ויחי יעקב
בבעל הטורים.
לומר שלא חיה ימים טובים בלא צער אלא כמנין ויחי. י”ז שנה משנולד יוסף וי”ז שנה במצרים.
יששכר חמור גרם … ויט שכמו לסבול … ויהי למס…
ויט שכמו לסבול, ברש”י: לסבול עול תורה.
ואם סבל עול תורה, מאין היה לו פרנסה. זהו ויהי למס, מ”ם וסמ”ך שבלוחות, בנס היו עומדים, כיוון שלקח על עצמו לסבול עול תורה, פרנסתו בנס מתקיימת.
Years ago a modern Darshan came for Shabbos to speak in one of the Shuls in Brisk.
Rav Chaim Solovietchik zt'l, asked him (after hearing part of his Drasha) to step down from the Bima. The Darshan defended himself "All I am doing, is quoting Chazal" he exclaimed. Rav Chaim responded "An animal which was slaughtered properly, salted properly, knives checked properly if it was cooked in a Treif pot renders the meat Treif".
Torah or anything resembling it coming from the mouth or hand of those who are Mevaze Torah or Talmedei Chachamim is 'Treif' VEHAMYVEN YAVIN!!!!
Due to the Yom Tov of Chanuka this web site will not be operating.
A Freilachan & Lichtega Chanuka
The twenty first day of Kislev will be fifty years since the Petira of Rav Tzvi (Hersh) Pesach Frank, zt"l the "Yerushalayimer Rav".
Born in Kovna to his father Rav Yehuda Leib Frank, Zt"l . In this town of Kovna the great Rav Leibele Kovner, Zt"l served as Rav of the city. In Kovna there were great Rabbonim such as Maran Rav Yehoshua Leib, zt"l, Maran Harav Yitzchok Elchonon & Maran Harav Yisroel Salanter, zt"l.
At a very young age he made a decision to focus on Ruchniyus only. While others played he learned.
His mother once shared a story about her young Son's priorities. When she once gave him spending money she discovered that he put the money in the Shul Tzadaka box.
For a short period of time he learned under the Gaon Harav Aharon Walkin, zt"l known as the "Zkan Aharon".
He finally decided to cross the river and learn in the great Bais Medrash of Slabodka. The Rosh Yeshiva at that time was "Rav Itzel of Ponovez", Zt"l.
Rav Itzel, Zt"l conquered the Yeshiva world with his creative Torah thoughts.
Rav Tzvi Pesach was 17 years of age when he was accepted into Slabodka. The Rosh Yeshiva had genuine admiration for this young boy.
(To be Cont'd)
5 Senators have joined the Jewish leadership in requesting president Obama To pardon Mr. Pollard.
Media reports say that the senators based their request on the fact that other spies from non friendly nations served much less time than Mr. Pollard. The 25 years that Mr. Pollard served is excessive, they claim.
Allegedly Mr. Pollard spied for Israel a quarter of a century ago. The information he rec'd was never used.
Mr. Patrick Kennedy, son of late senator Ted Kennedy also signed the request for a presidential Pardon. He is a senator in Rhode Island.
The Jewish organization, Bnai Brith had made this request a while ago.
Mr. Rengel , a veteran senator from New York is also a signature on this request.
This coming Sunday, 21 kislev marks the Yohrtzeit of one of the surviving Rebbes from pre holocaust, who managed to re-build an empire of Torah and chassidus. Despite his frail body, and his many different illnesses, the ADMU"R Reb Yochonon of Karlin Stolin was determined in his mission to secure the continuity of this holy dynasty and the legacy and derech in avodah of his forefathers.
Reb Yochonon was the youngest son of Stoliner Rebbe, Reb Yisroel. Soon after his father's passing in 1921, he moved to the city of his In Laws Olik. Later, upon the request of Stoliner Chassidim in Lutzk (a.k.a. Loitzk), the Rebbe opened his court there. The Rebbe also established a Yeshiva there where he demanded from the bochurim to toil in Torah and farther themselves from "havlei olam". The avodas hatfilah and simcha shel mitzvah were evident on all those who remained in the Rebbe's court.
Before world war 2 broke out, the Rebbe traveled to E"Y to shake the Heavens and beg mercy for Polish Jewry. In the Yeshiva the Rebbe kept telling the bochurim "hot rachmonis un toot Tshuva". He mentioned that black clouds were evident over European Jewry.
As the war broke out the Rebbe promised that him and the Deutch will not meet up, and so it was throughout the war. The Rebbe fled from Lutzk and wherever he came they discovered that the Germans had just enterd their previous haven. So it was, until the Rebbe reached the city of Frunza. The Rebbe settled there disclosed as an ordinary Jew with his Rebbetzin and 2 daughters. Also accompanying the Rebbe was a gabbai, who was later arrested by the communists, survived the war and immigrated to Israel many years later. A short time after the Rebbe arrived to Frunza his Rebbetzin and daughter passed away of food poisoning, leaving the Rebbe alone with just one daughter in this difficult time. The Rebbe however, did not compromise his hamodoh b'Torah and dikduk bmitzvohs.
Immediately after the war the Rebbe arrived (miracuously) back to Feldefing Germany in the DP Camps he maintained his disguise, and didn't reveal to anyone his identity, despite the fact that it may have offered him preferential treatment by the other survivors. Everyone who was with him including the Bluzhever Rebbe, Reb Hershale of Spinka and others felt that this was a holy man, but he kept to himself. In the mean time his Brother, the Stoliner Rebbe of Brooklyn (later niftar in Detroit), made efforts to get R' Yochonon documents to migrate to E"Y/US.
On 6 Iyar, 5706, the Rebbe got on a boat for E"Y. On that day his brother was niftar in the US. The Rebbe was now the only surviving brother from the holy dynasty of Karlin Stolin.
Immediately when he came off the boat in Cheifa, he said to the Chassidim "we were considering settling in Eretz Yisroel as an ordinary citizen, but now that we have undertaken the leadership, we will lead with our last drop of blood". The Rebbe immediately began working with the youth, being mekarev bochurim and demanding the highest standards of limud Hatorah and avodah. The Rebbe settled in Cheifa and occasionally visited the chasidim in Yerusholayim, Tel Aviv, Tverya and Tzfas.
Several years later the Rebbe, upon the request of the Stoliner chassidim in the US, and due to the Rebbe's health deterioration the Rebbe came to Brooklyn, NY. Immediately after his arrival, the Rebbe founded a Yeshiva and began building up a Chabura of Bochurim, bnei aliya.
After Yisurim noiroim, which the Rebbe suffered, not for him, but rather for the Klal,as he stated, the Rebbe passed on to the coming world, on 21 Kislev, 5716.
The Rebbe was buried in NJ on condition, that they may move him later. The Rabbonim in E"Y (Tchebiner Rov and Reb Hersh Pesach Frank) paskened that the guf kadosh be brought to E"Y, being that it was his ratzon. The body was removed 16 months after the petirah and in the words of the Chevra Kadisha of Tverya, the body was complete, like the day he was niftar. Rima lo shalta bei.
Zchuso Yogein Oleinu!
Karlin Stolin continues to be a well known Empire of Torah and chasidus under the guidance and leadership of the ADMU"R of Karlin Stolin, the oldest son of the previous Rebbe's dughter.
This years Agudah convention topic of discussion is the painful issue of teens at risk.
This issue is one which very few are succesfuly treating.
Rabbi Wallerstein, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz & Belz are the three that are confronting this issue without ego or agenda. Their interest is the teens.
Klal Yisroel cannot afford the loss of it's commited families to vain temptations of the surrounding world.
Rules ... bullet answers are a novice's treatment to a most serious problem.
The need is urgent ... the need is immediate and it should be a priority.
Kudos to the Hanhala of Agudas Yisroel for dealing with this problem.
