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Tuesday Links

How Iran kept its Jews
Rav Shmuel Aron Tamares
הכירו: אדמו"ר חדש בשושלת אזארניץ-חאטין-קופיטשניץ
He made the Forward 50
His website  Ah Rebbe mit Twitter   One of Aish Authors
חבר ה'מועצת' קילל ופעילי התנזים שאגו: 'בוגד' • צפו
צפו בתיעוד: הגר"ש מרקוביץ ב"לחיים" על פסק הדין

I find it hard to decide what the reaction should be to the implosion at Shas. Rather, the implosion of Aryeh Deri's Shas party. Some Lubavitchers like the idea of Eli Yishai because it gives them a viable option to the Marzel/whatever party that never crosses the line and makes the cut. Others like the idea that Yishai would most likely be more right wing than Shas had become under Deri, which we see now that Rav Ovadia himself now blames Deri for Oslo! That would allow at least 4 MKs to vote against whatever the leftists are planning once they take over. Until now Shas voted as a bloc. The general frum opinion is that Shas is better united because it allows for a stronger bloc against the Bayit HaYehudis and Yair Lapids of the world.

ימים יגידו

What do Lutvakkes and Yekkes know about Yiddishkeit anyway!

A description of the 1922 conference in Csop, headed by the Munkatcher Rov, upon his return to Munkatch from Poland. The Rabbonim were told about the terrible plan of the Agudah, founded by Lutvakken, Yekkes and Italians whose idea of Yiddishkeit is foreign to us, the Orthodox of Marmures and Hungary. What is a flaw for us is not a flaw for them, and what they teach their children is not what we would teach ours. They are just like the Mizrachi. Their supposed differences and arguments are only to show the world that they are different, but they are really one and the same. They condone and encourage the building of the land, and they plan on splitting it with the Zionists. They're also taking the money meant for the kollelim, the charities of Reb Meir baal haNess, now that people will support them instead of the holy kollelim. And they're trying to bring "Gymnasiums" and
"Rabbiner Seminaren" into Poland, where all great Rabbonim of the past and present forbid it. The decision of that conference was to ban any and all association with the Agudah. Many chashuv'e Rabbonim, attended, including Rav Yonasan Steif, the Satmar Rov, then of Orshive, and Reb Mordche Leib Winkler of H'Mad. Similar to what the Rebbes of Lubavitch said about the AI, actually, but not in as many words.

  Rabbinic Conference in Csop, 1922 by Hirshel Tzig

גליון שיח חסידים עם תמונה - עש"ק ויגש תשע"ה

בס"ד

 אנו שמחים להגיש לפניכם את הגיליון "שיח חסידים" פר' ויגש תשע"ה. מצורפת תמונה מבר מצוה של כ"ק מרן אדמו"ר שליט"א, כל היודע פרטים על תמונה זו אנא יודיענו. כל המדפיס את הגיליון ומזכה את הרבים, תבוא עליו ברכה 

א גוט שבת 

מערכת שיח חסידים

No 12 foot banners. No wine decanters and silver goblets. No gabboyim standing behind the Amshinover. No six rows of tables for Rebbishe kinds of every level. No bleachers. No 30 man choir. Just plain old simplicity. Amshinov. Prshischa. Next to the Amshinover Rebbe sits Rav YY Piekarski z"l.

Box.com link

אבד חסיד - הסופר החסידי הרה"ח ר' יהושע מונדשיין ע"ה

רבני חב"ד ואנ"ש ליוו את הרב מונדשיין למנוחות
תמים לנצח: הרב זלמן גופין נפרד מידידו הרב יהושע מונדשיין ע"ה
הרשד"ב לוין: הרבי הוקיר את ספריו ומאמריו באופן יוצא מהכלל
"הרב בלוי מספיד: "כשרון עצום להפצת המעיינות
"בדרך להלוויתו של חברי ר' יהושע" ● מאמר פרידה
קאווע שטיבל: החוקר האגדי הרב יהושע מונדשיין

'דף השבוע חגיגה כב:ב א

"ואת הנפש אשר עשו בחרן"

Hungarian Lubavitcher בעלי תשובה that we can all look up to

It may be hard for non-Hungarians to understand this, but to see this kind of rebirth in Hungary, after decades of Jews hiding their Jewishness, is nothing short of amazing. Little kids with yarmulkes, peyos and tzitzis speaking Hungarian? Holy Toledo!

Rabbi Mendel Berman, Toronto

Source

"Rabbi Mendel Berman performed in Toronto during the 1920s and moved to Israel later on and died there around 1935." If you have information about this Jew with a הדרת פנים please share!

Rare Footage, First Knessia Gedolah, Vienna, August, 1923

Thursday Morning Links

Maliner Rebbe's Business Card
American Judaism May Change
R' Avigdor Miller: What to do about a meddling shvigger
1923: Gerrer Rebbe lifts railway ban

I guess the Gerrer Rebbe didn't hear about the terrible sin of התגרות באומות - Telling Jews to boycott the Polish Railway?! What was he thinking?! Did Moshiach come yet? no. So we're supposed to "turn the other cheek" and say thank you, sir! I am your humble servant until the Messiah arrives. Also, the Rabbi Schneerson of Homel is probably Prof. Fishel Scheerson's father, Reb Schneur Zalman Schneerson, (son of the Retchitcher Rebbe, Reb Sholom Ber, son of MaHaRiL of Kopust) great-grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek and Rov of Homel. I'm not sure what it means when it says that Rabbi Barashansky, who was the Misnagdishe Rov, was a witness that the Rabbis had performed these functions...

The oylem is scratching their heads about the ad that appeared in an Israeli leaflet that gets distributed in Bnei Beraq and Beit Shemesh. Tanya, Maamorei HaRaSHaB and V'Yoel Moshe.... who is giving these shiurim and what does he want?

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Wednesday Early Morning Links

איפה יוסל'ה now has a sister campaign: איפה הערשעלע?

Reb Chaim's Tchernobler Menorah
Ba'al Divrei Yoel says neginah has no shaychus to Chassidus
Rabbi Yosef Bronstein teaches the Lubavitcher Rebbe's sichos and Maamorim at YU

!אוי, ווי די ליטוויקעס האבען מורא פאר די שקיעה

Don't get me wrong, ביי אונז אין ליובאוויטש we also light soon after the shkiah, but these guys are like terrified! And how does the saying go? Shabbos ahin, Shabbos aher, m'darf doch tzinden Chanikeh licht! This sefer is about Reb Dovid בהר"ן, a great gaon and tzaddik in Yerushalayim, son of Reb Nochum Shadiker, hence the name בהר"ן. I heard a story from a Yerushalayimer Yid who was Reb Dovid's son's - Reb Hillel Vaisfiche - neighbor. ממש א טיר נאך א טיר. Reb Hillel would wait for the muezzin at the mosque to start croaking - they pray at sunset too, להבדיל - and he'd yell "פייגע, די גוי שרייט שוין!" and immediately begin the brochos....

מאמר מפי מרן ה"פחד יצחק" - חנוכה תשל"ז בישיבת רבינו חיים ברלין

ביאור פרשת גדולת החג י"ט כסלו

Read it on HebrewBooks

מכתב כ"ק אדמו"ר זי"ע לישיבת טעלז אודות י"ט כסלו

A letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe to one of the Telsher Roshei Yeshiva/Chavrei HaHanholoh where he goes through all the hanhogos and sayings and that Chassidim through the generations said and did. The Rebbe writes about his hesitation, whether or not to answer the letter, since he's not sure what the point of the letter was, i.e. do they REALLY want answers?... Worth your time. 

From ספר שערי המועדים י'-י"ט כסלו.

  
19 Kislev Telshe

טעם למה חוגגים את י"ט כסלו הלילה

למה הה"מ ממעזריטש נ"ע נטמן באניפאלי - מספרו של הגה"ח ר' ישראל גרוסמן זצ"ל

Thursday Links

שיעור בוידאו: המאסר והגאולה - עפ"י המסמכים שנתגלו
Ner Israel's 81st annual dinner
Kupat HaIr's giving out toys this Chanukah
Ami Magazine: Oops!
מעמד חנוכת הבית והכנסת ס"ת בקרית צאנז טבריא
שרבי אלי' לאפיאן אמר שצריך ללמוד תניא

POTD - Williamsburg

Menu: Shtop Gentz with Goulash
Mashpia: Lemel Shvartz
Sugya: על הגאולה פרק ז
Conclusion: Nishtakcho Toras... from the era of the Tzemach Tzedek
Nigunim: רבינ'ס זעקסטע הקפה ניגון for a Freilekhs and רבינ'ס שלום עליכם ניגון for התעוררות
Dancing: Bonfire burning Volumes of חסידות מבוארת

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