Reflections
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The Bergen-Belsen Death Camp Liberation
Motty Meringer 26/04/2009 10:00On the 2nd of Iyar, 5705, the Bergen-Belsen camp was finally liberated by the British Army. Several hundred thousand Jews had been murdered at the camp, may G-d avenge their blood.
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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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Fruits of the Tree of Ruzhin, in the Court of Sadigur
B. Wolff 23/04/2009 10:00Has one fulfilled his obligation in Seuda Shlishis by eating fruits? – asks Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin…
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The Fall of Jericho
Motty Meringer 22/04/2009 10:00On the 28th of Nissan the walls of Jericho miraculously fell before the eyes of the entire Jewish Nation
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Oasis of Torah and Chassidus
B. Wolff 21/04/2009 10:00Sighet – Town of Torah and Chassidus, on the occasion of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yehuda Kahana, Rav of Sighet and author of ‘Kuntress HaSfeikus’. 5379
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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