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Argentinean President Javier Milei Visits Chevron Yeshiva
"Yeshiva students protect the entire generation," said President Milei on his historic visit to Chevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem on 4 Iyar. He was accompanied by senior members of his government, as well as the Argentinean ambassador to Israel Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish.
A formal ceremony was held in the main study hall. Rabbi Yosef Chevroni, head of the Hebron Yeshiva, addressed the President in English, saying, "Honorable President, you have undoubtedly received certificates and titles from important countries, institutions, and magnificent organizations. But I do not think, and I do not know, if until today you have received a title from an institution that is a link in a chain of generations, from a yeshiva that has existed in the people of Israel for 3,786 years."
Also greeting the President were the Roshei Yeshiva HaRav Dovid Cohen shlita and HaRav Moshe Mordechai Farbstein shlita. Also present were the Mashgiach HaRav Chaim Tzvi Kaplan shlita. The Rosh Yeshiva of Maor HaTorah, HaRav Avraham Salim shlita was also there.
President Milei was very moved by the visit and he declared...
Thousands of yeshiva students who toiled in Torah during the Bein Hazmanim intersession in the dozens of branches of Yeshivas Chedvoso deKalla throughout the country, founded and headed by Rabbenu Dov Lando, filled to overflowing the halls of Armonot Chen this past Thursday to celebrate "The Conference of Kinyan HaTorah" designed to recharge them for the coming summer study session.
HaRav Moshe Mordechai Englard, the MC, called upon HaRav Shmuel Falk from "Ohz Nidberu" to give the opening address on the theme of the World of the Torah Student. He delved into the inner workings of the mind and conscience of a ben Torah.
In his talk, he expanded on the advice of each student pursuing the particular study within Torah of what especially appeals to him. Just as in the regular world, there are things appeal to a person, so too, in the sea of study, a student is drawn to special topics.
In the center of the event, the atmosphere became charged with the burning fervor of the Torah — Ritcha DeOraisa....
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics released its annual report on the population of Israel at the beginning of Iyar, before Israel Independence Day on 5 Iyar.
Accordint to the CBS, the population of Israel was 10.244 million, including 7.790 million Jews and Others (76%), 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%) and 296,000 Foreigners (2.9%).
In the past year, Israel's population has grown by 146,000 (an increase of 1.4%). Of this, the number of Israelis grew by 110,000 (an increase of 1.1%) and the number of foreigners grew by about 36,000. About 177,000 infants were born, about 21,000 immigrants arrived, about 48,000 persons died.
In 1948, at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, the population was 806,000. Today, the population is more than 12.5 times the amount at that time.
Over 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in Israel.
The head of the preparatory army school Bnei David in the settlement of Eli, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, has come out acerbically against the High Court directive obligating the army to include women in the armored forces.
He tells that the army has already made many attempts to introduce women into its ranks but these failed after it became apparent that women are incapable of standing up to the standard regimen required of the men. Simply stated, women are not physically fit serve in such positions.
But this does not interest the High Court in the least. If the army requirement is too high for women, that level should simply be lowered, and if this means that the army will become less professional, less qualified, it makes no difference to the High Court vis-a-vis its goal of destroying every Jewish value and ethic under the dictum of equality.
The administrator of the prep school says that graduates of the National Religious institutions were excluded from serving in the artillery corps because of the court's orders and were also removed from serving in field intelligence. Now, too, they are on the way of being removed from the ranks of the armored forces as well.
The army heads simply do not dare to tell the High Court the simple truth....
This was originally published in 1995.
Part 2
In the first part we saw how he plan was conceived by Rav Weissmandl and the correspondence with Jewish leaders to try to secure financial resources to save Jews, with no success.
Rav Weissmandl's and Mrs. Fleischmann's letters reached Eretz Yisroel. "Part of Schwalb's letters, together with Weissmandl's letters which are addressed to Moshe Sharett and the leaders of the yishuv, are preserved in the Zionist Archive (File S261444.) Today it is clear that the letters arrived at their destination." (Tamar Meroz and Reuven Pedatzur, The Deal That Never Was, Ha'aretz, April 29, 1984)
Professor Dinah Porat writes, "Letters from Slovakia (about The Europe Plan) reached Geneva and Constantinople at the end of 1942. The leadership in Eretz Yisroel was aware of their contents by mid-Januray 1943, and also of a detailed report from Schwalb, which was accompanied by his view that the proposal should be taken up." (D. Porat, Leadership Ensnared)
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Pillar of Fire: The Life of HaRav Reuven Yosef Gershonowitz zt"l
By Rabbi Dov Eliach
He was born on rosh chodesh Tammuz 5675 (1915) in the town of Lapitsh which is in the Minsk area of the Ukraine. His father served as a ram in the town's Yeshiva for youngsters together with the town's rabbi HaRav Yisroel Isser Shapira zt"l (son of Rav Rephoel Shapira, av beis din of Volozhin).
Little is known about his childhood years. It was a time when Jewish communities were forced to wander from place to place because of riotous mobs which dominated that part of Europe during those war-torn years. The internal Russian battles added to the general upheaval of World War I. Civilians were forced to move often to stay out of the way of the fighting.
HaRav Reuven's family was not spared these wanderings. His father served as rabbi of some small towns in the Sovalk district, being forced to leave each place due to the events of the time.
In the winter of 5685 (1925) he became rov of Zhabinka, a small town situated between Brisk and Kamenitz, whose population consisted mostly of very religious baalei batim who sent their sons to yeshivos. Despite his heavy learning schedule, the rov was totally dedicated to his kehilla. All the town's residents knew that the rov's house was the address for all their problems.
That same year, in the summer, Rav Reuven was taken by his father to the yeshiva for youngsters in Lida, which was far from home. He avidly absorbed everything he heard from his rabbonim, HaRav Mordechai Shmukler zt"l, a distinguished gaon and tzaddik who served as ram in the yeshiva at the time (he was killed during the Second World War and has been totally forgotten, having left no descendants) and the rosh yeshiva HaRav Yaakov Neuman zt"l.
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The Elevating Nature of Shabbos
by HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira zt"l
Part I
"You did not give it, Hashem our Elokim, to the nations of the lands, nor did You make it the inheritance, our King, of the worshipers of graven idols. And in its rest the uncircumcised shall not abide" (Shemoneh Esrei, Shacharis of Shabbos).
The Brisker Rav asks about the seeming redundancy of this text. If the tefillah states that Hashem did not give the Shabbos to the nations of the lands, we understand from that alone that the uncircumcised (the non-Jews), will not abide in its rest.
Shabbos, explains the Rav, embraces two matters: First are the issurim of Shabbos, that is, what Hashem prohibited us from doing. Second is menuchas Shabbos, the rest of Shabbos, which is a special creation within the world's total creation. Just as the world came into being during the Six Days of Creation, so did this second aspect of Shabbos, which is the menuchah we experience on Shabbos. The rest that comes on Shabbos is the final part of the creation (see Rashi, Bereishis 2:2).
Now we understand that the tefillah is not at all repetitious. We start by saying that Hashem did not give the issurim and mitzvos of Shabbos to the non-Jews, and they are even explicitly excluded from these--"You did not give it, Hashem our Elokim, to the nations of the lands." Afterward the tefillah states that Hashem did not even impart the menuchah of Shabbos to them--"and in its rest the uncircumcised shall not abide."
We emphasize that non-Jews do not have any menuchah, since we might have thought that just as they benefit from the other things created during the Six Days of the Creation, such as the sun, the oceans, and the animals, so they would have rest on Shabbos. The tefillah therefore stresses that not only are they divorced from the mitzvos of Shabbos, but also the creation called "rest," menuchas hanefesh on Shabbos, is likewise reserved only for Jews.
Another part of this tefillah also needs to be better understood. Although the Brisker Rav resolved the above question of repetition, it remains to be understood why we add in our tefillah "nor did You make it the inheritance, our King, of the worshipers of graven idols." Do we not know this from the beginning of the tefillah, "You did not give it, Hashem our Elokim, to the nations of the lands"?
Furthermore, the Brisker Rav's statement that the beginning of the tefillah tells us that HaKodosh Boruch Hu did not give the mitzvah of Shabbos to the non- Jews is self- evident. None of the mitzvos were ever given to non- Jews except for the seven mitzvos of bnei Noach. The mitzvah of Shabbos is included among the other mitzvos.
If we carefully examine the Brisker Rav's explanation we will find the answer to our problem...
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