מאמרי חסידות מאדמו"רי חב"ד, ד"ה זכור את יום השבת, ועליהם מאמר וביאור מכ"ק הר' הלל הלוי מפאריטש זצוקללה"ה נבג"מ זי"ע, יו"ל לראשונה מכת"י מעתיק, כ' אדר א', תשע"ו‎

  מאמרי חסידות זכור את יום השבת

The wall that divides us ----

---- And the hands that connect us back again...

I was shocked to hear that the "teilung" of Christians and Protestants was so strong, that they buried in separate cemeteries with huge walls. (like Lehavdil the Zalis and Lehavdil the Aronim in Kiryas Joel) This photo is from a couple where the husband was Protestant and the wife Catholic. They buried them both at the wall with a connecting pipe.... Obviously this is before Pope Francis decried the Trump wall.

CRC moves into the plumbing business...

Hirshel: It seems that the CRC is moving on from collection dues for so called "food supervision" to plumbing. Maybe it's all the frum competition. Or people don't like to pay $6 a pound for sugar on Pesach. Not sure which. In any case we wish them much success. I don't make this stuff up....

Remember this post? This nightmare may very well come true soon

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We don't usually do politics, but why not a little? Lubavitchers are excited about just any PR. Whatever. We won't get into that. Yesterday they had posted letters from the Rebbe to Bernie, all about his Lubavitcher adviser from Vermont, and that he proclaimed Yud Aleph Nissan Education Day in Burlington. I don't think Bernie will become President, although he might well win the nomination. It seems like the forces that elected Barack Obama want Bernie to REALLY come and finish the job. But he still is an old white male, so he does have that going against him. Anyhoo, an old friend sent me a line with this old post from 2008, all about Judaism and Socialism. He leans that way, you see? he likes it when they Government confiscates from the rich and gives to the poor. That's because he'd rather be מקטיר קטורת than do a honest day's work. Not that he isn't forced to work at times... So he loved BHO and if Bernie gets elected; well, you can imagine his excitement then. Those were the golden days of this blog. Schneur, etc. So he asked me to post it again, and he promised me loads of comments. 

Yay.

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מאמרי חסידות מאדמו"רי חב"ד, ד"ה וידבר אלקים, ועליהם מאמר וביאור מכ"ק הר' הלל הלוי מפאריטש זצוקללה"ה נבג"מ זי"ע, יו"ל לראשונה מכת"י מעתיק [ובתוכו שמועה נפלאה מאדמו"ר הזקן בדף 46], כ"ה שבט, תשע"ו‎

  מאמרי חסידות וידבר אלקים

Not to be confused with last week's מאמר

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Monday Evening Links and a pic - Like an evening paper, only better...

They're trying to help us again...
Imagining Stalin's Plot
אַ פּראָגראַמירער טרעפֿט אַ חב"דניק...
המתנגדים הישנים,החסידים החדשים והאדמו"ר רודף שלום= הגדה לימים אלה
How one man is fixing NYC schools

Sunday Afternoon Pictures

Rabbi Moshe Blau, seated 2nd from left. Photo credit: Estate Archives of Rabbi Joseph J. Sporn Z"L.

the Chortkover Rebbe, Reb Yisroel's Kapote

מאמרי חסידות מאדמו"רי חב"ד, פרשת יתרו, ד"ה וידבר אלקים, ועליהם מאמר וביאור מכ"ק הר' הלל הלוי מפאריטש, יו"ל לראשונה מכת"י מעתיק, י"ט שבט, תשע"ו‎

  מאמר וידבר אלקים

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Hirshel, what? nothing about Rav Belsky?!

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....ס'איז אמאל געווען גוטע טעג

לייענט ווייטער

מאקארעווער רבי

ר' יעקב יצחק ב"ר מנחם נחום ב"ר מרדכי מטשערנאבל זצ"ל. נפטר ל' ניסן תרנ"ב. I'm almost sure I had another post on him recently. I Just can't find it by searching the blog using keywords. Maybe one of you can. If I had this up in the past I apologize. Not that I really need to. It's like you're paying me for the content...

how קנאים in Beit Shemesh deal with things not going their way

They see a Chabad shul or library and they're afraid. VERY afraid. They know how they have nothing but disdain for other Jews to offer to their own, so they're afraid that some of their own may seek inspiration elsewhere. Often times that place may be Chabad. Just because your father is a hater doesn't mean you are, although I often am shocked to see how many of the zealots have kids who just as they do. I guess blood is thicker than water, after all. More and more of these haters are beginning to see the light, namely that they've been fed hate and lies all their life. The days of smashing windows, etc. are basically over, so they're left with late night spray-paint raids. How nice.

א גרויסע ציממעס פון די ציממעס

Hirshel: Some of us got rebuked by our fathers for laughing of the holy Besh"tonian tzimmes. We felt that Besh"t and tzimmes is an oxymoron. I see that the Hungarians were also very tzimmes oriented. The Satmars claim that by the Chasam Sofer the holy tzimmes was so holy that he was ברוגז when Reb Meir א"ש served it on a weekday. And the מהר"ם שיק was also very pro tzimmes. I don't believe this nonsense, but the chasidic wing of Talmidei Chasam Sofer are inventing stories about him non-stop, all full of lies. What I don't see by the other wings of Chassidus I tend not to believe. But that's for sure, by the Hungarian chasidim the tzimmes is not to be messed with.

האדמו"ר מפיאסצנה אש קודש

אגרת מבוארת: הערות כ"ק אדמו"ר על ספרי הגאון רבי יונתן שטייף זצ"ל

ב"ה. עש"ק פ' יתרו, ה'תשע"ו, שנת הקהל

 שלום רב, כמעיין המתגבר, במשך עשרות בשנים, כתב כ"ק אדמו"ר זי"ע אלפים ורבבות ביאורי וחידושי תורה. רבים מכתבי תורתו עודם בבחינת אוצר בלום, שכן כתבם בקיצור נמרץ כדרכו, באופן שקשה ללומד לראות את האור כי טוב הגנוז בהם. מכון אנכ"י נטל על עצמו את העבודה, להוציא לאור עולם ביאורים וחידושים אלו, במהדורה מאירת עיניים, עם פענוחים שיסייעו ללומד לעמוד על עומק כוונתו הק', בתוספת ביאורים, כפי הנדרש. בשלב זה מתמקדת עבודת המכון בחידושים וביאורים המצויים בסדרת 'אגרות קודש' ובאגרות ומענות רבות המפוזרות בספרים וקונטרסים שונים. התחום המרכזי בעבודת המכון כיום, הוא פענוח מכתבי כ"ק אדמו"ר זי"ע למחברי ספרים, ובהם הערות תורניות על ספריהם, בשילוב ביאורים ומקורות נוספים מתורתו של רבינו, צילומי מסמכים וכתבי יד נדירים, השופכים אור על חידושי כ"ק אדמו"ר. בימים אלו שוקד המכון על הוצאת ספר הכולל אגרות-קודש עם פענוחים וציונים, ובהם הערות רבינו על ספרים ומפרשי התורה. בשעה טובה ומוצלחת הננו מוציאים בזה גליון חמישי של 'אגרת מבוארת', לקראת ש"פ יתרו. אנו שמחים לצרף בזה את הקונטרס לעיונו של כת"ר. הקונטרס כולל הערות כ"ק אדמו"ר על ספרי הגאון רבי יונתן שטייף זצ"ל, מגדולי רבני הונגריה בדור הקודם. בין הנושאים הנידונים: אתוון רברבי וזעירי במסורה; סדר הבריאה - זמן, היולי, שמים וארץ; מנין סדרי משנה ע"פ קבלה. ועוד. האגרות נערכו לדפוס בתוספת פיענוח המראי-מקומות, הערות וציונים מועילים ללימוד והבנת הדברים. נודה לכת"ר על הערותיו והארותיו, הן על גליון זה בפרט והן על אופן העבודה בכלל, כדי שנוכל להוציא דבר מתוקן מתחת ידנו, לכבודו של אבינו רוענו כ"ק אדמו"ר.

 בברכת התורה, מנחם מענדל גרינפלד

  מכון אנכי אגרת מבוארת מהרי שטייף

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PsOTD

(l-r Rabbi Morris Sherer, Rav Yitzchok Hutner, Rav Yaakov Kamienecki, Journalist R' Gershon Ber Jacobson.)  Sruli Besser says: "There are many things about Rabbi YY Jacobson that are special; it's an honour to tell the story of a chassid who's capturing the hearts & minds of all sorts of listeners. The backstory of his father is incredible - this picture, of Reb Gershon Jacobson with Rav Hutner, Rav Yaakov and Rabbi Sherer, is thrilling; it captures the flavor of a different time."

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Source 2: Menachem Butler/FB

Rabbi Goren was some 12 years younger than Rav Hutner, but they were acquaintances. The latter only leaving the Holy Land in approximately 1930. The former already being a talmid in the Chevroner Yeshiva at that time. And RYH again spending a year or so in the Holy Land some years later. Maybe they attended Rav Kook's shiurim together? The man in the middle is hitherto unknown. At least to me. UPDATE: Friday. Reb YD Miller tells us that this is Rabbi Menachem Tzvi Eichenstein, (1910-1981) Chief Rabbi of St. Louis.

א העכסט-אינטערעסאנטע שמועס מיט'ן סאטמאר רב אין פאלם ספרינגס, קאליפארניע

There seems to be an issue viewing this clip on Chrome. IE works fine. The shmuess is about the zman Maariv Motzoei Shabbos in the holy cities of Pressburg and Mattersdorf, cities of the Chasam Sofer. It seems like they davened Maariv not at 72 minutes post-Shkiah, but rather at the emergence of 3 stars. Which was 42 minutes after shkiah in the winter and 55 minutes after the shkiah in the summer.

דער אונגארישער כולל שומרי החומות פרעדיגט בראסלעווער פראפאגאנדע?!

The whole idea of a Chinese auction seems strange for an old-fashioned institution like KSH. But times change, and they need to get with the program. I get that. So they're doing their own auction. Fancy prizes and all. Not sure about computers. But the characters they choose for this catalog, and the theme, seem a bit strange for the Hungarian Kolel of the תלמידי מרן החת"ס. Almost as if they're trying to follow the led of other organizations who justify and means to make money, be it crying children or similar gruesome images. The following are several images that people who choose to enter their auction that they're helping these two yungeleit feed and clothe their families and thereby allow their souls to be nourished as well.

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דער אפענער רעקל, מילא. די מאדערנע אמעריקאנער טלית קטן- אהן די גלעקאלאך וועט מען אויך פארזעהן. But the young man on the left is not what we usually see in KSH circles. That's more Shuvu Bonim, etc. They probably made him put his knapsack away.

But what have we here? A Chumash ע"פ לקוטי הלכות from Breslov! Who is this fellow? Is he a Breslover? a recent convert? if not, why does he get support from KSH?! Is the spiritual nourishment that they speak of? Should Hungarian Jews be supporting such nourishment?

And what's this hat-laid-back, top-button-open, nice-white-smile young man? Which Yerushalmi yungerman looks like this, other than א האלבער שב"בניק?

So now he can buy a bugaboo carriage and take the kid to the babysitter, on his way to Kolel. All from his Kolel check? Or from the Pesach חלוקה?

Oy! what a little marketing can do the age-old image of the Yerushalmi yungerman! ATMs, credit cards, bugaboos, and white teeth....

"Last" of the Sub-Carpathian Jews

Shimon putting on tefillin for his morning prayers while his Christian wife wakes up from bed. His mother told him he was Jewish only after he grew up, so he did not get any Jewish education, but he's trying his best to keep the traditions.

Alexander is the shochet (ritual slaughterer) of Mukacheve, and the last active one in the region. There aren’t many people who eat kosher around so he is thinking to move somewhere else, probably to Israel, where he could get more work.

In the Jewish cemetery of Khust: “She always acted with care, and read the book of Psalms with love. She married her daughters to students of the Torah, and always lend a helping hand in the house. She honoured Tisha b'Av with all her strength, and as a righteous woman went straight to the world beyond...”

Irshova has no Jewish community today, so there is nobody to keep the key to the old cemetery. The combination of numbers that opens the padlock is scribbled by the gate, but to be able to read it one needs to know gematria, the Jewish method of interpreting letters as numbers. 
















Aaron bakes challah in his Brooklyn Bakery in Uzhgorod. He grew up in a Jewish neighbourhood of New York and then moved here with his wife. He is fascinated by the region's Jewish heritage, and looks forward to showing his father that it is still possible to live a Jewish life here.

A religious Jew prays his morning prayer in Kolochava. He has been sent to help the local rabbi during holidays by Chabad, a Jewish religious organization whose mission is to bring Jews together and closer to God.

Vova, the president of the Jewish community of Khust, carries the Sefer Torah (Bible Scroll) during the shabbat prayers.

Jews gather in Mukacheve for the ritual of Tashlich. On the first day of the year, it is tradition to go to a river (or to a lake, as long as it has fish in it), and cast the sins and misconceptions of the past year into the water.


Source H/T Mottel