By Steven Gutkin Associated Press Zebulon Simentov, 42, holds a peeling poster containing Judaic themes in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul’s last two Jews, Simentov and Isaq Levin live at separate ends of the same decaying synagogue in the capital of Kabul…
Article by Arale Weisberg, translated by Josh Halickman Published in the Magazine Shevii 7th June 2019 Every morning, even on a Hapoel Jerusalem game day, Amar’e Stoudemire arrives at Yeshiva to learn Gemara, Halacha and Torah. He’s allowed to…
By: Israel Schachter on June 5, 2020 This is about Rav Schachter. Please read it. Please. My brother Shay (of Young Israel of Woodmere) was recently a guest on the “Behind the Bima” Podcast hosted by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of…
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Note: Due to the post being deemed too controversial for the Kosher consumer, as well as politically charged, the original post appears to have been removed from the Jewish Press website. Interestingly, Natan Slifkin’s piece on swordfish remains. – RH…
Article source: https://yated.com/aeoemy-years-in-novardokae%C2%9D-an-interview-with-rav-grainom-lazewnik-shlitae%C2%9Da/ By Rabbi Avrohom Birnbaum – Jan 19, 2011 Yated: Where were you born? Rav Grainom Lazewnik (RGL): I was born in a small town called Lenin. Lenin was not far from the larger town of Luninetz (a town…
Americans, generally, do not drink as much tea as the rest of world. This may have something to do with a certain party they had in Boston a while back. That being the case, you might be surprised to learn…
There is a famous saying, from the Zohar Chadash on Song of Songs (74d), that there are 600,000 letters in the Torah. The Megaleh Amukot (186) explained that these letters correspond to the 600,000 Jewish souls that exist (evidently, a…
Every Lag Ba’Omer, thousands of Chassidim and others travel to Meron to the grave of R’ Shimon Bar Yochai to celebrate his death. The only problem is, we have never heard of someone celebrating the death of a person! The Chasam Sofer reportedly even once asked, “Since when is it that the day a tzaddik dies is a holiday?”
Apparently it’s all based on a misprint from something the Ari”ZL wrote. It was the Ari’s practice to visit R’ Shimon Bar Yochai’s grave, since it has been common practice to visit the graves of Tzaddikim for centuries. Now, when R’ Chaim Vital recorded the Ari”ZL’s writings, he kept them private.
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