After 25 years of teaching I’ve realized that my favorite thing to say, when a student walks in late, is this: “I’m glad you’re here.”

ME: I can’t decide which of these 2 books to buy PARTNER: so buy them both ME: good idea, I’m just gonna buy both of these 13 books

Of course. Thus the legendary Sherwood Goffin z"l rhymed Paskesz with latkes.

A little known detail of hilchot muktzah. I teach it each year and people are surprised. When you keep a frozen challah roll as your lechem mishna, you have to make sure it's not behind or under any raw, frozen chicken, because you can't move it out of the way.

טוב, מצטרף לטרנד שלום, כיתה א

Rav Yehuda Amital ztl: A chumra has to be in line w/ who you are. I was buying daled minim. A woman came and said “I want to buy the Chazon Ish.” What do you mean? “I don’t know. They told me I need to buy the Chazon Ish.” If you don't know what it is, you don’t need the chumra.

Rav Shlomo Brin: The first time I davened Yamim Noraim in front of (my father-in-law) HaRav Yehuda Amital zt"l, based on his nusach, he commented, "It's my first time hearing my own nusach. Mamash lo ra (really not bad)."

Bottom one is a lemon. Left one is an etrog. Right one is an Etrog Teimani. #Chinuch

"I can tell you are a good parent, because you're tired." -- Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi

Gush Overseas Alumni Coordinator, Rav Yonatan Shai Freedman Yonatan Shai Freedman giving shiur to Gush Alumni in London! #still_gushing

Just before The Great Gush Alumni Shabbaton last week... Cholent & Chizzuk Thursday Night at Yeshiva University with Rav Yonatan Shai Freedman Yonatan Shai Freedman It's a Great Gush Tradition!

Brisker Rav: Yoseph had the brothers' money returned to them because he knew they would not be ok with having money that's not theirs in their possession, and therefore they would surely return to Mitzrayim.

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Someone kindly sent me this picture they spotted at the shiva of Rabbi Julius Berman z"l from his wedding. Rav Soloveitchik zt"l as mesader kiddushin Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l as eid tenaim. Anyone recognize anyone else?