MESSAGE FOUND IN FALLEN SOLDIER’S POCKET
The words in the picture below were found in Rif Harush’s uniform pocket. Rif, 20, was killed last week while fighting Hamas in Gaza.
The words come from Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk and say the following:
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Someone asked Rab Yisroel Salanter which stringency he should take on when baking matzah.

He answered to be extra nice to the widow sweeping the floor of the bakery.

וַיִּגְדַּל מֹשֶׁה וַיֵּצֵא אֶל אֶחָיו וַיַּרְא בְּסִבְלֹתָם

God will never send the Jewish people a test they cannot pass—so yes, phew, there is kosher for Passover coffee. ❤️☕️❤️

Baked 100 challahs for tzedakah with my 8th graders. Hafrashas challah w/tefillah for hostages. Top ten chinuch experience of the last 15 years for sure. Ashreinu, the kids are allright

Jews: Home

A book is

Socrates: Counterfeit knowledge
Plato: The scene of an argument
Aristotle: An ordering of knowledge
Rabbi Cordovero: An orchard
Reb Chaim: An ember
Strauss: A cipher
Blanchot: A generous error
Agamben: An homage to the unwritable
Tiktok: 30 seconds or it didn't happen

R. Tamir Granot, Rosh Yeshivat Orot Shaul, recently recently to comments made by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef about Haredim drafting to the army, in a video that went viral in Israel.

Here's his plea, in translation by Elli Fischer.

18forty.org/articles/hared…

This week, my great-grandma, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

'I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!'

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life.

*OJ gets seated next to Norm Mcdonald in the next world*

Norm: This is heaven!

OJ: This is hell!

Mr. Tefillin Man

Me plugging my parsha/talmud essays

A Zaides meltaway cake & Jim Gaffigan is the absolute perfect shidduch. 💕💕💕

Matzah with its $45 price tag looking at the $3.99 loaf of bread

📚Reading Jewish History in the Parsha

•Lashon harah about those deceased
•The Aderet and Rav Yitzchak Elchonen Spector
•Friendship between Seridei Aish and Samuel Atlas

📖 Jewish History & the Parsha: Tazria 📖

This week, David/Dovid Bashevkin reads Parshat Tazria and thinks about the history of controversy over rabbinic autobiographies, from R. Yaakov Emden to the Aderet, with many stops in between.

Read on: bit.ly/3vMMhpf