a classic שושנת יעקב - from the LSJS
Shoshanas Yaakov by London School Of Jewish Song on GroovesharkI have been searching for this for years! Thank You to an anonymous friend for finding the song and The Whole Album for me to listen to...
View ArticleThe Lipkin (Salanter) Family Tree
Acomprehensive family tree, courtesy of בנימין מפתח תקוה, ארה"קDid you know that Reb Chaim Ozer was a grandson - via mariage - of Reb Yisroel?
View Articleדער קלעצקער ראש ישיבה'ס לויה (אין ניו יארק?) - תשכ"ג
Being maspid the Rosh Yeshiva on this part of the recording were הגאון ר' משה פיינשטייןהרב ר' אברהם קאלמאנאוויטש at 21:15הרב ר' פנחס מרדכי טייטץ at 33:39אדמו"ר מבאסטאן בארא פארק at 49:47not on this...
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הרב ר' ישראל יצחק פיעקארסקי ע"ה מוצש"ק תצוה
Rav Piekarski - a talmid of יח"ל and of the great Polish גאונים The Kozhiglover and Reb Avrume'le Weinberg, was Rosh Yeshiva of the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim - 770 and Rav of Khal Beis Yaakov in...
View ArticleMore of what Chabad shluchim did - and do - while you were asleep...
ידידנו ר' שניאור - (anybody see him lately?) once asked "when did Chabad become the Salvation Army, delivering meals to the homeless and needy after hurricanes or similar activities that they highlight...
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Speaking of טבריא...
Behold: Rabbis Noach (l) aka Noah and Shmuel Yaakov (r) Weinberg in the aforementioned city before their father's travels took them to the United States. The rest - as they say - is history. We never...
View Articleיהושע בן נון'ס kever had a picture of the sun on it
"I saw this Rashi in Yeoshua, that on His tomb there was picture of the sun, to show that whoever is buried in this grave stopped the sun. Pretty shocking, since the sun is the ultimate avoda zorah...."
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Government Intervention in Yeshiva Acceptance Policies
I'm not quite sure what the reaction on the street was when they heard that they Government was intervening in יח"ל'ס acceptance policies, but it's fair to say that there were differences of opinion. I...
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יארצייט - הרה"ח ר' יצחק דובער אושפאל ע"ה
Yud Beis Adar is the Yohrtzeit of Harav Yitzchok DovBer Ushpal, o"h, late Rov of Boro Park's Anshei Lubavitz shul. Here are some recordings as well as writings of his. He left no children. He is...
View Articleהרבֿ יוסף פֿרידענזאָן געשטאָרבן
First place I saw it was on the Yiddish Forverts site... Ironic.What I mean to say is that despite it happening on Shabbos it went largely unnoticed till Tuesday in the frum press. The press that he...
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A shiur from HaRav Reb Meir Greenberg, ע"ה
at the Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Morristown, NJ, c. 5745A talmid of Yeshiva Torah VoDaas, Talmud Muvhak of HaGaon Reb Shlomo Heiman, Rosh Yeshiva of YTTL in Morristown, Rov of Paterson, NJ, mechaber of...
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Zlateh the Goat
It's the picture on top of the blog page, in case you were wondering. It comes from this book. The young boy is sent to town to sell their goat so that they can survive. He gets caught in a blizzard...
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הער, עופה'לע, דיבורים בלי קול
דורך פשוט-קאמפליצירט ס'איז געשען עפעס, אבער איך ווייס נישט וואס. מיין הארץ איז פארשטיינערט. מיינע אויגן, ברייט-אויפגעריסן, קוקן פארשטארט אויף א פונקט ערגעץ-וואו זייער ווייט אוועק. א ווינט האט א שאקל...
View Articleר' בערל'ס חומש-רש"י שיעורים - תשל"ו
Notes 1976 2 R Berel Soloveitchik by Hirshel TzigBox.com Link
View ArticleReb Moshe Chaim Schneider, o"h
Reb Moshe Chaim passed away at the age of, like, 107(!) and the levaya was Sunday in Montreal. Yehi Zichro Boruch. We attach a brief video of a visit with him in a retirement home a few years ago, as...
View Articleהידיים של הרבי הריי"צ מחממות אותי עד היום הזה
Just like the Baal Shem Tov in his generation, one encounter makht varem agantz leben
View Articleדי בריסקער קענען גוט זינגען
"A recording of R' AY Soloveitchik and his brothers and nephews singing Hamavdil after the Sheva Brochos of one of his sons (In the old Eitz Chaim Cheider on "Yaffa Gass".) Any one who attended any of...
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