Reflections
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The Chassidic Master Rabbi Yeshayah Steiner Kerstirer, of blessed memory
27/04/2009 10:00Rabbi Yeshayahle Kerstirer, founder of the Kerstir dynasty, passed away on the 3rd of Iyar. Rabbi Yeshayahle was a great wonder maker, and his picture is used to scare off mice.
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The Admor Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk zt’l
Motty Meringer 25/04/2009 10:00The first day of Iyar is the yahrzeit of the Admor Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk zt’l, of whom great chassidic leaders said that if he would have remained in Europe and not ascended to Eretz Yisrael, he would have been, together with the Rebbe Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk zt’l, the leading chassidic Rebbe.
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The battle against the Shabbatean movement and its false messiahs.
B. Wollf 24/04/2009 10:00On the occasion of the yahrzeit of the Gaon Rav Yaakov Emden zt’l, known as the Yaavetz, author of ‘Lechem Shamayim’, ‘Mor Uketziya’ and other works, who was niftar on the 30th of Nissan in the year 5537.
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The Yarzheit of Rabbi Ephraim Navon z"l
B. Wolff 20/04/2009 10:00The author of the 'Machaneh Ephraim' was from the honored Navon family.
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the Divrei Chaim of Sanz
B. Wolff 19/04/2009 10:00Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yosef Baruch Halevi Epstein, son of the "Ma'or Vashemesh" of Krakow, who was affectionately called the "Gutter Yid" of Neustat by the Sanzer Rebbe, the "Divrei Chaim".
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Chassidus in Tel Aviv of Yesteryear
B. Wolff 16/04/2009 12:54On the occasion of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Weinberg zt’l, Rebbe of Slonim–Tel Aviv
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In the Footsteps of the Mabit
B. Wolff 16/04/2009 11:55On the occasion of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Mitrani zt’l
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A Lifetime of Holiness
B. Wolff 16/04/2009 11:41On the occasion of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Kalisch of Vorka zt’l
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Glory of a World Gone By
B. Wolff 14/04/2009 10:00On the 20th of Nissan 4798/1038, Rabbi Hai Gaon, the last of the Geonim passed away.
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Captain of the Ship
B. Wolff 13/04/2009 10:00The Life and Times of Rabbi Menachem Zemba hy’d, Author of the Sefer ‘Totzaot Chaim’ and Martyr of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising