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You should be reading this editorial the day after Tishah B’Av, or even after that, but at the time of this writing we are well into the nine days —the intense period of mourning for the Beis Hamikdash.
It’s always jarring how the period of mourning is seemingly eclipsed by summer fun so quickly, but as a mother of young children I definitely “get it”. It’s difficult to remain subdued forever.
But… before we can fully embrace the idea of nechamah—comfort—we need to reflect upon the mourning and grow from it. An attitude of endurance will get us only so far. Growing from our nation’s difficulties is what helps us thrive.
Last week, one of my daughters examined her closet and realized that she would not have enough laundered clothes to last her through the entire nine-day period.
“It’s true that it will be uncomfortable,” I told her. “But that’s the mark of our aveilus, a sign that we are still mourning the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash.”
I saw my daughter get ready to pout. Or to simply put up with things and move on. But that wasn’t a place that I wanted her to be.
It’s not a place where I should be.
And then I realized something. A very, very sad something.
Last year, over the course of a very short period of time, four of my children were menachem avel classmates. Some of them were menachem avel multiple classmates.
The number of tragedies in the world seems to have grown disproportionately compared to the number of tragedies that existed when I was a child. Do we simply move on and accept that as the new reality? Or do
we pine for something better? Pin our sites on a greater, better, and perfect world?
Drawing a deep breath, I turned to my daughter. “Remember your classmate who lost a sister last year?” I told her quietly. “Remember the white shirt that she wore because it was Rosh Chodesh when her sister passed away? Well, she wore that shirt all week long [I remember seeing her in it during the shivah and it was jarring]. That’s aveilus. And by not wearing freshly laundered clothes we show our aveilus too. Because the Beis Hamikdash, peace, and the ultimate comfort is missing from our lives. And we want the geulah.”
My daughter listened to my words and was quiet afterwards. It wasn’t difficult for her to accept the tight laundry situation at all afterwards, but more than that — it was clear that she now had something deeper to think about.
Our children—more than we adults, even— have their sights set on a better future. They grasp the incongruities of our world, and they want perfection.
They—and we—all want the geulah shleimah. We want true nechamah.
This year, we’ve all had a terrible taste of what the Churban was like—but our encounter with tragedy, heartbreak, and war isn’t meant to entrap us. It’s there to make us long. To make us entreat Hashem for a better future, for Moshiach.
It’s a message and concept that needs to remain with us long after the nine days of mourning are over and Shabbos Nachamu passes.
May Moshiach come speedily in our days.
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A strong case can be made that no pasuk in the entire Torah has played a larger role in advancing the overall physical welfare of humanity than the pasuk of “V’nishmartem me’od l’nafshosechem” (Devarim 4:15), which tells us how we should be exceedingly careful with our health. The directive and mandate for us to cherish our bodies and to treat it with utmost respect. Not because the body is our edifice and we bow to it in servitude, but because the body clothes the soul, and without it, the soul would cease to exist on Earth. Our extreme devotion to Hashem and our service to Him propels our nation to protect the soul’s outer casing to such an unbelievable extent that we have moved medical mountains in order to do so. Because of this otherwise insignificant-seeming pasuk, our little nation, relative to its size, has contributed more to the safeguarding and health of the human body than almost every other nation combined. Because of this pasuk, our sages throughout the millennia have put tremendous emphasis on health and preserving it, and the world at large knew it. Over ten popes had Jewish doctors. The Rambam was the personal doctor to Sultan Saladin. Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire had a personal Jewish doctor, as did Elizabeth the First of England, Louis the 14th of France, Catherine the Great of Russia, and even the notorious and vicious anti-Semites Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
In the year 1500, half of the doctors in Europe were Jewish! In 1930, 50 percent of the doctors in Berlin were Jewish. The percentage of doctors that were Jewish at that time stood at 60 percent in Vienna, 63 percent in Budapest, 66 percent in Warsaw, 70 percent in L’viv, 74 percent in Vilna, and 83 percent in Lodz, which was Poland’s second largest city. This was in spite of facing some of the harshest and most restrictive anti-Semitic laws in our nation’s history. It didn’t deter us from practicing in the medical field, for we have a soul to protect.
The list of Jewish people with a fire in their souls, who sought out ways to ensure the soul’s armor would live on, is a long one, and, relative to its size, almost supernaturally so. The amount that our little nation contributed is nothing short of a miracle.
Selman Waksman, a Jewish microbiologist from Russia, was considered the father of
antibiotics, as he was the one who discovered how to properly use them. Basil Hirschowitz invented the fiber optic endoscope. Paul Zoll pioneered the pacemaker and defibrillator. Some other Jews who made revolutionary medical contributions to society were Marshall Nirenberg, who cracked the genetic code, Rosalind Franklin, who discovered the structure of DNA, Rosalyn Yalow, who developed the process for safe blood transfusions, Jonas Salk, who developed the cure for polio, Paul Erlich, who invented chemotherapy, and Michael Gottlieb, who identified and developed the effective treatment of AIDS, among others.
The list goes on and on. The deadly typhus disease was eradicated in great measure by the work of Ludwik Fleck. Arnon, Michael Sela, and Devorah Teitelbaum invented Copaxone, a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis. Moussa Youdima from Iran discovered the medicine for treating Parkinson’s. Ernst Chain of Germany discovered the pharmaceutical use of penicillin. Bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine of Russia found the cure to cholera. Microbiologist Irving Millman and geneticist Baruch Blumberg discovered the cure to hepatitis. Electro-optical engineer Gavriel Iddan invented the very first pill camera. Theratic surgeon Henry Heimlich invented what is now called the Heimlich maneuver, saving hundreds of thousands of people yearly from choking. Charles Kelman discovered cataract surgery. A cardiovascular surgeon by the name of Albert Sarr invented the very first artificial heart valves. Biotechnologist Tal Dvir invented the world’s first 3D printed heart, made entirely from actual human cells. Abel Wolman pioneered the concept of clean chlorinated drinking water, saving millions of lives that would have otherwise been lost due to contaminated water.
Jews were responsible for major medical organizations and institutions. One of the first nursing organizations in Russia was started by Jews. Lillian Wald started the nurse organization of America. Henrietta Szold founded the world-famous Hadassah network. Tremendous contributions to the world of psychiatric and psychological health were made by Jews as well. Some famous ones are: Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Viktor Frankle, and Abraham Maslow. Massive hospital chains were built all over the world bearing the name of the Jews that inspired them, attesting to the world’s respect for their medical knowledge and efforts. A few examples are Maimonides Medical Center,
Montefiore Medical Center, and Mount Sinai Hospital.
Our burning desire for health isn’t limited only to help our fellow people, but spread to the world at large. Bernard Kushner from France, whose own parents were killed in the Holocaust, started what has become one of the world’s largest medical volunteer organizations, Doctors without Borders. The Jewish cardiac surgeon Amram Cohen started an organization called Save a Child’s Heart, which offers free heart surgeries to children in over 60 countries. During the Syrian civil war, Jews set up several hospitals to treat wounded Syrian troops, despite the fact that Syria is not a friend of Israel by any standards. In March of 2022, Jews from Israel were the very first to set up a hospital on Ukrainian soil, during the Russian invasion. Jewish immunologist Drew Weissman, and Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, led the team that discovered the MRNA platform, which led the way to the first effective Covid vaccine. The chief medical officer at Pfizer, as well, is a Jew by the name of Mikael Dolsten. The chief medical officer of Moderna is Tal Zaks. The chief medical officer of Johnson and Johnson is Joanne Waldstreicher. The current chief medical scientist of Russia’s Gemalaya institute is a Jew by the name of Anatoly Altstein, and the director is Alexander Gintsburg. The list goes on.
A Jew, religious or not, is well aware of the precious cargo his body is carrying. The small piece of heaven that is hidden underneath. That spark of the divine that the body is there to protect. We will do whatever it takes to ensure that the soul will live on. If it means discovering the most remarkable medical breakthroughs in history, we are ready to take it on. Our souls are simply too precious not to.
Hillel Eisenberg, originally from Rochester NY, teaches courses on the fundamentals of Judaism at Princeton University as well as in Torah Links Yeshiva in Lakewood NJ. He is the author of the newly published book THE PARSHAH ON FIRE as well as the host of a podcast with the same name. His dynamic and passionate style of teaching the joy of Judaism has made him a sought-after teacher and lecturer throughout the United States. Feel free to reach out to Hillel by email Hilleleisenberg613@gmail.com or phone 585-414-9729.
Reb Elazar of Risha (modern day Rzeszow) was blessed with an unusual degree of humor, foresight, and wit. Once, a wealthy woman came to him and said that she had invested a lot of money in wheat. To her dismay, the wheat became infested with mice, and all her efforts to get rid of them came to naught.
Reb Elazar told her how much money to give as a pidyon. Afterwards, he said, “Now go buy a cat, and that’ll help you more than ten rebbes.”
One time before Succos, a man came to Reb Elazar. His wife was sick and needed to undergo a very risky operation. Reb Elazar was standing on a ladder putting the sechach on his succah when the man approached.
“What do you want?” Reb Elazar asked the man.
The man thought that an issue like this required one’s full attention, so he said, “I’ll wait until the rebbe comes down.”
Reb Elazar replied, “Why should you wait until I finish? Tell me now.”
“I want to discuss something very important,” the man said.
“Nu, say it.”
“But the rav is busy putting up sechach.”
“Why should you wait?” Reb Elazar insisted. Say it now.”
The man described his wife’s medical situation and the pros and cons of the surgery. His question, at the end of his description, was if they should do the surgery despite the risk to his wife’s life. After all, she might die from the operation.
“Have her undergo the surgery, and she will die,” Reb Elazar answered.
“Rebbe, Rebbe!” The scared man burst out.
“I already told you everything,” Reb Elazar replied.
The man started crying, and Reb Elazar said to him, “They’ll do the surgery, and she’ll die. What did you think — that she’ll die now? She’ll have a refuah sheleimah, and she’ll die in another 50 years. Did you expect her to live forever?”
And so, it was. They did the surgery, and the woman lived to a ripe old age. She
passed away two days before Succos, exactly fifty years — to the day — from when Reb Elazar had said that she’d died in fifty years.
Every summer Reb Elazar was accustomed to go for a wagon ride in a wagon that he had inherited from his grandfather-in-law, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.
One time his brother-in-law Reb Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum, the av beis din of Kolbuszova, came with him. They traveled for over seven miles until they reached the vicinity of Lantzut (modern day Lancut). There, they saw various army troops and groups of soldiers. Reb Elazar took great interest in what the soldiers were doing.
Reb Aryeh Leib was surprised. “Why are
you so interested in everything the army’s doing?” he asked.
Reb Elazar’s expression changed. His face aflame, he answered, “There are rebbes who disagree with me for sending chassidim to live in America. But what can I do? I see the ground burning under the feet of the Jews who live here. The day will come when people beg to leave Europe for America! If now I have the ability to save people, why shouldn’t I?”
Reb Elazar then turned to Reb Aryeh Leib and said, “If you’d take my advice, you’d get on a ship and move to America.”
With this they finished their excursion, and returned to Risha.
Days and years passed. Reb Aryeh Leib forgot about this incident. Four years after Reb Elazar passed away, World War I broke out. The Jews in Europe suffered terribly during the war. If not for the fact that it was eclipsed by the Holocaust, we would be much more familiar with it. Reshaim also came to the city of Kolbuszova. As part of the upheaval, they caught Reb Aryeh Leib and dealt him cruel blows. They also put him in jail for three days and he remembered that long ago, Reb Elazar had advised him to move to America.
Reb Aryeh Leib remarked, “If I hadn’t thought that that I knew everything and had obeyed Reb Elazar’s words like a loyal chassid, I would have left here whole in body. Even if I go to the U.S. now, I will do so maimed.”
This story is brought at length in Toldos Harav Hakadosh MiRisha, which is appended to Reb Elazar’s sefer Mishneh Lamelech.
Reb Elazar’s yahrzeit is Tes Vav Tammuz.
(Adapted from Nifla’os HaTzaddikim by Reb Yaron Amit)
(c. 1534 – July 25, 1572)
A mekubal by the name of Reb Avraham ben Mordechai Galante was accustomed to fast every day. Once, the Arizal sent him a messenger who asked him not to accept a fast upon himself for the following day, because the Arizal wanted him to attend a seudah he was making.
The messenger arrived just as Reb Avraham thought to accept the fast upon himself. But when he received the Arizal’s message, he withdrew.
The next day, Reb Avraham attended the seudah. The Arizal, as was his way, gave a long derashah. Reb Avraham raised a difficulty, and the Arizal explained himself. Reb Avraham again raised a question, which the Arizal again answered. They went back and forth in this manner a few times, until Reb Avraham saw that the Arizal was right.
After the seudah, when Reb Avraham went home, he saw how the Arizal had enlightened him with his devar Torah. He decided to go to the Arizal to request a tikkun from him, and when he did the Ari said, “Your tikkun is to eat meat and fine foods and to drink wine every day.”
Reb Avraham was shocked. “What type of tikkun is that?”
The Arizal answered, “You need this tikkun because you fasted your entire life, but you never committed any aveiros. Had you eaten, you’d have been mesaken the nitzotzos in your food. The nitzotzos that you could have been mesaken came crying to me. From today onwards you must eat to be mesaken the foods.”
One of Rav Avraham’s relatives, a very wealthy businessman, was also a holy person. He also went to the Arizal to request a tikkun. The Ari told him, “You are guilty of
stealing. If you give back what you stole, you will have a tikkun for your soul.”
The man had no idea what theft the Arizal was talking about, but nonetheless he went to various shuls announcing that anyone who’d been robbed by him in any way should let him know and he’d return the theft.
A woman came to him and said that he’d robbed her. The man’s business was to provide weavers with flax which they’d then turn into linen. This linen was then sold back to him, and he’d pay for it at a fixed price per meter. “My expertise in this area
is such that my work is worth more than the work of the other weavers,” the woman said. She added that she’d told this to the man in the past when selling him linen, but he’d ignored her.
The man heard this and immediately reimbursed the woman for what he should have paid for her linen. The man then came to the Arizal and told him the whole story.
“That’s the theft that I saw on you,” the Arizal said. “You completed your tikkun by paying the woman what you owed her.”
Once, the Arizal’s talmidim made a big seudas mitzvah. They bought a large quantity of fish for the seudah and cooked it in a large pot. It was a hot summer day, so they left the windows and doors open so the kitchen wouldn’t heat up so much from the cooking.
Suddenly, a black dog ran in, jumped straight into the pot, got burned, and died. Obviously, they did not use that fish.
The talmidim understood that something deeper was going on and asked the Arizal about it.
The Arizal explained, “There’s a very anti-Semitic priest in the city, who’s always looking for ways to harm the Jews. This time, he managed to bribe the fishmonger to poison the fish that he sold the Jews.
“This made a lot of noise in Shamayim,” the Arizal continued. “One soul volunteered to be moser nefesh to save the Arizal’s talmidim by jumping into the pot where the fish were cooking. It would accept the pain of death in order to have an aliyas neshamah. Its suggestion was accepted. By virtue of its mesiras nefesh, the neshamah that was megulgal in the dog was freed from that painful gilgul, and was zocheh to have an aliyah and go to Gan Eden.”
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The Arizal’s yahrzeit is Hey Av. (Adapted from Nifla’os HaTzaddikim by Reb Yaron Amit)
The longer this escapade unfolded, gentle readers, the more I felt I was acting in my own thriller movie. Me, Nachman Feld, the semi-reluctant star of the show. But it wasn’t all self-celebrity-ising. Boy, was I making up new words by the bucketful! And as long as I didn’t think of the poor little innocent house spider, now hiding under Mr. Nakamura’s suspicious desk, I had head room to think about what I was really getting upset about.
Not being told the whole story. Having things hidden from me.
Listen, I was expected to engage with an international master criminal arms dealer. From North Korea, no less. They, whoever ‘they’ were, had kind of recruited me without my consent, without filling me in on the details of the plan. And on top of that, they had recruited my extremely willing son Avi, and my equally willing daughter Rikki, to take part in the subterfuge.
Maybe I should just drop out and let them go on without me. After all, aside from affixing a surveillance
camera to said dangerous criminal’s light fixture, I hadn’t actually done very much, had I? I would hardly be missed.
Then I remembered the words from several thriller novels: “We had to kill him. He knew too much.”
I wasn’t sure I actually knew too much to stay alive, but one thing was for sure: I knew enough to be a risk factor. And if I was already a risk factor, I might as well be killed. Or continue along on the ride.
But the question was, did they trust me? Or was I only the dumb guy who did what he was asked and wasn’t told unnecessary details? I’d have to fish a bit to find out. And by fish I didn’t mean fishing for tiddlers, or even for trout.
But who could I turn to at the other end of my rather ineffectual hook and line?
Gadi, the trolley dolly who had pulled off an awesome display of spider poisoning to enable me to affix the camera? Xavier Roberts, who seemed to be managing
the whole kaboodle like a puppet master? Or someone higher up the food chain?
I needed to be practical. As I, personally, was so low down on the food chain as to practically be a plankton, I’d do well to stick to people who were at least visible to me at my level.
And that meant Gadi for starters.
Trouble was, Gadi wasn’t exactly making himself available for comment. He’d told me that we needed to wait a few days for the camera on the dolly to do its work, and it appeared that in the meanwhile he’d gone AWOL.
So, I went one more step up the food chain and knocked on Xavier’s front door.
Xavier peeked out of the slightly open door and looked somewhat alarmed.
“Nachman, my old friend, this isn’t a good idea.”
Old friend? We’d barely known each other a month.
“Why isn’t it a good idea? And what isn’t a good idea?” I asked.
Xavier pushed his head out of the front door by another ten centimeters or so, and looked up and down the street.
“I thought we talked about this,” he said worriedly, pulling his head back in again and looking a bit like my late, lamented pet tortoise.
“About what?”
“Mr. Nakamura lives only a couple of doors down. You are his new best buddy, right? We don’t want him knowing that you and I are in any way connected. Gottit? Don’t openly come to my door again, please, or this whole thing will cave. We’ll talk on the phone. When there’s something to talk about. Please back away from my house.”
And he shut the door in my face.
I backed away from his house, feeling suitably chastened. He was right. He had mentioned this to me before. But I, the dumb guy who was meant to just do what he was told and play Nakamura’s best buddy, couldn’t keep his curiosity in check.
I slunk home again like a criminal trying to avoid detection, hoping that Nakamura hadn’t looked out of his living room in time to see me pop next door. Maybe borrowing a cup of sugar could work as an excuse.
Nah, not a chance.
I sent up a silent prayer that my indiscretion hadn’t been noticed. And so it seemed. No bolt of lightning came down on me in the shape of a North Korean RPG. (That stands for rocket powered grenade, for all you uninitiated. I’m learning about arms. You can thank me later.)
It was a horrible time, waiting for the shoe to fall. Waiting to hear from someone. From anyone. Just to make me feel less stupid than I did now. Which wasn’t that difficult.
Finally, the following day, I heard from Gadi. Not in the morning. In the late afternoon. That guy liked
schlepping out the torture. In the morning, I’d been meant to go to the office, but I’d hung back, worried in case I’d miss a phone call. However, my family had put me straight on that fast enough.
Debbie had said, “out!” pointing up the street for emphasis.
Rikki had said, “Dad, don’t be ridiculous. You can’t hang around just in case someone calls you. You have a cell phone and they can reach you in the office just as well as here. I’m working in college on ways to hack into Nakamura’s set up and to hear what the setup is, but I’m getting on with life in the meantime. If you don’t carry on your normal life, I will go on strike.”
And Avi had said, “Dad, you’re not the King Lynchpin of all of this. You’re merely a pawn in the game and pawns just do what they’re told and help the bigger plan along. You can give my regards to your office.”
So, I went to the office.
Obviously, I couldn’t concentrate on anything. I kept checking my phone and there was nothing, zilch, nada. Honestly, had I been an employee I’d have fired myself.
Then, at around 4.30 pm, just as I’d given up on getting any calls that day, Gadi finally called.
“It happened,” he said.
I waited at least three nanoseconds, but he said nothing else, so I asked, “What happened?”
“I called Nakamura this afternoon and told him I’d come back to set up the Wi-Fi. He asked me to come today because he was finding it annoying with the dolly blocking his workroom. I asked him if he wasn’t managing to do any work at all, and he said he was managing but the dolly was still in his way. That was good news; it told me the cameras would actually show something. I wanted to give the cameras a bit more time, so I hedged and said I’d come tomorrow, but he sounded really annoyed at said that was fine, but he’d shove the dolly out onto the street for the night. To him the dolly is just a means of transportation, but the equipment on it is far too expensive to leave out on the street all night. So, I said I’d come and pick it up this evening and that I’d do the Wi-Fi tomorrow. An improvisation.”
“And…?” I prompted.
“And I picked up the dolly and brought it home. I looked at the cameras, not in-depth just a glance. I knew you were waiting to hear from me, because Xavier told me you’d made a nuisance of yourself, so I thought I’d better call you.”
I blazed with indignance. “He said what?”
Gadi ignored my outburst. “The little that I did manage to see is very interesting. Very interesting indeed. And no, I’m not going to tell you details until we’ve had a chance to assess the contents thoroughly. So no more impatience. This is a waiting game, and you’re going to have to play it, along with the rest of us. Have a good evening.”
“Yonason, I know you have it all planned out, there’s a full itinerary…yes, yes…right. But listen.” My mother was furiously slicing vegetables to bring to Yali Amster’s vort –Tovi’s best friend. “Yoni, we’re talking about a fifteen-hour flight… He cannot meet you in Eretz Yisroel! It’s too much for him to fly there alone.”
I sat at the kitchen table and took out my notebook and sefer Shemos , but it was hard to concentrate as Mommy’s voice got louder and louder.
“No. Of course we can’t fly with him to meet you in Lakewood, so that you can then fly together to Eretz Yisroel. Work is very busy for me; it’s tax season. Ezriel can’t pick up and leave his students, and our kids…”
Our kids. Bling, bling!!! Hello…light bulb moment!
I jumped up and spun around in front of my mother, who frowned and put a finger to her lips.
“Even if it’s direct. There’s the issue of navigating the airport, schlepping luggage…”
“Mommy, I have a great idea! Listen!”
My mother, I guarantee, was about to roll her eyes, but I said, “Real quick!”
“One moment, Yoni. What, Liora?”
“I can do it; I can fly with Zaidy to meet Yoni. Then after, I can do all my camp shopping, and my Pesach shopping, and see
Recap: Ari accidentally smashes his basketball into a window, lightly injuring Liora in the process. Liora confidently takes the blame for the incident so that Ari will continue to learn how to play the game. Liora and Miri sell snacks and Zaidy pays them with a hundred-dollar bill. He tells them to keep the change.
Nechama and Shoshi and Chevi and….”
My mother was shaking her head so hard I thought her glasses would fly off.
“No?”
She gave me one of those motherly smiles that you give to a four-year old who just said they’re going to make the whole Shabbos by themselves. “Can I finish my conversation now?”
I shrugged. Just like that, all my plans came crashing down. Sheesh . It’s always hard to get the clothes everyone is wearing here on the West Coast. We have a couple of great stores, but it’s nothing like Lakewood. Or Brooklyn. But even more, I wanted to see my camp friends!
My mother took out a large silver platter and motioned toward the vegetables, and I started arranging them all prettily on the tray as she cut the cucumbers into long strips. “Aside from the travel issue,” she said and then sighed, “Zaidy hasn’t been acting himself lately. He gets confused sometimes and forgetful. I know he’s very stressed about the war. It’s really all he talks about…but it’s, well.” She put the knife down and turned to look out the kitchen window.
She lowered her voice. “When Tatty drove back from Las Vegas, he didn’t realize the ‘no toll roads’ button was on his GPS, and it took him six hours to get home.” Mommy sighed again, then took a jar of mayonnaise from the refrigerator.
I lined up the carrot sticks and pickles in perfectly straight
rows, my heart beating so loudly I could hear it. I thought of pulling up to Bubby and Zaidy’s old house, and the funny look on Zaidy’s face. Did he mean to go there? That night, Mommy had been so nervous about all the things Zaidy had bought, but it had turned out to be nothing. Maybe driving to the house was also nothing.
Maybe.
“Right. I know…we’re making sure to watch and asking the men at shul to keep an eye out…”
The men at shul to keep an eye out? That sounded like people had to babysit Zaidy.
“Just as passionate, yes. And he’s busy .” Mommy laughed. “It’s just minor lapses…sure, could all be part of aging. And he misses Mommy.”
She listened for a few minutes while finishing the vegetables, then wiped her hands on her apron and nodded. “Fine, he can meet you in Lakewood. We’ll talk all about Eretz Yisroel later, I’ve got a vort . Good night, Yoni.”
She put her phone down and smiled at me. “Your uncle is so level-headed. Let’s get going.”
“Wait.” I took a deep breath and looked at my mother. “I have to tell you something .”
“Now?” Mommy already had her purse over her shoulder. “Can we have a DMC tonight, just the two of us?”
I’d waited this long; I supposed I could tell her later about going to the house. I ran upstairs to change into Shabbos clothes and, for now, put it out of my mind.
At the Amster vort , a group of girls huddled around Yali. Each time a new friend came there were more squeals and more hugs.
Miri bit into her third snickerdoodle and frowned. “My mother said ‘no’ to Mr. Stern, Liora.”
“I heard. I think it’s a mistake.” I said the brocha and popped a chocolate ball into my mouth. “Just the other day, Ari said…”
Miri held up her hand. “Enough, Ms. Shadchanit ! She’s not moving to an Australian farm, opening a butcher shop, and smelling like raw meat for the rest of her life, thank you very much.” She brushed the crumbs off her cardigan and looked over at Tovi, laughing with her friends.
Tovi smiled her big, dimpled smile and kept squeezing Yali’s hand. When good things happen to my friends and not me I hope I’m able to act like her.
“You have any other bright ideas?” Miri smirked at me.
Smiling, I spun around. Miri knew what that meant. “Liora, come on. Not here!”
I pulled her away from the crowd into a corner, and she pushed her glasses up on her nose and glared at me.
“Don’t look at me like that. Just listen.” I rubbed my hands together as my excitement tingle started traveling from the back of my neck up to the top of my head. Like an electric current, that tingle made me feel like at any moment my bright idea might explode in every direction.
“You know Shoshi Wiesenfeld, right?”
Miri face brightened. Shoshi, was the only girl in our bunk at camp who was more outgoing than me. She always let us hang out on her front-and-center bottom bunk, shared her great nosh, and, I kid you not, never complained about anything (not even the ice-cold showers or the tiny red ants). I was hoping this summer we would become better friends, but I was kinda nervous because it could be that Miri was hoping for the same thing.
“I know she has a single brother. Just in case this shidduch wouldn’t work out, I called her to see if he was still available.”
Miri tilted her head and twirled her hair around a finger, a good sign.
I drummed the edge of the couch, “And…. he is! He learns in an elite kollel in Lakewood. His father is in klei kodesh and his mother is a mechaneches at one of the best schools.”
“Elite means good?” Miri said.
I grinned. “Elite means top!”
Miri folded her arms across her chest. “So, what’s the catch? Is he super short, like Shoshi? Tovi is 5’7”, you know.”
“I gave you tall! But you said no!”
Miri waved her hand in the air. “Okay, forget I said that. This sounds too good, and nothing is ever that good.” She sank into the couch. “Now that Yali is engaged, that leaves only Tovi and Zahavi Greenbaum from the whole class.”
Miri took a long swig of soda and tapped her forehead with her fingertip. “And how long has he been learning?”
“A long time. Here’s the best part: Shoshi said that her brother loves California and is interested in joining one of the kiruv kollels , you know, to learn with people and help them become more frum . So Tovi wouldn’t have to move away at all!”
“And how old is he?”
Miri smiled and finished her soda. “It’s so cute. If it worked out, Shoshi would be like my sister!”
Oh right, I hadn’t thought about that.
“So, how old is he?”
I fanned myself with a napkin. “Miri, you know, age…it’s just a number, what matters is middos .”
She squinted at me. “Liora, tell me.”
To be continued…
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Look for open spaces, fill it up with a number from 1-9, but make sure that within what row, column, and sqaure that number doesnt exist yet. Keep filling those little squares; the more you fill in, the easier the puzzle is to finish! Remember that a number can only accur once in a row, column, or square!
1. Moshe Rabbeinu stood on a _________ to look at Eretz Yisrael.
3. What part of this parshah also appears in Parashas Yisro?
5. Moshe Rabbeinu davened 515 tefillos which is equal to the word _________.
6. Who will lead the Yidden into Eretz Yisrael?
9. Moshe Rabbeinu predicts that in the future the Yidden will unfortunately serve ______.
10. After matan Torah the Yidden were told to return to their _______.
11. Who was not allowed to enter Eretz Yisrael?
13. On which side of the Yarden was the territory of Sichon and Og?
18. When Hashem spoke at Har Sinai, He was surrounded by _______.
2. In this week’s parashah Hashem describes the Yidden as His ______________.
4. Which shevet did the ir miklat town of Betzer belong to?
7. This place is referred to as an iron crucible.
8. The Yidden needed to cut down asherim in Eretz Yisrael, a type of __________.
12. How many nations were driven out of Eretz Canaan to make way for the Yidden?
14. What was the name of the town in Gilead that belonged to shevet Gad?
15. What navi is this week’s haftarah from?
16. Which famous passuk (and collection of pessukim) is in this week’s parashah?
17. Hashem told Moshe Rabbeinu to look at Eretz Yisrael in _________ directions.
19. What is the name of this week’s haftarah?
20. Moshe Rabbeinu spoke to the Yidden in the valley opposite __________.
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Dear Vibes of Gratitude/ Dear Editor
This summer, after a difficult year, I headed out to the bungalows upstate. I don’t own there, and ordinarily wouldn’t be able to afford to stay there, but it happens to be that my sister-in-law who owns a house upstate offered to lend me her house for the summer, because she went out of the US this summer.
It was a great offer and should have been fun, but unfortunately it didn’t turn out that way at all.
After exactly three days I realized that though the country air is terrific, and the idea of spending weeks out in freedom is fun, I was really not having a good time.
Though I didn’t have to pay for rent, I did offer to pay my sister-in-law a nice sum for utilities, plus I needed to pay for my kids’ day camps and groceries upstate are so much more expensive. I thought, after paying so much that I’d simply coast through a really terrific summer and come back with memories to last us through the winter months.
Well, reality check. The first two weeks were completely not what I expected, i.e. awful, and now I’m back in the city, where I guess that I belong.
I don’t know if it’s the fact that I took over a bungalow colony that doesn’t really belong to me, so people didn’t know me, or if there’s something inherently wrong with my personality that made the other ladies at the bungalow colony simply look past me whenever I tried to join their circle of friends, but whatever it was I felt like I’d simply ceased to exist.
My younger kids did have a better time, but my
oldest — a ten-year-old — told me something about one of the kids mentioning that we weren’t the real owners of the house we were in.
The snobbishness and lack of proper middos was too much for me. We’d psyched ourselves up to spend four weeks in the summer, but last week we came home already. It was too much for me and my grievances poured over to the kids.
Like I wrote in my salutation, this letter probably belongs in a Dear Editor column more than anyplace else, but I thought I’d send it in anyway in the hope of raising awareness and getting people to change. People go away to relax and to be treated with dignity, not to be regarded as if they’ve ceased to exist.
If even one person reading this letter rethinks the way she treats someone new at her bungalow colony, I will be truly grateful.
I hope you can print my letter
Dear Vibes of Gratitude,
Last week I was out shopping at Walmart when I needed to make a phone call home. When I pulled out my phone, I noticed that my battery had died and I started turning it over in my hand. Before I had a chance to do anything, a frum lady came over to me and offered to lend me her phone. That gesture of good will, before I even asked, was such a beautiful example of Yidden looking out for one another. I don’t know the lady’s name, but I wanted to write how grateful I am for her kindness.
- A.L.
1) What’s הזה בוטה רהה referring to?
2) What החטבה did ה' tell השמ to tell עשוהי?
3) What are the examples that י"שר brings for the הריבע of ופיסות אל ?
4) What makes the Yidden appear like םיטוש?
5) What does it mean that Hashem designated the sun and moon as a portion to the םיוג?
6) What does לזרבה רוכ mean?
7) When did the Yidden see םיקלאה אוה 'ה יכ?
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Ever since I tasted my aunt's sourdough bread when she came for Shabbos in the winter, my dream was to make my own. All I needed was my mother to buy the necessary baking utensils. My mother wasn't sure where to purchase the supplies without going online, so my long wait began. I recently reminded my mother about my "dream" so we tried calling Walmart but there was no response, My father wasn't too excited about investing in a not so cheap dutch oven that the recipe called for. Just when I was about to give up, my sister came home from her friend's vort. At the vort, one of her friends told her that she has to go home to take care of her sourdough. Grabbing the opportunity, my sister inquired about it. Her friend said that her grandmother ordered doubles of certain utensils that she is happy to give us. She also offered us an extra "starter" (an important ingredient) she had because she divided hers in half before she started making her dough. She directed us to "Center of Town" to buy a special bowl. Since she didn't want to spend more on a dutch oven, she uses a regular oven which results in a bit of a thicker crust. She even offered to email her recipe and instructions. I think I was jumping up and down as I shared my excitement with my mother. Hashem definitely doesn't run out of ideas! I can't wait to get started on my starter!
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Sending one’s child off to camp every morning can leave a mother in a state of suspense for the duration of the day as she wonders what her child will look like when he or she comes home, and, more importantly, what exotic strain of microorganisms might be lurking in said child’s bag by the end of the day.
With Tisha B’Av over, camp will surely move full force into fun-mode, dazzling campers with enticements parents could only dream of back when they were campers. Long ago, when color war was the highlight of the entire summer and indoor water parks were a thing of the unhappenable future.
But rest assured, there are some things that never change. And those, my friends, are the campers.
Boys and girls alike tend to scrounge for their (wet) swim gear every morning, complain about their snacks, and sing camp songs at the top of their lungs, long after their parents have said hamapil.
And when those parents wake up the following morning to find puddle trails in the kitchen, remnants of roasted marshmallows stuck to the floor near the fireplace, and popcorn kernels from yesterday’s carnival between their toes, they have no choice but to brace themselves liberally for another fun day of basking in camp spirit.
But almost every parent will notice that very same camp spirit exhibited quite differently by the two revolutionary orbits otherwise known as Girls and Boys.
Let’s listen in on the following schmooze with brother and sister, Baruch and Perel.
So, how do you like your new counselors?
Perel: Adina? She’s so cute! She wears the prettiest scrunchies, she brings the most adorable pictures of her baby brother, AND she even has two dimples! Simmy, the JC, is very cool, but… I dunno, I think she has something against me. Like, she said ‘good morning’ to Suri and Rina Bracha and I was standing right there, and she didn’t even look in my direction…
Baruch: What counselors?
What do you do during free time in camp?
Perel: We practice our camp cheers, duh! And, of course, there’s always a hot topic for a good DMC with my friends — especially when the counselors join! Those are the best!
Baruch: Cheers? Ha! Free time...Let’s see… Does Splash Mountain Waterpark count as free time? Or maybe the bowling we went to afterwards. Oh, yeah, I know! The barbeque-bonfire-kumzits we had in between. For sure.
What’s a DMC, anyway?
What can we find in your camp bag on a typical day?
Perel: Hmm, let’s see. There’s my bathing suit, cover up, and terry robe. My brush, of course. Then there are my Floafers, but I’m trying to convince my parents to buy me Birkenstocks, so hopefully, those will be included soon! Also, my siddur, an extra scrunchie, snack and lunch in an insulated bag and my Stanley 30 oz. insulated water bottle. I’m probably forgetting something, but that’s the basics! Don’t worry, whatever doesn’t fit into my camp bag, I can always put into my fanny pack.
Baruch: My camp bag? I dunno, probably my bathing suit. And goggles.
What’s your favorite activity in camp?
Baruch: Trips!
Perel: My favorite activity…hmm (looks wistfully toward the far off corner of the ceiling.) I would probably say the play at the end of the summer. Also, night activity — when they have it. Also, color war. And trips. Yeah, for sure. Trips are great!
How does your camp ensure campers’ safety on trips?
Perel: OMG, the head counselor comes onto each bus and gives us, like, an hour schmooze about how we MUST stick with our buddies and wear our tie-dyed camp t-shirts. We also have matching bracelets to our buddies, and each bunk has its own color elastic headband. Also, the counselors take attendance before we leave and we’d never leave without all the campers, of course!
Baruch: Well, we’re supposed to wear our camp t-shirts, but a lot of boys forget. That’s why Sruly Jacobowitz was left at Tiger Lanes last week and nobody realized until we got back to camp and the mother called Rabbi Parson. But he wasn’t too concerned ‘cause it happens sometimes. So, he said everyone’s gotta really wear the camp shirt.
What kind of food do you bring to camp?
Baruch: Usually, I don’t bring anything, unless my mother bought something really good the day before. ‘Cause I only like fresh stuff. So I’ll get something from the canteen. They have a
: I bring a strawberry-mango smoothie for breakfast granola on top. Yummmm! Then I pack an Oola bar and a chip bag for snack. My mother likes when I pack a fresh fruit, but I don’t always have time to eat it unless our carpool runs late. Unless it’s strawberries, of course. For lunch, I really like to bring sushi but otherwise a noodle soup or a deli salad. With : Yeah. It’s a nice group. But then, that might really be bunk next door. My bunk might be the one across the hall, but they keep switching so I’m not really sure.
Perel: So, there was some major politics last week between a few different girls, starting when one of them asked to switch bunks and the others got super-insulted. I tried not to think
too much into it. Because, sometimes, girls want to be put with other friends, y’know? But some of these girls really took it personally, and it became a whole fight. Other than that, most of the girls are really nice and we get along with each other for the most part. Like, when everyone was s’posed to wear a pink tutu and one girl came in with a black one, no one said anything mean, although a few did roll their eyes. But someone loaned her a pink one in the end, so everyone was able to breathe a humongo sigh of relief without hurting her feelings!
Can you tell me about swimming in camp?
Perel: Sure. The pool is really nice, although it smells like chlorine A LOT, and there are a bunch of lifeguards. My sister’s friend is one of them! So, she smiles at me a lot. Anyway, you have to take a deep-water test to see if you coan swim in the deep and, let me tell you, it’s sooo hard! Thankfully, I passed on my third try, but there are lots of girls who still haven’t passed. Poor them! They have to stay in the shallow, and it’s super crowded there. But most of my friends are able to hang out with me in the deep where it’s less crowded, so we have more room to swim and schmooze. There’s also a rule that everyone has to wear bathing caps. White for the deep swimmers and red for the shallow swimmers. This way the lifeguards know where everyone belongs.
Baruch: Swimming is great! Especially since I finally found my bathing suit yesterday hanging in the head counselor’s office. It was missing since the third day of camp! (My mother would have bought me a new one if this wasn’t already the third one…)
How do you thank your counselors at the end of the summer?
Baruch: My mother mails the tips at the end of the summer. She doesn’t want them to end up with my old bathing suits.
Perel: So, me and my friends go to Lai Lai’s Gifts and find small gifts that rhyme with our counselor’s names. Then we wrap each one up in cellophane and present each one to the counselors on the last day of camp, along with a grammen that we work on the whole night before, and we sing it together, arm in arm, to our teary-eyed counselors. It’s so special!
Kudos to Baruch and Perel for this insightful discussion!
Parents are now free to rest their weary, teary eyes with their boys and girls in capable hands. And when they finally come home at the end of a long day, describing — or not describing — the gory details of their time at play, let’s not forget those wet camp bags lurking in the doorway demanding someone’s attention.
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Hashem created the world in 6 days, and on the 7th day, He rested. Hashem commanded us to keep Shabbos as a day of rest. We refrain from actions involving creation. This allows us to focus on what matters most - davening, studying Torah, and spending time with family and friends.
There once was a boy named Moishy who went to the local swimming pool one afternoon and after the lifeguard finished his initial instructions, Moishy raised his hand. “Can I bring my iPad into the pool?”, “No Moishy,” replied the lifeguard. “What about my lunch?”, “Food is not allowed in the pool, Moishy”. “My book?”, “nope.” To this Moishy replied, “This is absurd! I can’t do any of the things I like in the pool! That’s it, I’m going home!”, and off he went, missing out on a fun swimming excursion.
What are some ways you can make Shabbos special?
Now this story seems quite silly, it’s quite obvious, that Moishy can’t bring any of these items into the pool. The iPad would break, the lunch would be ruined and so would the book! For Moishy to be able to have fun at the pool, he had to stop doing all those activities. Only then, would he be truly able to enjoy swimming. On Shabbos, 39 core actions aren’t allowed to be done. This seems crazy! Why can’t I do all the things I like?! Looking at the story of Moishy, we can understand. To truly enjoy Shabbos, one must take a break from all these activities, and only then can one truly feel and celebrate Shabbos to the fullest.
Take the 2 vinyl plastic sheets and cut them 1 inch bigger than the template.
Take glitter glue and color in the petals as shown. Let it dry.
Put gold glitter in the pocket you made, and close the 4th side with double-sided tape.
Put the template under the hard plastic paper.
Put double-sided tape on the front border of the hard plastic paper, and stick it to one of the soft plastic vinyls.
Set your Shabbos Table with the beautiful Mosaic Challah Cover!
Trace everything with the white marker, and color the petals as shown.
Repeat step 5 on the opposite side of the hard plastic sheet, by placing double sided tape on 3 sides. (Create a sandwich with vinyl on the bottom, hard plastic sheet in the middle, and vinyl on the top.)
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Gold Glitter Glue
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The elephants live in Africa, which is their natural habitat. The heat brings swarms of insects, including many stinging species and blood-suckers. The elephants dislike this.
What do they do to get rid of the insects?
Every now and then the family engages in an activity: they submerge into swampy mud and everyone coats themselves head to toe in mud (see the many pictures!). They will roll in the mud, jump in and spray themselves, until every limb is completely covered in mud.
When they emerge from the mud bath they will let it dry up. Many times they will sprinkle the wet mud with dry sand (see picture how they use their trunk to blow sand over themselves!). When the mud is dry, the hard caked pieces fall off and along with it all the biting insects intent on sucking their blood.
Their huge ears contain many blood vessels. They will also often flap their ears to and fro - all this aids in cooling down their huge bodies in the scorching heat.
Sheloishim Seuda for the Kosova Rebbe zt”l in the Apta Shul
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Elephants are very intelligent and from the smartest animals. They have an excellent memory, comprehend sign language, do clever tricks (see the many pictures!) and are very popular in circuses and zoos all over the world.
The long tusk is actually a tooth. The molars (large, back teeth) of an elephant weigh 11 lbs. and are 12 inches long! Their teeth change approximately 4-6 times in their lifetime. When they stay toothless, they die from hunger.
The tusk is very long and they use it to dig up roots, salt, water, and to wrestle with enemies. It grows continuously throughout their life. The largest tusk discovered was 12 feet long and weighed 250 lbs. (see picture below)!
The tusks are made of ivory, which is a very valuable material. Although it is illegal to use it worldwide, in today’s day and age thousands of elephants are still being killed for their ivory to use in medicine and expensive ornaments.
The countries in Africa wage a rigorous war against this practice. When they apprehend merchants selling the illegal merchandise they confiscate it. They publicly erect a huge pile of ivory and burn it.
1. The huge build and size of the African elephant is clearly evident in comparison to the jeep!
2. 2 young African elephants fighting in a pretend war, which helps them later in life.
3. An African elephant assists in pushing a car which stayed stuck in a Safari.
4. I apologize, my back was itchy...
5. 2 male African elephants fighting brutally using their heads, trunks and horns.
6. Yes, you see right: a trained elephant drawing a picture of an elephant...
Habitat: Africa
Weight: males – up to 13,330 lbs; females – up to 7,125
Height: males – 10-13 ft; females – 7-9
Offspring: every 3-6 years one baby
Baby weight at birth: 250 lbs.
Food: grass and leaves, sometimes soft twigs
Predators: Adults – none; children – lions
Lifespan: 50-60 years, sometimes even 80
Population: 700,000
Tenoim for son of Rabbi Nachman Biderman with Granddaughter of the Behush Rebbe
Yurtzeit of Rav Elyashiv Zt”l by Hagaon Rabbi Yitzchok Silberstein
Kosov Rebbe visits the Skulen Lakewood Rebbe
Atzeres Tefilah for the Skulen Rebbe in the Skulen Shul in Lakewood
Pinsk Karlin Rebbe Davening at The Kosel
At the Aspen Height’s bungalow colony ribbon cutting and L’Chaim for a new Catskills Hatzolah ambulance.
place all ingredients in a high speed blender. enjoy this delicious anti bloat breakfast directions ingredients
1 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk
1 Banana
1/4 cupm plant based Protein Powder
1 tbsp Almond Butter
1/2 Avocado
1/2 cup Baby Spinach
1 cup Ice Cubes
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2 1/2 cups Pitted Dates
1/2 cup Tahini
3 tbsps Pistachios (chopped)
1/2 cup Dark Chocolate Chips
1/2 tsp Coconut Oil
1/4 tsp Sea Salt (flaky)
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 1. Take a pitted date and place it cut side down onto the parchment paper. Flatten it with your hands. Do the same with the remaining dates, building an even layer resembling a square. Make sure there are no gaps. 2. Spread the tahini overtop of the dates. Sprinkle the chopped pistachios all over. 3. Melt the chocolate and coconut oil in a double boiler or in 30-second intervals in the microwave 4.
Carefully spread the melted chocolate on top of the bark. Sprinkle flaky salt all over. Refrigerate for about one hour or until the chocolate has hardened. 5. When ready, cut the bark into equal size pieces. Enjoy! 6.
Rabbi Elimelech Biderman Motzei Shabbos in Kiryas Sanz, Tiverya
Pidyon Haben for Great Grandson of the Skver Rebbe and Grandson of the Kerestir Rov
4 sticks of margarine
11/2 cups of sugar
1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
4 eggs
Preheat oven to 350°
In a mixer cream margarine, sugars, eggs and vanilla
2 tsp of vanilla
5 cups of flour
1 tsp of salt
4 tsp of baking powder
2 cups of chocolate chips
Turn mixer to low and add in flour, salt and baking powder
Add in chocolate chips, mix until combined well
Spread batter onto cookie sheet lined with baking paper
Bake for about 15 minutes or until light brown on top.
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1 16 oz bag of purple cabbage
1/2 cup of cashews
1 can mandarin oranges
Sesame seeds
1/3 cup of soy sauce
1/3 cup of vinegar
1/3 cup of olive oil
1/3 cup of sugar
NINE BY THIRTEEN
505 - 913 - PANS 7267
Directions:
Combine cabbage, cashews and mandarins in salad bowl
Mix soy sauce, vinegar, oil and sugar together
Pour over salad
Sprinkle with sesame seeds
A phone line for women and girls, providin g chizuk and hope, along with emunah an d bitachon, infused with a taste of Shabbo s all week long, and
Parenting Q&A
Mrs. Rachel Brezel, MSE, LMHC
Tap into your Tefilla h
Mrs. Devoiry Streiche r
Shabbos Hayom LaHashe m
Reb. Chaya E. Streiche r Be Healthy ! Nutrition by Tany a
Erev Shabbos Divrei Brach a Rabbi Paysach Kroh n
Coach Sara B. Deutsch
*Press 17 # Connecting to Hashem Daily with Mrs. Faigy Baumhaft
*Press 18# Let’s speak Shidduchim On Monday with Mrs. Bella Beer
*Press 19# Evening talk with Coach Esther Monday- Thursday evenings at 6pm
Start Date: August 14
Beginner Students: 10 sessions
Intermediate Students: 9 sessions
Aptitude survey will be given to determine your level
A timeless collection of unique silver Judaica masterpieces by Ben Shirall London
• Designed and handcrafted in England renowned globally for its silver and goldsmiths.
• For discerning investors and collectors.
• Exquisite Judaica items to enhance your home.
• Also accepting custom commissions to order.
The Forefathers Collection Etrog Box Model: Engraved
We will be visiting the US next week Please call or email to arrange an appointment
Aaron H Deblinger
Hosiery Plus is now open at Toms River Plaza
Mon - Thurs: 10 AM - 6 PM, Fri: 10 AM - 2 PM
2084 Lakewood Rd, Unit 6A
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2 LIVESTREAMED EVENTS ON TU B’AV INCLUDING THE GLOBAL TEFILLAH, CHIZZUK, SHIDDUCH PANEL, KUMZITS, FREE TEFILLLAH IN AMUKA & MORE - BY YAD L’ACHIM (SUN 8/18 & MON 8/19)
By: Shoshana Nechama Weintraub
A free tefillah in Amuka…. two livestreamed events with gedolim, rabbanim, shadchanim and an inspiring kumzits…… half a million Yidden davening for one another on Tu B’Av for shidduchim…… Tu B’Av Together….. What’s this all about? Here is the full scoop. Yad L’Achim helps rescue Jewish women & children who need rescue from villages and dangerous situations. With Hashem’s help, many of these women have gone on to marry bnei Torah and establish Jewish homes.
But, recognizing that this isn’t always a quick or easy transition, Yad L’Achim arranged for talmidei chachamim to daven in mekomos hakedoshim such as Amuka and Meron so that these women should merit finding their shidduch. Soon, Yad L’Achim began accepting names for tefillah from Jews across the world, who wanted the talmidei chachamim to daven for them, too. Yad L’Achim has an ironclad rule; There never was and never will be any donation required to submit names for tefillah through Yad L’Achim.
And for many years, Yad L’Achim arranged for a minyan of talmidei chachamim to daven in Amuka (the resting place of the Tanna Yonasan Ben Uziel), an auspicious place to daven for a shidduch, on Tu B’Av, the day of segulah to daven for a shidduch.
Several years ago, with the brachah and encouragement of Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l and other gedolim, Yad L’Achim launched Tu B’Av Together, when not only do the talmidei chachamim daven in Amuka, but Jews all across the world unite to daven for all the singles in Klal Yisrael, reciting eight specific kapitlach of Tehillim on Tu B’Av - Together!
There are several ways to participate in this special day.
Two inspiring, uplifting events will be livestreamed on TuBavTogether.com. The first live event will take place on the eve of Tu B’Av, Sunday, August 18th beginning at 7:00p.m. EST, with a full-length program of shidduch tips, inspiration from renowned speakers and an interactive kumzits!
This year will also feature an exciting shidduch panel with three of the top shadchanim in the US, R’ Tzodek Katz, Reb Shloimie Lewenstein & Reb Meir Levi - hosted by Nesanel Gantz.
Speakers will include:
Reb Ari Bensoussan Dr. David Lieberman Reb Yisroel Majeski Reb Yonasan Schwartz · Reb Meir Sperling · Reb Motta Frank · Reb Eli Stefansky Reb YY Jacobson Reb Daniel Kalish Reb Yehuda Mandel
With three separate concert kumzits performances by: Levi Falkowitz · Eitan Katz · Zusha
On Monday, August 19 the much-anticipated live Tu B’Av Together tefillah event will begin at 10 a.m. EST and continue for several hours, livestreamed online at TuBavTogether.com to the world.
Inspiration as well as the eight chapters of Tehillim will be led by the following rabbanim shlita:
Rav Shlomo Cynamon Rav David Ashear Rav Eytan Feiner
· Rav Dovid Goldwasser · Rav Joey Haber · Rav Nissan Kaplan Rav Paysach Krohn Rav Berel Lazar Rav Yisroel Reisman
· Rav Dovid Ozeri · Rav Fishel Schachter · Rav Efraim Twerski Rav Yussie Zakutinsky
The following eight kapitlach will be recited:
(32,38,70,82,121,124,127,128)
At TuBavTogether.com, names can be submitted for tefillah for free to the minyan of talmidei chachamim in Amuka. Over the past year, Yad L’Achim has received hundreds of messages from people who got engaged since submitting their names to last year’s Tu B’Av Together tefillah. Last year, over 500,000 Jews across the world participated in the tefillah and live events.
To submit names for tefillah for free, download the chapters of Tehillim in advance, and watch the live events: Visit www.TuBavTogether.com or call Yad L’Achim (24/6) at 1-800-450-0339.
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SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR SUMMER
There will be no fitters available Wednesdays
We will be closed for vacation Aug 20th-Sep 3rd. Please plan accordingly.
6951 Rt. 9 N. (right past CHEMED) • 732.886.0099 • Sun-Thurs 11-5
Note: If your vehicle has been picked up by any other towing company, we’ll bring it to our shop at no cost to you.
Warehouse For SALE OR LEASE
675 Prospect ST. Trenton NJ
25,000 sf Single Floor Building Clearance 14’ -24’ 3 Acre land Asking
$2,800,000 Financing available. Call/text (917) 468-5040 Office@davcony.com
Beautiful new 1 bedroom apt available for girls or couple short/long term. furnished/unfurnished. Or for 2 playgroups or office space. Williams Street area. 732-597-8119.
35 rooms avail Aug 15-29 beautiful Mountainview from our huge deck. Dining room & shul on premises, walk-in fridge & freezer avail, every room has fridge it is complete buyout we even run front desk. No pool. For shabbos only kugel, chicken & cholent for $25 a person available. Rates 3 night min $130 a night including tax & fees. Group rate avail for 5+ rooms or 7+ nights. Also oven avail for groups 6 plus rooms, or 7 plus nights. Killington adventure park & gondola rides, kayaking & biking discounts rate for our group also there are gorgeous state parks, & mountain & water fall hikes. please text or call 848-5254432 or 732-552-5304.
Quality Bookshelves, 38 years in the business, very low rent, Lakewood South - Tel 718.974.0505
Excellent opportunity!
Nursery morah and assistant positions available in chassidishe cheider for the upcoming ’24- ’25 school year. Amazing support and environment. Call for details: 347-743-3099
Fantastic Job opportunity!
Work from home, create hours, loads of training & support, great profit & growth opportunity, no computer needed! For info Text “MONEY” to (732)6559565 (or call). You’re a step closer to having extra income!
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Great opportunity to manage your own business from home.
No experience needed, no computer necessary. Huge potential to grow big. Call: 438.529.1216
OLIVIA JEWELRY RENTAL
Gorgeous selection of fine costume jewelery for your simcha or special occasion. $25 for the first piece and $15 for each additional piece. Located in prospect square 35 lewin ave. Contact 773-503-9132
Weight loss products: Amazing weight loss product will help you look good and feel good! The results speak for itself, safe and healthy. Call Esty Meyer 732-806-0895.
Summer/ Camp Essential : Natural toothpaste (Fluoride free), deodorant (aluminum free), shampoo, conditioner, sunscreen, aloe gelly for burns , and more. Please call: 732-806-1324
Explore a World of Wellness and Beauty with our exceptional high quality natural solutions for your health and skin issues in your day to day life. Reasonable prices! Call or text for details. 732.608.1799
Designer, show stopping cream and floral embroidered gown for sale. Ladies or teens size eight. Please call 732-331-6588
Gown for sale.
Stunning mauve/pink/ champagne semi custom gown, women size 4. Call/text 732-232-7167.
This year’s cream whoopi gowns children’s sizes 4, 7, 10, and 14 asking $200 per gown 848-240-5642
Stunning size 0-2 Miri’s gown for sale or rent. (Extra fabric avail). 908-783-4811
CAMERA FOR SALE:
Canon elph 190 almost new condition. text for more details 908-417-0549
CAMERA FOR SALE: PowerShot sx 710 call or text for more details 848-299-9748
CAMERA FOR SALE:
Canon PowerShot Elph 180 almost new condition text for more details 848-299-9748
Valco Baby Snap Duo
Double Stroller for sale. Used very very minimally, looks brand new. $550 Please text 917-562-7088
Designer black and plum gown/dress for sale. Size S/M. Call/Text 929.630.0033
GOWN FOR SALE!!
Mac Duggal Size 2 Ladies Navy
New with tags $575 OBO
Brand new in box SEGWAY ELECTRIC SCOOTER 11.2 miles per hour.$150 obo. Retail is $225. Please text 424 731 3169. Pickup in Lakewood.
Looking to sell Knox Gear KN-PAS02 15” Active Speaker Combo Set, $100 Please call 732-534-1094
Stunning teen designer Givenchy gown peach/ pink color, size 2,4, 6 for sale, call 718 213 3617, text 732 994 3932
Gorgeous ( teen, young married) blush needle and thread gown, size 10,12,14 for sale, call 718 213 3617 or text 732 994 3932
Adorable and pretty pink/mauve teen gown with lots of tulle, size 4,6 for sale, call 718 213 3617 or text 732 994 3932
Gorgeous Women’s Taupe/Metallic maternity or post- versatile style can be adjusted regular fit w/belt or flowy “capey” style, designed by “Judy” of Fabric Place, Pls text 718-344-0425
Selling 2010 Toyota Avalon limited very good condition 180,000 miles $3900. Text 732-963-1828
BEAUTIFUL SPARKLING POOL WITH GAZEBO
Serene setting. Large, gets great sun. Pristine. Minutes from Gourmet Glatt North. $40/hr wkdy $50/hr wknd. Call/txt 973-986-9592
Professional seamstress
is available for all your alteration needs. Call/ text 848-525-6619. Now offering embroidery service!
Female Lifeguard Available
One time or steady. Many years of experience, call or text 732-961-0395
Music Lessons
Professional Music Lessons by Mr Wertzberger now for just $10 per week, limited time special. Tel: 718-435-1923
ez ride transport:
Airports, nyc, upstate. Luxury suv.
Reasonable prices. Call/text 848-251-4736
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Day & Evening Babysitting
Possibly in your House also - 732-367-5369
PLAYGROUP
FEW SLOTS LEFT!! 16-24 months 9:15-3:00 Fridays until 12 *optional extended hours* located in Sunset Grove (off prospect and James) Many happy references! To register Call/ text Sara A. @848-299-6264
Nice & Neat organizing
Organizing, decluttering ,systems
At a fantastic rate! Lakewood and surrounding areas. Call/text
917.628.1785, Fantastic rate!
Book your consultation with certified skincare consultant. Servicing all skin types including sensitive skin, acne, scars and more 732-806-1324
Seamstress
Alterations, mending, hems. South Lakewood area. 732-367-6418
Night babysitting
Mature experienced Bubby, has own transportation, available from 6 PM - 2 AM, South Lakewood preferred 732- 367-6418
18-24 months playgroup forming now to start in September, located in Chesterfield (close to Gourmet Glatt South), Monday - Thursday 9:30-2:55 Friday 9:3011:55, warm experienced Morah, happy references available, for more information call Yehudis Cohen at 4437999890
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Watch found at maso ras avos Hall men’s room Sunday night at the zoldan bar mitzvah 908 278-1144
Book library-adult & children’s english book library. Over 1,000 books. Located near Segull Square plaza.
Call /text(848) 525-5909.
Gemach Zichron Feige
Stunning childrens gownsmatching collection from sizes 9 months untill size 18 for appt call 908-461-0058
If you have up-to-date, beautiful childrens gowns in all sizes you’d like to donate to our gemach please call 908-461-0058
Gemach zichron Gittel ladies gown gemach. Beautiful gowns size 0-20 (732) 908-8263
Simcha Toy Gemach
Keep children busy, happy so the adults can enjoy the Simcha!
Borrow toys for yourSimcha, Phone:732-730-9127 (notext)
Email:GemachNefeshChaya@gmail.com
Bris set Gemach for your simcha: Poya, pillow, beautiful outfit with accessories. please call 732-994-5887
BRIS PILLOW/OUTFIT
GMACH: 848-245-3347
Donate them to the Kallah Gift Gemach! *housewares *shabbos table accessories, etc.
Txt for drop off near you : 848-240-8725 732-614-0368 848-525-3290
Crib Tent Gemach looking for more tents. If you have any, we will gladly take them! call 845.405.6820
Up-Collar Dickies Free!
Avail in black, off white and white. While supply last. One per person. 732-994-5887
Free items available for anyone with low vision. Contact NAHORA. Fortune@Nahora.org, 917968-5828 or Abie@Nahora. org, 718-986-9602.
AYIN HORAH
The renowned Rebetzin Aidel Miller from Yerushalayim Is always available to remove Ayin Horah over the phone. Call: 718.689.1902 or 516.300.1490
Answering questions on where’s Hashem, why so much suffering & evil, or any other question you have. Also advice on chinuch and shalom bayis. CALL TOVA 845-531-5214 UP TO 12 MIDNIGHT ISRAELI TIME.
