim is equal to Moshiach Yud (standing for Yavo). In the zechus of following in the path of Yosef Hatzadik in feeling an acharayus for help-ing others, feeling a personal responsibil-ity to learn and teach Torah, and being nosei be’ol im chaveiro, may we be zoche to soon see the coming of moshicah tzidkenu speedily.

Sources for this article include a tape from the hes-pedim of Rav Yosef Chaim Klein zt”l, and “Kuntres Kis-rah Shel Torah” (Rabbi Yosef Simcha Klein).

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the executives who work in the Empire State Building.

As a budding major leaguer, I honed my skills playing punch ball in concrete school yards, box baseball on the pavement, and stickball in the gutter. Put it this way - the poorest selling sign in my local True Value Hardware store was definitely, “Keep Off the Grass!”

The only thing really growing in my neighborhood was the crime statistics.

Truth be told, we did have Central Park to the east of us and Riverside Drive to the west, but we lived closer to Broadway and we just didn’t get to the park that often. Even when we did manage to get there, I only saw lots of trees and some wild grass. I certainly never saw a real garden, with flowers, or a lawn, well-manicured or otherwise. I was a city boy and proud of it. I knew nothing else.

When I was eight years old, I accompa-nied my parents on a long July bus ride to Camp Torah Vodaath, near New Paltz, New York to visit my brother, Izzy, who was 11 ½. The sun was blazing hot that Sunday and the bus had no air conditioning, but it was 1961 and nobody seemed to care in those olden days.

We arrived around noon and found Izzy immediately. I remember being surprised that I was almost glad to see him. I guess 2 weeks of absence will do that to a ‘normal’ sibling relationship. After the obligatory visitation to Izzy’s bunk, where we made the drop – Bachman pretzels, Stella Doro cook-ies, grapes etc. – we ventured outside and

toured the camp grounds. It was at that mo-ment that I fell in love. There, in living color, in front of my own eyes, was The Baseball Field. It was the first time I had ever seen a baseball field in person, and my, was it beau-tiful.

The grass had been perfectly groomed (for Visiting Day, I guess) and the bases, REAL ones, were tucked proudly into their positions. I broke free from Mommy’s hand and gleefully ran into the outfield, imagin-ing I was Mickey Mantle himself (the Mets were not born until a year later). My navy blue Keds were never so happy.

Soon I arrived at home plate. Dream-ing I was facing Camilio Pasqual, I swung my mighty, imaginary Louisville and darted down the first base line. The infield dirt was rich and alien. My little legs carried me on to second and then third base. Making a wide turn around third, I headed for home. Sec-onds later, sliding into the plate I declared myself “Safe!” I’m not sure if anyone was watching, but it didn’t matter. To a little city boy from Manhattan, this was my Field of Dreams, and I was loving every second.

I vividly remember reuniting with my folks on the wooden bleachers down the first baseline, a few minutes later. I gazed out upon the baseball diamond before me, looked up at my parents, and uttered just three words, “Leave me here.” At that mo-ment, I could think of no place I would rather be. And to their loving credit, before leaving camp later that day, they marched into the office and registered me for the sec-ond half of the summer. 16 days later, I did, indeed, return.

As it turned out, summer camp, for the next 13 years, was really my only true expe-rience and exposure to outdoor life.

I moved to an apartment in a two-family house in Flatbush when I got married. It wasn’t exactly Botanical Gardens, but the el-derly landlady did water the lawn now and then and even grew tomatoes somewhere in the back. Until then, I had assumed that to-matoes grew either at the fruit market itself or somewhere in Georgia.

As the years wore on and I remained in Midwood (hardly the Mecca of horticul-ture), I nevertheless, ventured by the homes and lawns of neighbors and marveled at their landscapes. How pretty they were. Of course, I didn’t know a daffodil from a gera-nium; a spade from a screwdriver, or a weed from a petunia. All I knew was those yards sure looked nice.

The centerpiece, of course, was always the tulips; tall and firm, brightly colored, open and proud. But so ignorant was I, that for many years I didn’t even know their name.

“Look at those…er…whatevers. Gor-geous, no?” I would tell my wife.

It’s not that I cared that much about nice flowers. Even my wife was not a flower afi-cionado. I liked ‘manly’ stuff – sports, pastra-mi, gadgets, a good shiur. But there sure was something about those tulips that drew my attention. Having my own tulips was never even on the radar screen. If they don’t sell them in Radio Shack or Kosher Delight, they were “out of my range.”

I knew I would never have them, and consoled myself by always remembering what a short season tulips seemed to have.

“They’re here and gone in a few weeks. Who needs ‘em?”

When I moved into my current home, I did acquire a fleck of agriculture in the front, measuring all of 6 by 12 feet. For the first few years, realizing I could only do more damage than good, we basically ignored it. And it ig-nored us back. But suddenly, in a sudden flit of reckless abandon, we plunked down $200 and hired Crescensio and his crew of Mexi-can nurserymen. Weeks later, real, authentic, bona fide green grass grew in the fleck, ac-companied by a couple of ferns and some little flowers – impatiens, I think.

It had taken over 30 years of married life, but live organisms were actually growing on MY property. Insignificant? Perhaps. But to me, coming from the asphalt jungle, it was quite a surprise.

And when the New York City winter fi-nally surrendered, Crescensio and his gar-dening band re-appeared one day, on my modest fleck. I watched them from my win-dow, raking, blowing, and seeding (I guess), and I enjoyed the tender care they were dis-pensing on my behalf. It was a strange sight, watching them work on MY little parcel.

But the strangest sight came a couple of weeks later. I wasn’t around the corner or a few blocks away. I wasn’t spying longingly on some lavish estate. I was fully conscious and standing on my front steps. And there, in full Technicolor glory, tall and firm, open and proud, stood 24 breathtaking tulips.

I stood there for quite a few moments, not taking my eyes off them, just smiling and talking to myself.

“Those whatevers sure do look nice.”What I thought could never ever be, sud-

denly was.What could be more ordinary than flow-

ers growing on a lawn? Sure, tulips look pretty, but do they really matter in the great-er scheme of life? Certainly not. But it wasn’t the tulips that I saw that day. It was missed opportunities.

How many times had I seen friends who had the courage to try something new, learn something really difficult, or commit to a project even though it had a probable chance to fail?

How many challenges had I faced in my own lifetime that I automatically assumed were “out of my range”?

Far too often we dismiss openings, possi-bilities, and chances for greatness, thinking, “I wasn’t brought up that way,” or “Who is going to listen to little ole me?” That’s a for-mula for failure.

You may not know which end to hold a rake, and maybe you can’t tell the difference between a rose from rhododendron, but that doesn’t mean that someday…somehow...a city boy can’t have tulips.

I know.

Never Say Never Salomon Says

rAbbi yAAkov sAlomon, l.c.s.w.

reprinted with permission from www.aish.com

Rabbi Yaakov Salomon, L.C.S.W. is a noted psychotherapist, in private practice in Flatbush for over 25 years. He is a Senior Lecturer and the Creative Director of Aish Hatorah’s Discovery Productions. He is also an editor and author for the Artscroll Publishing Series’ and a member of the Kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath.


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A publicAtion of stAr-kKashrus KurrentsThe Sweetest Fruit of Them All

Rabbi tzvi RosenStar-K Kashrus administrator editor, Kashrus Kurrents

Unbelievable but true.Overheard conversation between Mother

and a precocious seven year old at a typical supper table…

“Now dear you must eat your fruits and vegetables!”

“I just finished a delicious double por-tion.”

“Great what did you eat?”“A yummy chocolate bar.”Chocolate is surely nature’s sweetest

combination of fruit and vegetable, sugar and cocoa beans. Chocolate, the king of confections, continues to grow in popular-ity. Kosher chocolate is a delicious study of technology and halacha. Let’s explore the intoxicating world of chocolate.

King David, Dovid Hamelech, ex-tols Hashem’s acts of loving kindness by proclaiming metaphorically that he de-sires to drink from “Your river of delight,” “minachal adonecha tashkeim.” What is a river of delight? Let me give you a first-hand explanation. Before Hershey Park built Chocolate World, tourists were treated to a tour of authentic chocolate-making. Clearly etched in my childhood memories was a delicious river of chocolate cascading into a chocolate-fall of millions of Hershey bars and Hershey kisses. It was awesome, to say the least.

Over the years, chocolate manufactur-ing has continued to grow both domestical-ly and internationally. Chocolate connois-seurship has reached new heights. Believe it or not, the most expensive chocolate today costs in excess of $90 a pound. The chocoholic delights at the sight of Belgium truffles, French bonbons, Swiss chocolate, and other chocolate bars that abound. To-day, most major chocolate manufacturers in the U.S. have reliable kosher certification. Some specialty chocolate manufacturers are kosher certified as well. Cholov Yisroel chocolate in particular has recently seen unprecedented growth. Today a cholov Yis-roel consumer can feast on a Mars bar coun-terpart without having to compromise on taste or quality.

Chocolate raw ingredients make a long trek before becoming a familiar chocolate bar or chocolate covered cherry. The prime ingredient in chocolate is the cacao bean, which grows in many regions of the world, including Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia. Two main varieties of trees produce cacao beans: the Forastero tree in West Africa which produces commodity quality cacao beans, and the Criollo tree, found in Venezuela and other South Amer-ican countries, which produces premium quality cacao beans.

The first stage of cacao bean process-ing is harvesting, which may be done by machete - a slow and tedious process, or by automatic shakers that shake an entire tree free of the cacao pods. Next, the pods are cracked open and the cacao beans are removed. Note that cacao beans, when

processed for commercial use, will be-come cocoa beans. Cocoa beans are then spread out in the fields to ferment and sun dry, ridding the cocoa bean, also known as a nib, of much of its natural bitter taste and moisture. Once dried, the cocoa beans are packed in jute sacks and shipped overseas to the chocolate manufacturers for further processing.

The cocoa bean is one of Hashem’s most dormant creations. In order for its potential to be fully realized, it requires processing to unlock the quality prod-ucts contained within. The raw cocoa beans are cleaned and roasted in giant roasters - much like a coffee bean to unlock the nib’s delicious cocoa flavors. The cocoa bean is then ground into a paste known as cocoa liquor, the primary ingredi-ent of chocolate. Cocoa liquor made from premium cocoa beans is rich enough to be made into chocolate. Cocoa liquor made from standard cocoa beans lacks richness and therefore cannot be made into choco-late without the addition of cocoa butter.

What is cocoa butter? The cocoa bean has over 50% natural fat. When squeezed under enormous pressure in a hydraulic press, the cocoa bean exudes fat that is yel-low in color, similar to rich dairy butter. Hence the name cocoa butter. Unlike dairy butter, however, cocoa butter is thicker, blander, and hardens at room temperature. What remains behind in this extraction process is a massive solid cake which, when ground, will be known as - you guessed it - cocoa powder. Ironically, for the chocolate manufacturer, the main commodity prod-uct is the cocoa butter, and the by-product is the cocoa powder.

Now the process of chocolate-making is ready to begin. Sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, milk powder, flavors and an emulsifier are the primary ingredients of chocolate. When these products are blend-ed together, as we will soon see, they liquefy into liquid chocolate. Interestingly, liquid chocolate is over 50% sugar. The percentag-es of the other ingredients vary according to the type of chocolate being manufactured.

There are three major types of liquid chocolate: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white (or compound) chocolate. Dark chocolate is a combination of cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, sugar, flavorings such as va-nilla or vanillin, and butter oil, a dairy in-gredient not to be confused with cocoa but-ter. Milk chocolate has powdered milk and milk crumb, a combination of milk powder and sugar, added to the “dark chocolate” mix. White chocolate really is not chocolate because it contains no cocoa liquor or cocoa powder, only cocoa butter. White chocolate is also known as a compound chocolate be-cause additional vegetable fats are added to the ingredient base. All varieties of choco-late undergo three basic steps of chocolate production: kneading the ingredients into a paste, grinding the paste into semi granular

particles, and blending the ingredients in a conch. Solid chocolate requires tempering as a final step to finish the product.

As any good cook or baker will tell you, there are certain tricks of the trade that set a great product apart from a good prod-uct. The trick of the chocolate trade is the blending, also known as conching. The conch is a large rotary blender that blends the chocolaty mass for hours on end at a temperature of 140°F. Depending on the recipe, the chocolate may be conched for over 12 hours in order to fully homogenize the ingredients. Lecithin, an emulsifier, is added to help blend the ingredients. Con-ching releases any bitter aromas and flavors in the liquefied chocolate, and allows all the remaining delicious chocolate flavors and aromas to fully mature and develop into a symphony of chocolaty taste.

If the chocolate is being sold as liquid chocolate, no further processing is required. Industrial chocolate is shipped to the man-ufacturing customers in a heated transport, in which a constant temperature of 112°F is maintained to prevent solidification or hardening. Customers are typically baker-ies, ice cream manufacturers or candy mak-ers who will further process the chocolate.

Solid chocolate must be tempered af-ter conching in order to give it its luster. In the tempering process, the chocolate is heated to 113°F, quickly cooled, and slightly heated to 100°F. Now the tempered choco-late is ready to be molded into any variety of forms: large 50 pound cubes, 25-pound bars, or consumer sized chocolate drops.

With this overview, let us examine the issues that confront kosher chocolate mak-ing.

IngredientsAs with any manufactured food prod-

uct, all ingredients require strict kosher certification. Mashgichim travel to cocoa bean plantations around the world, from Cemoi on the Ivory Coast to Venezuala in South America. All the additional ingredi-ents require kosher certification, but they are pretty straightforward.

Interestingly, ingredients used in Euro-pean chocolate processing present many more challenges than in domestic chocolate

production. In Europe today, genetically modified raw materials are strictly avoided. One essential product in chocolate manu-facturing is lecithin, which, as previously mentioned, serves to emulsify and blend the ingredients being conched. Lecithin is made from soybeans. Nearly all soybean crops worldwide have been genetically modified. Consequently, lecithin has come under European fire.

Alternatives to lecithin were researched, and a seemingly innocuous product called ammonium phosphatide was suggested. This product itself posed no kashrus prob-lems. However, the one company in Den-mark that manufactures ammonium phos-phatide was a totally non-kosher facility, thereby requiring a massive kosherization. Due to the need of kosher ammonium phosphatide, the company agreed to be-come kosher certified.

Another ingredient issue confronting the European kosher chocolate manufac-turer is traced butter oil. Butter is a com-modity item in Europe, meaning that butter can be sold by the government for vari-ous applications for a cheaper controlled price. Chocolate manufacturers that supply chocolate to bakeries, cookie manufactur-ers, and ice cream companies, could use the subsidized butter oil and would pay a re-duced commodity price for this ingredient. However, chocolate manufacturers supply-ing chocolate to other types of companies would be charged the full non-commodity price for the butter or butter oil. In order to ensure that the manufacturer is not using the butter oil for other applications, the law requires butter oil manufacturers to put a minute amount of ingredients, called trac-ers, into the mixture to literally track the use of the butter oil. Some of the tracers are innocuous colors or synthetic flavors. How-ever, others contain triglycerides that could come from animal or vegetable sources. Therefore, reliable kosher traced butter oil requires strict kosher supervision.

It goes without saying that the vegetable fats used to manufacture kosher compound chocolate must have reliable kosher certifi-cation because these vegetable fats can be



In Yiddish a potato is called kartufel. The logic behind this name is that this vegetable, which originally was a tafel food, has become an ikur (staple). The potato was unknown in the days of the Gemorah and Rishonim.

Can we imagine a world without potato kugel, latkes or French fries? Harav Avigdor Miller zt”l said we have a great zechus that the potato is part of our diet. The Gemorah enumerates many steps that one has to fol-low in order to put bread on his table, while potatoes can be prepared straight from the soil. This is something to think about the next time we recite a beracha on a potato. There are many halachos that apply to this wonderful vegetable, which is eaten daily by millions of people.

Making Designs out of a PotatoA potato is sometimes used for an art

project, where it is cut it into different shapes and dyed various colors. This is not appro-priate, for one should not treat foods in a disrespectful manner.

Beracha Rishona There are many poskim who maintain

that the correct beracha rishona on a potato is shehakol. Their logic is that the potato does not really grow from the ground; rather, it grows from air around the ground. How-ever, the consensus of most poskim is that the beracha on a potato is indeed ho’adama. Unless one has the custom to recite shehakol on a potato, he should recite ho’adama like the majority of klal yisroel.

Raw Potatoes No beracha rishona is recited on an ined-

ible food. Accordingly, one would not recite a beracha rishona before eating a raw potato. As an extension of this logic, some poskim say that a raw potato is muktzah on Shab-bos and may not be moved. However, since cooking is permitted on Yom Tov, one may move (and use) a raw potato.

BorekasThe custom is to recite mezonos on

borekas since they have a thick crust made from flour.

Mashed/Instant Potatoes If a vegetable is mashed to the point that

one cannot recognize it, the beracha is a she-hakol. Therefore, if potatoes were mashed to the point that they are not recognizable (i.e. in an electric blender), the beracha is shehakol. If one recited a ho’adama, the be-racha is valid b’dieved. If one can still tell that the mashed food is potato, the minhag haolom is to recite a ho’adama. Potatoes that were mashed by hand definitely require a ho’adama, since one can easily see that the food is potato.

Instant potatoes are recognizable after one adds a little water to the powder. There-fore, the beracha remains ho’adama.

Potato Kugel/Latkes If the potato ingredients were processed

to the extent that one no longer recognizes the mixture as potato, most say the bera-cha on the potato kugel or latkes would be shehakol. Some say that the beracha is still ho’adama, because it is normal to mash po-tatoes in this manner. If the mixture is still recognizable as potato, the beracha should be ho’adama. Nevertheless, the custom of many people is to recite a shehakol on po-tato kugel in any case, even if the mixture is recognizable.

Potato StarchIf the flour is edible and one enjoys eat-

ing it, then he would recite shehakol on it. Some say that one can be yotzei the inyan of pas shacharis with food made from potato starch. The beracha on cake made from po-tato starch is shehakol.

Potato Chips Potato chips are made by deep-frying

thinly sliced potatoes. Therefore, the bera-cha is ho’adama. The same halacha applies to potato sticks.

Pringles® Pringles® are not processed the same

way as regular potato chips. They were in-troduced in 1969 by Procter and Gamble, and are made from potatoes that have been cooked, mashed, dehydrated, and then re-constituted into dough. They are then cut into a uniform shape and quick fried. The poskim debate which beracha to make on them. Some say that the beracha is a she-hakol, since they have been made from po-tato flour. Others say that the beracha is still ho’adama, since it is noticeable that one is eating potatoes. This is the minhag ha’olom.

Potato KnishIf the dough completely covers the pota-

to filling, the beracha on the knish is a mezo-nos, and no ho’adama is recited on the potato filling. However, if the filling is visible on the sides, a mezonos is recited on the crust, and a ho’adama on the potatoes.

French Fries Ketchup is normally considered a tafel to

the french fries. Therefore, the ho’adama on the french fries exempts the ketchup.

Potato SoupThe beracha on potato soup is ho’adama,

and exempts the liquid broth. Meat and Potato StewMeat and potatoes in a stew are not usu-

ally mixed to the point that they are not rec-ognizable. Therefore, they are not consid-ered a mixture, and both the meat and the potatoes require their own berachos.

Hilchos Shabbos - Hatmana One may wrap a piece of potato kugel in

aluminum foil and place it in the cholent on Erev Shabbos. This is considered cooking, not hatmana, because the goal is for the ku-gel to absorb the taste of the cholent. How-ever, some say that one should poke holes in the aluminum foil before placing it in the cholent.

Mashed Potatoes (Tochain)

A fruit or vegetable that becomes very soft when it is cooked may be mashed on Shabbos. The reason is that after cooking, the pieces of vegetable are considered as if they have already separated. Therefore, one may mash a cooked potato on Shabbos. Never-theless, one may only use a fork, because a grater would be uvda d’chol. Others are strin-gent and do not allow mashing.

Placing Sauce on a Potato (Losh)One may place cooked sauce on a cooked

potato on Shabbos. There is no concern of losh (kneading), because one’s intention is to make the food more enjoyable, not to bind the sauce with the potato.

Davar GushA hot potato has the status of a kli ris-

hon even after it is transferred to another plate, because it is a dense solid (davar gush). Therefore, any food which cannot be placed on a kli rishon may not be placed on a hot potato. For example, one may not place spices on a hot potato. Cooked salt may be sprinkled onto a hot potato which has been moved to a kli sheini. One may place ketch-up on a hot potato on Shabbos.

Potatoes on PesachThere is a minhag to refrain from eat-

ing kitniyos on Pesach, items that can be ground into a flour which resembles grain flour. There are some poskim who include potatoes in this prohibition. However, this opinion is not accepted today. Harav Moshe Feinstein zt”l explains that we only define something as kitniyos if there is a custom to regard it as kitniyos. Another reason is that the chachamim did not want to prohibit potatoes, since they are a major staple on Pesach. Furthermore, the minhag to refrain from eating kitniyos dates back to the times of the Maharil, when potatoes were not yet available.

Red Potatoes Some red potatoes contain artificial col-

oring. Therefore, one should only purchase red potatoes for Pesach that do not list food coloring on the label.

Karpas One of the reasons we eat karpas is be-

cause it is a remez to the 600,000 people who worked in Mitzrayim (samach perach is karpas spelled backwards). The poskim say that one should use a vegetable that is a ho’adama, and have in mind that this be-racha should exempt the marror which will be eaten later.

Many people have the custom to use a potato for karpas. Others say that potatoes are a poor choice, since there are poskim who maintain that the beracha on a potato is shehakol. One is not required to follow his father’s custom regarding which vegetable to use for karpas.

Potato Latkes (Chanukah)The minhag of virtually all of klal yisroel

is to eat latkes on Chanukah. The seforim say that the reason is to recall the miracle which involved oil. Therefore, we eat food cooked in a lot of oil.

Potatoes as Ner Chanukah The Avnei Nezer holds that one may not

make a hole in a potato to hold oil for the

Chanukah neiros, since the potato does not last for a long time and is not considered a daver chashuv.

Bishul AkumAny food which is edible raw, or is not

served at a king’s table, never has a problem of bishul akum. Some poskim say that a po-tato is fit to be served at a king’s table while others hold it is not. The minhag is to treat potato as unfit for a king’s table. However, if a particular potato dish is prepared in a way that it would be served at a king’s table, then that dish would have a problem of bi-shul akum. Some poskim hold that since it is possible to create a kingly dish from po-tatoes, all forms of potatoes are considered fit to be served on a king’s table, and all po-tatoes would require bishul yisroel. However, most poskim disagree with this concept, and maintain that each potato dish is evaluated separately. Accordingly, only a royal type of potato dish would constitute a problem of bishul akum. This opinion is followed by most kashrus agencies. A cooked sweet po-tato is generally fit to be served on a king’s table. Therefore, it would require bishul yis-roel.

This issue has ramifications in regard to

potato chips. Potato chips are not served at a king’s table. Some say that since fried pota-toes are served at a king’s table, potato chips also require bishul yisroel. Others say that since potato chips are not fit to be served at a king’s table, they would not require bishul yisroel. This is the opinion of the majority of the poskim.

Kettle cooked potato chips have the same halacha as fried potato chips.

Potato SaladPotato salad requires bishul yisroel.French FriesThe fact that French fries are served at

the children’s table at weddings does not make them fit to be served on a king’s table. Therefore, frozen French fries do not require bishul yisroel.

Pringles® The consensus of the poskim at the OU is

that Pringles® are not considered a food that is fit to be served on a king’s table, and do not require bishul yisroel.

Instant PotatoesBishul yisroel is not required if a non-Jew

makes a food which is not fit to eat until a Jew cooks it. Therefore, instant potatoes do not need bishul yisroel, since it is inedible without putting it in hot water (cooking), and the Jew is actually doing the cooking. If one can reconstitute them with warm water then it would not be considered bishul yisro-el. The same halacha applies to potato flakes.

Tevilas KeilimA peeler that is exclusively used to peel

potatoes should be toveled without a beracha. Checking For Insects There is no need to check the outside of

a potato for insects. Some poskim say that one should check the inside of the potato for bugs.

all about Potatoes

Halachically Speaking rAbbi moshe dovid lebovitsreviewed by:

rabbi ben-zion schiffenbauer


It was very nice of Malka to express to her 6 year old son that she regretted having spoken to him harshly. So I was a little bit puzzled when she asked me what I thought about that.

I think it was very nice of you to tell Lai-bel that you felt bad about how you had spo-ken to him. What is it that you’re concerned about, Malka?

I’m just not sure how he took what I said to him because he had kind of a funny look on his face.

Malka, what exactly did you say to him?I said, “Laibel, I’m sorry I yelled at you

when you spilled your juice. Yelling is not a good thing to do, and I’m sorry I yelled at you. Are you mochel me?”

And then what happened, Malka?Laibel said, “yes, mommy.” But he had

this look on his face… I don’t know if he was confused or unhappy or… I can’t really put my fi nger on it but somehow he didn’t look like everything was okay. What was I supposed to do then?

What did you do then, Malka?I didn’t do anything then, I just said,

“okay.” Th at was the end of it.

It sounds like that was the end of it but it isn’t over because you’re still not comfortable with the whole situation as it turned out. First let me tell you that I admire your hu-mility to apologize to your child when you’ve done something inappropriate. I think that’s a beautiful modeling of a wonderful midda. Secondly, you have a sensitivity toward your child which is truly a gift . Th at’s how you arrived at the point where we are now, the point at which you have expressed your re-gret and you’re concerned about your child’s reaction. Th e next step for us is to think about what your son might be reacting to.

What do you, dear reader, imagine that Laibel was reacting to? Do you think he was caught off guard by his mother’s apol-ogy? I would hope that no child ever be caught off guard by a parent expressing regret for having said something inap-propriate. It does not come as a surprise to children that their parents are fallible. It should not come as a surprise to a child when a parent says, “I’m sorry.” Knowing Malka’s relationship with her children as well as I do, I knew that Laibel’s reaction

was not about being caught off guard by his mother’s apology.

Laibel was struggling with something else. Here again, are his mother’s words:

“Laibel, I’m sorry I yelled at you when you spilled your juice. Yelling is not a good thing to do, and I’m sorry I yelled at you. Are you mochel me?”

Remember, Laibel is 6 years old. What do you think might have been hard for him as you look again at the words he heard his mother say?

His mother’s statement of apology was not hard for him. What was hard for him was the question she asked him at the end. Here’s some information that you probably already know, and he probably does not.

You can forgive or you can pardon. What’s the diff erence between them and when does each one apply?

In the Shemonah Esrai, we say “s’lach lanu, forgive us, our Father, m’chal lanu, pardon us, our King.”

A father will forgive a child because he knows and understands the child. To for-give means to understand how the child made this mistake and feel compassion towards the child who didn’t do well. Th e father does not resent the child or bear ill feelings towards him. Th at’s what “forgive” means, in contrast to “pardon.”

A king may pardon, which means not punish, someone who did something wrong. A king feels resentment, perhaps even anger, but sometimes doesn’t punish the off ender.

Where does all this leave six-year-old Laibel? He remembers the time when his mother tripped and nearly fell over the toy she had asked him to put away half an hour earlier. When he said he was sorry, she kissed him and said “I know you didn’t mean for me to get hurt,” and she didn’t seem to feel bad about it anymore. But now, his mother had asked him to be mo-chel and he said he was mochel but he still feels bad about how she had yelled at him, so maybe now he didn’t really tell the truth when he said he was mochel.

Yes, I can see how that might be why Lai-bel looked perturbed. What do you think I should tell him now?

Nothing. I’d rather you ask him what it means to be mochel someone. What it means to him. If he does not understand it the way you meant it, then you get to ex-plain to him how you meant it and see what he thinks then. I suspect that he’ll be a lot less perturbed when he fi nds out you didn’t expect him to forget that it ever happened. Th at is not realistic to expect of a six-year-old who was frightened when you yelled at him. What he can do is hear that you feel bad that you scared him, and you hope that he will better soon.

Th anks to your compassion, he prob-ably will.

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Last week my father-in-law, z”l, was niftar. Our 10-year-old daughter asked if she could attend the levayah and my husband and I didn’t know what to do. On the one hand, our daughter was very close to her zaidie whom she would visit at least once a week. As we live only three short blocks from his home, she would often walk over by herself just to say hello. Two months prior to his petirah, my father-in-law, z”l, was hospitalized. From then on, she had no contact with him, even though she repeatedly asked to visit him, because the hospital did not allow children onto his floor and he was too weak to speak on the phone. So, it seemed only right to allow her to come.

On the other hand, she had never attended a levayah before and we were not sure if she would be able to handle it. We had no one to ask about this and had to decide quickly. With much ambivalence, in the end, we decided to let her attend.

Three days later, when I was in my fa-ther-in-law’s kitchen preparing lunch for the aveilim, one of my sisters-in-law came in and scolded me for having brought our daughter to the levayah. “Children have no place at a levayah,” she said. “You should have known better. This could have been traumatic for her. That was an irresponsible thing for you to do.” Now I’m not sure we made the correct deci-sion. Even though our daughter seems to have dealt with the whole thing quite well, I would

very much like to hear your views on bring-ing children to a levayah. Do you agree with my sister-in-law that we acted irresponsibly? What would you have recommended if we had consulted with you?

Avraham Avinu and Sarah Imeinu were married for decades without having any chil-dren. When Avraham Avinu was 99 years old, he performed a bris milah on himself without any anesthesia. Then, the following year, when he was 100 years old and Sarah Imeinu was ninety, she gave birth to Yitzchak Avinu.

Could there be any more miraculous birth than that? Is there any more evidence needed that such a supernatural event was decreed by Heaven? Yet, in spite of all of that, there were people who tried to ridicule our first Matriarch. Rashi refers to those people as “leitzanei hador” (Bereishis 25:19). Why is it necessary for us to know how the leitzanei hador were trying to disparage Sarah Imeinu? Perhaps it was to pro-vide chizuk for all future generations. If some-one on the elevated stature of Sarah Imeinu had to endure derision after the miraculous birth of Yitzchak Avinu, then we should not be aston-ished if we are also mocked whenever we pur-sue any appropriate course of action.

This does not mean to say that I am labeling your sister-in-law as a leitz, chas v’shalom. But I am trying to point out not only that I believe you acted correctly, but also that you should not let someone else’s unjustified criticism under-

mine your confidence in your own judgment. For the sake of others who may find themselves, chas v’shalom, in a similar predicament, let me share the following guidelines I used to arrive at my assessment of your decision.

All children do not have the same level of maturity. Ask any elementary school teacher or rebbi and they will confirm this fact of life. Some children are immature, acting more like children who are chronologically much young-er. Other children, however, display an emo-tional maturity comparable to children much older. When assessing whether or not a child is “old enough” for anything, the age of the child should not be the deciding factor. What is more important is the child’s emotional maturity. When it comes to deciding, therefore, whether or not to allow a child to attend a levayah, there can be no fixed age limits or cutoff point. The decision, then, must be based on an individual-ized assessment of the motivation and coping skills of that child. Regarding the motivation, the question must always be asked, “Whose desire is it that this child should attend the le-vayah?” If relatives of the child would like the child to be present, that is not sufficient justi-fication. The needs of the child should always supersede the wishes of any adult.

In your case, it was your daughter’s wish to attend the funeral of her zaidie. And there ap-pears to have been good reason for her to want to do so. As she was denied access to him dur-ing his final illness, her presence at the levayah could help her bring closure to the obviously fond relationship she had with this important person in her life. The coping skills are more difficult to assess. In order to do that fully, one must take into consideration how the child has dealt with potentially stressful experiences in the past. Does this child shy away from any-thing which could be frightening, unpleasant or even gruesome? If so, then this child may not be ready to attend his or her first levayah.

If, on the other hand, this child has demon-strated an ability to maintain his or her emo-tional equilibrium in potentially stressful situa-tions, then he or she may be able to handle the experience of attending a levayah. In your case, the fact that your daughter asked to see her grandfather in the hospital indicates that she may not be so squeamish as to fear a hospital visit. If so, then she may have already demon-strated a higher level of maturity. Perhaps the

best method of measuring children’s emotional maturity level and coping skills is to describe in detail what actually happens at a levayah. Do not sugarcoat it for them. And do not ex-aggerate it, either. Simply walk them through what they will see and what they can expect to hear. Tell them that people will be crying, some uncontrollably. Tell them how long it will take. And tell them that they may leave at any time if they feel it is too much for them.

After giving them this orientation, ask them if that is what they thought happens at a levayah. Do they still want to attend? If the answer is “yes,” and they have managed well in the past in potentially stressful situations, then you should allow a child to attend the levayah of a close relative. Returning to your original questions, I believe you acted correctly and re-sponsibly in allowing your daughter to attend her zaidie’s levayah. And the only mistake you made was allowing your sister-in-law’s mis-guided condemnation to undermine your trust in your own good judgment. From your letter, there was no indication whether your sister-in-law was a daughter of the niftar, a daughter-in-law, or related to you from the other side of your family. If she was a daughter and therefore one of the aveilim, her response to you may need to be viewed in light of the pain of her loss. If she was not an aveil but only a daughter-in-law like yourself, I wonder how she handled the ques-tion of levayah attendance with her own chil-dren. Did she not allow them to attend and later regretted her decision? Was she feeling guilty and needing to attack you to make herself feel better? Perhaps she saw your decision as show-ing her up in some way?

Regardless of your sister-in-law’s motives, you could have responded to her in a non-con-frontational manner. For example, you could have said, “I believe that parents should decide on a case-by-case basis what is in the best inter-est of each child. My husband and I carefully deliberated with each other and concluded that she should be allowed to attend. Had you par-ticipated in our discussion, I’m sure you would have agreed that we did act responsibly.”

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“You’ll be at a cocktail party or an event - ‘Please run for mayor! Are you thinking about running for mayor?’ ” said William J. Bratton, a former police commissioner, describing a typical interaction.

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Mr. Bratton, who is now the chairman of Kroll, the security company, said he was flattered to be sought after, but ultimately decided against running. But he said he thought there might be an opening for others.

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One prominent Democratic hopeful, former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, was sidelined by a scandal. Another, John C. Liu, the comptroller, has been weakened by a federal investigation into his fund-raising practices.

Several others are considering join-ing the field, including Adolfo Carrión Jr., the former urban affairs director in the Obama administration; Eva S. Moskowitz, the chief of a charter school network; and Christopher O. Ward, the former head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Earlier this year, a group of the city’s real estate titans tried, without success, to draft the billionaire Mortimer B. Zucker-man.

“I would have been happy to support him and work for him, so I went to say, ‘Your name is coming up, and if you are interested, we should figure out how to get from here to there,’ ” said John E. Zuccotti, a real estate executive and onetime deputy mayor.

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Two other businessmen who have been mentioned as possible candidates also said they were not interested. Richard D. Parsons, the chairman of Citigroup, who is a pe-rennial possibility, said by e-mail, “I am not a candidate for the job.” And Leo Hindery Jr., a Democratic businessman who has worked in media and private equity, dipped a toe in the race earlier this year but later decided against running.

Merryl H. Tisch, the chancellor of the State Board of Regents since 2009, is being urged by friends to run. A member of the wealthy Tisch clan, she could finance her own campaign. But so far, she has denied any interest.

The feverish search for the dream can-didate is in many ways a New York tradi-tion. In 2008, when Mr. Bloomberg was approaching the end of his second term, the city’s magnates searched for someone in a similar mold - centrist, pro-business - to succeed him. In the end, Mr. Bloomberg had the law changed to allow him to run for a third term.

This time, the mood is similarly un-settled.

The Democratic Party is eager to re-claim City Hall after two decades in exile. Mr. Bloomberg, mayor since 2002, is an independent; his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was a Republican. But most of the city’s voters are Democrats, and the proportion of minority voters has grown significantly during the Bloomberg years, leading many experts to believe that the Democrats have better odds of winning the race next time.

“Quote me on this: I can’t wait for 2013,” said Keith L. T. Wright, the Manhat-tan Democratic chairman.

“We have a pool of some very great candidates,” he said. “I think the Bloom-berg phenomenon is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of deal.”

Others, however, warn against over-confidence, noting that many Democrats were sure their party would retake City Hall in 2001.

“No one this early in that cycle thought that we wouldn’t have a Demo-cratic mayor,” said Scott Levenson, a Democratic consultant who has worked on past mayoral campaigns. “There’s no shortage of accomplished business folks in New York who are capable of self-funding.”

The path to the Republican nomina-tion remains wide open, with the most attention being focused on Raymond W. Kelly, the police commissioner, and John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes supermarket chain.

“I think both of them would make excellent Republican candidates,” said Joseph J. Savino, the Bronx Republican chairman.

Mr. Kelly has not expressed interest in running, although he has not publicly ruled it out, either. “Commissioner Kelly already has what he considers the best job in New York, and he is focused entirely on it,” said his spokesman, Paul J. Browne.

Mr. Catsimatidis, for his part, said he stood ready to run if Mr. Kelly did not en-ter the race. “I encourage him every time I see him,” he said. But, he added, “there are a lot of people thinking that he really doesn’t want to run and that I should be prepared. I said, ‘O.K., I’m in the bullpen.’ ”

Richard A. Grasso, the former chair-man of the New York Stock Exchange, has also said he might run if Mr. Kelly does not.

In an e-mail, Mr. Grasso said he would support Mr. Kelly if he ran. “Should he de-cide not to run,” he added, “I will seek the Republican nomination if there appears to be a split in the Democrat base causing one or more of the Democratic candidates to remain on third party lines.”

Candidates joining the race now with-out their own fortune would have to start raising money quickly.

“You’ve got to raise at least two or three million dollars” to hit the public financing system’s spending cap, said Bradley Tusk, the manager of Mr. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-

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Mr. Carrión already has $1.1 million in the bank from an aborted run for comp-troller in 2009 - a head start that would be helpful should he decide to run. His status as potentially the only Hispanic candidate in the race, whether he ran as a Democrat or on another line, could also be signifi-cant because of the increase in minority voters. Mr. Carrión said by e-mail that he was focused on his current job, as a region-al director for the Department of Housing and Urban Development; an associate said he was considering a bid for mayor.

But in a potential setback, Mr. Carrión recently agreed to pay a $10,000 fine to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board for using an architect on a home renovation project in 2006 and 2007 who was also involved in a large housing development that required his approval as Bronx borough president.

The current Bronx borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., said in an interview that he was also thinking about running for mayor.

Mr. Ward, who left the Port Authority in October, said he would make a decision by early next year. “I continue to be flat-tered,” he said. “It takes a lot of money and politics to run, but I continue to listen to people who are urging me to think about it.”

Mr. Ward would face significant chal-lenges, having neither an established po-litical base nor a personal fortune. But he earned the respect of many in the business world by getting the rebuilding project at the World Trade Center site on track.

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city council-woman who now runs the Success Char-ter Network, said in an interview that she had not decided whether to run. “There’s plenty of time,” she said. “I think there might even be other candidates who come into the race. I just know, given New York City’s political history, there are always surprises.”

Yakov Velenski & staff


ohr Meir disney trip 2011Yitti Berkovic

Amid the usual airport hubbub, there’s something about this motley crew of travelers that catches your eye. A vibrant jumble of children and adults, this team of travelers sticks together like family – a family of 135 people, that is. As the younger members of the group make their way down the aisle of the JetBlue airplane and sink contentedly into their seats, you might pre-sume that these are the happiest kids on earth. Yet the joy on their sun-kissed faces belies the painful reality: each of these children is battling cancer. Thanks to the Ohr Meir Foundation and the selflessness of 85 vol-unteers, these fifty children from across the United States and Canada were whisked away from their daily regimen of chemo-therapy treatments and hospital stays for a four-day trip that only dreams are made of.

From the moment their plane touched down in Orlando on the bright Sunday morning of December 4th, the children learned quickly to expect the unexpected. As soon as they dis-embarked, each child received his or her own video camera to capture and relive every magical moment.

Every minute of the trip was jam-packed with thrilling esca-pades: shopping sprees at Toys R Us, meet-and-greets with Dis-ney characters, and nightly entertainment. The children visited spectacular attractions, includ-ing Sea World, Disney’s Magic Kingdom, Islands of Adventure, and Universal Studios. Even their time at the hotel was a blur of delight; each child’s bed was fes-tooned with Disney linen (theirs to keep!), and a 24-hour tearoom included coffee makers, popcorn poppers, and hot pretzels.

Lovingly dubbed “The Ohr Meir Crew,” the all-volunteer

staff of two on-cologists, oncology nurses, a group of EMTs, and organiz-ers makes certain that every child’s needs are met. The one-to-one ratio of counselor to child assures that each child is swept along with the fun. The

children are free to be children again, without the cloud of worry that has become their daily companion. They find true friends in their fellow campers and forge lasting bonds with the entire staff of Ohr Meir, an invaluable support system for the road ahead.

Even the parents at home can participate in the magic. Ohr Meir’s Web site recounts the trip in real time, using uploaded pictures and daily blogs so parents can see their children having the time of their lives. Raizy Blau, whose twelve year old son Eli participated in this year’s trip, wrote “All I can say is that seeing pictures of [my son] beaming after the horrible year he’s been through is the best therapy and most healing medicine for a pained mother’s heart.”

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in & aRoundFLatBuSHeVentSDECEMBER 17, 2011

Be'er Hagolah institutesevening of entertainment

Congregation talmud torahLecture - Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Yeshiva Bais Moshe - Scrantonannual Brooklyn Chanukah Maimor

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Congregation israel of Kingsbayannual Chanukah Family Fun Party

DECEMBER 23-25, 2011

ohr naavaShabbos Chanukah Retreat

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Khal Lev avrohomtefillin awareness Project

JAnUARY 5, 2012

Yeshiva gedola of PassaicLakewood alumni asifa

JAnUARY 7-8, 2012

Yeshiva of BrooklynHigh School Production

JAnUARY 14, 2012

Yeshiva of BrooklynHigh School Production

JAnUARY 15, 2012

P'eylim/Lev L'achim"united Flatbush" Breakfast Reception

JAnUARY 16, 2012

Manhattan High School for girlsannual dinner - Museum of Jewish Heritage

JAnUARY 17, 2012

P'eylim/Lev L'achimKey gardens Hills Community Reception

JAnUARY 21, 2012

Sinai academyChinese auction - Kings terrace

JAnUARY 22, 2012

Zichron Shlome Refuah Fundannual Chinese auction

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Shuvuannual dinner

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Yad Batya L'Kallahgala Benefit auction - agudah of ave L

Yeshiva Livnas Hasapir - Chushannual Flatbush Ladies tea

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Yeshiva gedola of Passaic39th annual dinner

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Yeshiva Livnas Hasapir (Chush)annual Flatbush Ladies tea

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Hadassah Lehrfeld

The Bikur Cholim Chesed Organiza-tion presented an inspiring Forum for Menahalim and Mechanchim of our boys’ and girls’ elementary schools last Tuesday evening, on instilling Simchas Hachaim in our children from a young age. The at-tendees were privileged to hear from the illustrious speakers at the forum: Hagaon Harav Shmuel Kamenetsky, the Rosh Ye-shiva of Philadelphia Yeshiva, Hagaon Harav Shrage Hager, the Kosover Rebbe, Rabbi Asher Sabo, Menahel of Yeshiva To-rah Vodaath, and Rabbi Shimon Russell, renowned therapist for ‘kids at risk’.

This forum was a project of Bikur Cho-lim’s Family Crisis Intervention Program, or FCIP. The FCIP has been expanding its reach in the Boro Park community by partnering with local Mosdos, both Chasidish and Litvish, in response to the ever-increasing needs of families in crisis. Unfortunately, the ability of this organiza-tion to help those in need is being severely hampered by a lack of finances, while the demand for their services is unending. There is a support group for victims of do-mestic violence, professional counseling

arranged for victims of abuse and other is-sues, parenting workshops to help parents cope, a big brother/big sister program for young children in need, and many other programs to enable severely dysfunctional home situations change for the better.

The details of the dire family crises that the FCIP deals with on daily basis are devastating to behold. A mother with seven children ages 1-14, living in a two-bedroom basement, kept returning to her husband, an alcoholic and compulsive gambler, because she was afraid to be on her own. The children were acting out at home and in school. The FCIP connected her with Sister-to-Sister, a support group for single mothers, who guided her in pursuing a get and a divorce. She is at-tending therapy weekly, and is enrolled in a job training program. The boys are in Chayeinu, a successful program which connected them with positive male role models, and the girls were assigned big sisters through the FCIP’s big brother/big sister program. The family attends weekly family therapy sessions, and is looking for-ward to a brighter future.

Rabbi Avi Fishof, the dynamic new Director of Bikur Cholim Chesed Orga-

nization, explained that the severity of the caseloads of the FCIP was the impe-tus for this forum. Working together with Mechanchim to deal with any unhappi-ness when our children are young, can prevent more serious problems down the road during their vulnerable teenage years. Many sources of funding, govern-ment grants and private donations, have been affected by the current economic crisis. Donations are needed for the FCIP to continue to service the many families in desperate need of assistance.

Each principal and teacher present at the FCIP’s forum was so grateful to be able to drink in the words and the caring warmth emanating from these amazing speakers. It was clear that these leaders would go above and beyond the call of duty for the sake of another yid. Bikur Cholim Chesed Organization now needs you to do the same. Please open your hearts and give tzedakah for the sake of the hundreds of needy children who, with-out your help, will have to be turned away.

Donations can be sent to Bikur Cholim Chesed Org. 5216-11th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219, (718)438-2020.

a Call to action: Yiddishe kids need your help!

The Ohr Meir Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with no

overhead or administrative costs, is the brainchild of Ari and Idy Friedman,

who lost their ten year-old son Meir after a seven-year battle with leukemia.

In his memory, the Friedman family established a foundation to capture

Meir’s indomitable spirit. Their foundation provides adventures to children

who need it most, an invaluable reprieve from their dreary day-to-day. “It is

our fervent wish that our services won’t be needed,” says Idy Friedman, “but

as long as they are, we will provide a burst of sunshine to the children who

need it most.” For more information on the Ohr Meir Foundation please call

1-877-OHR-MEIR, email [email protected], or visit their website at www.

ohrmeir.org.

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Frimet Blum

A select group of twenty bachurim traveled to Lakewood on Tuesday, Parshas Vayishlach for a special siyum at the home of their menahel, Rabbi Ephraim Nussbaum, shlita. The syium celebrated the remarkable achievements of the bachurim, who not only completed Mesechte Kiddushin along with their class, but also accepted a challenge to learn the mes-echte, b’al peh.

The bachurim invested many weeks in their stud-ies, and excelled in a comprehensive farher that dem-onstrated their complete mastery of Kiddushin. Last week’s siyum was the culmination of their efforts.

It was a magnificent affair, b’ruchniyus and b’gashmius. Rabbi Chanoch Henoch Perl, Rav D’khal Bais Shmuel in Lakewood, mesmerized the bachurim with his drasha; and Habachur Sendy Goldstein made the siyum. The siyum was attended by the Rosh Yeshi-va, Harav Sholom Noach Landau, shlita, parents, and the Mesivta rebbeim, who traveled to Lakewood to honor their talmidim. The bachurim sang and danced, and the atmosphere was truly derhoiben. In a demon-stration of kavod haTorah, Rabbi and Mrs. Nussbaum hosted the seudah in great style, complete with deli-cious food, fine china, and crystal stemware.

The aftertaste of the siyum lingers on in the hall-ways of Mesivta Bais Aron Tzvi, where the mesaymim and all of the bachurim are shteiging and reaching up-wards in their quest to become true bnei Torah and talmidei chachomim.

over 500 Flatbush Residents Join Successful Kings Highway Shabbos Parade

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Veretzky Mesivta Masmidim Celebrate Special Siyum in Lakewood The annual Kings Highway Shabbos Parade had to

be rescheduled for the following week when the original scheduled Shabbos saw driving rain, frigid temperature and nearly 3 inches of snow. As much as the prior week was a “NO Go”, Parshas Lech Lecha was truly a “GO” day for the march. In the traditional parade closing words of Reb Chaim Rauch, shlita, “A shevach to the borai for the gorgeous weather and the excellent turnout by the commu-nity”.

The parade commenced at the corner of Kings High-way and Ocean Parkway with a short drosho from Rabbi Eliyahu Brog, of Cong. Bais Yisroel. Rav Eliyahu quoted his grandfather, Harav Avigdor Miller, zt”l, that the most important and fundamental information in the universe is recognition that there is a Creator and for this reason, each Friday night when we say/testify Vayechulu, it is an Eis Rotzon and our sins are forgiven as on a Yom Kipur -- So significant is the reinforcement of our faith in the recognition and acceptance of the Creator Boruch Hu’s control that we merit forgiveness of our sins.

Rabbi Brog reminded the Tzibur that this was the last Shabbos occurring during Daylight Savings time; the clock was to be moved back on this Motzoai Shabbos. He made a practical suggestion that everyone see to it to be home two hours before the zman. On the upcoming shortened days it would be essential to arrive home early to prepare personally for Shabbos and to help out at home.

Rav Eliyahu concluded with a story he heard from his father, Rav Shmuel Brog, shlita. A certain Baal Teshuva was in the upholstery line of business. He decided on his own to become Shomer Shabbos even though this appeared to be a sacrifice of business on one of the busiest days of his week. A short time before Rosh Hashana, the upholsterer received an order from a customer representing a large hotel chain. When he calculated the difference this order would make to his annual income, he was surprised to find that it made up for all of his sacrificed Shabbos business for the year! Thus more than we do for Shabbos, Shabbos does for us!

The parade, consisting of more than 500 men, women and children, then proceeded down Kings Highway. Rab-bi Maimon Elbaz with remarkable energy and enthusiasm led the young choir of superb singers from a number of kehilos in the area. Rabbis marching at the front includ-ed Rabbi Gad Bouskilla of Netivot Israel, Rabbi Shmuel Milstein, Rabbi Shmuel Friedler of Etz Chaim, Rabbi M. Rottenberg of E.19th Street, Rabbi Mordechai Alpert and many others.

The next scheduled speaker was Rabbi Yakov Ben-Haim of Cong. Shaarei Sion. Rabbi Ben-Haim gave a novel explanation of the meaning of “If Yisrael would just keep two Shabbosos, they would immediately be redeemed”. Rav Yakov declared that one Shabbos refers to the seventh day of the week while the second Shabbos refers to Yom Tov which is also called “Shabbos”. Thus if Am Yisrael would keep both Shabbos and Yom Tov, we would be im-mediately redeemed.

In this context, Rav Yakov told a story heard by Rabbi Frand when he spoke about the topic of Kiddush Hashem in London. A member of the London audience came up and related what had happened to his father pertaining to Shabbos, Yom Tov and Kiddush Hashem. Once, when there was a Yom Tov followed by Shabbos (like the timing of Rosh Hashanah this year), the man’s father, an Orthodox British trader in a certain commodity, took off Thursday, Friday and Shabbos to observe Yom Tov and Shabbos.

The trader had no idea of what was going on with his business during these 3 days. When he returned to his of-fice on Monday, he found a series of telegrams. The first one dated Thursday was from a company requesting the

commodity of his specialty at 50 pounds per kilo. Next there was a second urgent order dated Friday saying that the customer was desperate and willing to pay 100 pounds per kilo. Finally, there was a telegram dated Shabbos say-ing, “FINAL OFFER, we are ready to pay 200 pounds per kilo; please respond”. The trader contacted the customer and explained why he hadn’t responded earlier and in-sisted that he did not want more than the amount of the original telegram offer. Their reply was that since he was so ethical, he would, hereafter, be their exclusive supplier of this commodity in the entire British market. This was an example of Shabbos, Yom Tov and Kidush Hashem all in one!

The concluding speaker of the parade, at Joyce Kilm-er Park (E. 13th St. and Kings Highway) was Rav Eliezer Ginsburg, Mirrer Rosh Kollel and Moro D’asra of Agudath Israel of Flatbush South. Rav Lazer started with a review of the amazing success of the Shabbos Parade dating back to the ‘50’s when the leaders were Reb Blooming and Reb Chaim Rauch. He recalled that Rav Hirsh Feldman, zt”l, Mashgiach of the Mirrer Yeshiva used to participate.

Rav Ginsburg stressed that the sacrifice of the current participants who gave up eating Seudas Shabbos on sched-ule and the unity of the same throngs, singing Shabbos zmiros together on Kings Highway represents a strength-ening of Shabbos for ourselves! This in turn has a posi-tive influence on the passersby, shoppers and storekeepers. Rav Lazer emphasized that our sacrifice and unity are by themselves a great achievement.

Rabbi Ginsburg related a personal anecdote which illustrated his point that when we do a Mitzvoh such as marching in the Shabbos Parade, we never know just how it will accomplish our goals. Rav Lazer had been invited to speak one evening at a Beis Haknesses before Rosh Hashonoh. With the assumption that there would be a handful of attendees, he had planned to speak about Rosh Hashonoh. Upon arriving at the location, he was sur-prised and very impressed to see 40 young working men intensely engrossed in the study of Torah. He immediately decided to change his topic and speak about learning To-rah instead.

Rav Lazer lauded his audience for its diligence in learn-ing after a day’s work but pointed out that this might not be enough; certain deeds would need to accompany the learning. The Rav told of an individual who was not Sab-bath observant but enjoyed buying and learning seforim of recent gedolim; learning needs to be accompanied by doing! With this he concluded his drosho. The next day Rabbi Ginsburg was contacted with startling information by the Gabbai of the Shul where he spoke the night before. It turns out that there was a member of the learning group who had joined about six weeks prior and was advanced in learning. After Rabbi Ginsburg’s drosho, this fellow told his chavrusoh, “The Rav was speaking for me!” He had not been Sabbath observant but has since embarked on the road to Shmiras Shabbos; he has started attending Shabbos minyonim.

Rabbi Ginsburg completed his delivery at the parade with the following: “Just as I spoke at that Shul and didn’t know where my words would touch, so too we marched today and don’t know who will be touched by our words and actions. Our participation is a great success!”

Rabbi Admoni of Cong. Bnai Yosef who also serves as NYPD 61st Precinct Community Liaison, expressed the com-munity’s appreciation for the precinct’s Community Affairs de-partment. He commended the very capable, professional ser-vice provided both in planning and in safety implementation by the department in general and Officer C. Mullin in particular.

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Matzav/Todd Graham

Mitt Romney had another debate Sat-urday night in which he didn’t make many mistakes, was smooth, knowledgeable, even presidential.

It was his worst performance yet. The game has changed, and someone forgot to tell him.

He is behind in national polls, and this time it’s serious: His main rival, Newt Gin-grich, is polling well not just in Iowa, but also across the country. Saturday night’s debate, with a wide audience, was in the first state in the nation to hold a caucus — and there is only one more debate before that voting. The conclusion is inescapable. Romney blew it.

Let me reiterate something I’ve said be-fore (it can’t be overstated): Your debating strategy must change based on your position. If the debate team I coach is a heavy favorite in a debate, I coach the debaters to keep doing the same things that made them the favorite. But if we’re an underdog, we will approach the debate with an entirely different argumentative strategy.

Mitt Romney is still debating the way he was six months ago. He’s debating not to lose instead of debating to win. And that’s a mistake, given the rise and potential staying power of Gingrich.

Romney committed three major errors in Saturday evening’s debate. And what is mad-dening is that they were all opportunities for him to differentiate himself from Gingrich — but he failed each time.

The first error was when George Stepha-nopoulos directed a possible bonanza question to Romney. He asked Romney if he was more conservative (his potential weakness) and more electable (his potential strength) than Gingrich. Perfect softball. In one answer, Romney could erase doubts about his conservatism for the base of Republican voters and he could talk about how he is the only candidate who can beat Obama (as evidenced in polls).

Romney’s answer? Moon mining. Seriously. After starting with some generic answer about the direction of the country, his first specific ex-ample was that he was different from Gingrich on moon colonies. “We could start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine miner-als from the moon. I’m not in favor of spending that kind of money to do that.”

That was his “go to” answer. Awful. Romney never mentioned his conservative principles or background, and he never attacked Gingrich on electability. Not even once.

Romney’s second mistake was that he was shallow when he should have been on the attack. Gingrich recently said the Palestinians were an “invented” people. While Romney held his own in an exchange on this issue, saying he was not a rhetorical “bomb thrower” who would hurt our allies, he did not take the argument as far as he should have. One of Gingrich’s perceived weak-nesses is his imprudence, rhetorical and other-wise. Romney could have hammered home an argument that Gingrich would be a poor chief statesman because of his often-inappropriate outspokenness.

Finally, when the other candidates teamed up on both Gingrich and Romney, as they did with health care (Bachmann’s new angle of at-tack for the evening was calling the two “Newt Romney”), Romney needed to immediately separate himself from Gingrich. Why? If Gin-grich is leading, and the voters think he and Romney are identical, then why would they vote for Romney? They wouldn’t. But Romney didn’t ever get the separation he needed. The teamwork was effective, and both Gingrich and Romney were grouped together time and time again. This did not help Romney.

For his part, Gingrich seemed to escape the other candidates’ criticism, partly because it was split (some attacks were aimed at Romney), and because the discussion did not stay on one topic for long enough to make Gingrich defend his positions in depth.

He was able to get out his front line of de-bate answers, and that was good enough to get him by without too much damage. In any form of debate, if you want your attacks to stick, you must stay with them for an extended period of time so you can rebut the answer of the op-ponent you are attacking. This did not happen last night, and is one of the weaknesses of these presidential debates.

But Gingrich was far from passive, stepping up repeatedly to attack. A favorite line: “I am a Reaganite, I’m proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth even at the risk of causing some confu-sion, sometimes with the timid.” That’s what the Republicans are looking for. They want tough conservative talk and someone who can take the fight to Obama. Gingrich behaved as though he was ready and willing to do so. And Romney missed his chance in this debate.

There is only one more debate before the new year and before the voting begins in Iowa. I would suggest Romney take a serious look at changing his approach. Staying the course might feel safe, but it is no longer a winning strategy. Sometimes you risk everything when you refuse to take risks. Does Romney really want to bet the nomination on the hopes that Gingrich will implode? (He really needs stop betting in these debates, by the way. A $10,000 bet he offered to Perry, over Perry’s accusation that he’d excised one of his positions from a later edition of his book, could not have helped him in the heart-land.)

Debating not to lose is perhaps the riskiest thing Romney can do at this point.

obama: “it doesn’t Really Matter” who goP nominatesMatzav

Defiantly proclaiming “it doesn’t really matter” who the Re-publicans nominate against him, President Obama declared that he is ready to take on either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney and ask voters to contrast his vision with that offered by the GOP nominee. In an at-times feisty interview, the president suggested there is little difference between the two front-runners for the nomination.

“The core philosophy that they’re expressing is the same,” he told Steve Kroft in an interview conducted in two parts last week and aired Sunday night. “And the contrast in visions between where I want to take the country and… where they say they want to take the country is going to be stark.” He predicted “a good debate” and a clear choice for the voters.

Pressed by Kroft to explain Gingrich’s recent surge in the polls, Obama attributed it to the former speaker’s longevity. “He’s somebody who’s been around a long time, and is good in debates.” Despite his repeated insistences that he is not closely following the debates, the president also made sure to cast Romney as a politi-cian, a theme often heard by Rom-ney’s Republican opponents. “Mitt Romney has shown himself to be somebody who’s good at politics, as well. He’s had a lot of practice at it,” he said, adding that he expects the GOP fight for the nomination to be protracted. “I think that they will be going at it for a while,” he said. “When the Republican Party has decided who its nominee is going to be, then we’ll have plenty of time to worry about it.”

He boiled down the 2012 cam-paign to a single question to be an-swered by the voters: “Do they see a more compelling vision coming out from the other side?” He char-acterized the Republican vision as more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and “gutting” regu-lations. “If the American people think that that’s a recipe for suc-cess and… a majority are persuad-ed by that, then I’m going to lose.”

He also brought up his vision when Kroft asked him if it was not his job as president to find so-lutions no matter how much the other party fights him. “It is my job to put forward a vision of the country that benefits the vast ma-jority of Americans,” he said. “It is my job to make sure that my party is behind those initiatives, even if sometimes it’s breaking some chi-na and going against some of the

dogmas of our party in the past. We’ve done that on things like ed-ucation reform. And it’s my job to rally the American people around that vision.”

And he left no doubt that the vision he will champion during the upcoming campaign was reflected in last week’s speech in Kansas in which he decried income inequal-ity and the decline in the middle class. Obama strongly disputed Kroft’s suggestion that his speech was either socialistic or promot-ing class warfare. “Everybody’s concerned about inequality,” he said, adding that he will contin-ue to ask, “What’s happened to the bargain? What’s happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class?”

The talk of class warfare, he said, reflects the debasement of today’s politics. “Our politics has gotten to the point where we can’t have an honest conversation about the greatest income inequality since the 1920s. And we can’t have an honest conversation about the irresponsibility that resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, without some-body saying that somehow we’re being divisive.” Instead, he insist-ed, he is just “being honest” in rais-ing the issue.

He was asked if he and first lady Michelle Obama had ever considered not running for a sec-ond term. The president joked that his wife had often reminded him that “You volunteered for this thing.” But he said they had never doubted that he would run in 2012. “Not because our qual-ity of life might not be better if I were not president. Not because Michelle is so enamored with me being president. But because we both think that what we’re doing is really important for a lot of people out there.”

The president refused to en-gage Kroft when he pressed him on why there has been no criminal prosecutions of anyone on Wall Street responsible for the financial collapse in 2008. “I can’t, as presi-dent of the United States, com-ment on the decisions about par-ticular prosecutions,” he said. But he added, that “some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street — in some cases, some of the least ethical behavior on Wall Street — wasn’t illegal.” He said that is why he pushed for “the toughest finan-cial reform package since F.D.R. and the Great Depression.”

How Romney Blew it


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Russian Billionaire (owner of nJ Jets) to Challenge Putin For Presidency

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Iran’s ruling clerics could use nuclear weapons to strengthen their grip on power and the world must urgently impose crippling sanctions to pre-vent them from building such arms, Israel’s defense minister said on Sunday.

Ehud Barak also predicted that Syria’s ruling Assad family could fall within weeks and that this would be a “blessing” for the Middle East.

“Something is wrong with this family, the way they suppress the will of the Syrian people, kill-ing them, slaughtering their own people,” he told a conference in Vienna.

Asked about prospects for an Israeli attack on its arch foe Iran’s nuclear sites, Barak said he still believed that it was “time for urgent, coherent, par-alyzing” punitive steps targeting Iranian oil trade and its central bank.

“Nothing short of this kind of sanctions will work,” Barak said, adding there was a need for a “direct attack, isolation, by the whole world” of the Iranian central bank.

Speculation that Israel, which sees Iran’s nuclear program as an existential threat, could launch pre-emptive strikes against Iran was fuelled by a U.N. report last month which said Tehran appeared to have worked on designing a nuclear weapon.

The Islamic Republic, which often lashes out at Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal, says allega-tions that it is seeking nuclear arms are based on forged evidence.

Barak said he would “love to see the Arab Spring jumping over” the Gulf into Iran, referring to political upheaval in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere over the last year.

“This regime in Iran, the ayatollahs, they will be not be there I believe in 10 or 15 years. It is against the nature of the Iranian people and what happens all around the world.

“But if they turn nuclear they might assure an-other layer of immunity, political immunity for the regime in the same way that Kim Jong-il assured his,” Barak said, referring to the North Korean leader and that country’s development of nuclear weapons.

He suggested that the Libyan conflict could have taken a different course if Muammar Gaddafi had declared at the outset that “he has three or four nuclear devices”.

Earlier this month, Barak said that an Israeli at-tack on Iran was not imminent. He has also said there were several months left in which to decide on such action.

Turning to events in neighboring Syria, he pre-dicted on Sunday the end of the 41-year rule of the Assad family. “They are going to disappear, prob-ably in a few weeks…The falling down of this fam-ily is a blessing for the Middle East.”

President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have cracked down on a revolt that began in March with peaceful protests but has become increasingly violent. Army deserters are now fighting state security forces.

The way the situation develops “is beyond our control…we don’t think we have to intervene in any way,” Barak said.

He said Israel might at some stage have to “take more assertive action” in Gaza, where Palestinian militants responded with rocket attacks on Israel after an Israeli air strike killed two militants last Thursday.

israel Calls for “Paralyzing” Sanctions on iran

YWN

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov said he’ll run for presi-dent against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in March elec-tions after the biggest anti-government demonstrations in a decade emboldened Russia’s opposition.

“This is the most important decision of my life,” the New Jersey Nets basketball team owner told reporters in Mos-cow.

Prokhorov, Russia’s third-richest man with a fortune Forbes magazine put at $18 billion, said that he’ll seek to build support from the grassroots level and that he opposes “revolution” and “populism.” Prokhorov, 46, quit as leader of

the Pravoye Delo, or Right Cause, party on Sept. 15, accus-ing President Dmitry Medvedev’s administration of block-ing the group’s preparations for parliamentary elections in December.

That Dec. 4 vote, in which Putin and Medvedev’s United Russia party retained its majority, was neither free nor fair, observers from the U.S. and Europe said. Thousands of Rus-sians took to the streets in the week after the contest to pro-test the results amid widespread reports of ballot-stuffing. Police estimated the crowd at Moscow’s Dec. 10 rally, the largest in the country, at 25,000, the same figure they as-cribed to a pro- United Russia rally near Red Square today.

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Time magazine revealed the 2011 choice for its iconic Person of the Year cover live on TODAY Wednesday. The Protester is this year’s choice, managing editor Rick Stengel told Matt Lauer and Ann Curry.

“There was a lot of consensus among our people,” Stengel told the TODAY anchors as he re-vealed the magazine’s cover. “It felt right.”

As it has for the past 84 years, the weekly newsmagazine selected the person (or sometimes group, or thing) that its editors deemed had the single greatest impact during the past year, for better or for worse.

Time’s Person of the Year has been a perennial topic of year-end debate ever since aviator Charles Lindbergh was chosen the first Man of the Year back in 1927 (the title was amended to Person of the Year in 1999). But the title is not necessarily an accolade; while many presidents, political lead-ers, innovators and captains of indus-try have been cited, some of the more notorious Persons of the Year include Adolf Hitler in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1943 and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. There have also been more con-ceptual choices, such as “the American Fighting-Man” (1950), “Middle Amer-icans” (1969), and this year’s choice, The Protester.

Other candidatesPolled online earlier this

week, hundreds of TODAY.com readers came up with many other nominees for 2011, including late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and SEAL Team 6, who killed Osama bin Laden.

“Gabrielle Giffords is in the magazine,” Stengel point-ed out when Lauer mentioned the support for her and Jobs. “Steve Jobs is in the beginning of our Farewell section.” (The

Farewell section spotlights the most noteworthy deaths of the year.)

And Time conducted its own poll last month, offering a list of 34 can-didates that ranged from prominent political leaders to pop culture icons. Time’s list included Casey Anthony, Herman Cain, Kim Kardashian, Steve Jobs, and such movements and groups as “The 99%” (and “The 1%”), and the international hacking collective Anon-ymous.

Time also revealed the runners-up for 2011 Person of the Year on its web-site, Time.com. Coming in No. 2 on the list is Admiral William H. McRa-ven, who organized the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden in May

(a choice similar to the popu-lar TODAY.com nominee SEAL Team 6).

The No. 3 choice is Ai Wei Wei, the Chinese conceptual artist and activist who helped design Beijing National Stadium for the 2009 Olympics — and was held incom-municado for 81 days and inter-rogated some 50 times by Chinese authorities last spring and sum-mer while supporters around the world petitioned for his release.

No. 4 on Time’s list is Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican whom the magazine credits with

bringing to the front of the national consciousness an issue that Washing-ton was loath to confront: America’s ballooning national debt.

So in the end, it was the image of The Protester — summarizing mass actions against dictators in the Middle East, anti-drug cartel sentiment in Mexico, marches against unaccount-able leaders in Greece, the America-spawned Occupy movement, and dis-sent from the Putin regime in Russia — that appeared on Time’s 2011 Per-son of the Year cover.

“There’s this contagion of protest,” Stengel said on TODAY Wednesday. “These people who risked their lives... I think it is changing the world for the better.”

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Israel News news And events in & About isrAel & its people

Matzav

T e r r o r i s t s north of the bor-der fi red a Katyu-sha rocket at Is-rael late Sunday night but it failed to reach Israel and instead injured a Lebanese woman.

The attack was staged from the area of Bint Jbil, where Hizbullah terrorists and the IDF fought a bloody battle in the Sec-ond Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

Th e attempted attack on Israel was the second in two weeks, and terror-ists apparently not directly connected with Hizbullah took responsibility for the rocket fi rings.

Th e Abdullah Azzam Brigade ter-rorist group, allied with Al Qaeda, said it was behind Sunday night’s Katyusha missile attack as well as the fi ring of approximately four rockets at Israeli territory two weeks ago. Two people were wounded in the strikes, and the IDF returned fi re.

Abdullah Azzam also took respon-sibility for the missile attacks on Israel in 2009, the last attacks until the latest spate.

However, border tension has con-tinued the past two years. Th e Hizbul-lah terrorist army went on high alert several weeks ago, and there have been

clashes and attempted infiltrations into Israel during protests on the an-niversary of the declaration of Israel as a country.

whoops: terrorists aim Katyusha at israel, Hit Lebanon

netanyahu Backs Law to Ban Loudspeakers at Mosques:

“there’s no need to Be More Liberal than europe”Matzav

Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on Sunday voiced support for a law that would ban mosques from using loudspeaker systems to call people to prayer.

Th e so-called Muezzin Law, proposed by MK An-astassia Michaeli (Yisrael Beiteinu), applies to all houses of worship but the practice is prevalent only in mosques.

“Th ere’s no need to be more liberal than Europe,” Netanyahu said in reference to the law during a meeting of his Likud ministers.

Aft er intense pressure from Likud minis-ters Limor Livnat, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan, who harshly criticized the bill, Netan-yahu announced that he was postponing the scheduled debate in the Ministerial Commit-tee for Legislation.

Michaeli has said hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens routinely suff er from the noise caused by the muezzin’s calls to prayer.

“Th e bill comes from a worldview where-by freedom of religion should not be a factor in undermining quality of life,” she said.

Netanyahu made similar comments to the Likud ministers.

“I have received numerous requests from people who are bothered by the noise from the mosques,” he said. “Th e same problem ex-ists in all European countries, and they know how to deal with it. It’s legitimate in Belgium;

it’s legitimate in France. Why isn’t it legiti-mate here? We don’t need to be more liberal than Europe.”

Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said there was no need for such a law and that it would only escalate tensions.

“None of the ministers came to Netanya-hu’s defense or supported his position,” said one minister who participated in the meet-ing.

Netanyahu realized he would not be able to muster a majority in support of the law among his Likud ministers, and announced that the bill would be removed from the agenda of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, which convened a few hours af-ter the Likud meeting.

Netanyahu added, however, the matter would be debated over the coming days and that the bill would be brought before the ministerial committee next week.

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Mr. Gingrich stated in Saturday nights GOP Debate that the Palestinians historically were an “invented” people and that the Palestinian lead-ership sought to destroy Israel. He is 100% ac-curate. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Ju-dea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn’t capture these territories from Yasser Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas. They captured them from Jordan’s King Hussein. I can’t help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war. The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Shangri-La. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, destroyed the Temple and de-clared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Phi-listines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.

Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in 1867, and published his impressions in Innocents Abroad. He described a desolate country – de-void of both vegetation and human popula-tion: “….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the ol-ive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” Palestine has never existed -- before or since -- as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland. The vast majority of Arabs came to the area after the early Zionist pioneers began draining malaria-infested swamps and plowing the land! In doing so, these Jews created the eco-nomic opportunities and medical availabilities which attracted Arabs from both surrounding territories and far-away lands! In fact, over 90% of the Arabs migrated there within the last one hun-dred years. Most of the Arabs in “Palestine” were interlopers and squatters originating from Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and other lands who simply took possession of pieces of land. So much for their unfounded claims that they have been there since “time immemorial!” These Arabs came from disorganized collections of tribes with a tradition of constantly terrorizing each other and trying to seize land from their neighbors. Many of them were social outcasts and criminals who could not find jobs in their own countries so they searched for their luck elsewhere. Unfortunately, those Arab immigrants imported into the Holy Land their age-old culture of terrorizing neighbors in order to seize land. In fact, today’s Arab “Palestin-ians”, let by Abbas and his PLO (sanitized to the PA, or Palestinian Authority...which is nothing more than a network of murderers masquerad-ing as a government!) are still nothing more than street thugs, bullies and ‘Little Ahmadinejads’ found elsewhere throughout most of the Muslim

world. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguish-able from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

The last independent state in “Pales-tine” before modern Israel was ancient Israel. No nation, other than the ancient nation of Israel and later again in 1948 with the rebirth of the nation of Israel, has ever ruled as a sovereign na-tional entity on this land. A mighty Jewish empire extended over this entire area well before the Ar-abs --- and their Islam --- were even born! The Jewish People have one of the most legitimate Birth Certificates of any nations in the world. Ev-ery time there is an archaeological dig in Israel, it does nothing but support the fact that the Jew-ish People have had a presence there for well over 3,000 years. The national coins, the pottery, the cities, the ancient Hebrew texts... all support this claim. Yes, other peoples have passed through, but there is no mistaking the fact that Jews have al-ways had a continual presence in that land for over 3,000 years. This predates and certainly dwarfs any claims that other peoples in the regions may have. The ancient Philistines are extinct. Many other an-cient peoples are extinct. They do not have the un-broken line to this date that the Jews have. And if you want to talk religion, fine. G-d gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish People. And G-d does noth-ing by accident!

It is important to note that there was a Jew-ish population in Palestine continuously. Even after the Jewish state was ended by the Romans, Jewish communities continued to exist. All of the successor governments tried to eliminate the Jews at one time or another, but none succeeded as nu-merous accounts testify over the centuries. When the Zionists started the modern “return” to Eretz Yisrael in the 19th Century, they were joining Jews who never left. Keep in mind that the Arabs con-trol 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today, greed, pride, envy and covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough. What about Islam’s holy sites? There are none in Jerusalem. Shocked? You should be. I don’t expect you will ever hear this brutal truth from anyone in the main stream media. It’s just not politically correct. I know what you’re going to say: “what about the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem which represent Islam’s third most holy sites.” Not true. In fact, the Koran says nothing about Jerusa-lem. It mentions Mecca hundreds of times. It men-tions Medina countless times. It never mentions Jerusalem, with good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammed ever visited Je-rusalem. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.

Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evi-dence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name. I applaud the incredible moral courage of Newt Gingrich.

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We have been through a lot the last few weeks here in the Me-sivta of Watebury, reeling from the tragic loss of our dear talmidim and friends, Eli Schonbrun and Dani King, z”l. We have made a commitment not just to remember them, but to follow their ster-ling example. They were true bnei aliyah and have inspired us to advance our own aliyah, both as individuals and as a yeshiva. Our menahel, Rav Daniel Kalish, has foremost asked us to make a new heightened commitment to the mitzvah of tefillin. It is not suffi-cient just to wear them; we need to understand what they mean to us. To paraphrase part of Rabbi Kalish’s message to us:

The Mishna tells us in Avos that there are three crowns – the crown of Torah, the crown of Kehuna, and the crown of Malchus. The question is that while the Kohen and Melech physically wear a special crown, where is the ben-Torah’s crown? What article of clothing is his crown? The Maharsha (Yoma 72b) says an amazing thing – It is the tefillin; they are our crown of Torah!

When we put on our tefillin, we must have in mind that we are adorning ourselves with the crown of Torah. Each person must recognize that Torah fits him ever so beautifully –he is perfectly suited to be an eved Hashem. He must put on those tefillin with the pride of a prince adorning himself with his special crown. He must also accept the responsibility that comes along with being that distinguished prince. He cannot act like a commoner, follow-ing his desires as he pleases. Baruch Atah Hashem – Oter Yisroel B’sifara.

How appropriate it was that we were zoche to have R’ Avro-hom Shechter and three expert sofrim (Tefillin Awareness Project) come down to yeshiva this past Sunday and teach us how to prop-erly adorn ourselves with our precious crown. They checked to see if our tefillin were on properly and if they needed any adjustments. They even found problems that possuled some tefillin. I person-ally benefitted tremendously on three accounts – they made my shel rosh a little smaller, they placed my yud on the shel yad snug against the bayis, and they even gave the retzua of my shel yad a beautiful paint job! They did not only help the bochurim with their tefillin, but countless community members as well.

What a Kiddush Hashem to see people excitedly waiting their turn to have the chance to ensure their crown fit right! What a zechus for the heilge neshamos of Eli and Dani, who were their crown so beautifully! I humbly encourage any shul or yeshiva to take advantage of the Tefillin Awareness Project. It is a great zechus and honor for Klal Yisroel.

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It was several years after the wedding, and our young man’s family was growing. A fine and upstanding ben torah, he acknowledged that the time had come to find a parnassah to support his family. He searched through many options but in today’s difficult job market, he couldn’t seem to find a source of livelihood.

Meanwhile, his wife, already busy with the home and two little children, continued working part time at the company she had been with for years. He remained in the beis medrash, toiling over the gemara in between trying to make a dollar here and there whenever the opportunity arose. A while ago, this young man decided to get himself at least a part time job, and he offered to work as an ‘agent’ for the Tehillim Kollel – which had been looking for someone in his neighborhood to help enlist new members – a side job which brought a very minimal income.

Recently, his wife suddenly and unexpectedly lost her job at the company, and from one day to the next, the family saw themselves without any adequate income. There was no way to cover even the daily necessities. Now the agent of the Tehillim Kollel realized his turn had come to sign up for a membership with those who recite the sefer tehillim daily. He placed his own name on the tehillim list and asked that they pray for his success in finding a respectable source of livelihood.

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If you’ve been shopping for over-the-counter acetaminophen products for your new baby or toddler, you may have noticed some recent changes, and we knew they were coming.

As of this fall, all OTC acetamino-phen products for young children are the same strength. In other words, the infant’s concentrated drops are no longer available. Th ere may still be a few bottles out there to purchase, but they’re hard to come by, as all liquid acetaminophen products for children under age 12 will now only be sold in a 160mg/5ml concentration.

Th is decision was endorsed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Healthcare Prod-ucts Association (CHPA) in hopes of reducing dosing errors with liquid ac-etaminophen products. In some pre-viously reported cases, children had inadvertently received an incorrect dosage of acetaminophen, at times causing serious liver problems, due to confusion about medication concen-tration. By making all of the products a uniform concentration, the hope is

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Th e Mars Science Laboratory will de-liver a rover aptly named Curiosity to the surface of the Red Planet. Methane gas, which can be emitted by living organ-isms, has tentatively been detected in the Martian atmosphere, and instruments on Curiosity should be able to confi rm the presence of the gas and of other carbon-based molecules likewise considered to be “building blocks of life.”

Many scientists assume that life must exist on other worlds. Although science doesn’t usually embrace beliefs that have

not been supported by observations, the conviction that there is life elsewhere in the universe derives from the creed that chance pervades and governs the uni-verse—that randomness lies at the root of reality.

If probability is the loom on which the universe’s fabric is stretched, the creed’s canon proclaims, what reason could there possibly be for only a single, unremark-able planet in a single, unremarkable solar system in a single, unremarkable galaxy to alone have spawned life?

Th is abiding scientifi c faith assumes something of a miracle, that terrestrial life somehow arose from inanimate mat-ter here on earth. It reveres a trinity: a single-celled ancestor, random mutation,

and natural selection. Th eir interplay, the belief goes, is responsible for the astound-ing diversity of life on earth.

And so, during the same eons over which time and chance on Earth allowed inert elements to slowly morph into iPods and their owners, countless other worlds should have done no worse. Indeed, may have done considerably better.

Creation, we believing Jews know, was in fact an act of Divine will, not the yield of randomness. Still and all, it isn’t unthink-able that rudimentary life on other planets, like the kind Curiosity is looking for, ex-ists. Aft er all, G-d created life here on Earth that remained unseen for most of human history—whether in undersea volcanic vents or Amazonian jungle canopies. Th e

discovery of life on other worlds would hardly challenge Jewish belief.

But intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos? Unlikely, I think. One thing is certain: all eff orts thus far to detect it have come up empty.

Over the 1960s and 1970s, there was SETI, or the “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”; META, the “Megachannel Extra-Terrestrial Assay”; and META II. In 1972 and 1973, plaques depicting the loca-tion of Earth in the galaxy and solar system and what humans look like were launched aboard the Pioneer and Voyager probes. In 1974, the Arecibo message, which carried coded information about chemistry and terrestrial life, was beamed into space. And in the 1990s, the “Billion-channel Extra-

Terrestrial Assay” (BETA) was created, as well as a project har-nessing the computing power of fi ve million volunteers’ com-puters to crunch numbers that might reveal patterns indicative of intelligent life beyond our planet. Tens of billions of hours of processing time have so far been consumed by the project.

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intelligent life beyond our own planet doesn’t prove anything, of course. It’s a big universe.

But I’m reminded of what Reb Levi Yitzchok of Ber-ditchev had to say about a verse in the Torah (Devarim, 17:3) concerning a false prophet who will “prostrate himself to… the sun or the moon or to any host of heaven, which I have not commanded.” Rashi explains that last phrase as meaning “which I have not commanded you to worship.”

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A. This dilemma is a very common scenario. In fact, I probably have at least three to four shidduchim a week that I redd that I get the same old response, with different levels of intensity “it’s too close to home’! My mother always quoted the Yiddish idiom, “Es is beser tzu nemen chisronos fun nonte ve mailos fun der veitens’. It’s better to take shortcomings from the near than good qualities from the far”. What is the worst scenario that can happen if your son goes out with this girl and it doesn’t work? I guarantee you you’ll still be friends! The fact that you both agreed to let them go out, shows you like each other. Having it “click” is the Rib-bono Shel Olam’s work, not yours. On a personal note, in Quaker Hill Bungalows, the colony that I belong to for twenty nine years, we have had numerous "close to home" shidduchim. You can’t get closer than spending summers together. They are all wonderful and beautiful marriages and enhance the life of our colony. If the girl you are talking about is your son’s bashert, you will have your weak moment and say yes anyway, so why look elsewhere. Your husband has the right idea. Just say yes. There is no simcha “ketoras hasfekes”, resolving doubts. If it doesn’t work out, you’ll have clarity to go where you want.

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One of the most thrilling moments in a young boy’s life is the day of his Bar Mitzvah. He can’t wait to be counted for the Minyan. He is so excited about put-ting on his Tefi llin. Many Bar Mitzvah boys learn Hilchos Tefi llin. Th ey are very sincere as they put them on for the fi rst time. It is a moment of Nachas for parents and grandparents to be trea-sured forever.

Many boys, however, know very little about their Tefi llin. Th ey have no idea of how they are made, or what the Parshios look like. Th ey have no clue as to whether the Parshios are K’sav Bais Yosef, Ari Zal or Sefardi. Why does the Shel Rosh have lines and not the Shel Yad? Why does one shin on the Shel Rosh have four heads?

Many parents bring their children to the Matza Bakery before Pesach to see how the Matzos are prepared. We take them with us to choose the Arba Minim. By including them in the prepa-ration for these Mitzvos, the fulfi llment of these Mitzvos becomes so much more signifi cant.

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I once, had the opportunity to ad-dress a senior citizen’s group at a JCC in the Midwest. I discussed the detailed process of preparing Tefi llin and Me-zuzos, told a few stories and was pre-paring to leave. As I packed my bags, I noticed a bareheaded, elderly man named Max, approaching the podium. With tears streaming down his cheeks he said to me in Yiddish. “You spoke about the Tefi llin. You reminded me of my Bar Mitzvah that took place about 73 years ago. My Tatte took me to the Sofer and I watched as he wrote my Parshios. Aft er he put the Parshios into the Battim, Tatte took me to the Rav of our town and he showed me how to put them on. OY! OY! Th ose were the good times! Look at me today. Look at how far I have fallen.” He broke down and cried bitterly.

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We will now discuss the next category of muktzeh items, objects that are muktzeh machmas issur, muktzeh due to a prohibi-tion. This grouping consists of keilim shem-elachtem l’heter, utensils of permissible use, which normally may be moved and used on Shabbos. However, the utensils in this cat-egory cannot be used in their present state because they are damaged, and must first be repaired in order to be suitable for their proper use. In such cases, the Sages were concerned that if the owner were permitted to use the utensil on Shabbos in its dam-aged state, he may attempt to repair it out of his desire to use it more efficiently. For this reason, the Sages declared such an item to be muktzeh and forbade one to move it on Shabbos.

This ruling applies only in cases where ef-fecting the necessary repair would result in the transgression of a Biblical prohibition. For example, if the leg of a chair becomes detached, the chair is no longer functional. Should one reattach the leg, he would be in violation of the Biblical prohibition against finishing (makeh b’patish). In such a case, the Sages declared both the chair and its leg to be muktzeh, in order to prevent a person from coming to repair the chair.

Items that are muktzeh machmas issur may never be moved on Shabbos. One may, however, ask a non-Jew to move the item in cases of l’tzorech gufo or l’tzorech mikomo.

We will now discuss items that are muk-tzeh machmas mitzvah, muktzeh due to a

mitzvah. This category consists of items that have been designated for use in the perfor-mance of a mitzvah. As long as these items are required for their mitzvah use, they may not be used for mundane purposes. For ex-ample, the walls and decorations of a succah are deemed muktzeh during the days of Suc-cos, since they are being employed in the ob-servance of a mitzvah.

It is notable that the muktzeh that results from an item being designated for use in a mitzvah differs conceptually from the stan-dard muktzeh of Shabbos. As we have stated previously, the standard muktzeh prohibition of Shabbos stems from the Rabbinic require-ment that an item be prepared for Shabbos use in order for it to be moved on Shabbos. Any item not considered prepared for Shab-bos use becomes muktzeh immediately upon the onset of Shabbos.

The muktzeh status of a mitzvah object is rooted in its mitzvah function. An item that has been set aside for the performance of a mitzvah may not be used for any other purpose even on a weekday. The item may be moved on a weekday, however, as long as the movement does not interfere with the observance of the mitzvah. The restriction against using the item remains in effect as long as the item is required for mitzvah use. On Shabbos, however, an item that is set aside for mitzvah use becomes vested with the muktzeh status associated with Shabbos — it therefore may not even be moved on Shabbos.

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why do women Come to Shul for Mussaf?

On Shabbos, many women arrive in shul in time to join in the Mussaf prayer. Women are commanded to daven Shacha-ris and (according to many poskim) Minchah. They are certainly not com-manded to daven Mussaf.

Th e Mishnah Berurah (106:4) quotes two opinions regarding Mussaf. Tzlach maintains that women are prohibited from davening Mussaf. Th is is because the Mus-saf prayer is in place of the Mussaf sacri-fi ce in the Beis HaMikdash. Women did not take part in the Mussaf sacrifi ce and therefore have no connection to the Mus-saf prayer. Mogen Geborim disagrees. He maintains that women may daven Mussaf, although he concedes that there is no ob-ligation for them to do so. It is therefore strange that women daven Mussaf, par-ticularly if they haven’t davened Shacharis! In fact, women who arrive at shul when the congregation is at Mussaf should daven the Shacharis Shimoneh Esrei!

Sleeping Late on Shabbos

How strange! All week long, Shacharis minyanim typically begin between 6 a.m.

and 8 a.m. On Shabbos, few minyanim begin that time. Most minyanim begin at 8:30 or 9:00 a.m., or later. Does this make sense? Shabbos is the holiest day of the week. Shouldn’t we daven even earlier than on an ordinary weekday?

A few possible answers come to mind: A) People are tired aft er a busy week. If

they awoke early, they would need to sleep during the day. It is better to sleep later in the morning, so that the entire day can be spent immersed in the kedushah of the beis hamidrash.

B) We are obligated to complete the parashah each week, preferably with Rashi and Targum. It is preferable that this task be completed before the Shacharis Torah reading. We therefore daven later on Shab-bos morning, thus giving people time to work feverishly to fi nish the parashah in time.

C) All week long, people are rushed in the morning. Few people actually daven the korbonos, the section before davening. On Shabbos morning, people are suffi ciently relaxed to daven the korbonos slowly and patiently. Th is is why the shuls are crowded before davening, as people carefully recite the korbonos.

D) All of the above (hale’vai!)

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produced in the same facilities as tallow or lard.

Kashering a ConchWhat is the greatest nemesis to choc-

olate? Just ask any balabusta who uses melted chocolate in homemade recipes. Water, when mixed with chocolate, even minimally, causes the chocolate to solidify almost instantaneously into a solid block that can’t be remolded! Consequently, chocolate manufacturers passionately avoid the introduction of water into their facilities at all costs.

Recognizing this problem, how do ko-sher chocolate manufacturers overcome the issue of compatible conches that may be used indiscriminately for pareve and dairy chocolates without using water?

One possibility is to dedicate conches exclusively for dairy and pareve produc-tions. Th is method is used in certain choc-olate production facilities because suffi -cient amounts of both pareve and dairy products are manufactured to justify the separation. However, many companies do not keep their conches separate. Further-more, there are companies that produce cholov Yisroel chocolate for this growing market. Since these products are made in non-cholov Yisroel facilities, the non-cho-lov Yisroel conches would require kosher-ization. How can the conches be kashered without the introduction of water?

Th is problem has plagued chocolate manufacturers for many years. Th e solu-tion is to kasher the conches with liquid dark chocolate, or in terms of the halacha, sha’ar mashkim, literally “other liquids.” Th e Shulchan Aruch poses the question whether liquids other than water may be used for kosherization. Th e Remah is opposed to using sha’ar mashkim and forbids the use of sha’ar mashkim for ko-sherization. However, the Remah permits kashering with sha’ar mashkim if one has already done the kosherization post facto, b’dieved. Th e Star-K, does not kasher with shaar mashkim. However, in some kashrus agencies in the U.S. and among the Rab-binate in Europe, the prevalent view is to rely on the lenient position, even though the Shulchan Aruch frowns upon that method of kosherization.

Another interesting caveat to this question is whether liquid chocolate, or more specifi cally cocoa butter, which is a solid at room temperature, may be consid-ered a liquid and could therefore be used as a kashering liquid. Interestingly enough, when the Mishna Berura discusses the is-sue of egg matzah, the Chofetz Chaim zt”l mentions that fats are categorically considered a liquid, sha’ar mashkim, and would be permitted to be used as a kasher-ing liquid for those who allow this type of kosherization.

What Bracha is made on Chocolate?As we saw through our tour of choco-

late manufacturing, the cacao bean is the fruit of the Forestaro and Criollo trees. However, the cocoa bean is indistinguish-able in its chocolate form. Th e question is: Does a fruit product that has been pressed into a paste, such as dates into date paste or apricots into fruit leather, retain its borei pri ha’etz status because the original prod-uct in its pressed version is recognizable? Th e Shulchan Aruch concludes that since the fruit product retains its original status,

the bracha does not change. However, the Remah explains that this is not the case re-garding a fruit that totally loses its original form. Th erefore, the proper blessing for chocolate would be shehakol. However, another halachic opinion posits that since the cacao bean was grown for the purpose of making chocolate, this is the essence of the fruit. In spite of the fact that it loses its original identity, the bracha should be borei pri ha’etz. Th e case in point in the Shulchan Aruch discusses spices that were ground and sweetened. Th e bracha that is to be made on sweetened ground spices is borei pri ha’etz because spices are made to be ground. Applying the same logic to the cacao bean, meaning that the purpose of the cacao bean is to be ground and lique-fi ed into chocolate, the bracha on chocolate should be borei pri ha’etz. In fact, there are some poskim who opine that the bracha on chocolate should be borei pri ha’etz, and not shehakol. However, the consensus of hala-chic opinion is that the bracha is shehakol.

Earlier, we mentioned that chocolate is over 50% sugar. Sugar is processed from vegetables such as sugar cane or sugar beets. In truth, the Shulchan Aruch also deals with the bracha on sugar. In any event, the amount of sugar used would not aff ect the bracha on chocolate, since the purpose of the sugar is to sweeten the cocoa ingredients. Sugar, therefore, is viewed as a secondary ingredient to the cocoa liquor, even though sugar is choco-late’s primary ingredient. According to all opinions the bracha remains shehakol.

In the case of chocolate-covered nuts and fruits such as peanuts, almonds or raisins, does the combination of choco-late with nuts or fruits aff ect the bracha? Most defi nitely! However, there are many opinions regarding the proper bracha. Th e Mishna Berura views the fruit as the dominant ingredient, and the chocolate that sweetens the fruit as secondary. Th e bracha on chocolate-covered fruits and nuts would follow the item that the choc-olate is sweetening; in the case of fruit or nut, borei pri ha’etz, and in the case of pea-nuts, borei pri hoadama. However, others reason that the bracha is subjective and would follow the item that is more desir-ous. Still others maintain that the item that is more plentiful would be the dominant ingredient, while some halachic authori-ties maintain that one should make two brachos on chocolate-covered peanuts be-cause both are of equal importance. Inter-estingly enough, the bracha borei pri ha’etzwould suffi ce, b’dieved, for a chocolate and fruit combination because, in any event, the bracha on chocolate may be borei pri ha’etz, as we mentioned earlier. Rabbi Moshe Heinemann, Shlit”a, Rabbinic Ad-ministrator of the Star-K, maintains that the bracha is subjective. If the chocolate is more desirable, the bracha would be she-hakol; and if the raisin is more desirable, the bracha on a chocolate covered raisin would be borei pri ha’etz.

King Solomon, Shlomo Hamelech, when extolling the virtues of Bnei Yisroel, Torah, and mitzvos exclaims metaphori-cally “Vayochal p’ri megadav,” “and he ate His delectable fruits.” Indeed this verse could certainly apply to the delights of chocolate, the most delicious fruit of the world.

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his amazing staff for their herculean efforts on behalf of our Flatbush community for putting together such a beautiful paper – graphically and informative with wonder-ful divrei torah, articles etc. THANK YOU

Yaakov Schwartz

Tznius in ReverseIn answer to Aaron Akselrud - I suggest

that he have the men sit and their wives stand behind them instead of the other way around.

Malka S.

Why Flatbush isn’t so ColdThis is a response to the letter that ap-

peared in your December 8, 2011 issue entitled “Why is Flatbush so Cold?” Un-fortunately, I too had similar experiences when I first moved into the Flatbush area. In one instance, I attended the same shul for months and still nobody said hello or otherwise spoke to me. However, I since found wonderful shuls with warm friendly people who make me feel welcome.

On Shabbos and Sunday morning, I daven at the Yavneh Minyan of Flatbush, which is inside the Shulamith campus on East 14th Street between Locust and Chest-nut. One of Yavneh’s defining character-istics is its warm, inviting atmosphere in which everyone is made to feel at home. The Rav, Rabbi Moshe Sokol, goes out of his way to welcome newcomers and to point them out to others and encourage them to do the same. The shul is also re-nowned for its quiet davening, so this wel-coming occurs after shul at the Kiddush.

During the week, I daven at Rav Os-hry’s Shul (Khal Bais Avrohom), on East 17th between O and P. This shul also has a regular crowd of warm and friendly peo-ple. I’m pretty sure that I didn’t feel like a member of the kehila the very first time I walked in the door, but after a few times there I got to know people and began to feel at home.

I encourage you to try these shuls and I’m sure there are others where you won’t feel like you have two heads. I would also suggest that you give a shul more than one chance before giving up on it. Sometimes, people don’t realize that you are new or are absorbed in their own personal issues. It can also be difficult for people to start talk-ing to a random stranger. When they see you a couple of times, and recognize that you’ve been there before, they will usually start to open up.

Good luck!Stuart Feldhamer

still Cold in FlatbushIn response to your inquiry of if oth-

ers experienced the coldness you describe in shuls in Flatbush, you can count me in. Your feelings are perfectly understandable since it is paradoxical that in a House of Worship where one would expect higher ideals and sensitivity to our fellow man to flourish, only to be greeted by the very opposite. It is this phenomenon that has driven me to daven at home even on Yom Tov. As a resident of Flatbush for more

than half a century, I have accepted this, and have come to believe that this is part of the social chemistry in Flatbush.

You are correct in pointing out how detrimental this is for those who are new to frumkeit, in turning them off to religion or worse. You are also correct about the re-sponsibility of the Rabbi of the shul to see to it that newcomers to the shul are treated warmly and with respect.

But don’t get your hopes up too fast. Recently I decided to take a chance and sample a local shul to test the waters. I was actually somewhat surprised by the posi-tive atmosphere. But there was however a problem with the seating and the Rabbi’s response, although the shul was spacious, the benches were packed so tightly, the only way to take three steps back for She-moneh Esei was to interrupt the person on the side of you and request them to get up and go out of the aisle. So you stand there and daven, - not very curious or conducive to ones kavannah.

I addressed this problem later after davening to the Rabbi and again in writ-ten form, as well as offering to correct this problem for free since I am in the building trade. I was told that if I wanted to take three steps for Shemoneh Esrei I would in-deed have to step out into the aisle to do so. I did step out into the aisle and took those steps out the door and never came back.

Avrohom Avinu would never have treated his fellow man this way. Perhaps in a sense, it is better to live in the past - the ancient past!

Samuel SchlossBrooklyn, NY

Keeping Flatbush hotLast week, I read the title of one of

the letters of my compatriot letter writers which was entitled “Too Cold in Flatbush”. Why is it so cold in Flatbush? I think that we must initiate an Emergency Heating Campaign to place large heaters all around Flatbush in order to warm it up. The first step in such a campaign, of course, is to have hourly announcements in Rabbi Lan-dau’s shul about the plight of people who can’t walk the holy streets of Flatbush due to the chill in their bones. Boruch Hashem, in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, the entire build-ing is always heated at exactly the right temperature to facilitate the learning of the bochurim. Unlike Goldilock’s house, YTV is never too hot, and never too cold, due to the tireless efforts of their mainte-nance engineer Z.B. to immediately close any windows posing a threat to this per-fect balance. Hopefully, this campaign will bring an end to world cold, and we should be zoche to move to Eretz Yisroel where they don’t need giant heaters on the streets.

Sincerely, B Rich

handling CriticismAs we’ve said in the past, thank you for

a most informative and enjoyable newspa-per. You are also to be praised in the way you handle criticism.

Before I get into the subject at hand, we’d like to share with our neighbors how we end Shabbos and go in to the new week. We turn to Yehuda Green in his CD “Yearning.” Cut #9 features Reb Shlomo’s Havdallah. Try it! It sets the tone in a most uplifting way!

In response to the letter from Moshe Steinberg in which he bemoans the fact that people in shul do not welcome him, ie with a “Gut Shabbos.” We have an acquain-tance, who was very hurt by the same type of reaction. He decided not to let it pass, and not to carry a grudge and eventually (no doubt) speak Lashon Horah. What do you think he did? He took the initiative to start the ball rolling and it was he who stuck out his hand first with a resounding greeting! A reaction of a true Oheiv Yisrael - he decided that he would educate on how to welcome a newcomer. It was done in a way that didn’t make anyone uncomfort-able and at the same time taught them a lesson.

B. Gertz, Flatbush

The Dangers of the internetIn today’s society, it seems like technol-

ogy has taken over. It’s almost a necessity to have a computer with internet access, or better yet, a computer the size of your palm in your possession. Could there be a negative effect of having all this technol-ogy so readily available?

Despite the fact that internet can be very entertaining, overusing it can lead a person into a newfound disorder, “In-ternet Addiction Disorder.” This disorder includes many negatives such as apprehen-sion, dejection, and behavioral issues. IAD mainly comes from internet overuse. So-cializing through online programs makes internet more addicting which leads to in-ternet overuse and IAD. Therefore, parents should supervise the time their children spend online.

Many teenagers can talk on the phone for hours on end to people they see every day; but do we say that they’re addicted to the phone? Of course not! Many of these same teenagers will at some point opt for internet in lieu of talking on the phone. They will instead use e-mail, chatting on-line, playing as a group online…the list is endless.

People who have low self-esteem use internet as a substitution for socializing. They either don’t feel confident in the way they look, or maybe have some sort of speech defect. Whatever the case, they don’t feel comfortable taking face to face with people. This will eventually lead them to overusing the internet.

People lose a lot of time being fo-cused only on internet and nothing else. They ignore their own problems and the people around them. Family, friends, and phone calls become meaningless to them. After they have crossed that line, there is a great chance in developing mental dis-orders such as depression, anxiety, health problems, or relationship problems. Any trained mental health professional can

help that person learn to slowly curve the time spent online.

When it comes to socializing online, people chat with people they don’t even know. They might end up revealing the wrong information to the wrong people. Who knows who that person is and what he or she might venture to do now with his or her newly acquired information.

The internet access young teens have is out of control. Parents need to supervise the internet usage in their home. They need to help their children grow out of the internet addiction and protect the children who don’t have this problem from having it. Would you want your child to be next?

Miriam Milstein

FJJ Must Follow gedolim In the last edition of the FJJ, Professor

Yitzchok Levine quoted an Email from a British newspaper which condemns the entire Chareidi community and repeats some of the canards made against it by leftist and liberal oriented individuals.

Instead of defending the Torah com-munity from these canards and terrible slander (as I thought any Torah observant individual would be quick to do), Profes-sor Levine accepts all of the opinions ex-pressed by these individuals as correct. He proceeds to use this as a basis to encour-age the FJJ to learn a “lesson” from these enemies of Torah to relax it’s editorial pol-icy with regards to publishing pictures of women in the newspaper.

Before discussing the actual letter I would like to say over a vort on the Sedrah recently lained, which has connection to our discussion.

Yaakov Avinu told Aisav, “Im Lavan Garti Vetaryag Mitzvos Shamarti Velo La-madti Mimasav Haarim”. Meforshim ask that this statement seems to be repetitive? If someone keeps Taryag Mitzvos isn’t it obvious that he didn’t learn from the bad actions of the outside world? Rav Ruder-man zt”l answers that we see from here that it is possible for one to be a “religious Jew” who keeps mitzvos and yet to be in-fluenced by the Deos, ideologies, Middos and Hashkafos of the outside world. This was why Yaakov Avinu made it clear that he not only was observant of Mitzvos, but also rejected the incorrect philosophies and middos he saw by Lavan.

With regards to the current discussion, I am surprised that a person like Profes-sor Levine who is a religious and educated Jew, should without hesitation accept the crooked, warped and treife ideologies of those who are out to destroy Torah and attack large portions of the Torah com-munity.

To finally get to discuss at least partially the falsity of the philosophies he mentions in his letter, I will be makdim that I am not discussing the various tactics of individ-ual members of the Chareidi community mentioned. These tactics are a “gray area” where there may be differences of opinion and where every case is different.



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What I would like to discuss is the ye-sod, the foundation of the Hashkafas Hato-rah, which ultimately is what riles up the liberal and leftist individuals mentioned in the email.

The intent of the Chareidi commu-nity in trying to have standards of tznius in terms of not publicizing pictures of women has nothing to do with denigrat-ing women or not appreciating their im-portance. A cursory glance at any Chareidi publication will show how much people appreciate the contributions of women in all generations, including our own. The tremendous respect given to the petirah of Rebbitzen Kaneivsky a”h is just one recent example.

Instead it has to do with creating an at-mosphere of Kedusha and Shemiras Haai-ynayim which will enable people to reach high levels.

Additionally these standards of tznius are related to the understanding of the particular role which Hakadosh Boruch Hu gave to women.

Chazal Hakedoshim tell us that when Chavah was created Hashem told her to be an Isha Tznuah. Thus the importance of tznius particularly for women is part of their actual creation.

In addition, the Pasuk tell us that “Kol Kevudah Bas Melech Penimah”, the honor of the daughter of the king is internal. I would emphasize the word, “Kevudah”, as this word states clearly that the more pri-vate role of women is not meant to deni-grate them, but the opposite to provide them with honor, as befits the daughter of a king.

We find already from the very founda-tion of Klal Yisroel. The first woman in our nation, Sarah Imenu, is praised for “Hinay Baohel”. Rashi tells us that the Malachim were praising Sarah to Avrohom Avinu that she was Tznuah, and not out in the streets.

In Mitzraim, Chazal tell us that the zechus of Nashim Tzidkaniyos was what enabled the yidden to be freed from Mitz-raim. Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l explained that the fact that they retained such a high level of tzidkus even in Mitzraim was be-cause they had the middah of tznius, which enabled them to be less influenced by the outside world.

Throughout Jewish history, the praise of an Isha Tzadedes, whether while she was alive or after her petirah, was “Isha Tznuah Vachasudah”.

Rav Shimon Schwab zt”l, in a beautiful vort which is “inyanei deyoma”, said that we see an interesting thing with regards to the mitzvos of lighting in the Torah. With re-gards to lighting the Menorah, both in the Bais Hamikdash and in our houses, men are the ones who do this mitzvah (unless under exceptional circumstances such as an almanah). In contrast, it is specifically the women who light the Shabbos candles.

Rav Schwab explains that since the Menorah is lit publicly, therefore men who have more of a public role are given this mitzvah. In contrast, women have the mitzvah of lighting the Shabbos Neiros, as they are lit privately in the house, and

their role in Klal Yisroel is more private. Rav Schwab said that just as a “becher” must have an inside as well as an outside part to hold wine, so too for Klal Yisroel to succeed, both men and women must fulfill their particular role properly. This is included in the description of women as “Bais Yaakov”. Just as a Bayis is the inside of a utensil, so too women are the internal, fundamental part of Klal Yisroel.

To return to the original topic, the con-cept and application of having women take a more private role, which includes not publicizing their pictures to men (as is accepted in numerous Torah publications, including Yated, Hamodiah, Mishpacha etc), is a function of the tznius and “kol kevudah bas melech penimah” mentioned, and has nothing to do with denigrating women.

If there is anything to learn from the previously mentioned email, it is that we see from there, the importance of tznius in Yiddishkeit, which is why the enemies of Torah have decided to attack this concept.

This is in keeping with the Pasuk men-tioned in every Siyum, “Maioyevay Tech-kemaini Mitzvosecha” (from my enemies I will become educated about Your Mitzvos).

Another obvious falsity and canard mentioned in the email is that the Chareidi community does not see any possible role for women in any sort of job outside the home. While ideally it would be best if all women could stay at home, anyone even partially cognizant of the situation in the Chareidi community, knows that there are thousands of Chareidi women who work outside of the home, either to help support their husband’s learning or to supplement their husband’s income.

In conclusion, I would like to address the editor of the FJJ. The FJJ was founded by individuals that were very close to great Gedolei Yisroel such as Rav Avrohom Pam zt”l and Rav Shmuel Berenbaum zt”l.

Boruch Hashem, the publication gener-ally meets the standards which would be considered acceptable by such Gedolim. As such, let me encourage the editor to only allow letters to be printed that are respect-ful to the Gedolei Torah and the Chareidi community.

Clearly the FJJ is geared to be respect-ful to the whole gamut of the Brooklyn To-rah community, including Mir, Lubavitch, Ger, Chaim Berlin, Breuers, Young Israel, Edot Hamizrach etc. However, there is no place in a Torah true publication for let-ters that are disrespectful and pejorative to the Chareidim Lideavar Hashem and those that follow the Gedolei Torah.

Rabbi Moshe Boylan

Update on Donor’s situationThis is in response to the large request

from concerned friends of Renewal. The family asked us to give an update on the kidney donor from last week - Chaim Yosef ben Chaya that there has been B”H major improvement in his situation and that they should please continue their tefillos, as they have surely been a factor in his improved health condition. Please continue to have

him in mind L’rfuah Sh’leima Besoch Shaar Cholei Yisroel.

Thank you for your time and concern.Menachem Friedman, Renewal

Convention Vasikin Minyan1) The vasikin minyan at the Agudah

Convention was started in Parsippany, NJ about 20 years ago and is still davening ashkenaz.

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positive Attitude “Reflect upon your present blessing of

which every man has many. Not on your past misfortunes of which all have some” Charles Dickens. In life, people tend to fo-cus on the negative when in reality, life is filled with blessing. If you would just view life in a positive way your life would be a whole lot better.

In my opinion, being positive is not only an attitude but rather it’s good for oneself. Of course it is easy to be negative at times, however did you know that stud-ies have shown that being positive is the greatest medicine for a negative attitude? By having a positive attitude, along with laughter, doctors have found that it can lower blood pressure, reduce stress hor-mones, and increase muscle flexion.

Both, positive attitude and happiness are known to be a root cause of many posi-tive life benefits. Dr. Patch Adams was famous for saying that by being posi-tive you’ll live lon-ger, be healthier, and have a happier attitude toward life. In addition, you’re likely to be success-ful and learn the power of thinking positively and gain in life’s benefits.

In fact a posi-tive attitude helps you cope more eas-ily with the daily affairs in life, it makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. Therefore, if you adopt this way of life, it will bring you a brighter life. You’ll see the brighter side of life and become an optimistic per-son. This is certain-ly a state of mind that is well worth developing.

Being a pessi-mist in life is ter-rible and it comes

along with several consequences. If you’re constantly complaining, groaning, and moaning, and you’re dissatisfied with your life, in the future you’ll find more things to be unhappy about. And the more you complain and are negative towards life, the more you’ll find things to have a bad atti-tude towards. Be careful! Negative attitude harms others, you’ll cause them misery. Being a pessimist also harms you.

The more pessimistic you are the fewer days you’ll have in your life - Dr. Patch Ad-ams.

In order to be positive, you must focus on the good things you have in life, not on what you want. Always tell yourself, “I can, I am able, I’m a positive person”. Look for the good in every situation, certainly there is good even if it’s difficult or hard to find. Be aware of the friends you choose to be around, choose positive people. Psycholo-gists have found that even if you are in a bad mood, you can easily lift your spirit by forcing yourself to smile.

Ken Harnes an expert motivator and author, states you should act instead of react. Don’t wait until something bad hap-pens and try to deal with it; be proactive and make something good happen. You’re responsible for what you make of your life, and only you. So create the most optimistic life you can, one day at a time.

You can close the windows and darken a room, you can open a window and let light in. It’s a matter of choice; your mind is your room. Will you make it dark or will you fill it with light?

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Today no one doubts the wisdom of wearing seats belts when traveling in a car. Countless studies have proven that people wearing seat belts are much more likely to survive accidents than those not wearing them. In most civilized cities of the world, wearing a seat belt when riding in a vehicle is required by law. Th us the following story should be understood in the context of when it happened, more than 50 years ago when seat belts were almost non-existent.

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Th ree weeks later he was at a wed-ding where many great rabbis were in at-tendance. Near the end of the wedding he noticed that Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986) was looking for a ride home. He rushed over to him and said, “I would be honored to take the Rosh Yeshivah home.” Reb Moshe readily accepted. As they got into the car and settled in, Dr. Kranzler buckled his seat belt even before he turned the key in the ignition, and he asked Reb Moshe to do the same.

Reb Moshe smiled and indicated he was fi ne without it. Dr. Kranzler was sure that Reb Moshe had never heard of seat belts, since they were still so new. He explained that it was an important safety measure. Reb Moshe smiled again and told him to start the car. “You don’t have to worry. Hashem will protect us.”

Dr. Kranzler was in a quandary. He felt his life was saved just a few weeks earlier because of his seat belt. How could he in good conscience allow Reb Moshe to ride without it? On the other hand, who was he to tell the great tzaddik what to do? How could he insist when Rav Moshe, like vir-tually everyone else, did not see the neces-sity?

Dr. Kranzler was exasperated. He turned to Reb Moshe and said soft ly, “Tut a Yid a toivah, shtel ohn der seat belt.” (Do a Jew a favor, put on the seat belt.) Reb Moshe smiled broadly and said, “To do a Yid a favor? Of course!” And dutifully he buckled up.

I recently heard a similarly delightful story from the noted askan (activist) Rabbi Hertz Frankel of Brooklyn. As a teenager, he attended Mesivta Torah Vodaath in Wil-liamsburg, where he was a student in Rabbi Avrohom Pam’s class. Rav Pam and Hertz both lived in East New York and every Friday aft ernoon, aft er class, they would travel home on the same train. In those years there was no kosher bakery in East New York, so Rabbi Pam would buy chal-los and other baked goods for Shabbos in Williamsburg. Honored to be able to walk alongside his rebbi, Hertz accompanied him to the bakery and then to the train. Th e fi rst week that they traveled together, Hertz off ered to carry the bags, but Rabbi Pam refused. “I wouldn’t allow you to carry my packages for me. Th ey are mine and my responsibility,” Rabbi Pam said soft ly, not wishing to take advantage of anyone, espe-cially a talmid.

Hertz protested but it was to no avail. As they walked together, however, Hertz felt uncomfortable allowing his rebbi to carry the bags. He asked Rabbi Pam to let him carry at least one bag but again his rebbi refused. Th is went on for three weeks as the two of them traveled together every Friday. On the fourth week, aft er they got off the train, Hertz made another eff ort to carry the bags, again to no avail. Hertz stopped dramatically in the street and said, “Rebbi, it’s a chillul Hashem!” Rabbi Pam looked up puzzled. “Imagine, what people must be thinking,” said Hertz emphatically. “Th ey see a yeshivah bachur walking with his rebbi, showing a lack of kavod haTorah, as his rebbi carries bags and he doesn’t even help him!”

Rabbi Pam stopped in his tracks. Smil-ing broadly at his bright young talmid, he said in Hebrew, “Nitzchuni (You have tri-umphed over me).” And with that he gave Hertz the bigger bag. Hertz lived closer to the subway stop than did Rav Pam. He intended to walk Rabbi Pam home as he did every Friday, but as they passed Hertz’s home, Rabbi Pam took the bag back and said, “From here you don’t have to walk with me. Th ere is no chillul Hashem be-cause you can go home. From here I don’t allow you to carry my bags.” Th at day, the young man listened to his rebbi and has continually heard this message of kindness and consideration until this very day.

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“We are stumped,” reported Richard on behalf of the little group, who had just begun the Joseph story. “Th e narrative was fasci-nating, but we found it diffi cult to identify basic Jewish concepts in the midst of this intriguing plot.”

Simon interrupted, something which was unusual for him, and reminded us of his background in the study of literature. “You know that I teach English literature for a living, and I found the storyline in the as-signed reading of Parshat Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) to be a model for a great literary work. It had everything: suspense, drama, confl ict, and even romance. But it was hard for me to fi nd religious or moral messages in this text.”

Even Leon, who somehow was always able to see what others could not, was at a loss. “Th e story is great,” he said, “and I can hardly wait for next week’s assigned readings to see how it all turns out. But I must confess that I too could not fi gure out the basic Jew-ish concepts that we were supposed to learn this week.”

I empathized with the group and pointed out to them that the narrative sections of

the Torah oft en contain plots so rich and fascinating that the underlying messages are oft en diffi cult to ascertain. Traditional com-mentaries are up against the same challenge yet, somehow, are always able to discern very powerful and very relevant teachings in all of the biblical stories.

I suggested that the class attempt a tech-nique which I have found useful when faced with that challenge. I must confess that this technique is drawn from my background in the fi eld of psychology. “What I do,” I told Richard, Simon, and Leon, “is try to fi nd an event, a passage, or even a phrase or word which speaks to me personally. Somehow, in the interface between the text and my inner self, I fi nd a universal message. Let’s try it.”

Th e class opened their Chumashim, and a fi ve-minute period of absolute silence en-sued. Each member of the class was deeply engaged in both scrutinizing the text and meditating upon their own subjective expe-riences.

As each pair of eyes was lift ed from the text, I realized that the time to ask for their verbal response had been reached. I saw in each pair of eyes an illumination, as if all

three students had been enlightened with some great new truth. I knew now that I would not have to coax an answer from any of them, but I would, rather, have to deal with their competing eff orts to gain my at-tention.

Richard did not wait for me to recognize him, but immediately began the discussion. “What struck me,” he said, “were these two verses: ‘And Israel loved Joseph above his other sons... and made for him a ketonet pa-sim [a coat of many colors]. And his broth-ers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they came to hate him and could not speak together peace-fully.’ “ (Genesis 37:3-4)

Richard then burst into tears. Th e text had touched a sore spot in his soul. In a deeply personal way, he continued to relate how his own father had favored his older brother, and how he had been struggling all of his life to impress his father and to gain his father’s approval. Th e class listened atten-tively to Richard’s poignant confession and allowed him to conclude: “Th e basic Jewish teaching is clear: a father must not favor one child over the other. Th e consequences may

be dire. Th e Jewish people’s descent into exile traces back to the fact that Jacob favored Joseph.”

I made a note to myself to in-form the class at a later time that the Talmud itself (Masechet Shab-bat 10b) found the same lesson in the text that had been the focus of Rich-ard’s response.

Leon then as-sumed the floor, with a similar depth of disclo-sure. “You know by now that I have always looked for approval from others. Th e way I act in this group is the way I act in the rest of my life. I manipulate the dialogue so that I impress others. As I perused this week’s text again just now, I found myself en-vious ironically, of Reuben. Th e Bible tells us about Reu-ben’s futile attempt to save Joseph from his brothers’ hands and to return him to his father (Gene-sis 37:22). Reuben’s heroic attempt, although unsuc-cessful, is recorded for all time and

eternity. Th at’s the kind of recognition that I deeply crave.”

Once again, I made a note to myself. Leon had hit upon a concept not to be found in the Talmud itself, but rather in the responsa of the medieval Rabbi Solomon Ben Aderet, who ruled on the basis of this text that it was proper to publicize the names of those who did good works.

I and the rest of the class waited for Si-mon’s response in suspense. What deeply personal emotion would he express? Aft er all, he was the shy one in the class, the one who was most withdrawn. We were all taken aback when he began his remarks in a con-fi dent voice.

“Th ere was something about the story of Judah and Tamar that transfi xed me. I couldn’t quite put my fi nger on it until we had those few moments of quiet contempla-tion. It was then that I realized that Tamar had the opportunity to identify her father-in-law, Judah, as the one who had impreg-nated her. Instead, she just points to the few objects he left with her and says, ‘Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff .’ (Genesis 38:25)

“I have gained a reputation in this group of being the one who is most shy and most sensitive. But I think we are all beginning to learn that we are all quite sensitive individu-als. Th e basic Jewish concept that I learned from Tamar’s unwillingness to identify Ju-dah by name is that one must be ready to allow oneself to be executed by fi re rather than put another person to shame. Embar-rassing someone is in a certain sense akin to murder.”

Th is time, I immediately shared with the class the Talmudic source for the basic Jew-ish concept which Simon had come up with on his own:

“Class, each of you is on to something. Each of you has discovered a principle which is to be found in our traditional sources. Richard, what you said is to be found in the Talmud. Leon, a rabbi in the Middle Ages al-ready thought along your lines. And Simon, here is what the Talmud says about the verse that you’ve connected with:

‘Why did not Tamar simply name Ju-dah? Said Rav Zutra the son of Tuviah in the name of Rav: to teach us that it is preferable that a person allow himself to be cast into a fi ery furnace than to embarrass another person in public.’” (Sotah 10b)

Once again, my little class of three, with no formal Jewish education to speak of, had independently recreated three basic Jewish teachings: that parents not favor one child over another, that good deeds be publicized, and that embarrassing another is a serious crime indeed.

Th e class left the room that evening with a sense of having accomplished at least two things: they each had listened sympatheti-cally to another person’s sharing of his soul, and they had each been able to transcend the details of a fascinating story and fi nd therein universal moral lessons.

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Th e people on the island had never seen strangers before. Th e king invited him to a feast. Th e food was good, but Koppel noticed something was missing — onions. And Koppel loved the taste of onions.

“Your food is delicious,” he said to the people, “but why don’t you add onions to it? Th at would make it taste even bet-ter.” “Onions? What are onions?” they all asked. “We’ve never heard of them. We have parsley, oregano, and pepper, but what are onions?” Koppel happened to have some onions in his backpack. He quickly fried them in a pan and added them to the food. “Scrumptious, absolute-ly delicious!” exclaimed the king. “I have never tasted anything as good as these fried onions. I am issuing a royal decree that onions must be added to all my food. And I am rewarding Koppel with baskets of gold and silver.”

Koppel was thrilled. He left his onions on the island and taught the people how to grow them. When he returned home, he told everyone about the island where no-body knew about onions. And he showed everyone his new riches.

One man decided he wanted to be-come rich and famous like Koppel. He guessed that if they didn’t know about onions, they might never have seen gar-lic either. He boarded the next ship and brought along a load of garlic. He, too, was invited to join a royal feast, and he taught them to cook with garlic. Th e king loved the garlic even more than the onions. “Th is thing you call garlic is even tastier than Koppel’s onions,” exclaimed the king. “We thank you. As we did for Koppel, we will reward you with what is most valu-able to us.” Th e king ordered that baskets be brought and fi lled to the brim with the most valuable things on the island.

“Th is is wonderful,” thought the man, a big smile appearing on his face. “Now I will be rich.” Th e king handed the bas-kets to the man. Th e smile quickly faded from his face. Th e baskets were fi lled with the king’s most valued possessions — the royal onions!

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and somehow found out that a shalom zo-chor was taking place here…”

Although the behavior of these younger, post-high school aged bais me-drash bochurim from a very reputable ye-shiva was not very objectionable. When they finally exited about 45 minutes after their arrival - a little happier than when they arrived, but still more or less sober-- I was surprised and troubled.

To come into a private home and crash a simcha when you are not meaningfully connected with the baalei simcha, is not only a bad manners and middos, but also shows a lack of even the most elementary middah of busha…un-less, of course your first drink was taken long before you showed up at that shalom zachor…

A modicum of research the following week showed me that it is not uncommon for bochurim to look for “a good shalom zachor” especially when it is “sof zeman”.

Indeed, this shalom zachor story just brought home a larger issue that has come to the fore over the last several years, and that is the increased consump-tion of alcohol among our young people.

There was a time in the not so distant past when our most precious young teens and young adults rarely drank. Drinking was limited to Purim, perhaps Simchas Torah, and sometimes even a very special occasion, once or twice during the year. That was it. Today, every chasuna, ev-ery weekend can be used as an excuse to drink, get high and often, get really drunk.

To be fair, this is not a prob-lem limited to our bochurim. Alcohol consumption among youth world over has spiked over the past years. In fact, a recent study of Israeli children reported in Haaretz, showed that alcohol consump-tion among Israeli children, both boys and girls, ranked second in the world behind the Ukraine…

It also must be said that the majority of our young men are precious, refined bnei Torah to who distance them-selves from such behavior. They are the most promising thing about our future and about the continued viability of Torah life in our society.

Nevertheless, there is also a sig-nificant minority; the question regarding that minority is why? Why are too many of our most precious people, the future fathers of Klal Yisroel, the future Rebbeim of our children and the future husbands of our daughters drinking far more than they should?

Alcohol consumption is an escape mechanism. It allows the person drinking to escape reality rather than be forced to face with and deal with the reality in which he lives he can instead just feel good, calm, worry free and the like, for the time that he is under the influence.

Is there something about the real-ity faced by many of today’s bochurim dif-ferent than the reality faced by bochurim one or two decades ago? With regard to some of the other hurdles that today’s youth face, we can say that a few years ago, teens did not have the degree of ease and

speed in which they could be hurled into she’ol tachtis. But alcohol is different. It was always relatively easy to get, it was as avail-able then as it is now. To the best of my knowledge there were shalom zachors on Friday nights then just as there is now?

So why are so many more of today’s youth looking to get a bit “buzzed” on weekends than their counterparts of several years ago?

This was the question which puzzled me during the days following the shalom zachor incident. I decided to pose it to a few mechanchim who deal with bochurim of that age.

Although there were slightly different nuances in their answers, the common denominator was that over the past two decades more and more stress has been placed on academic excellence. With that as the yardstick of success, many average young men are expected to perform and conduct themselves in a way that was once reserved for the aca-demic elite.

One mechanech gave me a kashrus analogy. He said, “We often see ads in publications placed by reputable kashrus organizations saying that an inadvertent mistake had been made in the labeling of a certain product - pareve when it is milchig, or kosher when it wasn’t kosher, etc. When I see one of those ads, I feel confident that the orga-nization is doing its job and their other products are probably kosher. After all, no human is perfect and if they are not afraid to publicly correct and own up to their mistakes. That is a good sign.”

“There are certain certifi-ers from whom you will never see such a sign. Why? Are they not human? Can they not make mistakes? They don’t put up signs because “they can’t make a mis-take!” Making a mistake would be an admission that perhaps once they were mistakenly complicit in a person eat-ing something below the standard that they purport to adhere to. That might

ruin their reputation as the absolute mehadrin min hame-hadrin. Thus they would rath-er not know about human er-ror, or even if they do find out, not admit it.”

“We too,” continued the mechanech, “make the colos-sal mistake of closing our eyes and treating every bochur, or at least purport the charade, that every bochur is one of the elite. We somehow mistaken-ly feel that we must close our eyes to the reality - that there are very good boys among us who are nevertheless not elite, when it comes to intellect or zitzfleish. They want to learn, they want to do the right thing but their own spiritual and emotional requirements also need to be addressed.”

“We mistakenly think that every one of our bochurim attending solid, mainstream yeshivos do not need the outlets, the kosher

outlets, the structured and supervised recreational, creative or social outlets that his ehrliche predecessors of a decade and certainly two and three decades ago had available. Those outlets gave them addi-tional sipuk hanefesh, while simultane-ously not making them feel like they were failures and unsuccessful. Those outlets ultimately gave them the self confidence and sipuk that eventually facilitated their sustained growth in learning too!”

In addition, one mechanech mentioned that today’s youth seem far more coddled than in the past and are thus less capable of dealing with adversity, disappointment or pressure. Therefore, instead of facing a problem and dealing with it, they take the easy way out, and escape reality by con-suming alcohol.

Another mechanech added that, “The fact that many bochurim have to grapple with so many more yetzer haras than their predecessors; especially the ones made more easily accessible by the ever increas-ing development of modern communica-tion technology, frequently makes them deal with feelings of guilt. These things are difficult for most people to discuss with a mashgiach, and thus they are often left to fester, only being relieved by escape from reality as afforded by the bottle.”

This writer feels that perhaps that is also one of the reasons why too many of our youth lost all sense of proportion when participating in the recent Shabbos demonstrations in Yerushalayim and en-gaging in destructive behavior that was completely out of character for the chinuch that they were given.

It was not the fire of Shabbos that burned within them. Because if it was the fire of Shabbos then they would have demonstrated in the civil way that was in-structed by the gedolei yisroel who called for a protest. The fire that burned within them was the fire of doing something “ex-citing” something that constituted prikas ol; an outlet that would afford them an es-cape from reality. An escape from life.

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the Torah contrasts Adam with the serpent. In Noach, it is Noach versus the Dor HaM-abul. In Lech L’cha, Avrohom opposes the four kings. In Vayera, the righteous Avro-hom is contrasted with the wicked people of Sodom, and in Chayei Sarah, Eliezer is contrasted with Lavan. In Toldos, the oppo-nents are Yaakov and Esau, and, in Vayaitzai they are Yaakov and Lavan. In Vayishlach, again Yaakov and Esau are contrasted.

“But when it comes to Vayaishev, I have great difficulties. All of Yaakov’s children are righteous. Who are the resho’im? This is why I say that in the dispute between Rav Naftoli Tzvi and Rav Yosef Dov, I see par-shas Vayaishev. Both people are great tzad-dikim, leaders of this generation, and their intentions are for the sake of Heaven. It will not be an easy matter to decide who is right and who is wrong...” (See Rishon L’Shalsheles Brisk, p.128 for an account of the entire in-cident and its conclusion.)

In discussing the disagreement between Yosef and his brothers this has to be our outlook as well. The source of the dispute wasn’t simple petty jealousy. It was a ques-tion of Halacha. The brothers felt that Yosef was a rodef, a pursuer who was out to kill them. They felt they had the legal right to defend themselves and even kill him (see Talmud Sanhedrin 72a).

What provoked these feelings? The brothers saw that their father treated Yosef differently than them. Yaakov showed ex-tra love for Yosef (37:3), gave him a special tunic, a sign of leadership (see Sforno) and taught him the Torah he had learned from the Academy of Shem and Eber. Yosef was obviously being groomed as the successor to Yaakov and the brothers feared that this was a threat to their existence.

They noticed a frightening pattern. Av-rohom had two sons. Yishmael was side-tracked and Yitzchok became Avrohom’s successor. Yitzchok had two sons. The wicked Esau was weeded out and Yaakov

became the third link in the chain of the Patriarchs. Since Yaakov gave preferential treatment to Yosef and Yosef reported his sibling’s shortcomings to their father, the brothers were afraid that they too would be sidetracked from K’lal Yisroel.

While Yishmael and Esau were justifi-ably expelled from the Jewish nation, the brothers knew that they were tzaddikim and were worthy of becoming the forbearers of the Chosen People. But it seemed that Yo-sef was doing everything in his power to get them expelled. He was promoting himself at their expense, and publicizing his dreams that they would all bow to him. Thus, they considered Yosef a rodef.

What was the other side of the coin? Why did Yosef publicize his dreams, real-izing that he would antagonize his broth-ers? The Vilna Gaon explains that Yosef knew that his dreams were prophecies from Hashem, and as a navi, was required to re-veal the message of the prophecy to those for whom it was intended. If he had dreams that his brothers would be humbled before him, it had to mean that it was because of their shortcomings which needed to be rectified.

In the introduction to the second vol-ume of the Afikei Yam, an inspiring insight to Yosef ’s righteousness is presented. The pasuk says, “Yosef brought evil reports about them to their father” (37:2). Why is the word “he brought” used to describe Yosef ’s criti-cal remarks to Yaakov, when a more suitable word would be “he related”? Also, why does the pasuk say “to their father”? Wasn’t Yaa-kov also his father? Later (37:10), it does say “and he related it to his father.”

The Afikei Yam explains that Yosef was strictly following the laws of loshon hora. If someone sees another Jew committing a sin, he has an obligation to correct him. If the person knows that the sinner will ignore his reproof, then he has a right to tell the person’s father or rebbi about the misdeed so that they will correct him for it. But he must be extremely careful to describe the

sin exactly as it happened, not to embellish or exaggerate the details in any way.

Additionally, his intentions must be purely motivated, not to settle a previous account, or to benefit in some other way (see Chofetz Chaim 4:5).

These were Yosef ’s intentions here. As the second youngest, Yosef felt that his words of reproof to his older siblings would be ignored. So he told Yaakov, in the hope that he would correct them. The facts were presented exactly the way he saw them. This is why the pasuk uses the word “he brought”, to show that he didn’t embellish or exagger-ate what he saw. He was like a letter carrier who brings the mail from place to place, but does not add or subtract anything along the way. The pasuk also stresses that he brought the words to their father. He declined to use this opportunity to curry favor for himself at their expense. The fact that Yaakov was his father played no role in his action.

Shlomo HaMelech writes in Koheles (3:15), that “G-d always seeks out the pur-sued.” The commentaries try to explain why the word “seeks ou”t is used when a more suitable word would be “to save the pursued”? The explanation could be that sometimes it is very difficult to discern who is the rodef (pursuer) and who is the nirdaf (pursued). Only Hashem, who can fathom the hidden thoughts of the minds of men can seek out, so to speak, the nirdaf and de-fend him from the hands of his oppressor.

The Chazon Ish, in his classic work, Emunah U’Bitachon (3:14), illustrates how easy it is to confuse the rodef with the nirdaf. He quotes a responsa in Yad Shaul (Y.D. #245), which is mentioned in Pischei Teshuvah (Choshen Mishpot 156:17). A cer-tain town had a group of melamdim (Torah teachers) who taught the local children. A new group of melamdim came to the town and opened a competing cheder and were successful in attracting many of the stu-dents. This caused a major dispute.

The supporters of the new melamdim contended that the new cheder would im-prove the standard of chinuch of the chil-

dren and was permissible in the spirit of “jealousy between scholars increases wis-dom” (see Talmud Bava Basra 21b). The old melamdim wanted to expel the newcomers claiming that they were rodfim who had no right to infringe on the existing cheder.

The battle became heated when the old melamdim called in the police to have these newcomers forcibly expelled from town. They based this on their interpretation of an opinion of Rema (ibid.:6) which seemed to permit this behavior.

The Yad Shaul issued a forceful ruling, concluding that the new melamdim had a legitimate right to open a competing cheder if it would raise the chinuch standards in town. He condemned the old melamdim for their act of mesirah in calling in the au-thorities.

The Chazon Ish writes that there is an important lesson to be learned from this incident. Without clear knowledge of Hal-acha, one can easily err and make a rodef into a nirdaf and vice versa. If one makes a decision based on emotion and pity, as did those who sided with the old melamdim who stood to lose their source of income, a terrible mistake can occur. If one’s deci-sions are based on the Shulchan Aruch, then it is not the newcomers who are the rodfim. The pursuers are, in fact, the old melamdim who called in the gentile authorities.

This mix-up of attacker and victim oc-curred in the dispute between Yosef and his brothers. It seemed that Yosef was pursuing his brothers and they took the law into their own hands to defend themselves. Only upon the fulfillment of all of Yosef ’s dreams 22 years later did they finally realize that they were the rodfim.

There are situations in life where people get embroiled in fierce disputes and each party considers himself as the innocent vic-tim, and the other one as the rodef. With an impartial analysis of the Halacha, one can come to a clear conclusion of the Da’as To-rah of the matter and avoid the tragic mis-take of the brothers of Yosef.

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Yahrzeits of the Week dedicAted to the eternAl memory of leiby kletzky A"h

17 Kislev Rav Yosef Yoizel horowitz, Alter from novardok (1849[1858]-1919). Born in the Lithuanian town of Plongian to Rav Shlomo Zalman, Rav and Dayan of the town, Rav Yosef Yoizel joined Kovno’s Kol-lel Perushim where he studied under Rav Itzele Blazer, Rav Naftali Amsterdam and Rav Avraham Shenker, spending at least 18 hours a day - most of the time standing- studying. He also spent two lengthy peri-ods learning in solitude – first, he secluded himself in a small room for a year and a half after tragically losing his first wife during childbirth; later, learning in a room in a for-est for 12 years, leaving only to visit his fam-ily for Shabbosim. In 1894, Rav Yosef Yoizel began to visit the Alter of Kelm, Rav Sim-cha Zissel Ziv. Later, he established a large yeshiva in Novorodok and was responsible for creating a whole network of yeshivas. During the War, in 1914, he moved the ye-shiva – with its bachrim – to Hommel in the Ukraine, as the Germans advanced on Novardok. In 1918, he moved it to Kiev. Rav Chai Taib of Tunisia, author of HaLev Hitin (1835).

Rav shlomo heiman, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Elyon, Tora Vodaas (1893-1944). Born in Parenz, near Minsk, Reb Shlomo entered the yeshiva in Halusk at age 12, where he learned under Rav Ba-ruch Ber Leibowitz. He remained there until 1917, when he married Chaya Feiga Rudensky of Volozhin. That year, he was appointed by Rav Baruch Ber to serve as Rosh Yeshiva in Knesses Bais Yitzchak. When anti-Semitic harassment forced him to leave the area, the Chafetz Chaim asked Rav Shlomo to teach in his yeshiva. When WWI ended, Rav Elchonon Wasserman asked Rav Shlomo to be a Rosh Yeshiva in Baranovitch. In 1927 Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski invited Rav Shlomo to be Rosh Yeshiva of the Ramailles Yeshiva in Vilna, a position he held for almost eight years. In 1935, with Rav Chaim Ozer’s approval, Rav Shlomo accepted an invitation to head Ye-shiva Torah Vodaath. Thus he was spared, through hashgocho pratis, the horrors of WWII.

18 Kislev Rabbeinu Avraham ben haRambam, the only son of the Rambam, born to him by his 2nd wife. Born in Fostat, Egypt (1186-1238). Author of Hamaspik L’avdei Hashem.

Rav Baruch of Mezhbizh (1756 [or 1753] -1811), son of Rav Yechiel Ashkenazi and Adel, the only daughter of the Baal Shem Tov. Educated by Rav Pinchas of Ko-ritz and the Maggid of Mezritch, he began serving as Rebbe in Tulchin. After the pass-ing of his older brother, the Degel Mach-ane Ephraim in 1798, Rav Baruch settled in Mezhibizh.

Rav Yekusiel shmelke of sassov (1857)

Rav Yosef Yitzchak of ovritch, son of the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch, and fa-ther of Rebbitzen Shterna Sarah who was the wife of the Rebbe RaShaB (1877).

Rav Tzvi Menachem Teller, Rosh Ye-shiva at the Bais Medrash L’Torah (Skokie Yeshiva) (1951-2007).

19 Kislev

Rav Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch (1704-1772). Born in Lukatch to Reb Avra-ham, he was descended from Rav Hai Gaon and Rav Yochanan Hasandler, a descendent of Dovid Hamelech. Rav Dov Ber learned with the Pnei Yehoshua in Lemberg early in his life. In 1752, he became the Baal Shem Tov’s closest disciple. Among his students were the Rebbe Reb Shmuel Shmelke Ha-Levi Horowitz and his brother, Reb Pin-chas HaLevi Horowitz, the Baal HaFloh, the Rebbe Reb Zushia and his brother, Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchiv, Rav Nachum of Chernobyl, Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi. His son was Rav Avraham HaMalach (1740-1776). The clas-sic anthologies of his teachings are Likutei Amarim, Torah Ohr, and Ohr HaEmmes.

Rav shaul Mekiketz shelai, born in Djerba, one of the two main cities in Tuni-sia, son of Rav Matuk Sali, and grandson of Emmanuel Shelai.

20 Kislev

Rav Baruch hager of Seret-Viznitz, the Imrei Baruch (1892). The son of Rav Me-nachem Mendel Hager, Rav Baruch was Rebbe for only eight years, and was niftar at a young age.

Rav Yitzchak hutner, Rosh Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, author of Pachad

Yitzchak (1907-1981). His uncle, R’ Ben-zion Ostrover, had been a disciple of Rav Mendel of Kotzk, and was instrumental in providing his young nephew with a direct link to the world of Chasidus. At the age of 15, he went to Slobodka and was directed by the Alter, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel. In 1925, he entered the new Slabodka branch in Chevron. He remained until 1929, after which he returned to his parents in War-

saw. He became a personal tutor for Rav Moshe Solevetchik’s son, Aharon. In 1932, he published his Toras HaNazir, a com-mentary on the Rambam’s Hilchos Na-zir. In 1933, he married Masha Lipshitz and moved to Eretz Yisrael. Despite his great attachment to the Land, they left for America one year later, not to return for 30 years. He built Yeshiva Chaim Berlin to his specifications with his famous blend of Torah philosophies. Among his talmidim are Rav Yitzchak Shurin, grandson of Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky. Among his colleagues at Slobodka were R’ Yitzchak HaLevi Ru-derman, R’ Reuven Grozovsky; R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky; and R’ Aharon Kotler. In 1949 he began publishing his discourses on mor-als and ethics which he subtitled, Divrei Torah B’inyanei Hilchot Deos V’Chovos Halevovos. As a young man he wrote Toras Hanazir on the Rambam’s Hilchos Nezirus. He wrote a profound commentary (Kovetz Heaaros) on Rabbeinu Hillel on the Safra. His discourses on Yomim Tovim and Shab-bos (Pachad Yitzchok) are collected in sev-en volumes.

Rav Yochanan Twersky, the Rachmas-trika Rebbe. He was also the cousin of the Belzer Rebbe. He was shot by the Nazis during Friday night prayers. His daughter, Malka married the first Boyaner Rebbe, Reb Yitzchak Friedman.

Rav Meshulam Feivish haLevi of Zbarazh, author of Yosher Divrei Emes, a basic work on chasidic thought (1794). He studied under R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Dov Ber of Mezritch. His teachings appear in Likutim Yekarim. His disciples included Rav Menachem Mendel of Kosov.

Rav Feivish of Kremenitz, the Mishnas Chachamim (1774)

Rav hirsh paley (1911-2006). Born in Shklov, Lithuania, to Rav Avraham Noach Paley, a close talmid of Rav Baruch Ber Lei-bovitz.

21 Kislev

shimon ben Yaakov Avinu (1566-1446 B.C.E.) [24 Kislev per Yated 2007]

Rav Tzvi pesach Frank, rav of Yerusha-layim (1873-1961). He was born in Lithu-ania and was a student of Rav Eliezer Gor-don and Rav Shmuel Salant, his main work is a set of responsa known as Har Tzvi. He also authored Mikraei Kodesh. He was the father-in-law of Rav Menachem Ben-Tzion Sacks, the Menachem Tzion. Rav Yaakov Meir padwa of Brisk, au-thor of Mekor Mayim Chaim, a commen-tary on Shulchan Aruch.

Rav Yochanan perlow, the seventh Rebbe (sixth, per Yated 2006) of the Stolin-Karlin dynasty (1900-1956). Born in Stolin, a suburb of Pinsk, White Russia, to Rav Yis-rael, the “Yanuka” of Stolin. After his father was niftar in 1921, his six sons split the suc-cession: Rav Moshe became rebbe in Stolin;

Rav Avraham Elimelech took over in Kar-lin; Rav Yaakov moved to the U.S. in 1923 to lead the Karlin community that already had four shuls in New York and one shtieb-el in Detroit. He became known as the Detroiter Rebbe. Rav Yochanan moved to Poland where he became a rebbe in Lutsk, capital of the Volhynia district. Among the 41,000 people in Lutsk were 18,000 Jews. After the Nazis entered Lutsk on June 25, 1941, they herded the Jews into a ghetto in December, and the following August, they dragged 17,500 of them outside the town and murderously gunned them down. The last survivors, Jewish workers in the local labor camp, mounted a heroic but hopeless revolt on December 11, after learning that they, too, were about to be liquidated. Only about 150 Lutsk Jews survived the war. Rav Yochanan, his wife and two daughters fled into the surrounding forests and made their way deep into Russia with groups of partisans. After being deported to Siberia and personally burying his wife and elder daughter there on the same day, Rav Yo-chanan somehow survived the war. He lost almost his entire family; only one daughter, Faige, survived. He moved to Haifa in 1946, then to America two years later. While in New York, he founded the Karlin-Stolin Torah Institutions and published the new Siddur Beis Aharon v’Yisrael, compris-ing Karlin-Stolin minhagim. Rav Yochan-an’s grandson, Rav Baruch Yaakov Meir Shochet, became the next Stolin-Karlin Rebbe. He composed the poem “Kah Ech-sof Noam Shabbos” that is printed in most editions of Shabbos Zemiros.

22 Kislev

Rav Eliezer Ashkenazi, author of Ma’asei Hashem (1512-1585). Born in Turkey, he studied with Rav Yosef Taitat-zak (1465-1546) in Salonica. He served as a rabbi in Egypt from 1538 to 1561. For unknown reasons, he was compelled to leaved, serve in Famagusta, Cyprus, then to Venice, Italy. Due to a disagreement with Rav Shmuel Yehudah Katzenellengogen, he moved to Prague, where he helped develop the chevra kadisha, on which others are based. After a year, he moved back to Italy and lived in Cremona. In 1578, he moved to Posen, Poland and took his final post.

Rav Meshulem Mirels, father-in-law of the Chacham Tzvi (1686).

Rav pinchas of ostroha (1805).Rav Yechezkel panet, Av Bais Din of De’esh (Dezh), Chief Rabbi of Transylva-nia and author of Mar’eh Yechezkel and Kenesses Yechezkel. (1783-1845)

Rav Yoel Ashkenazi of Zlotchov (1906), brother-in-law of Rav Yosef Yoel Deutsch of Kretchinef, Hungary, author of Yad Yosef (1859).

Rav shalom Mordechai schwadron, Yerushalmi maggid (1913-1997), brother-in-law of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.



Yahrzeits of the Week dedicAted to the eternAl memory of leiby kletzky A"h

Yossi Deutsch

I was zoche to meet R’ Nossan Tzvi for the fi rst time on a trip to Eretz Yisroel on Cha-nuka 7 years ago. I was greeted with such a warm smile and bracha from the Rosh Ye-shiva which made me want to go learn in Yeshivas Mir. Th e following Elul, I was zoche to learn in the Mir for 2 years. During that time I had the zechus to listen to the Rosh Ye-shiva every single Friday at his dining room table give a shiur on the parsha. Th rough that shiur, I was zoche to create a kesher with R’ Nosson Tzvi. Anytime I had a question his doors were always open with a smile. Before I would leave to go back home I would go and say goodbye to the Rosh Yeshiva and he would give me a bracha and say as he con-cluded “please come back”.

When I would come back at the begin-ning of the zman, I would go and say shalom aleichem to the Rosh Yeshiva, he would re-spond with a warm smile, and kiss and say “welcome home”. Th e Mir was a place that made a bachur feel part of something. Th e kochas that R’ Nosson Tzvi put into all the bachurim and to the yeshiva as a whole was something which made me want to be a bet-ter person. Aft er I left the yeshiva, I always made it my business to always go and visit the Rosh Yeshiva whether it was when he came into Brooklyn, or by the Mir dinner or when I went for Succos.It was my priority to always keep in touch with the Rosh and to al-ways seek guidance from him on my journey through life. When I was zoche to fi nd my

bashert last February, I went right away to Eretz Yisroel back to my home away from home - Yeshiva Mir. My fi rst stop was R’ Nosson Tzvi’s house to tell him the excit-ing news and to ask him if I can be zoche to have him be mesader kiddushin at my wedding. He gave me a warm smile a kiss and said “iy’h with pleasure”. On June 15, he was mesader kiddushin at my wedding - it is a day I will never forget. As I came off the chupa, the Rosh Yeshiva stopped us and gave me and my kalla h a warm bracha and I thanked him again for giving me the zechus to have him come to my chasuna. He answered back and said “with pleasure for a talmid”.

I would like to share a vort that R’ Nosson Tzvi said at his chumash shiur on Erev Shab-bos Parshas Vayeishev 2005 which left an im-pact on me ever since. It says “Vayeishev Yaa-cov - Rashi says that Yaacov wanted to sit and learn with peace and serenity - all of a sud-den, the story of Yosef came up. Hashem says that tzadikim sit in peace in serenity in olam haba not olam hazeh.” Th is world is for amei-lus. It says in Avos “Pas bamelech toichel.... and it ends off with if a person follows these guidelines then praiseworthy in olam hazeh and it will be good for you in olam haba.” R’ Nosson Tzvi asks that how do we people who are not on such a high caliber of Avodas Hashem be mekayem this mishna? We eat more than just bread with salt and we drink more than just water and we don’t sleep on the fl oor. So how do we reach a high level of

Avodas Hashem? R’ Nosson Tzvi answered beautifully something that can inspire all of us. Th e yesod is that Torah has to be done with Ameilus. When a person wakes up in the morning he has a fi ght with his yetzer hora if he should get up for shachris or not, should he show up to seder or work on time, should he be honest in the workplace etc... R’ Nosson Tzvi goes on and says that if a person uses all these hardships to be mekayem and win the battle against the yetzer hora then his Avodas Hashem is B’derech Hatorah and that person is on the same level, as the Mishna in Avos says “Pas bamelech tocheil.” We all have our own hardships every day to be a righ-teous Jew and follow in Hashem’s way and if we overcome it we can reach the height of “ashreicha b’olam hazeh vetov loch b’olam haboh”. It was always a great chizuk to go and see how the Rosh Yeshiva was an Eved Hashem. Whether on Chanukah - to see the Rosh Yeshiva light his neiros with such hap-piness and sing around him in a circle Moaz Tzur right aft er, or to sing Shoshanas Yaacov aft er the megilla, or to get a bracha aft er de-

livering Mishloach Manos to him at his home. R’ Nosson Tzvi was someone who had his physical hardship every single day and he overcame it and was michazek thousands of talmidim and tens of thousands of Yidden around the world to strive. Th e Rosh Yeshivas Ameilis Batorah, open home to everyone and his warm smile was something each one of us should learn from.

He was named for his grandfa-ther, the Maharsham, the leading posek in Galicia before World War I. He lost his father at age seven, and for a time lived in an orphanage. Aft er his bar mitzvah he studied in the Lomzer Yeshiva in Petach Tikvah, and later in the Chevron Yeshiva in Yerushalay-im under Rav Yehuda Leib Chas-man. Aft er his marriage, he con-tinued his studies in Kollel Ohel Torah. Th e kollel’s members in-cluded Rav Yosef Shalom Elyas-hiv and Rav Shmuel Wosner. In addition to his renown as a mag-gid, he published approximately 25 of his grandfather’s works, as well as Lev Eliyahu (of Rab Elya Lopian), and the writings of Rav Chasman, Ohr Yohel.

Rav Yosef Chaim Klein. Born in New York, he learned at Torah Vodaas. His rebbe muvhack was Rav Shlomo Heiman. He sub-sequently learned under Rav Reuven Grozovsky at Beis Mi-drash Elyon in Monsey. His last 40 years were spent as menahel of the mesivta of the Mirrer Ye-shiva in Brooklyn. (1922-2004)

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Rav Dovid of novhardok(1837), author of Galya Masech-es

Rav Elimelech of Tosh (now Nytass), Hungary (1946). Son of the founder of the Tosher dynas-ty, Rav Meshulem Feish Lowy.

Rav shabsai Yudelevitz, Yerushalmi maggid (1924-1996).

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Rav Chaim Chizkiyahu Me-dini, the Sdei Chemed (1832-1904). Rav Chaim was born in Yerushalayim and was married at 18. Aft er his father was nif-tar two years later, Rav Chaim’s cousins in Constantinople of-fered to support his learning if he moved there. Aft er 13 years in Turkey, he took a position of Rav in the small city of Karasu-bazar in Crimea. He served there for 33 years, fi ghting the forces of the Kariites, before moving back to Yerushalayim. He lived there for 2 years, then moved to Chevron, where he was appoint-ed Rav of the city in 1880. His Sdei Chemed is a monumental, universally-acclaimed 18-vol-ume Talmudic and halachic en-cyclopedia.

Continued FRoM Page 90 a Personal tribute to My Rosh YeshivaHorav nosson tzvi Finkel zt”l

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ADAS YESHURUN BAIS MOSHE RABBI AVROHOM KLEIN 3418 Avenue N 718.338.9414◗ Shacharis 6:20 AM ◗ Maariv 8:15 PM

AGUDAS ACHIM OF MIDWOOD RABBI YOSEF STERN 1564 Coney Island Ave 718-252-7289◗ Shacharis 6:40 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkia ◗ Maariv Following Mincha

AGUDAS YISROEL BAIS BINYOMIN RABBI MOSHE TUVIA LIEFF 2913 Avenue L 718.377.0977◗ Shacharis 6:25, 6:40, 7:30, 7:50, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 AM ◗ Mincha 5:00 PM,10 min pre shkiah◗ Maariv 7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 9:40, 10:15, 11:00 PM

AGUDAS YISROEL OF FLATBUSH RABBI MOSHE WEINBERGER 1302 Ocean Parkway◗ Shacharis 6:00, 7:30 AM

AGUDAS YISROEL SNIF ZICHRON SHMUEL RABBI ELIEZER GINSBURG 2141 Coney Island Ave. 718.627.3505 ◗ Shacharis 6:40 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

AGUDAS YISROEL OF MADISON RABBI YISROEL REISMAN 2122 Avenue S 718-998-8029◗ Shacharis 6:20, 7:15, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 5:40 PM ◗ Maariv 9:00, 9:35, 10:00 PM

AGUDATH ISRAEL OF EAST MIDWOOD 3120 Bedford Avenue 718-377-7774◗ Shacharis 6:30,7:30 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM, after Mincha

AHAVA VE AHAVA 1801 Ocean Parkway (AVENUE R)◗ Shacharis 6:00,7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Sunset ◗ Maariv After Mincha

AHAVAS CHESED RABBI TZVI BAJNON 3007 Avenue L 718.253.0979◗ Shacharis 5:50, 6:30 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv immediately after Mincha

AHAVAS DOVID RABBI SHMUEL DOVID BECK 924 East 10th Street 718-692-1945◗ Shacharis 7:15 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

AHAVAS SHALOM RABBI AHARON GULKOWITZ 864 East 26th Street◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. before earliest Shkiah ◗ Maariv after Mincha, 8:00 PM

AHAVAS TORAH RABBI NOSSON DOVID RABINOWICH Avenue R cor. East 27th St 718.382.9108◗ Shacharis 6:45 AM ◗ Maariv Thursday after Shiur 9 PM

AHI EZER YESHIVA 2433 Ocean Parkway 718.648.6100

ANSHEI SEFARD RABBI ZVI KOFF 1575 Coney Island Avenue◗ Shacharis Shabbos 9:00 AM

AVENUE N JEWISH CENTER RABBI MAX SCHREIER 321 Avenue N 718.339.7747◗ Shacharis 6:30, 7:15 AM ◗ Maariv 8:30 PM

BAIS AVROHOM DKRULA SPINKA RABBI SHMIDMAN 1177 East 18th Street 718-677-7041◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

BAIS ELUZER DFALTISHAN RABBI YONASAN BINYOMIN KATZ 1516 East 24th St 718.252.2537◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:20, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha/Maariv 10 minutes before shkiah

BAIS EPHRAIM RABBI YITZCHOK STEINWURZEL 2802 Avenue J 718.253.7572◗ Shacharis 6:15, 7:10,8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:00, 10:15 PM

BAIS HAMEDRASH OF FLATBUSH RAV HERSCHEL ZOLTY 1485 East 29th Street 718.692.4393◗ Shacharis 6:00, 7:00 AM

BAIS MEDRASH ATERES SHLOIME RABBI MORDECHAI TWERSKY 2905 Avenue K◗ Shacharis 6:30, 8:30 AM ◗ Maariv 9:45 PM

BAIS MEDRASH BEIS Y’SHAYA RABBI FISHER Avenue I & East 22nd Street 718.692.3414◗ Shacharis 6:50, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

BAIS MEDRASH YAAKOV MOSHE HORAV SHAMSHON BRODSKY 1221 Avenue S 718-375-9434 ◗ Mincha 15 min. before Shkia Bais Mordechai

BAIS MOSHE SHMIEL RABBI TOVIA ROTTENBERG RABBI MOSHE SHMIEL ROTTENBERG1782 East 28th Street 917.553.5353◗ Shacharis 6:45, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

BAIS YISROEL OF RUGBY 1821 Ocean Parkway 718.376.9689

BAIS YITZCHOK RABBI DOVID GOLDWASSER 1143 East 19th Street◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

BEIS AVROHOM RABBI DOV OSHRY 1524 East 17th Street 718-382-5229◗ Shacharis 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 ◗ Maariv 10 min after shkia, 7:45, 9:00 PM

BEIS MEDRASH D'BERTCH RABBI TZVI ELIMELECH ROKEACH 3302 Avenue P 718.376.1541◗ Shacharis 6:20, 7:15 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min before Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha, 8:45, 10:00

BEIS MENACHEM MENDEL RABBI YOCHANON MAROSOW 1703 Avenue J 347.633.1076◗ Shacharis - Sunday 8:00 AM Mon-Fri 7:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

BETH AARON OF FLATBUSH RABBI DOVID SHLOMO KATZ 1670 Ocean Avenue 718.377.4016, 2307◗ Shacharis 7:25 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. after Shkia ◗ Maariv 40 min. after Shkia

BETH EL JEWISH CENTER OF FLATBUSH 1981 Homecrest Ave 718.375.0120

BETH EL OF FLATBUSH 2181 East 3 Street 718.336.1926

BETH ISAAC 1719 Avenue P 718-336-7655◗ Shacharis 6:35 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha

BETH MORDECHAI RABBI MANDEL 1358 East 13th Street 718-382-4563◗ Shacharis 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30 AM ◗ Mincha 15 min. before Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha

BETH TORAH 1061 Ocean Parkway 718.252.9840◗ Shacharis 6:00, 7:00, 7:20 AM

BETH TORAH RABBI NUTA WAIDENBAUM 3574 Nostrand Ave 718.627.1386

BETH YOSEF 2108 Ocean Parkway 718.645.0448

BNAI JOSEF 1616 Ocean Parkway 718.627.9861

BNEI ISRAEL RABBI AVROHOM GARFINKEL 3190 Bedford Avenue 718.253.6624◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM

BNEI SHLOMO ZALMAN RABBI YOSEF FRANKEL 2002 Avenue J 718.377.9689◗ Shacharis From 6:30 every ½ hr. ◗ Mincha 20 min. after Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:00, 10:00 PM

BNEI TORAH RABBI SHLOMO CYNAMON 2925 Avenue K◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM

BNEI TORAH BAIS NAFTOLI RABBI BENZION SCHIFFENBAUER 3514 Flatlands Ave. 718.316.8241 ◗ Shacharis 6:30, 7:30 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

BNEI TORAH OF MARINE PARK RABBI YONASON EPSTEIN 3523 Avenue S ◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

BNEI YOSEF RABBI HAIM BENOLIEL 1650 Ocean Parkway◗ Shacharis Every 15 minutes ◗ Mincha & Maariv continuously

BOSTONER BEIS MEDRASH 2822 Avenue J 718.338.6464◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:15, 8:00, 9:00 AM ◗ Mincha 1:45, 2:45, 7:00 PM ◗ Maariv 9:15, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00

CHASIDEI GUR OF MIDWOOD RABBI CHAIM KOHN 1937 Ocean Avenue 718-253-9345◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

CONG. AHAVATH ACHIM RABBI ARI KAGAN 1741 E. 3 St 718-375-3895 ◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM

CONG. BET YAAKOB RABBI ELI J. MANSOUR 1801 Ocean Pkwy (Ave R) 718-336-3543◗ Shacharis 6:45 AM ◗ Maariv 9:45 PM

CONG. CHIZUK HADAS RABBI YISROEL GORNISH 1421 Avenue O ◗ Shacharis 6:25, 7:25 AM ◗ Mincha 1:00 PM ◗ Maariv 8:00 PM

DERECH EMMUNA D’VEIN RABBI CHAIM SEGELBAUM 2305 Olean Street 718.253.5314◗ Shacharis 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 AM

ETZ CHAIM OF FLATBUSH 1649 East 13 Street 718.339.4886

FLATBUSH MINYAN RABBI MEIR FUND 1517 Avenue H 718-338-7170◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

GINZEI YOSEF RABBI YOSEF ROSENBAUM Avenue R bet. 12th & 13th Street◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:45 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

GVUL YAABETZ RABBI DOVID COHEN 1580 Coney Island Avenue◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:45 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

HORODENKE RAV H.ASHKENAZI 1073 East 27th Street 718.252.9494◗ Shacharis 6:50 AM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

IMREI SHAUL D'MODZITZ RABBI HERSHEL NEWMARK REB BENZION SHENKER 1542 Coney Island◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM

JEWISH CTR. NACHLATH ZION 2201 East 23 Street 718.648.4865

KEHILAH OF MARINE PARK RABBI BARUCH P. MENDELSON 3605 Quentin Road 646.339.3364◗ Shacharis 6:25, 7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

KEHILAS MORESHES YAAKOV RABBI AVRAHAM BINSKY 1749 Ocean Avenue 718.998.1237◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM

KESER YISROEL MORDECHAI RABBI MEIR PLATNICK 2016 Avenue L 718.252.6011◗ Shacharis Vasikin, 6:40 AM ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

KETER TORAH RABBI AVRAHAM HARARI-RAFUL 2220 Avenue L 718.377.4791◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 4:10 PM ◗ Maariv following Mincha, 10:00 PM

KHAL KINYAN TORAH 1570 Coney Island Ave bet Ave J & K◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM ◗ Mincha 3:30 PM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

KINGSWAY JEWISH CENTER RABBI EITAN TOKAYER 2810 Nostrand Avenue 718.258.3344◗ Shacharis 6:30, 7:30 AM ◗ Maariv 10 minutes after Mincha

KNESSES BAIS AVIGDOR RAV AHRON KAHN 1720 Avenue J 718.258-1380◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 8:15, 10:00 PM

KOL ISRAEL RABBI RAYOND HARARI 3211 Bedford Avenue 718.951.1417◗ Shacharis 6:10, 7:00, 7:45 AM ◗ Mincha 15 Min. Before Sunset

KOL TORAH RAV LIPA GELDWERTH 2016 Avenue M◗ Shacharis 6:55 AM ◗ Mincha 20 min. before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:45 PM

KOLLEL BNEI TORAH RABBI YOSEF EISEN 1323 East 32nd Street ◗ Shacharis Vasikin (30 minutes before Netz) ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

KOLLEL BNEI YESHIVOS RABBI MOSHE SCHEINERMAN 2402 Avenue P 718.692.3307◗ Shacharis 6:40, 7:30 ◗ Mincha 5:30, 10 min. before Shkiah ◗ Maariv B’zman 9:30, 10:00 PM

LAKEWOOD MINYAN OF FLATBUSH RABBI MORDECHAI MARCUS 1495 Coney Island Avenue 718-252-5274 ◗ Shacharis Shabbos 8:30

LANDAUS (VERETZKY) RABBI LANDAU Avenue L corner East 9th Street◗ Shacharis ½ hour until 11:00 ◗ Mincha starting w/ Mincha Gedola ◗ Maariv 15 min. til 1:00 AM

LAZEWNIKS RABBI LAZEWNIK 1500 East 9th Street 718-376-8242◗ Shacharis 7:00, 8:00 AM ◗ Maariv half hour after shkiah, 8:45 PM

MACHNE ISRAEL 2413 East 23 Street 718.332.8788

MACHZEKI TORAH RABBI MOSHE TOIV 3300 Kings Highway 646.327.1132◗ Shacharis 8:00

MADISON TORAH CENTER RABBI DANIEL TAWIL Corner Ave R & East 23rd st 718-666-8742◗ Shacharis 7:00

MAGRIV BEIS ARYEH RABBI SHEA KATZ 1069 East 4th Street, I & J 718-338-4925◗ Shacharis 7:10 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

MARAH YECHEZKEL OF FLATBUSH RAV BINYOMIN RUTTNER 1014 East 15th Street 718-377-4573 ◗ Shacharis 6:30, 6:45 AM ◗ Mincha 15 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 9:45 PM

MARPEH L'NEFESH RABBI SHMUEL ZEV FRIEDMAN 3017 Bedford Avenue◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv after Mincha, 8:45 PM

MAYAN YISROEL RABBI VIGLER 3307 Avenue N, 718.781.5192◗ Shacharis 6:55, 7:40 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 10:00 PM

MERKAZ YISROEL OF MARINE PARK RABBI ELISHA WEISS 3311 Avenue S 917.623.9754◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 8:00 PM

MIRRER YESHIVA VASIKIN MINYAN RABBI SHOLOM STEINBERG Avenue R & Ocean Parkway 718.415.3845 ◗ Shacharis 30 minutes before Netz

MONASTRISTCH 2702 Avenue M 718.338.8895◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

MYRCB ALUMNI MINYAN OF AVE I 911 East 13th Street ◗ Shabbos Shacharis 8:30 AM

MYRCB ALUMNI MINYAN OF AVE L 3007 Avenue L ◗ Shabbos Shacharis 8:30 AM

NACHLAS DOVID RABBI LICHTENSTEIN 1589 East 28th Street ◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM ◗ Maariv 9:05 PM

NACHLAS LEVI YITZCHOK RABBI LEVI HENDEL 3040 Nostrand Avenue 718.207.0308◗ Shacharis 6:20, 8:20 AM ◗ Mincha 15 min. before "lichtbenching" ◗ Maariv following Mincha

NACHLAS YEHOSHUA RABBI DOVID TOIV 1655 East 24th Street 718.338.0500, 917.687.6207◗ Shacharis 6:40, 8:00AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 9:00 PM

NACHLAS YITZCHOK RABBI AVROHOM YOSEF SEKULA 3418 Avenue L 718.377.6051◗ Shacharis 6:40, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:15, 10:00 PM

NAROL BEIS HAMEDRASH RABBI SHAPIRO 2409 Avenue U 718.332.9100◗ Shacharis 6:25,7:10 AM ◗ Mincha At Sunset ◗ Maariv After Mincha, 9:15 PM

NETIVOT ISRAEL 1617 Ocean Parkway 718.998.2534

OHEL MOSHE LUBAVITCH RABBI MOSHE KORENBLIT 849 Ocean Parkway 718.437.0050 ◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM

OHEL YITZCHOK RABBI LEIB KELMAN 1419 Dorchester Road 718-284-8032◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM

OHEV TZEDEK OF FLATBUSH RABBI NAFTULI HERSH ROTTENBERG 1688 East 18th Street 718.375.8564 ◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM Mincha 2:00 PM

PRI EITZ CHAIM RABBI MELVIN BURG 2600 Ocean Avenue 718.743.5533◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before sunset ◗ Maariv following Mincha

PROSPECT PARK YESHIVA CONG. RABBI AVROHOM KELMAN 1609 Avenue R 718.377.4432◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 20 minutes pre Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha

RABBI HALBERSTAM RABBI BENTZION HALBERSTAM Avenue J & East 21st Street 718.377.4432◗ Shacharis 7:30, 8:30 AM ◗ Mincha 20 minutes after Shkiah ◗ Maariv 30 minutes after Shkiah

SASREGEN SASREGEN ROV 1279 East 24th Street 718.377.9586◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:30, 8:15 ,9:00 ◗ Mincha 30 minutes after Shkiah ◗ Maariv Following Mincha

SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION RABBI MOSHE MAYOR 2831 Nostrand Avenue. 718.951.1300◗ Shacharis 5:50 AM ◗ Mincha 6:30 PM ◗ Maariv 8:00 PM

SEPHARDIC HOME 2266 Cropsey Avenue 718-266-6169◗ Shacharis 9:00 AM ◗ Mincha 4:00 PM

SEPHARDIC LEBANESE CONGREGATION RABBI E. ELBAZ 805 Avenue T 718.627.5300◗ Shacharis 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 20 minutes before sunset ◗ Maariv 10:00 PM

SHAARAY ZION 1659 East 13th Street 718-552-5553

SHAARE RAHAMIM RABBI SHLOMO CHURBA 1244 East 7th Street 718-951-9444◗ Shacharis Netz, 8:00 AM

SHAARE SHALOM RABBI YOSEF DWECK Corner of East 21st and Avenue S 718-376-6756◗ Shacharis 7:00,8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes bef. Sunset ◗ Maariv Immediately following Mincha

SHAAREI SHALOM (NUSACH ASHKENAZ) RABBI YISROEL HIRSCH 2961 Nostrand Avenue

SHAARE TORAH YESHIVA 1680 Coney Island Avenue 718-645-6676◗ Shacharis 7:40 AM ◗ Mincha 1:40 PM

SHAAREI ZION 2022 Ocean Parkway 718.375.3834

SHAREI ZION RABBI CHAIM HALBERSTAM 3210 Kings Highway 718.338.3545◗ Shacharis 7:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah

SHALHEVES KODESH RABBI YEHUDA SHEINKOPF 2920 Avenue J◗ Shacharis 6:25 ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

SHAREI ELIEZER RABBI YEHUDA HOROWITZ 1882 New York Avenue, 718.758.0449◗ Shacharis 6:30, 8:00, 8:30 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 8:15, 9:00, 10:00 PM

SHAREI HALACHAH RABBI ELIMELECH LEBOWITZ 3417 Avenue L ◗ Shacharis 6:30, 7:15 AM

SHOMREI HADAS BIKOVSK RABBI SHMELKE PINTER 1340 East 9th Street 718.336.4287◗ Kollel Boker 6:00 - 7:30 AM ◗ Shacharis 7:30 AM

STRETINER BAIS MEDRASH RABBI FLAUM 4609 Bay Parkway - Ocean Parkway off Ave I 718.258.9685 ◗ Shacharis 6:45, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 5:55 PM

TALMUD TORAH RABBI YAAKOV SHULMAN 1305 Coney Island Avenue 718-377-2528◗ Shacharis 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10-15 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv Immediately after Mincha

TALMUD TORAH AHAVATH ACHIM 1741 East 3 Street 718.375.3895

TENKE RABBI YITZCHOK ISAAC FRIEDMAN 1643 East 21st Street 718-258-1643◗ Shacharis 6:45 AM ◗ Maariv 8:30 PM

TIFERES AVROHOM ZIDICHOIV RABBI YECHESKEL EICHENSTEIN 4017 Avenue P 718.338.0298 ◗ Shacharis 6:25, 7:00, 7:55, 8:30, 9:05 ◗ Mincha 2:15 PM & 5 min. before shkiya ◗

Maariv 8:20, 9:30 PM

TIFERES TZVI RABBI MICHOEL SPITZER 1307 East 8th Street◗ Shacharis 6:55 AM ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

TOMCHEI TORAH RABBI FEIVEL COHEN 1966 Ocean Avenue 718-375-8705◗ Shacharis 6:45, 7:58 AM ◗ Mincha 20-25 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 10:00 PM

TOMOSHOV CONG. KOL ARYEH RABBI SIMCHA RUBIN 1212 Avenue I 718-258-1338◗ Shacharis 6:30, 8:00 AM ◗ Maariv 9:00, 10:10 PM

TORAH UMESORAH 1090 Coney Island Avenue (Foster & Ave. H), 3rd Floor◗ Mincha 2:00 PM

TORAS CHAIM D’FLATBUSH RABBI CHAIM YISROEL WEINFELD 2201 Avenue L 718.951.9389 ◗ Shacharis 6:20, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv 9:00, 10:00 PM

TORAH UTEFILAH RABBI SHIMON ALSTER 3304 Bedford 718.758.9359◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM ◗ Maariv 10:00 PM

YESHIVA CHOFETZ CHAIM 1271 East 35th Street 718.258.9006◗ Shacharis 7:40 AM ◗ Mincha 2:45 PM

YESHIVA GEDOLA OHR YISRAEL RABBI AVROHOM N. ZUCKER 2899 Nostrand Avenue 718-382-8702 ◗ Shacharis 7:15,8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 2:45 PM ◗ Maariv 9:30 PM

YESHIVA SHAREI TORAH 1162 E. 12th ◗ Shacharis 6:00 & 6:45 AM ◗ Mincha 15 min. pre Shkia

YESHUOS CHAIM CHENTZKOVITCH RABBI MENDEL TEITELBAUM 1167 East 13th Street◗ Shacharis 6:30 & 7:30 AM Mincha 7:00 ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

YOUNG ISRAEL OF AVENUE J RABBI AARON LEVINE 1721 Avenue J 718.338.2056, 718.253.0969◗ Shacharis 6:55,8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv 10:00 PM

YOUNG ISRAEL OF AVENUE K RABBI ARYEH RALBAG 2818 Avenue K 718.258.6666◗ Shacharis 5:55, 6:55, 7:55 AM ◗ Mincha 15 min. before Shkia ◗ Maariv After Mincha

YOUNG ISRAEL OF AVENUE U RABBI KALEV KRELIN 2119 Homecrest Avenue 718-496-0783◗ Shacharis 6:15 AM

YOUNG ISRAEL OF BEDFORD BAY RABBI TZVI FRIED 2114 Brown Street, 718.332.4120◗ Shacharis 6:25 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv immediately following Mincha

YOUNG ISRAEL OF FLATBUSH RABBI KENNETH AUMAN 1012 Avenue I 718.377.4400 ◗ Shacharis 6:45, 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 10 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha, 10:00 PM

YOUNG ISRAEL OF MIDWOOD RABBI ELI BARUCH SHULMAN 1694 Ocean Avenue 718.692.2107 ◗ Shacharis 5:50, 6:50, 7:30, 8:30 ◗ Maariv 9:15 PM

YOUNG ISRAEL OF OCEAN PARKWAY RABBI STOLZENBERG 1781 Ocean Parkway 718-376-6305 ◗ Shacharis 8:00 AM ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkiah ◗ Maariv following Mincha

YOUNG ISRAEL OF SHEEPSHEAD BAY RABBI SHIMON RABIN 2546 E. 7th Street 718.891.6767 ◗ Shacharis 6:30 ◗ Mincha 15 minutes before Shkia ◗ Maariv 30 minutes after Shkia

ZICHRON ARYEH LEIB RABBI YOSEF RABINOWITZ 2915 Avenue J 718.377.9652◗ Shacharis 6:45 AM Maariv 10:10 PM

ZICHRON AVROHOM YAKOV RABBI LEIZER DOVID RAPPAPORT 3203 Bedford Avenue◗ Shacharis 6:30 AM

ZICHRON MORDECHAI RABBI SHIMSHON SHERER 2645 Nostrand Avenue 718.692.3231◗ Shacharis 6:05, 7:45 AM ◗ Mincha 1:45, 8:15 PM ◗ Maariv 9:45 PM Mincha 15 min. before Shkia-

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Daf Yomi Directory5:30 AM Beis Mordechai - Rabbi Yaakov Eis (English)

Chizuk Hadas - Rabbi Ahron Yitzchok Jacobs (English)

Lev Someach-Alesk - Rabbi Yisroel Berger (Yiddish)

Nachlas Yitzchok - Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Sekula (Yiddish)

Shalheves Kodesh - Rav Yehuda Sheinkopf

Toras Chaim D'Flatbush- Rabbi Chaim Y. Weinfeld (English)

Yeshuran Muzhai Ropshitz - Rabbi Yisroel M. Kohn (Yiddish)

5:35 AM Agudath Israel of East Midwood - Rabbi Berel Edelstein (Engish)

5:40 AM Kehilah of Marine Park - Rabbi Dovid Kohn (English)

5:45 AM Agudas Yisroel Bais BinyominBais Alexander - Rabbi Binyomin Schik (Yiddish/English)

Bnei Torah Bais Naftoli - Bais Naftali - Rabbi Naftali Minzer

Ishei Yisroel Modzitz - Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Taub (English)

Premishlan - Rabbi Boruch S. Katzenberg (Yiddish/English)

Sasregan-Rabbi Shlomo Teichman (English)

Sharei Eliezer-Rabbi Avrohom Ellenbgen (Yiddish/English)Yeshiva Sharei Torah - Rabbi Hillel David (Yiddish)

5:50 AM Congregation Kehilas Orach Chaim - Rabbi Meyer Scheinberg (English)

5:55 AM Congregation Skverer Bais Medrash - Rabbi Avrom Lawrence (English)

Keser Yisroel Mordechai - Dr. Shlomo Schuck (English)

6:00 AM Agudath Achim of Midwood - Rabbi Yosef Stern (English)

Agudas Yisroel Sniff Zichron Shmuel - Rabbi Shmuel Yosef Lercher (English)

Bais Avrohom - Rabbi Benzion Halberstam (English/Yiddish)

Bais Eluzer - Rabbi Yonoson B. Katz (English)

Bais HaMedrash - Mr. Heshy Katz (English)

Bais Moshe Shmiel - R' Pinchas Rosenberg (English)

Bais Yitzchok - Rabbi Friedman (English)

Bnei Shloma Zalman - Rabbi Moshe Green (English)

Chevra Gemiluth Chesed - Rabbi Mendel Epstein (English)

Chizuk Hadas - Rabbi Yisroel P. Gornish (English)

Gvul Yaabetz - Rabbi Dovid Cohen (English)

Homecrest Congregation - Rabbi Gershon Eichorn (English)

Ishei Yisroel Modzitz - Rabbi Moshe Farkas (English)

Mosdos Boston of Flatbush - Rabbi Label Kozlowski (English)

Persian Congregation of Flatbush - Rabbi Shmuel Soleimani (Persian)

Sharei Halacha - Rabbi Levi Gelbfish (English)

Sharei Zion - Rabbi Meshulam Y. Halberstam (English)

Torah Vodaath Dormitory Minyan - Mr. Gedalia Engel (English)

6:10 AM Bais Hamedrash Kol Torah - Rabbi Yaakov Fischer (English)

Kerem Shlomo - Mr. Avrohom Augenbraun (English)

Tiferes Tzvi - Rabbi Aaron Tennenbaum (English)

6:20 AM Ahavas Dovid - Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Beck (Yiddish/English)

Magriv Bais Aryeh - Rabbi Mechel Beinhorn (English)

Nachlas Yehoshua of Monastristch - Rabbi Avigdor Feintuch (English)

6:30 AM Bais Eluzer - Rabbi Chaim Zev Stern (English)

Knesses Bais Avigdor - Rabbi Sender Kleinbard (English)

Bnei Shlomo Zalman - Rabbi Hirsch Chaim Wulliger (Yiddish)

Hisachdes Yereim Veretzky - Rabbi Heshy Wolf (English)

Young Israel of Avenue K - Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag (English)

Young Israel of Brighton Beach - Mr. Yaakov Stern (Hebrew/English)

Young Israel of Midwood - Rabbi Avrohom Dubin (English)

6:45 AM Agudath Yisroel of Flatbush - Rabbi Yehuda C. Horowitz (English)

Ateret Torah - Rabbi Chaim A. Weinberg (English)

Bais Avrohom - Rabbi Yosef Dov Oshry (English)

7:00 AM Agudas Yisroel Bais BinyominAgudas Yisroel of Madison - Rabbi Gedaliah Weinberger (English)

Bais Ephraim - Rabbi Heshy Kleinman (English)

Beth Aaron of Flatbush - Rabbi Dovid Shlomo Katz (English)

Darchei Avoseinu - Rabbi Moshe Ginsburg (English)

Mosad Adar G'Byr - Rabbi Chizkiya Loebenberg (English)

Sephardic of Nostrand - Mr. Baruch Salamander (English/Hebrew)

Talmud Torah Ahavas Achim - Rabbi Elimelech Bluth (Yiddish/English)

Toras Chaim - Rabbi Chaim Y. Weinfeld (English)

Young Israel of Bedford Bay - Rabbi Baruch Fireworker (English)

Young Israel of Ocean Parkway - Rabbi Avrohom Stolzenberg (English)

Khal Zichron Mordechai - Mr. Yossi Gleiberman (English)

7:10 AM Bnai Shloma Zalman - Rabbi Dovid Schonbrun

Rabbi Alster - Rabbi Raphael Lieberman (English)

7:15 AM Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr Yisrael-Marine Park - Rabbi Shmuel Lasker (English)

7:20 AM Lev Someach-Alesk - Rabbi Yitzchok Aschkenazi (Yiddish)

Young Israel of Flatbush - Rabbi Kenneth Auman (English)

Zichron Avrohom Yaakov - Rabbi Eliezer Dovid Rappaport (English)

7:30 AM Beis Medrash Ahavas Torah - Rabbi Mendel Sprecher (English)

Nachlas Yitzchok - Rabbi Yosef Ungar (English)

Sasregen - Dr. Shlomo Schuck (English)

Stretiner Bais HaMedrash - Mr. Berish Fuchs (English)

Yeshiva Ruach HaTorah - Rabbi Mordechai Amsel (English)

Young Israel of Midwood - Rabbi Yisroel Anemer (English)

7:35 AM Bais Avrohom - Rabbi Elchonon Kaplan (English)

7:45 AM Beis Mordechai - Rabbi Yehuda Schwartz (English)

The Flatbush Minyan - Rabbi Dr. Rashi Shapiro & Rabbi Meir Fund

Bnai Shloma Zalman - Rabbi Moshe Chopp (English)

8:00 AM B'nai Yosef - Rabbi Eli David (English)

Tiferes Yaakov - Rabbi Avrohom Schorr (Yiddish)

9:30 AM Khal Sasregen - Rabbi Yitzchok Sadowsky (English)

9:45 AM Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin - Rabbi Shmuel M. Wolner (English)

10:00 AM Sasregen - Rabbi Yitzchok B. Sadowsky (Yiddish/English)

12:45 PM 26 Court Street, Suite 10001 - R' Blumenkrantz, R' Bratt, R' Kagan, R' Noble (English)

1:15 PM Yeshiva Torah Vodaath - Rabbi Yisroel Belsky (English)

2:00 PM Darchei Yosher - Rabbi Yecheskel Scharf (Yiddish/English)

2:30 PM Ateret Avot Senior Residence - Rabbi Chaskel Scharf (Yiddish/English)

5:30 PM Yeshivat Ateret Torah - Rabbi Ellis J. Safdeye

6:00 PM Yam HaTorah - Rabbi Isaac Mohadeb (English)

6:30 PM Mirrer Yeshiva - Rabbi Avrohom Y. Nelkenbaum (English)

7:30 PM Chasidei Gur of Midwood - Rabbi Shlomo Perlman (Yiddish)

7:45 PM Agudath Israel of East Midwood - Rabbi Yosef Widroff (Engish)

Bais Yitzchok Tenke- Rabbi Friedman (English)

8:00 PM Bais Avrohom - Rabbi Chaim Horowitz/ Mr. Yaakov Miller (English)

Bais Ephraim - Rabbi Steinwurzel (Yiddish/English)

Bais Medrash Yaakov Moshe - Rabbi Shimshon Brodsky (Yiddish)

B'nai Yosef - Rabbi Eli David (English)

Bnei Avrohom - Rabbi Zvi Mayer Lichtig (Yiddish/English)

Lev Someach-Alesk - Rabbi Yitzchok Hollander (English)

Nachlas Dovid - Rabbi Boruch Goldstein (English)

Sasregen - Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Freund (English)

Tarnipol - Rabbi Levi Hettelman (Yiddish/English)

8:15 PM Bais Yitzchok - Rabbi Cheski Holtzberg (English))

8:30 PM Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin - Rabbi Yaakov Emert (English)

Agudas Yisroel of Madison - Rabbi Nachum Cooper (English)

Ateres Shloime - Rabbi Eliezer Stern (English)

Bais Yeshaya - Rabbi Yisroel Anemer (English)

Bais Yitzchok - Rabbi Isaac Friedman (English)

Chasidei Gur of Midwood - Rabbi Avrum Fried

Hisachdes Yereim Veretzky - Rabbi Yisroel Weichbrod (Yiddish)

Kollel Bnai Yeshivos - Dr. Joel Goldman (English)

Premishlan - Rabbi Shloma B. Herbst (Yiddish/English)

Tiferes Avrohom Zidichoiv - Rabbi Avrumi Katz (English)

Torah Vodaath Dormitory Minyan - Rabbi Mendel Keller (English)

Yeshiva Bais Yosef Navardok - Rabbi Heshy Nemetsky (English)

8:45 PM Kol Torah - Rabbi Yaakov Fischer (English)

Mareh Yechezkel - Rabbi Elozor Greenspan (English

Monastristch - Rabbi Berach Steinfeld (English)

Young Israel of Avenue K - Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag (English)

Keser Yisroel Mordechai - Rabbi Aryeh Zell (English)

9:00 PM Bais Moshe Shmiel - R' BenZion Weiss (English)

Bais Mordechai - Rabbi Tzvi Shapiro (English)

Beis Medrash D'Bertch-Rabbi Nachum Fried

Imrei Shaul D'Modzitz - Rabbi Raphael Leiberman (English)

Lev Someach-Alesk - Rabbi Alexander Aschkenazi (Yiddish)

Mosad Adar G'Byr - Rabbi Aaron Furst (English)

Mosdos Boston of Flatbush - R' Yitzchok Gelb, R' Yaakov Herman (English)

Tomchei Torah - Rabbi Moshe Einhorn (English)

Yeshuos Chaim Chentzkovitch - Rabbi Shraga Silber (English)

Young Israel of Avenue J - Rabbi Aryeh Victor (English)

Zichron Mordechai - Mr. Daniel Hirsch (English)

9:15 PM Bais Eluzer - Rabbi Chanoch Horowitz (English)

Bais Moshe Shmiel - Mr. B.Z. Weiss (English)

Derech Emunah-Vien - Rabbi Shmuel Moshe Solny (English)

Moreshes Yaakov - Rabbi Shlomo Kozlov (Russian)

Toras Chaim D'Flatbush - Rabbi Chaim Y. Weinfeld (English)

9:30 PM Keren Orah - Rabbi Shimon Susholz (Yiddish/English)

Sadowsky Home - Rabbi Yitzchok B. Sadowsky (English)

9:45 PM Agudath Israel Sniff Zichron Shmuel - Rabbi Mordecai Shain (English)

Kollel Bnei Torah - Mr. Dovid Lieber (English)

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ALTERNATING RABBANIM

SUGYOS IN DAF YOMI Motzei Shabbos 7:30 PM Kehilas Bais Avrohom 1124 E. 21 St (Avenue J)

RABBI SHMUEL YITZCHAK ACKERMAN

CHAZAL ON PARENTING Tuesday Eve. 8:15 PM 1052 East 31 Street

DAYAN MOSHE BERGMAN

CHOSHEN MISHPAT Monday Eve. 9:00 PM Avenue O Synagogue 808 Avenue O

BOSTONER REBBE

CHUMASH SHIUR Thursday 9:00 PM Boston 2822 Avenue J /VARIOUS SUGYOS Sun. 10:15-11:00 AM

RABBI SHLOMO BREVDA

INSIGHTS ON PARSHA Sunday Eve. 8:45 - 11:15 PM Young Israel of Midwood 1694 Ocean Avenue

HARAV ELIYAHU BROG

MESECHTA BABA METZIA Monday 9:30 - 11:00 AM Bais Yisroel 1820 Ocean Parkway

MESECHTA MOED K ATAN Tuesday & Wednesday 9:30 - 11:00 AM

MESECHTA BABA BASRA Thursday & Friday 9:30 - 11:00 AM

MESECHTA SOTA Sunday 8:00 AM MESECHTA SANHEDRIN Sunday 10:30 - 11:30 AM

HARAV SHLOMO CYNAMON

CHUMASH SHIUR Thursday 10:10 PM Khal Bnei Torah 2925 Avenue K

BOSOR V'CHOLOV Sunday 9:30 - 11:00 AM

HARAV MOSHE EICHORN

AMUD YOMI Daily 9:00 PM Beth Mordechai 1358 East 13th Street

HARAV BINYOMIN EISENBERGER

ASSORTED TOPICS B’INYANA D’YOMA Wednesday 8:15 PM 1164 East 23rd Street

R' YAAKOV FINESTONE

MESECHTE SHABBOS Wednesday 9:15 PM Khal Bnei Shlomo Zalman 2002 Avenue J

HARAV YISSOCHAR FRAND LIVE V IDEO HOOKUP: HALACHIC ISSUES RELEVANT TO PARSHAS HASHAVUAThursday 9:00 PM Young Israel Of Midwood 1694 Ocean Ave

R' PINCHAS FRANKEL

HILCHOS MUKTZAH Tuesday 9:15 PM Khal Bnei Shlomo Zalman 2002 Avenue JOHR HACHAIM HAK ADOSH Shabbos 8:30 - 9:00 AM

HARAV YERACHMIEL FRANKEL

CHUMASH IN DEPTH Thursday 10:00-11:00 AM Knesseth Bais Avigdor 1720 Avenue J

HARAV YOSEF FRANKEL

SHABBOS SHIUR Shabbos 45 min. before Mincha Khal Bnei Shlomo Zalman 2002 Avenue J

HARAV SHLOMO FURST GEMARA SHIUR / MASECHES BEITZAMonday - Friday 9:40 - 10:30 AM Agudath Israel Brookdale Senior Center 817 Avenue H

HARAV AVROHOM GARFINKEL

MESECHTA SUCCAH Tuesday 8:00 PM Congregation Bnei Israel 3190 Bedford Avenue

HALACHA SHIUR Shabbos 1 hour before Mincha

HARAV LIPA GELDWERTH

HAFTORAS OF THE PARSHA Sunday 9:00 PM Congregation Kol Torah 2016 Avenue M

HARAV L. HENDEL

GEMARA YERUSHALMI Monday 8:30 PM Nachlas Levi Yitzchok - Chabad 3040 Nostrand Ave.

GEMARA FOR BEGINNERS Monday - Friday 5:45 AM

HARAV YISROEL HIRSCH SHEILOS V'TESHUVOS MIN HASHAMAYIMShabbos during Seudah Shlishis (30 min. before Maariv) Khal Shaarei Shalom 2961 Nostrand Avenue

HARAV SHMUEL SIMCHA HOROWITZ GEMARA IN DEPTH / MESECHTA BRACHOSMonday - Thursday 9:10-10:00 AM Knesseth Bais Avigdor 1720 Avenue J (Agra D'pirka)

GEMARA PRIMER / MESECHTA SHABBOS Monday - Thursday 10:10-11:00 AM

HARAV AHARON KAHN MISHLEI / HASHK AFA WITH PIRUSH HA’GRAMonday & Wednesday 10:00-11:00 AM Knesseth Bais Avigdor 1720 Avenue J (Agra D'pirka)

GEMORAH B'IYUN Fridays 9:00 AM HALACHA SHIUR Sundays 9:00 AM

HARAV YOSEF KIRSCHENBERG

PARSHA / CHASIDUS Tuesday 7:45 PM Cong. Ohel Moshe 849 Ocean Parkway ( I & H)

CHAVREI HAKOLLEL

YESH NOCHALIN Tuesday 6:45 AM Flatbush Morning Kollel 1340 East 9th Street (M-Ryder)

HARAV AVROHOM KLEIN

CHOVOS HALIVOVOS Thursday 8:30 PM Congregation Adath Yeshurun 3418 Ave N

MESECHES TAANIS Tuesday 8:30 PM BOYS MISHNAYOS Motzei Shabbos 10 minutes after Maariv

MESECHES BRACHOS Shabbos 45 minutes before Mincha

HARAV BARUCH KOTLER

MESECHES AVODAH ZARA Wednesday 8:00 PM Sharei Zion 2030 Ocean Parkway (T & U)

HARAV SHLOIME KUPETZ

CHASIDUS Sunday Eve. 8:15 PM Boston 2822 Avenue J

HARAV MOSHE TUVIA LIEFF MESECHTA MAKOS GEMARA BIYUNMonday & Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30 PM Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin 2913 Avenue L

HALACHAH SHIUR Monday 9:45 - 10:15 PM CHUMASH SHIUR Wednesday 9:45 - 10:15 PM

PRI TZADDIK Friday 9:00 - 10:00 AM HALACHA BIYUN Shabbos 1 hour before Mincha

HARAV YOCHANAN MAROSOV

GEMARAH SANHEDRIN Tuesday 8:30 PM Kehilas Bais Menachem Mendel 1703 Ave. J

CHASSIDUS IN DEPTH Wednesday 8:30 PM MAAMORIM OF THE ALTER REBBE Shabbos 8:30 AM

HARAV YOSEF Y. PALTIEL

TANYA Monday 8:45 - 10:00 pm Chabad of Flatbush 1923 Ocean Avenue (N&O)

HARAV MEIR PLATNICK

MISHNA BERURAH AMUD YOMI Sunday-Thursday Keser Yisroel Mordechai 2013 Avenue L

MISHLEI Monday 8:45-9:20 PM GEMORAH Sunday 7:15 - 8:00 AM

HARAV NOSSON DOVID RABINOWICH

PARSHAS HA’SHAVUA Shabbos 45 minutes before Maariv Beth Medrash Ahavas Torah 2624 Ave RMASECHES SANHEDRIN B'IYUN Thursday 8:00-9:00 PM Beth Medrash Ahavas Torah 2624 Ave RCHUMASH & OHR HACHAIM Friday 8:30-10:00 PM Agudas Yisroel of Madison

HARAV YACOV RABINOWITZ CHUMASH & MEFORSHIM Monday - Friday 10:30 - 11:30 AM Agudath Israel Brookdale Senior Center 817 Avenue H

HARAV ARYEH RALBAG

GEMARA SHIUR MASECHES TA'ANIS Mon - Fri 7:00 - 7:55 AM Young Israel of Ave K 2818 Ave K

HARAV ELIEZER DOVID RAPAPORT

OHR HACHAIM Shabbos 8:15-8:45 AM Khal Zichron Avrohom Yaakov 3203 Bedford Avenue

CHUMASH & MEFORSHIM Thursday 8:30 PM

HARAV YISROEL REISMAN

PHONE SHIUR PARSHA Thursday 2:15 - 2:30 PM CALL 712-432-1001 CODE 483003375#

NAVI SHIUR ON SEFER YEHOSHUA Ahi Ezer Corner of Ocean Parkway & Ave SMotzei Shabbosim: Oct 9:00 pm, Nov 5 8:30 pm, Nov-Dec-Jan 7:30 pm, Feb 8:00 pm, March 3/10 8:30 pm

HARAV HERSCHEL SCHACHTER

MESECHTAS SHABBOS Monday 8:15 - 9:45 PM Young Israel Of Midwood 1694 Ocean Ave

HARAV REUVEN SCHEINBERG

HILCHOS SHABBOS Tuesday 10:00-11:00 AM Knesseth Bais Avigdor 1720 Avenue J

HARAV ELIYAHU SCHNEIDER

SIFREI R' AVIGDOR MILLER Thursday 9:00 - 9:40 PM Agudah Bais Binyomin 2913 Avenue L

SEFER MADREIGAS HAADAM - ALTER OF NOVARDOK Motzei Shabbos 10:10 - 11:00 PM

HILCHOS SHABBOS Tuesday 9:45 - 10:30 PM Bais Hamedrash of Flatbush

OHR HACHAIM Thursday 10:00 PM Khal Zichron Mordechai 2645 Nostrand Avenue

HARAV AVROHOM SCHORR

EIN YAAKOV Sunday 10:00 AM Khal Tiferes Yaakov 1212 East 15th Street (L-Locust)

RABBI DOVID SCHWARTZ

CHUMASH & OHR HACHAIM Shabbos 8:15 AM Cong. Sfard 1575 Coney Island Avenue

KLI CHEMDAH Shabbos approximately 9:50 AM

RABBI YECHIEL SCHWARTZ

SUGYOS ON THE PARSHA Tuesday 8:30 PM Yeshiva Kol Yaakov 1197 East 17th Street

RABBI YOSEF SEKULA

CHOVOS HALEVOVOS Sunday 8:20 PM Cong. Nachlas Yitzchok Soblov 3418 Avenue L

INYONEI TEFILAH Tuesday 8:20 PM CHUMASH Thursday 9:15 PM

HARAV SHIMSHON SHERER

CHOVOS HALEVOVOS Alternate Mondays 8:00 PM Khal Zichron Mordechai 2645 Nostrand Avenue

HARAV ELI BARUCH SHULMAN

GEMARA B'IYUN Tuesdays 8:30 PM Young Israel of Midwood 1694 Ocean AvenueHALACHA Shabbos 5:30 PM (winter - 1 hour before mincha) SHOFTIM Monday 8:30 PM (Summer only)

HARAV ZEV SMITH

PRACTICAL HALACHOS Sundays 8:30-9:30 PM Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin 2913 Avenue L

HARAV MENDEL TEITELBAUM

HILCHOS SHABBOS Shabbos 8:30 AM Kollel Zichron Shmiel Chenskowitz 1167 East 13th Street

HALACHA SHIUR Sunday - Thursday 8:10 - 9:15 PM

HARAV MOSHE MEIR WEISS

HASHK AFA Tuesday 9:15 PM Khal Veretzky Avenue L & East 9th Street

HARAV YOSEF WIKLER YOREH DEAH - HILCHOS TAARUVOSSunday 10:00 - 11:30 AM Congregation Bais Mordechai 1358 East 13th Street, 718-336-8544

EVEN HAEZER - HILCHOS ISHUS Sunday 11:45 AM- 12:45 PM

MISHNAH BERURAH ( TZIZIS ) Sunday 8:30-9:45 PM Minyan Avreichim 1114 Ave O 718-336-8544

MASTER A PEREK - MOED K ATAN Wednesday 8:30 - 9:45 PM

MARAN CHACHAM OVADIA YOSEF

WEEKLY V IDEO SHIUR Tuesday 8:30 PM Bnai Yosef 1616 Ocean Parkway (Ave. P)


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