What a song to fuse Ashkenazi and Sepharadi cultures together! I also love the cute kid with the large blue Kippah and blond Peyos. What positive energy! Easily my favorite song!
The official music video
Ya’alili by 8th Day- YOY (OJ) – Ohr Yerushalayim – Purim 2011
Lipa Schmeltzer Singing Ya’alili to a Chassidishe Chasuneh
A recent Hamodia Kinyan L’Shabbos magazine contained a most interesting article about Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky, ZT”L. The following is from R. Joseph Elias recollections of his interactions with Reb Yaakov. It is yet another illustration of Reb Yaakov’s brilliance and…
As mentioned in earlier emails,a recent Hamodia Kinyan L’Shabbos magazine contains a most interesting article about Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky, ZT”L. The following is from Rabbi Berel Wein’s recollections of his interactions with Reb Yaakov. Years later, when Rabbi Wein opened…
Mi K’Amcha Yisrael (Who is like Your Nation, Israel?)
Every day of Shiva – Rami Levi (who owns one of the larger super market chains in Israel) comes by the shiva house in Itamar and fills the cupboards and refrigerator himself with food for the family and guests.
Today – one of the relatives expressed their appreciation to him and he said you will get used to my face. I have committed myself that every week I will deliver food and stock your home until the youngest orphan turns 18 years old.
For the record, the grandfather mentioning that this is a test for him to overcome is a vast understatement. I have personal information that this father, who happened to be a Rebbe in one of my Israeli uncles’ Yeshivot (this uncle himself is in his 50′s) for many years was childless until he had a daughter. Now he has lost more than half of his children and grandchildren.
To further accent the type of family this was, here’s a moving video of the family during happier days:
Once, at a Sabbath gathering (farbrengen in Yiddish), in 1948, the Rebbe, in recognition of the presence of Sammy Reshevsky (world-famous chess master), explained the spiritual meaning behind the chess game. The Chess Game There is one king. All of…
Lots of people think that Hamantaschen, the delectable Purim cookie, comes from Haman’s hat, or rather his ears. As many people in Israel like to call it: Oznei Haman (Haman’s ears). However, not too many people know this, but the original HamanTaschen word stems from nowhere near Haman.
It was for a long time traditional to eat poppy seeds on Purim in honor of Esther who ate seeds over pork, as well as Hasach (a.k.a. Daniel) who years before also ate only vegetables (poppy seeds too) in order to avoid eating Treif at the kings’ table.
Therefore, people would make these poppy seed cookie pockets. Poppyseeds in Yiddish were called “Mun” and pockets were “Taschen.” Hence people ate “MunTaschen.” Over the years though Haman-taschen was introduced due to the similarity in how it sounds.
Glenn Beck succinctly describes what has been written about this bloody massacre by sub-human terrorists. For the record, I found out something. The father of the parents (the kids’ grandfather) was a Rebbi in a Yeshiva one of my uncles…
To say the least, the recent earthquake in Japan was nothing short of horrifying and a testament to the power of the One Above. In Accounting when categorizing damages related to nature they are listed as “Acts of God,” as nothing else can describe it.
It was scary. The earthquake destroyed over a hundred kilometers of land in Japan, which considering the country’s size is a lot of land. Then the earthquake led to a major tsunami.
On Friday, Arutz Sheva mentioned that in the Israeli Yishuv of Itamar in Samaria, some Fatah ‘Freedom Fighters’ went on a butchering spree, stabbed the Fogel family’s sleeping three year old in the heart and slashed the throat of his…
