Reflections
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Rav Itzele Peterburg
Avi Lazar 01/08/2009 20:40Rav Yitzchak Blazer (known as Rav Itzele Peterburg) was one of the giants of mussar and a devoted talmid of Rav Yisrael Salanter.
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Jewish Argentina
Motty Meringer 31/07/2009 09:00Argentina, South America – a name symbolic as a haven for countless Jewish refugees escaping persecution the world over; whether from the dreaded Inquisition in Spain or the fierce pogroms in Russia and Poland, here was a place they could rest their weary souls
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Babylonian Exile
Motty Meringer 28/07/2009 14:43From the time of the Babylonian Exile and the destruction of the first Temple, the Shechinah left its place of dwelling in the Beis haMikdash and went into a period of obscurity. Despite the many calamities that continued to befall the Jewish people in all their exiles, they never ceased to turn their eyes towards their Father in Heaven, in hope and in prayer.
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A Fire from the West – Rashi haKadosh
Motty Meringer 21/07/2009 16:05‘Teacher of Israel’ – this was Rabbenu Shlomo Yitzchaki, the holy Rashi whose commentary encompasses the entire Tanach and a large share of the Talmud, granting him generations of ‘sons’ who study his Torah
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Crowning Glory of 19th Century Hungary
Avi Lazer 20/07/2009 17:40Rav Shlomo Ganzfried – ambassador of the Hungarian community and sentinel at the guard-post of Torah and Judaism; his famous works illuminate the study of Halacha until this day
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Bein Hameitzarim
Avi Lazer 17/07/2009 11:05“All her Pursuers overtook her between the Narrow Straits”
The Three Weeks. Days of physical danger, days that were replete with suffering throughout our turbulent history. And paradoxically, these are also days of spiritual preparation to meet the upcoming Days of Awe
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Libyan Jewry
Motty Meringer 16/07/2009 16:00Close to three thousand years of Jewish history are absorbed in the Sahara Deserts and the dangerous shores of Libya. All about the ancient Jewish community and its rich heritage, its prominent rabbis and its Torah giants whose teachings we still live by today
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Rav Moshe Cordovero – the Ramak
Barak Sarig 15/07/2009 11:39The Ari haKadosh testified that the Ramak never tasted sin his entire life; he died with a pure and untainted soul. In his 48 years he became the greatest master of the mystical world of Kabbalah
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The Pogroms of the year 5151
Motty Meringer 23/06/2009 08:00These pogroms were against the Spanish Jews and caused many conversions to take place.
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Rav Shlomo Kluger, the Maggid of Brody
Motty Meringer 22/06/2009 11:09A determination to preserve the customs of his ancestors permeated the halachic rulings of the great Gaon Rav Shlomo Kluger ztz”l, also known as the ‘Maggid of Brody’.
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