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Y

ears ago, I attended a dinner where one of the speakers espoused the importance of inculcating good values in our children from a very young age. “When you see a pretty flower,” the speaker suggested, “remind your children that it’s from Hashem. Tell them that instead of creating a boring world of black and white, Hashem created a world of beautiful colors and shapes for us to enjoy.”

for Hashem’s manifest beauty in our world by simply reading about them. It’s one article you definitely wouldn’t want to miss.

The Taz on the Orach Chaim (siman 277) states that a person will have to give a din v’cheshbon for the beautiful things in this world that he saw and didn’t take pleasure in.

The rest of the speeches that I heard at that dinner have long since faded from my memory, but that line somehow stuck with me — and I’ve used it often with my children. Because, indeed, Hashem has created a beautiful world for His creations. And an awareness of that fact fosters a sense of connection with Him. The natural world is so full of riches and beauty that it’s almost impossible to contemplate its colors, shapes, textures, and smells without thinking of our Creator.

The Klausenberger Rebbe explains that the source for this Taz is the command that Adam Harishon was given: “…Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat. But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it…” (Bereishis 2:16–17).

Indeed, reading this week’s feature on strange and unusual fruit reminded me of that speech from way back when. To many people, Tu B’Shevat is the birthday of the trees, and we celebrate the day by partaking of the shivas haminim and perhaps some esrog jelly too (see Vibes of Greatness for a story about an esrog).

And that’s the essence of this day — a day when the halachic new year for trees begins, and the countdown for orlah starts.

But by expanding our knowledge base to include information about more fruits — and exotic fruits at that — we stand to gain a deeper appreciation for Hashem’s world and His beautiful creations. Many of the fruits mentioned in the Vibes of Interest article are not available in local fruits stores, but one can gain such appreciation

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We’re meant to enjoy that which weare permitted to enjoy…

Before Hashem gave Adam the command not to eat from the Eitz HaDa’as, He commanded him to eat freely of all the rest of the trees in Gan Eden. Meaning, before Adam was told what not to do, he was told, as a mitzvas aseh, what he should do. And that mitzvas aseh was for him to take pleasure in Hashem’s world.

Tu B’Shevat is a day to rectify Adam’s sin of eating from the Eitz HaDa’as. By taking pleasure in the permissible and beautiful items in Hashem’s world, we are able to do just that.

From the shivas haminim to exotic fruits to the “standard” apples and oranges, this Tu B’Shevat let’s take a moment to think about the Creator of our perfect and beautiful world.

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BESHAL ACH Vayeishev Bitachon in All Circumstances In this week’s parashah, after Bnei Yisrael left Mitzrayim, they encamped at the shores of the Yam Suf. The Egyptians were pursuing them, and they cried out to Moshe. Moshe turned to Hashem in tefillah. Hashem replied, “Why do you cry out to me? Speak to Bnei Yisrael and let them travel!” (Shemos 14:15).

The mefarshim question this response. What should a Jew do in a time of distress if not daven to Hashem? In fact, leaving Mitzrayim itself is attributed to the heartfelt cries of Bnei Yisrael, so why shouldn’t they have davened at the Yam Suf as well?

The Nesivos Shalom explains that there are times when tefillah alone isn’t enough to bring about salvation. There’s another power that no prosecution can stand up to, and that is bitachon. When a Yid trusts that Hashem will have mercy on him as a father has for his son despite the severity of the circumstance, that trust protects him throughout any situation.

He brings a mashal from the Midrash Shocher Tov on the pasuk “Hashem, in you I have trusted” (Tehillim 25:2). There was a man who arrived at the capital city of the king and fell asleep on the king’s grounds. The guards wanted to beat him. The man exclaimed, “Don’t hurt me. I’m part of the king’s household.”

The next morning, the guards brought him before the king to determine if he was telling the truth. The king didn’t recognize the man and demanded, “Why did you claim to be a member of my household?” The man replied, “I trusted in your generosity that if I would say I belong to you, you would have compassion.”

The king was pacified and decreed, “Because he trusted in me, let him be.”

There are two levels of trust. The first level is when one trusts and doesn’t have to take any action. This is what happened in Mitzrayim. The second level of trust requires an action. This is what happened to the Jews at the Yam Suf. The Yidden needed a miracle above nature — and that required action. This is what Hashem meant when He told Moshe not to daven.

The Nesivos Shalom concludes that there are three types of belief: belief in the brain, in the heart, and in the limbs. Leaving Mitzrayim tapped into the belief of the intellect and the heart, but to finish the redemption, the miracle of Krias Yam Suf required physical action. When Nachshon jumped into the water and proceeded deeper until it reached his neck, he showed belief with his limbs, and that was the ultimate trust that brought about the miracle.

It’s interesting to note that the women of that generation also had this level of trust, and their actions manifested this. The pasuk tells us that Miriam led the women of her generation in praise after Krias Yam Suf with the accompaniment of tambourines and dances (Shemos 15:20–21). Rashi questions how the women had these instruments on them. Where did they get them from? He answers that the righteous women of the generation were so certain that the Holy One would perform miracles for them that they took their tambourines with them when they left Mitzrayim.

The following story, told by Rabbi Yechiel Spero in his book One Small Spark, touched me in a deep way because it portrays the levels that one can achieve when they truly trust in HaKadosh Baruch Hu. In the 1830s, Rav Yosef Zundel Salant, a talmid of Rav Chaim of Volozhin and the rebbe of Rav Yisrael Salanter, moved to Yerushalyim and became a rav there.

One of his special qualities was his outstanding bitachon in Hashem.

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him.

There was a problem, though. He looked disheveled, and his level of learning seemed to match his appearance. Nonetheless, Rav Zundel brought the young man home, and Tzivia, seeing his gentleness and kind middos, surprisingly agreed to marry him. Although the town was in an uproar that the rav’s daughter would be marrying such a simpleton, Rav Zundel didn’t pay attention to them.

Nosson Nota earned a reputation as an honest water carrier who spent his free time in the beis midrash. One day, when the talmidei chachamim were discussing a sugya, Nosson Nota jumped up and remarked, “What you are discussing is something my grandfather, the Shaagas Aryeh, spoke about.” He then launched into a long, brilliant explanation.

Rav Shmuel, the eldest son-in-law, ran to Rav Zundel to share the good news.

Not only was this new member of their family a talmid chacham, he also descended from illustrious stock.

Rav Zundel barely reacted to the news. It was as if he had been expecting it all along. He had taken action based on his trust — and Hashem had fulfilled the rest.

One might think that this level of trust is applicable only to special people who have worked on themselves — and not to an average Yid. However, I have seen otherwise.

I’m privileged to be part of a group of growing women who have taught me that we can all attempt to reach high levels of trust in Hashem. One of the women sent me a picture of a tambourine she’d painted with which she hopes to greet Mashiach. In fact, she informed me, as of a few weeks ago there was such a demand for tambourines that there were none to be found in Yerushalayim!

A different friend in this group went shopping for her “Mashiach dress,” the dress she has designated to wear when Mashiach arrives. We can all strive for great levels in emunah and bitachon.

We learn this from the following pasuk at the end of Parashas HaMahn, when Hashem commands Moshe to put away an omer of mahn for safekeeping: “So that they will see the food with I which fed you in the Midbar when I took you out of Mitzrayim” (Shemos 16:32-33).

The Meshech Chochmah explains that Hashem gave us the mahn immediately after we left Mitzrayim, before we’d even received the Torah, to emphasize that anyone who strengthens himself in trusting Hashem, no matter his level of Torah learning, will receive support and sustenance from Him. This theme fits beautifully with Tu B’Shevat, which generally falls out during the week of Parashas Beshalach. The custom is to eat fruits of the tree on Tu B’Shevat, to teach and encourage us to trust in Hashem.

The Divrei Shlomo explains that Tu B’Shevat is at the peak of the winter, when the trees are empty and dry and have no signs of life. When we eat fruits at this time, we arouse hope and trust that they will once again flower, blossom, and produce fruits.

He had three daughters, and the oldest two were married to talmidei chachamim. His youngest daughter, Tzivia, an older single, had not yet found her zivug. Both she and her father trusted that Hashem would help at the right time.

Man is compared to a tree, as the pasuk states, “The tree of the field is a man” (Devarim 20:19). Just as a tree withers, dries up, and then regenerates, a person who drifts from the Torah should hope and trust that Hashem will give him the strength to return and elevate himself. No matter who one is or what they have accomplished, they can connect and grow in their relationship with HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

One day, Rav Zundel declared that he was going to the port to find a son-in-law.

Just as he arrived, a ship docked, and Rav Zundel searched the disembarking passengers for a potential chasan for his daughter. Only one young man — someone by the name of Nosson Nota — got off, and Rav Zundel approached

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Shira Yael Klein Rav Shlomo Lorincz was one of the early chareidi members of the Israeli Knesset. As such, he interacted regularly with the gedolei hador, including the Brisker Rav. The Brisker Rav was machmir to get an esrog from the forests of Morrocco, because they carried no suspicions of being grafted. But on erev Sukkos 1958, the Brisker Rav’s precious Moroccan esrog was confiscated by customs in Lod Airport (now known as Ben Gurion Airport).

The Brisker Rav begged Rav Lorincz to do whatever he could to release the esrog before yom tov.

vacation and couldn’t be located.

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“I would love to help,” he said, “but I’m not authorized to release the esrog.”

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“The minister of agriculture.”

It was already Hoshanah Rabbah. Sukkos was almost over. But, nonetheless, Rav Lorincz began searching for the minister of agriculture, Mr. Kaddish Luz from Kibbutz Degania.

As Rav Lorincz was busy running from one official to the next, he was also updating the Brisker Rav (through a middleman, because the Brisker Rav did not have a phone in his house).

Each time Rav Lorincz called, the Brisker Rav requested that he leave no stone unturned because he saw it as a question of the actual fulfilment of the mitzvah.

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Rav Lorincz came to the Brisker Rav, terrified to break the news to him.

To his surprise, the Brisker Rav looked and him with a smile and said, “Nu, Rav Shlomo. So there’s no esrog?”

The Brisker Rav told him about a poor elderly couple from the village of Rogabe. They had scrimped and saved all their lives to be able to buy an esrog. But it still wasn’t enough. So they sold their home, and with that money they bought a beautiful esrog. All the Jews of Rogabe came to see it. They passed it from one to another, marveling at its beaty. Suddenly, the esrog slipped and fell. The pitom broke. It was no longer kosher.

Time was running out, and yom tov was fast approaching. The officials were sympathetic and respectful of Rav Lorincz, but no one had the authority to release the esrog. Rav Lorincz concluded that the only person who could do so was the chief administrator of the airport himself. But he could not be located.

The Brisker Rav was heartbroken. His face displayed his deep pain and anguish. Finally, he said, “Please do whatever you can to at least get me the esrog for Chol HaMoed.”

Rav Lorincz sent someone to the airport to get the precious esrog. But by the time he got there, the office with the esrog was already closed and locked.

“There’s no esrog,” Rav Lorincz replied sadly.

“But why is the Rav smiling?”

Rav Lorincz personally went to the airport and spoke to one official after another.

It was getting late, and one by one the customs offices began to close. When it was clear that there was no way to release the esrog before yom tov, Rav Lorincz went to the Brisker Rav’s home in Yerushalayim to give him the bad news.

send the official stationary to Mr. Luz. From his hospital bed, Mr. Luz issued the long-awaited official order to release the esrog.

The old lady was afraid to tell her husband what had happened. But when the old man heard the news, he stood up and said, “If you don’t have an esrog, you’re patur. And the same One who said to take an esrog also said not to get angry.”

He called the central office of the kibbutz and was told that Mr. Luz had just been hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Karem.

Rav Lorincz headed straight for the hospital. He talked his way past the doctor to Mr. Luz. “I would be honored to release the Brisker Rav’s esrog,” replied Mr. Luz, “but I don’t have my official stationary with me. My instructions aren’t valid unless they’re written on my stationary.”

Rav Lorincz had the Ministry of Agriculture

The Brisker Rav turned to Rav Lorincz and explained, “As long as I thought there was a chance of getting the esrog, I was troubled and pained by the situation. But now it’s over. I’m sure that you did whatever you could. If there’s no esrog, there’s no reason to continue being upset.”

Rav Lorincz told this story to his family every Sukkos so that they’d learn that when there’s nothing more to be done, one must learn to return to life as usual.

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made aliyah, he left the rabbinate of Zvhil to Rav Gedaliah Moshe.

“Yingele, what do you want from me? We don’t have money for food!”

Rav Gedalia was arrested by the Communists for teaching Torah and was sentenced to seven years of forced labor in Siberia. He reportedly told the judges who sentenced him that “a person doesn’t even bump his finger down here unless it was decreed up there.”

In 1937, he followed his father to Eretz Yisrael,

“I want an esrog!”

The little boy wasn’t going to give up so easily.

The boy stuck his hand into this mess and pulled out a stunning esrog.

“I’ll take this one,” he told Zundel.

Throughout the whole year, he had been saving

“Ganev! I told you to take from that box.”

up to buy an esrog. By this point he had a few

“I went to the one you told me!”

prutot, two bottle caps, and a handful of go-goim

“What do you mean? This esrog is worth two

(apricot pits, used like currency by little boys).

hundred times the amount that you gave me!”

Some other customers had been there from the

where he eventually succeeded him as Rebbe.

beginning.

***

“Listen,” they said to Zundel, “we saw the boy

There’s a minhag to turn the esrogim from Sukkos

take the esrog from the box that you told him to.”

into esrog jelly and eat it on Tu B’Shevat. Tu B’Shevat is also a mesugal time to daven for a

It became a big ra’ash in the daled minim shuk.

beautiful esrog for the upcoming Sukkos.

Other people heard the commotion and came to

There was a Yerushalmi boy who came to the

see what was going on.

Zvhiller Rebbe on Tu B’Shevat. The Zvhiller Rebbe

Soon the windows were full of little Yerushalmis

gave him some eigenmacht (esrog jelly).

watching the action. Their big brothers gathered

“Eat the eigenmacht and daven for an esrog.” the

around Zundel’s stall.

Zvhiller Rebbe told him.

In the end they went to the Zvhiller Rebbe.

“But I’m a little boy,” he replied.

“It’s my esrog!” said the boy. “I bought it with my

“You want to have a sheineh (beautiful) esrog?”

money! I took it from the box the Zundel said.

asked the Zvhiller Rebbe. “You daven for the esrog, and you eat the esrog jam.”

He set out for the daled minim shuk. There he found Zundel Zonnenfeld, the one who used to

The boy ate the jam.

sell esrogim in Yerushalayim.

Soon enough Purim came, then Pesach. Shavous,

“I would like to buy an esrog,” the boy said to

Lag Ba’Omer, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur

Zundel, and showed him his stash of prutahlach.

followed each other in quick succession. Now it was time to get ready for Sukkos.

The boy went to his father. “Tatty, did you buy me an esrog yet?”

“All right, yingele. Take an esrog from that box over there.”

Zundel had four categories of esrogim. There were “sheineh esrogim,” “okay esrogim,” “still

His father was very poor, with no money at all.

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one dot of yellow on it.

called an esrog,” and “schnitzel.” But not good

He had nothing.

schnitzel. The rubbery stuff.

“No, yingele,” he answered. “I didn’t buy you an

The boy went over to the carton that Zundel

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“But what should I do?” Zundel replied. “That esrog doesn’t belong in that box. It’s a mistake.”

The Zvhiller Rebbe looked at the esrog. “This is this yingele’s esrog. I can see. He davened for this esrog.”

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Chapter 21 RECAP: The Felds arrive home at one in the morning just as Xavier Roberts pulls into his own driveway. Nachman accuses his neighbor of following him, but Xavier shoots down the accusation in a scar y tone and goes into his house. A couple minutes later, Nachman and Debbie both receive a text message displaying a picture of Avi and a message that he’s okay. They’re lef t wondering who sent the message and what it could mean.

The following morning, we were all up early. I called in sick at work. There was no way on earth that I was going in to work that day.

All three of us checked our phones for updates, but there were none. I also checked Xavier’s house, but his car was gone, so I presumed he was out for the day. It filled me with relief and worry in equal measures. Had he gone to finish his job with Avi? Or gone to visit him? Maybe I should have been smarter and followed him, the way he had followed me the night before — or I thought he had. He’d denied it, but then, of course, he would. Maybe following him would have led me to where Avi was being held.

“We’re calling the police,” Debbie said over a very somber breakfast. Rikki just moved food around her plate and ate nothing. Even knowing that wasn’t unusual for teenage girls, she exceeded the norm. Debbie and I ate a grand total of a cracker and cheese between us — and didn’t even finish that much.

“Mum,” Rikki said firmly, “you remember when we had that burglary last year?

And we called the police? What happened? Did they send a top detective and a forensic man to dust for fingerprints and to take DNA from that bottle of water the burglar had helpfully left behind?”

“No,” Debbie admitted.

“Right,” Rikki agreed. “They sent around a policeman who looked about twelve years old, and probably was. He wrote things down in a notebook, took the bottle of water, and two days later we got an official-looking letter saying that due to lack of evidence, they had closed the case.

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“Lack of evidence? The burglar had swigged from a plastic drinking bottle and left it on the kitchen counter! DNA and fingerprints, for heaven’s sake. We were practically handing them the case on a plate, and they did diddly-squat!

I think that even if we’d had the burglar himself tied up and presented him to them with a blue ribbon round his neck, we’d have gotten that letter saying they were closing the case due to lack of evidence. Pah!” she finished with a sound of disgust.

“So you’re saying the police are useless,” I said thickly. Nothing was making much sense this morning. We needed Avi; he was the brains of the family. Oh, wait, he was the reason for all of this.

“No, all she’s saying is that the police aren’t interested in burglaries,” Debbie said firmly. “This is not a burglary. It’s a real crime, and they should be interested in this.”

“Well, don’t we have something to do on our own first?” Rikki said. “That missing piece of footage from the bowling alley. Wasn’t Jamie meant to get his cousin Kenny to try and undelete it? Or something?”

I swelled with pride. My daughter was just so smart. She was also the brains of the family, not just Avi. We, the parents, had produced two geniuses. And we had totally forgotten about Kenny, but she had remembered.

“Yes, of course, but Jamie said Kenny is in year eleven at school, so he can only come in this afternoon,” Debbie said.

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“I’m going to call Jamie all the same,” Debbie said. “Maybe he can expedite things.” So she dialed the number he’d given her the previous night.

He was at work in the bowling alley, but answered the phone anyway. Yes, he remembered about the CCTV, but no, he couldn’t hurry things along because Kenny was still a schoolboy; nothing had changed there since last night. He had already spoken to his cousin, and Kenny would cycle over to the alley immediately after school. That was the best he could offer.

“That’s great,” Debbie told him. “What time will that be?”

“Around four thirty, give or take,” Jamie said. “It’ll take him time to get here.”

“Can we not pick him up?” Debbie asked. “Save him the time?” And us too, was the unspoken thought.

There was a pause. “Look,” Jamie said, sounding guarded, “I know you’re desperate to find out what’s happened to your son, and I get that, I really do.

But honestly? From what I know of Kenny, he’d freak if total strangers turned up at his school to take him in their car.”

“You’re right, of course you are,” Debbie said apologetically. “I hadn’t thought of it from his point of view. So look, we’ll be there around four thirty.”

“Fine,” Jamie said, and the call ended there.

“The police are rubbish,” Debbie said. “Waste of time contacting them. I don’t know what this country is coming to.”

Rikki gave an I-told-you-so look, while I just looked on disbelievingly.

“Avi would never just go off on a jaunt,” Debbie stated firmly.

“I agree,” I said, “but it’s not me you have to convince. It’s him on the other end of that phone.”

“Maybe there’s someone techie,” Rikki said, “who can unlock the message, even if it’s from a burner phone.”

She got up and made for the stairs.

“Where you going?” I asked.

“Where does it look like I’m going, Dad? Upstairs. To my computer. To do some searching.”

“Don’t be too long,” I said. “We have to be at Finchley Bowling at four thirty.”

She paused on the stairs and looked at her watch, then at me.

“Dad, it’s twenty past ten. I think we’ll just about make it.” And she disappeared up the rest of the stairs.

Debbie and I looked at each other.

“Well, I have some housework to do,” Debbie said finally. “I don’t feel like doing anything.

It’s a weird, horrible feeling not knowing what’s happening with your own child. But I need to do some laundry and clean up a bit before Chandrika comes tomorrow.”

“Mum,” Rikki said with a few expressive eye rolls.

Debbie held up her hands. “Okay, okay!

So I went a bit overboard.”

“A bit?” Rikki repeated, with another couple of eye rolls for good measure.

Chandrika was our Sri Lankan cleaning lady. Debbie shared with many women the incomprehensible need to clean up before the cleaning help came to…clean up. So Chandrika never saw the house at its worst.

“So,” I said, feeling very much like a third wheel. “Now that that’s sorted, what shall we do with the rest of the morning?” We all looked at our watches. It was barely ten, and we felt like we’d been up for hours. Because we had.

Now, Debbie went up to Avi’s bathroom with a bucket and cleaning cloths to tidy it up after her son’s last visit to the bathroom.

“I’m calling the police, like I said,” Debbie said determinedly. “This isn’t a burglary. It’s a kidnapping — and possibly worse. The police are wonderful about serious crime, even if they’re rubbish at burglaries.”

“Nachman!” Debbie called a moment later.

Actually, it was more of a shriek than a call.

And it had me bounding up the stairs two at a time. No mean feat for someone as unfit as I am. I found her in the bathroom, holding out what looked like the wrapper from a bar of soap.

“Don’t say that, about it possibly being worse than a kidnapping,” Rikki begged.

Debbie looked at her apologetically, then dialed. She put the phone on speaker so we could all listen in.

“Look, madam,” the officer on the other end of the phone said once Debbie had poured out her story. “Your son is how old? Twenty-two? And he sent you a message saying he’s okay? He’s a grown man. Why is he even still living at home with Mummy and Daddy? You can’t possibly know he’s been kidnapped.

He hasn’t even been missing for twenty-four hours yet. He said he’s okay, didn’t he? Probably off on some jaunt or other. Happy to escape your clutches.

Give it twenty-four hours. Then, if you really can’t control your helicopter parenting, file a Misper.”

“Misper?” Debbie said blankly.

The officer sighed and repeated it in fool’s language. “Misper. Missing Person’s report. Don’t you watch any of the cop shows on TV?” “No. We don’t have a TV,” Debbie said passive-aggressively.

“Oh, right. Well, that’s what you do,” he said. “I’m willing to bet he’ll be home before then. Most of them are. Just cutting the apron strings a bit, I’ll wager.

Maybe if you didn’t tie them so tight yourself, he wouldn’t need to. Good day, madam.”

The call disconnected. Debbie stared at her phone.

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“What’s that?” I asked.

“It’s the wrapper from a bar of soap,” Debbie said. “But look at it, Nachman.”

Dutifully, I looked. Someone had written something on the inside. It was in Avi’s handwriting.

And it said: “Don’t worry.”

That was all it said.

“Why can’t the guy be a bit more expressive?” I ranted. “I pay for him to go to expensive private schools, and he can’t write a simple sentence? Just two words? What’s he trying to tell us?”

Rikki had come out of her bedroom after hearing the shriek, and was looking at the wrapper.

“Don’t you get it, Dad?” Rikki said. “It’s not what he wrote or didn’t write. It’s the timing of the message.”

“Exactly,” Debbie said, waving the wrapper under my nose. “He wrote this before he went bowling. So he must have known he wasn’t going to come home.”

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A KING’S RANSOM TO KEEP HIM HAPPY 11-year old Avi was just awarded with a vacation trip to his cousins in Detroit, for not getting into trouble in school or fighting with his siblings for one week. The prize his parents originally had in mind was a new speed bike, but when that failed to motivate him sufficiently, they searched for a more appealing incentive.

Prize Binging

In the process, they passed over game boys, roller blades, a palm pilot, a computer and a camcorder. That’s because Avi had already won those.

“Do you mean he plays with then in the middle of class?”

He had won each one by a combination of cajoling, arguing and bargaining. After each surrender, his father looked at his mother and said in bewilderment, “When I was a boy, I felt lucky to have a shirt on my back and shoes without holes. What are we running here, a home or a department store?”

And his mother would respond, “Today’s world is different. Would you rather he run around with that wild bunch of kids and get into all kinds of trouble?”

Avi’s energy level had always overwhelmed his parents. From the time he was five or six, he needed a level of stimulation to keep his behavior within bounds that seemed far beyond the norm. Although his parents tried to keep one step ahead of him by supplying him with toys, entertainment and outlets for recreation, it began to seem as if they could never give him enough to satisfy him.

His teachers reported that Avi was often at the center of quarrels between students. “He seems to enjoy provoking altercation, just for the excitement of it,” wrote his fourth grade English teacher in an end-ofthe-year assessment.

His scholastic performance was uneven. When the subject matter was dramatic enough to hold his attention, Avi could do above average work. More often than not, however, Avi lapsed into daydreaming, staring out the window or focusing on irrelevant trivia around him. His fiddled with his pencils and other items in his desk, passed notes, made irrelevant comments and silly jokes, and disturbed his classmates in a variety of ways.

“When Avi is absent, it’s a different kind of day,” his fifth grade told the principal. “The atmosphere is calmer and we get much more accomplished. We really have to get to the bottom of his problems.”

Things came to a head after a parent-teachers conference where Avi’s parents were floored by the teacher’s suggestion that they, his parents, might be exacerbating Avi’s problems, rather than helping him to get a handle on them.

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“Avi seems to be collecting more prizes in a month than most kids do in a year,” the teacher told Avi’s parents. “He brings these things to school and frankly, I wonder whether they might be contributing to his difficulties in class.”

“No, I don’t allow them to be anywhere near him during class. My point is that because he has already been given so many dazzling prizes, it’s almost impossible for me, as his teacher, to come up with any kind of incentive that would work with him. Can I ask what he is doing to earn all these fabulous rewards?”

“They’re basically for good behavior at home,” Avi’s mother said.

“He gets so rambunctious,” his father explained, “you know, teasing his siblings, stirring thing up—things were always in an uproar.”

“But aren’t you overdoing it? These big, expensive prizes may buy you some peace at home, but it seems it’s backfiring at school. Here he has a great deal of trouble with self-control, with waiting his turn, not calling out, not interrupting. He needs an extra high level of stimulation to keep him going at the most ordinary task.”

Avi’s mother went on the defensive. “You must think we’re just buying him off, taking the easy way out. That’s not fair! We work with him constantly. But he’s always needed more than—more than we could give him.”

Her husband suddenly turned to her.

“Miriam, let’s face it. He’s got us wrapped around his finger. He’s getting lavishly rewarded for behavior that’s not even especially good, just good-enough. And each time, the prize has to be bigger and better while he delivers less and less.”

He turned back to the teacher wearily, holding up his hand to forestall his wife’s objections “I don’t know about my wife but I’m at my wit’s end. What do you suggest we do?

The Insatiable Child If the above scenario has a familiar ring to it, it’s because all of us have, at one time or another, met the child who incessantly craves excitement, new possessions and intense experiences of all kinds—the child who seems insatiable, who cannot be satisfied. Such a child, in order to stay focused and content, must constantly experience a rich payback in in-

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Insatiability in children is often a variation of attention dysfunction, one of whose classroom symptoms is weak processing or attention control, a condition we discussed in a previous article.

Psychologists have identified two forms of insatiability—material and experiential—that greatly interfere with attention control. Children with experiential insatiability, are extremely hard to satisfy. School-related routines such as processing information and producing written work do not quell their appetites for intense experiences. In their frustration at what feels to them like stultifying boredom, they are likely to be pick fights and generate noise and commotion. They may become serious behavior problems.

Avi showed symptoms of both material and experiential insatiability.

And he had maneuvered himself into a position at home where he had his parents feeding his insatiability in their mistaken notion that they were working at controlling it.

Some children who crave excitement satisfy these needs in constructive ways, including bicycle riding, swimming, rollerblading, skateboarding, or developing and pursuing a hobby or passionate interest. For Avi, athletic activity or hobbies were not enough. He needed things, the flashier the better. But like many children with material insatiability, no sooner did he acquire the object of his desires than he longed for something else.

Children with insatiable needs long for material gratification so intensely, they seem unable to delay gratification. They can wear their parents down with their incessant—and insistent—needs. They often have trouble taking turns, sharing with others and waiting in line—behavior that often triggers animosity from classmates and siblings.

Insatiability during childhood, if channeled properly, can develop into healthy ambition and goal-oriented activity in adult life. However, it also carries a potentially dangerous side effect, one that could culminate in substance abuse, reckless driving, impulsivity, and risk taking. In some adults, it manifests in marital instability and problems feeling comfortable an satisfied in a career.

Home Is Not A Democracy Many children who manifest insatiability and are very articulate become extremely argumentative at home. Often by an early age they can outdebate their parents as they present their arguments for getting their way. Impressed with their own eloquence, they believe that to score points in an argument entitles them to whatever it is they are lobbying for.

Experts in family dynamics say that allowing a child to flex his intellectual muscles and his debating skills in arguments with his parents is inevitably destructive.

It is important to get the message across to children as early in life as possible that the home is not a democracy, and that parents are the decision-makers.

Parents should be alert, say education specialists, to the dangers of overindulging insatiable children with material possessions. The inclination to provide excessively stimulating daily experiences to children with insatiable tendencies should be consciously reined in.

“Parents should avoid a constant succession of planned recreational activities, shopping trips, and super stimulating electronic games,” says author and psychologist Dr. Mel Levine in his important book on attention dysfunction, Educational Care.

He goes on to say that parents who fall into this pattern will soon be paying a king’s ransom for a few moments of peace and quiet in the house. Ultimately, the stakes will be raised even higher as the insatiable child learns he can hold his parents hostage with bad behavior until he wheedles out of them just about everything he wants.

Far from curbing incessant demands, says Dr. Levine, “the constant feeding of an insatiable appetite merely increases the level of a child’s insatiability.”

Children who are highly insatiable may require careful, ongoing counseling to help them bring their insatiability under control.

One technique which has proven effective is practicing conscious delay and substitution processes. This teaches a child to postpone gratification and practice substituting something else when he or she cannot attain a goal. One method of delay is to reward the child with what he desires only after he has remained focused on some other necessary activity.

Another method is to designate specific times during the day during which children can talk about things they want to have or do, and to some degree have their needs met. These children should be drawn into mature discussion about other possibilities that will be nearly as satisfying as the object of their intense desire.

Taking The Reins In Avi’s case, when limits were first set to his prize binging, intense reactivity set in. His negative behavior plunged to new depths, as he tried the old methods of manipulation and found they no longer worked. Avi’s parents received counseling in how to enforce limits while practicing delay and substitution techniques. They rode out Avi’s angry outbursts and his attempts to destabilize the atmosphere at home, and raised the bar for earning rewards for good behavior.

Gradually, Avi’s acting out lessened as he came to terms with the “new management” and his behavior began to turn the corner.

Over time and with guidance, Avi’s parents learned to recognize and resist the manipulation behind their son’s habitual wheedling, and insistent bargaining for things he wanted. They learned to cut short arguments and debates and to stand firm behind parental decisions.

Today, almost a year later, Avi’s insatiability—and its fallout on his ability to focus his attention and process information in school—has not been “cured,” but it has been reduced and brought under control.

For Avi, learning about his condition—both its risks and its potential healthy advantages for his future—brought about a very positive consequence: It challenged him to harness his considerable will power to prove that rather than remain a pawn to a condition that so limited him, he was taking control of it. That inner motivation proved the most effective tool of all

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The Junior Diplomats Recap: Rachel is worried when Eli and Jake don’t return on time, but she delays telling her mother about the reason for Eli’s disappearance. Jake’s family, too, discovers that he’s missing.

On the surface, the attitude in the apartment across the street was curious, and even friendly and convivial. At first.

“So, we finally get to meet our neighbors,” the shorter of the two men who’d drawn Eli and Jake into the apartment said. “What a pleasure.”

Eli and Jake exchanged glances, and a wordless conversation played out between them.

These men are up to something, Eli’s eyes read.

They want information from you, Jake’s eyes read back.

We need to do something, Eli’s eyes intuited.

“Um, no,” Eli said out loud. “We, uh, we actually came to this building because we needed to bring something to the…to the lawyer’s office upstairs.” His German grammar was weak, and his vocabulary had far too many holes in it, but he forced himself to talk as coherently as possible. Herr Schultz would have been proud. “My father asked me to take it over.”

“The office opens at eight, but we needed to leave an envelope for them to see first thing in the morning,” Jake said. After a moment, he added, “I just came along as a friend.”

Eli looked at Jake. His neighbor’s ability to improvise would have been impressive — under different, less stressful, circumstances.

Twenty seconds passed. Jake and Eli waited for the men to take the bait.

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“What did it say in the envelope?” Mr. Shorter asked.

“Uh…it was private business for his father,” Jake said, pointing at Eli. “I didn’t ask him what it said in there.”

“Neither did I,” Eli muttered.

The two men exchanged glances. For a moment it seemed like they were deliberating between the pros and cons of buying the boys’ story.

Mr. Shorter turned to look at the window. The blinds were pulled tight, but freedom beckoned right beyond. If only the men would just let them go.

“Nonsense,” the taller of the two men finally spat out. “You came here to spy on us.”

“We didn’t,” Eli protested. His eyes strayed toward the window that Mr. Shorter was staring at. His own house was only several yards away — right across the street. So close, and yet so very far away.

“Maybe not,” Mr. Shorter said, his tone even now. “But you have to admit that it makes sense for Adolf and I to get suspicious when we see two boys outside our door — ears pressed right to it — at 6:30 in the morning.”

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“We, uh, we were only on our way down from the lawyer’s house,” Eli said, his voice taking on a pleading note. “But we stopped here, by mistake, to tie our shoes. It was an honest mistake, and we want to go now. So, please, can we? Can we?”

His voice rose.

The two men turned to stare at his and Jake’s feet.

Uh-oh. Bad mistake. Neither Eli nor Jake were wearing shoes with laces.

Adolf crossed his arms and then uncrossed them. Then he touched his belt — and the holster there on prominent display.

Eli blanched.

“Really, now,” Adolf said, his voice low and threatening.

“Somehow, your story doesn’t ring very true.”

“Which means that you’re both liars,” Mr. Shorter added, drawing closer to the boys, his manner menacing now. “And now that we’ve established that fact, there are some other facts that we’d like to establish as well.”

“Like what it is exactly that your father does — and what exactly he wrote in his letter. If a letter even exists,” Adolf said.

“We also want to know how all of that ties in with his work as a cyber spy.”

A cyber spy?

Eli began to tremble. He had begun to wonder if his father had somehow uncovered important information during his “computer games,” and now the bad guys were confirming that fact.

But who had his father been spying on, and why? Since when had Austrians become enemies of the Israeli embassy?

“But we’re not going to keep you here,” Mr. Shorter said. “Not in this room, at least, with its window that faces your house.”

The window that the blinds were firmly pulled over anyway?

What did the men think? That somehow the boys would be able to send telepathic signals to their homes across the street?

“We have a special room that helps us get information from people,” Adolf said quietly, touching his holster. “You will kindly follow us that way now.”

Eli forced himself not to shudder. Everything would be okay.

Hashem was with him even in this horrendous house.

Beside him, Eli felt Jake begin to tremble.

Eli was seized by a horrendous sense of guilt. It was his fault, after all, that Jake was now in these madmen’s house together with him.

A digital clock on the wall recorded time to the precise millisecond — in German fashion.

The clock read 7:03:08:10.

she would call their father.

Please, Rachel, Eli thought. Please keep your side of the deal, and tell Abba that I went across the street to spy on these people — like a silly little boy. Please don’t try to protect me. I don’t care if Abba and Ima punish me for the rest of my life for being foolish. Any punishment is better than this. *** At the Katz household, a meeting of sorts was taking place. And it was none-to-pleasant.

“You mean,” Mr. Green said, looking from Rachel to her parents, “You mean that Eli convinced Jake to join him on an expedition to who-knows-where, and no one thought to tell us?”

“It wasn’t to who-knows-where,” Mr. Katz said. “It was to the building across the street, and you can rest assured that I will give Eli a piece of my mind for his recklessness when I see him.”

When I see him. The words were more of a question than a statement.

Rachel and Lillian began to tremble.

Why, indeed, Rachel thought, had Jake not thought to tell his parents? Was it because he was so used to doing things on his own, and thoughts of involving anyone hadn’t crossed his head? Or was it because he hadn’t realized that there was danger involved?

“What I don’t understand is what anyone across the street would want with your family,” Mrs. Green said quietly. “I mean, you don’t have dangerous enemies, do you?”

Mr. and Mrs. Katz exchanged glances. “I think we should leave the subject of enemies aside for now,” Mr. Katz said diplomatically, “and instead focus on how we’re going to get the boys out the house that we know they’re in.”

“How?” Mr. Green echoed.

Mr. Green reached for his phone. “I’m going to call the Israeli embassy for backup. We have a top-notch intelligence department, and with them on board, we’re sure to come up with a plan soon.”

Lillian and Rachel looked at each other again. Would things really be so simple? Would members of the Israeli embassy come to the boys’ rescue quickly and get them out of whatever dangerous predicament they’d gotten themselves into?

A pall of unspoken words and fears hung over the dining room as Mr. Katz punched in the instructions for his phone to hook up to a secure line.

Becky, who’d been standing quietly at Mrs. Green’s side until then, began to whimper.

Mrs. Green turned to Mrs. Katz. “I think,” she said, “that if you know of anyone who can pray for the boys, now would be a good time to ask them to do that.”

To be continued...

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Vitamin E can reduce oxidative stress. One study showed a 34.5 percent increase in hair growth in those who supplemented orally with vitamin E for eight months, though it’s important to note that results may be very different when applied directly to the hair.

Vitamin B7 is also known as biotin. It may help support hair growth, though research is limited, especially when it comes to topical application.

Sunflower seed oil - contains oleic acid, which can stop hair breakage. It has anti-inflammatory properties that help calm dandruff and relieve an itchy scalp.

Oils are great lubricants and sealers for hair strands, which is why hair is less frizzy after applying a few drops of oil. Some oils, like olive oil, are rich in vitamin E and fatty acids, which form a protective layer over each strand of hair, helping them retain moisture.

Argan oil is rich in vitamins A, C, and E. It’s loaded with antioxidants and is a great moisturizer.

With direct application of the oil you choose, the shaft of the hair gets strengthened.

Grape seed oil contains vitamin E for hair growth. It helps strengthen hair to prevent split ends, thinning, and breaking.

Giving your hair a deep, nourishing oiling treatment once in a while (about every two weeks) will surely leave your hair feeling soft and looking shiny and less frizzy.

Shea butter has anti-inflammatory properties that can help reduce redness and scalp irritation by providing healing effects without clogging the pores.

What Oils Should You Use?

Grapefruit oil has a pleasantly sweet and tangy/tart aroma that blends well with a number of other essential oils. It’s energizing but isn’t too strong or overpowering.

What oil you use will depend on your hair’s needs, since every kind of oil contains different vitamins.

Keep in mind, when using oil on your scalp, it may be worth testing to be sure you don’t have an allergy. Do a patch test before going for a full treatment.

Oil options: Virgin coconut oil is the most commonly used hair oil.

Evening primrose oil contains arachidonic acid, which helps promote hair growth and helps existing hair shafts grow longer.

How to Oil Your Hair 1. Comb out your hair.

2. Moderately warm up the oil before applying, to get the best penetration. Heating the oil helps seal the pores and keeps the scalp moisturized. Be careful not to overheat the oil.

Sesame oil reduces frizz and may also prevent split ends. It’s high in vitamin B1, calcium, copper, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, manganese, and zinc. Sesame oil also provides deep conditioning to the scalp and smooths the hair shaft. Its antibacterial and antifungal qualities may help prevent dandruff.

3. Put the oil into a hair-oiling comb.

Almond oil is lighter weight than sesame oil but slightly thicker than coconut. Almond oil contains vitamins B, K, and E.

7. After an hour, you can wash your hair with a mild shampoo.

Make sure all the oil gets washed out.

4. Divide your hair into sections, and apply the oil from the scalp down 5. Massage your scalp.

6. Wrap your hair in a towel, preferably a warm one.

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1. What protected the Yidden in the Midbar?

2.In whose zechus did the Yidden get water in the desert?

3 Whose bones did the Yidden take with them out of

5. What is a special name for this Shabbos?

6. What got into the mahn if it was left over for the next day?

Mitzrayim?

4. What percent of the Yidden left Mitzrayim?

9. What did the Yidden eat in the Midbar?

10. Who was the father of Nachshon?

11. At what point in the day did the mahn come down?

12. When the Yidden left Mitzrayim they didn’t go through which land even though the way would have been shorter?

15. Who was the first one to jump into the Yam Suf? 18. Who ate the mahn that the eirav rav put out on Shabbos?

20. How many clouds surrounded the Yidden?

23. When the Yidden complained they were hungry for meat, Hashem sent them _____.

7. After the Mitzriyim died in the Yam Suf, the Yidden sang ______.

8. Before Shabbos the Yidden gathered a _____ portion of mahn.

13. Who led the chase to catch the Yidden after three days?

14. At night the Yidden were led by a pillar of ______.

16.When the Yidden left Mitzrayim, they were led by a _____.

17.When did the quail come down?

19. To commemorate the mahn that fell for shabbos we eat .

21. In which place were the waters too bitter to drink?

22. How much mahn did each Yid get every day?

24. Which musical instrument did Miriam use when she sang with the women?

25. Who was the first to attack Bnei Yisrael in the Midbar?

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CELEBRATING TU B’SHEVAT WITH WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FRUITS Malkie Schulman

T

u B’Shevat, known as the Jewish “New Year for Trees,” is not just about a time for planting trees; it’s a great time to

think about and appreciate Hashem’s amazing natural world, including all the weird and wonderful fruits out there. From the spiky durian, dubbed the “king of fruits,” to the tricky miracle berry that turns sour flavors sweet, join us as we dive into the world of exotic fruits.

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Durian First off, as befitting royalty, we’ll start with the Durian, often hailed as the “king of fruits” in Southeast Asia. However, believe it or not, the durian is best known for its horrible smell. Yup, you heard me right! Imagine the most intense mix of gym socks, rotting meat, and raw sewage — that’s pretty much what you’re up against when you breathe in the scent of a durian! The smell is so strong that it’s banned in many public places like buses, hotels, and airports.

Why is it called the “king of fruits”? Good question! One reason is because the durian has a ring of thorns encircling its stem — actually, multiple rings of thorns — which resembles a crown.

Also, even though it does smell really bad at various stages of ripening, the taste is said to be amazing. Durian lovers describe it as a mixture of savory, creamy, and sweet flavors — a real treat for those who appreciate it. It’s also super nutritious and packed with more vitamins and minerals than most other fruits. So as long as you hold your nose while eating it, you should be fine!

This strange fruit isn’t cheap either. In some countries, you might pay up to $497 for four to six whole fruits!

There are a few reasons why it’s so expensive. One reason is because of its long growing process — durian trees take up to 15 years to bear ripe fruit. When fully grown, a durian is about the size of a volleyball. They’re also difficult to pick, requiring a few people to pick one durian.

Still, even though it can be a challenge to your nose and wallet, a durian’s unique characteristics make it a must-try for the adventurous eater.

Noni (Cheese Fruit) Noni fruit is another Southeast Asian specialty that tests the boundaries of smell and taste. Also known as vomit or cheese fruit, Noni fruit definitely lives up to its nicknames with its stinky smell and bitter taste.

So if it has neither good taste nor nice smell why is it famous, you ask?

It can’t be because of its bizarre looks either — it’s large, lumpy, and oval-shaped, dotted with brown specks, resembling a sprouting potato.

Nope, the noni fruit is famous because it’s supposed to be extremely healthy. Noni juice is especially popular because it’s believed to do everything from helping your joints to boosting your immune system.

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Nevertheless, despite the gross smell and taste, people in Southeast Asia actually like noni fruit a lot and

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Vibes of Interest use it in everything from juices to snacks. (Go figure!) Especially during famines, people in places like the Pacific Islands use it as emergency food or even eat it regularly, which is the reason for its third nickname, “starvation fruit.” Of course, others offer a different explanation for why it’s termed the starvation fruit — it’s only eaten, they claim, when there’s absolutely nothing else to eat!

Ackee — Jamaica’s Dangerous Delight Ackee fruit is usually small to medium in size and shaped somewhere between an oval and a pear.

Its two to four lobes stay closed, giving it a swollen look, until it becomes ripe. The ackee’s taste is mellow and slightly nutty, often compared to scrambled eggs when it’s cooked, and the smell is mild.

Even though it originates from West

Africa, the ackee is very popular in

the Caribbean. In Jamaica, it even

has the status of “national fruit,” and

a particular combination of cooked

salted

considered a Jamaican national dish.

However, that wasn’t always the case. For

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red-and-yellow lobes that look a little like brains (yuck but also cool, right?). The thing is, you must wait for it to open naturally before eating. If you eat an ackee before it’s fully ripe and split open, it releases a substance called hypoglycin, which is highly toxic and can result in what’s popularly called “Jamaican vomiting sickness” because, yeah, you guessed it, you vomit a lot.

Ackee eaters — you have been warned!

Dragon Fruit — The Fire-Breathing Dessert According to legend, dragon fruit was created thousands of years ago by fire-breathing dragons. During a battle, when the dragon would breathe fire, the last thing to come out of his mouth was the fruit. After the dragon was killed, the fruit was collected and presented to the emperor as a treasure and sign of victory.

Moving right along to the facts, Pitaya, more famous as Dragon Fruit, is an exotic fruit that once again originates from Southeast Asia but is also popular in Central and South America. It has a vibrant pink skin, and large green scales. When you open it, you’ll see tiny black seeds on a white surface. Some people think that part looks creepy, but most people agree that the flavor is refreshing, somewhere between the taste of a kiwi and watermelon.

Besides its appearance and flavor, the dragon fruit is also a powerhouse of nutrition, filled with an antioxidant called lycopene that can lower risks of heart disease and cancer and is high in vitamin C, fiber, and other antioxidants. No wonder dragon fruit has become a worldwide hit and is an often-used ingredient in smoothies, salads, and exotic dishes.

And oh, one thing: Don’t eat the skin.

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Lychee Next up is the lychee, a small tropical fruit that originates from China but is eaten all around the world today. The lychee has a rough, reddish-pink skin that peels away to show a pearly white, super juicy fruit inside. It has a great taste often described as a mix of strawberry, watermelon, and a touch of grape, all rolled into one. Enjoy every bite of it, but be careful — there’s a large seed in the middle — you don’t want to bite into that!

And here’s a cool fun fact: Under the right conditions, a lychee tree can produce fruit for more than a hundred years!

Rambutan — The Hairy Lychee The rambutan from Southeast Asia (yup, another exotic fruit from Southeast Asia!) is like the wild, hairier cousin of the lychee (see above). Its name in the Malayan language means “hairy,” which perfectly describes the fruit’s outside.

But don’t let its odd appearance fool you; once you get past the hairy exterior, you’ll find a juicy, sweet fruit that, similar to the lychee, is absolutely delish.

Miracle Fruit — The Taste Bud Twister Miracle fruit is a small red berry originally from West Africa that holds a surprising secret: it can make sour foods taste sweet, thanks to a substance called miraculin. The miracle fruit doesn’t have much of a smell, and it tastes mild, but the effect it has on your taste buds is mind-blowing.

For up to an hour after eating a miracle fruit, any sour foods you eat will taste sweet! Imagine munching on a lemon like it’s a sweet cherry — that’s what the miracle fruit can do. Not only does it give you a wild, fun experience but the miracle fruit also has positive potential health benefits. It can help people with dietary restrictions (like people who aren’t allowed to eat food with high sugar levels) or taste sensitivities enjoy food differently. Almost seems like you’re cheating, but you’re really not!

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Horned Melon (Kiwano) — The Jelly Alien The horned melon, also known as kiwano, is native to Africa and is also known as the “African horned cucumber.” The outside looks like it’s from another planet! With its bright-orange skin covered in spiky horns, it looks like an alien fruit or something you might find on a futuristic food platter.

The inside is pretty wild too, with a green jelly-like substance that’s a cool mix of cucumber, zucchini, and kiwi flavors chock-full of vitamins and minerals. Plus, because of its hardy shell, the horned melon can last a long time without spoiling, making it a handy snack in its native hot desert regions.

Cherimoya — The Custard Apple Cherimoya, also known as custard apple, is native to the Andes mountains in South America, where people have been enjoying it for hundreds of years. It was even considered a delicacy by the ancient Incas! The cherimoya is a green heart-shaped fruit with bumpy skin that looks a little like an artichoke. But don’t judge it by its outer appearance! Inside, it has sweet, creamy white flesh that tastes like banana, pineapple, and strawberry together — basically, a tropical fruit salad in one bite. Its smooth texture and pleasant, fruity smell give it a custard-like feel, hence the nickname. Today, cherimoya is often eaten chilled with a spoon, just like dessert.

Fun fact: Famous author Mark Twain called the cherimoya “the most delicious fruit known to men.”

Fun fact: The seeds, leaves, and limbs of the cherimoya plant contain poisonous alkaloids that have been used to kill lice!

There you have it — a sneak peek into the strange and spectacular fruit orchards of the world. So this year, as you celebrate Tu B’Shevat, you can think about the incredible variety found in Hashem’s creation, especially within the wild world of exotic fruits. From the creamy goodness of cherimoya to the alien-like spikes of the kiwano to the ackee that’s all about eating at the right time, each one brings its own unique flavor and story to the table.

And if you’re feeling adventurous, why not pick up one of these oddballs and give your taste buds a trip they won’t forget?

Who knows, you might just discover your next favorite exotic fruit snack!

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Currently there are 165,000 known species of butterflies and moths. Of the nicest butterflies is the Monarch Butterfly.

Their bodies are colored in magnificent contrasting hues: a deep orange, black and white. When they flutter among the thousands of vivid flowers that Hashem created in our universe, the panorama is strikingly beautiful! They are found in the northern parts of America but they have also spread their population via ships to Europe and other countries.

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‫פלאטערלעך האבן א גאר וואונדערליכע לעבן וואס איז פול‬ ַ ‫נארך‬ ַ ‫מא‬ ָ .‫הבריאה‬-‫מיט אומגלויבליכע פלאי‬ ‫ פיציקע איי (בילד‬,‫עס הייבט זיך אן ווען די מאמע לייגט אן איינצלנע‬ ‫ וועלכע וועגט א טויזנטסטל פון די‬,‫ ס"ה א מילימעטער גרויס‬,)‫אויבן רעכט‬ ‫ און‬290 ‫ לייגט זי צווישן‬- ‫צוויי‬-‫ בערך א חודש‬- ‫מאמע! אין איר קורץ לעבן‬ .‫ לעבן איבער‬10% ‫ אייער! ווייניגער פון‬1180 -‫ וועלכע דער גרויסער באשעפער האט קאלירט ליכטיג‬- ‫די אייער‬ ‫ ווערן געלייגט און צוגעקלעבט צו‬- ‫ווייט זיי צו באשיצן‬-‫גרין אדער אוו‬ '‫ טעג קומט ארויס א 'קעטערּפילער‬3-8 ‫ נאך‬.‫ספעציעלע 'מילקוויד' בלעטער‬ ‫ מאל ביז‬5 ‫ ער וועט עסן פון די בלעטער און טוישן די הויט‬.)‫(אויבן רעכטס‬ .‫ מאל אזויפיל‬2000 ‫ער וועט וועגן‬ ‫נאך צוויי וואכן וועט דער 'קעטערּפילער' זיך צוקלעבן מיט זיידן אויף‬ ‫ קליינע‬4 ‫ געווענליך אונטער א בלעטל (ערשטע פון‬,‫א הענגעדיגע פאזיציע‬ ‫ אינעווייניג ווערט‬.)‫טע בילד‬-2( ‫בילדער) און זיך איבערדעקן מיט א הויט‬ ‫ די‬.)‫טע בילד‬-3( ‫פלאטערל‬ ַ ‫זי איבערגעדרייט פון א 'קעטערּפילער' צו א‬ ‫טע בילד) און טריקנט זיך אויס אויפן זון און‬-4( ‫פלאטערל קריכט ארויס‬ ַ !'‫ מה רבו מעשיך ה‬.‫הייבט אן זיין לעבן‬ Monarch butterflies have an astonishing life cycle replete with the most amazing wonders of creation. The cycle begins with the mother laying a single, tiny egg (picture top right), only a millimeter in size, and weighs 1/1000 of the mother’s weight! In her short lifespan, just about a month or two, she lays between 290 and 1180 eggs! Less than 10% survive.

The eggs, which were colored by divine providence in light green or off-white for protection, are laid and attached to special ‘milkweed’ leaves. After 3-8 days a caterpillar emerges (top right). It will feed on the leaves and shed its skin 5 times until its weight increases 2000 times.

After 2 weeks, the caterpillar will adhere with silk threads, suspended, usually under a leaf (first of 4 small pictures) and wrap itself in a membrane (2nd picture). Inside the cocoon, it is transformed from a caterpillar to a butterfly (3rd picture).

The butterfly crawls out (4th picture), dries out in the sun, and starts its new life. Ma Rabu Maasechu Hashem!

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INGREDIENTS 3 cups Brown Rice Penne (dry) 1 1/2 cups Baby Spinach 1 Garlic (clove, small, chopped) 1/4 Lemon (juiced) 1 1/2 Tbsp Hemp Seeds 1/4 tsp Sea Salt

DIRECTIONS 1. Cook the penne according to package directions.

Set aside.

2. In a blender, combine the baby spinach, garlic, lemon juice, hemp seeds, and salt.

3. While the blender is running, slowly add the oil through the top of the lid until fully emulsified.

4. Toss the penne with the pesto and enjoy!

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‫פלאטערלעך פליען ארום און טרינקען זאפט פון אלע סארט‬ ‫נארך ַ‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫בלומען‪ .‬די 'נעקטאר' איז זייער ענערגיע און שפייז (בילדער אונטן)‪.‬‬ ‫א גרויסע טייל פון זייער באפעלקערונג פליען אוועק אין די ווינטער‪-‬‬ ‫מאנאטן צו די ווארעמע פלעצער‪ ,‬וואו זיי קענען דורכלעבן די קעלט און‬ ‫האבן בלומען פון וואו צו עסן‪ .‬מאסן ‪ -‬אין די שווערע טויזנטער ‪ -‬לאזן זיך‬ ‫ארויס יערליך צו דעם אויג‪-‬פארכאפנדע 'מייגרעישן'‪.‬‬ ‫יארן האבן די פארשער נישט געהאט קיין אנונג וואו זיי 'מייגרעיטן'‪,‬‬ ‫ביז מען האט אויסגעפינען אז זיי פליען קיין פלארידע‪ ,‬מעקסיקאו אדער‬ ‫קאליפארניע‪ ,‬וואו עס איז אסאך ווארעמער‪.‬‬ ‫אין די ווארעמע פלעצער לייגן זיי זיך אן אין די מאסן אויף ביימער‪,‬‬ ‫פעלדער‪ ,‬אזש אז אלעס ווערט איבערגעדעקט (בילדער אויבן) מיט‬ ‫מיליאנען פון די הערליכע שווארץ‪-‬און‪-‬אראנזשע פלאטערלעך‪.‬‬ ‫זיי וועלן זיך דרייען אויף פלעצער וואו עס איז דא ווייניג שונאים‪,‬‬ ‫גענוג זון און וואסער‪ ,‬און פארשטייט זיך בלומען פון וואס צו טרינקען די‬ ‫'נעקטאר'‪.‬‬ ‫די וועלכע לאזן זיך ארויס אויף די יערליכע 'מייגרעישן' וועלן קיינמאל‬ ‫נישט זיין צוריק‪ ,‬נאר זייער קינדער אדער אייניקלעך‪ ,‬וויבאלד זייער לעבן‬ ‫איז גאר קורץ‪.‬‬ ‫‪Monarch butterflies flutter around and drink the nectar‬‬ ‫‪from all sorts of flowers. The nectar provides their energy‬‬ ‫‪and nutrition (pictures bottom).‬‬ ‫‪A large portion of the population migrate in the winter‬‬ ‫‪months to warmer climates, where they can survive the‬‬ ‫‪cold and have flowers to eat. Masses, counting in the high‬‬ ‫‪thousands, set out yearly in this eye catching migration.‬‬ ‫‪For years the scientist had no idea to where they‬‬ ‫‪migrate, until they discovered that they fly to Florida,‬‬ ‫‪Mexico, or California, where the climate is a lot warmer.‬‬ ‫‪In these warm states they converge in the masses on‬‬ ‫‪trees and fields, so much so that everything gets covered‬‬ ‫‪(top pictures) with millions of dazzling black and orange‬‬ ‫‪butterflies.‬‬ ‫‪They will hover in areas where they have few predators,‬‬ ‫‪enough sun and water, and, of course, flowers to drink‬‬ ‫‪their nectar.‬‬ ‫‪These that migrate will never make their way back,‬‬ ‫‪only their children and grandchildren, since their lifespan‬‬ ‫‪is extremely short.‬‬

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‫פלאטערלעך‪ ,‬נאכן זיך ארויסלאזן אויף זייער‬ ‫נארך ַ‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫‪ .1‬א ריזן מחנה ָ‬ ‫יערליכע 'מייגרעישאן'‪ ,‬לאנדן אויף א פעלד‪.‬‬ ‫‪ .2‬א 'קעטערפילער'‪ ,‬עסט 'מילקוויד' בלעטער‪ ,‬אויף וועלכע ער ווערט‬ ‫געבוירן‪.‬‬ ‫נארך‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫‪ .3‬א 'קלאוס‪-‬אפ' בילד פונעם קאפ און 'אנטענע' פון א ָ‬ ‫פלאטערל‪.‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פלאטערל‬ ‫נארך ַ‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫‪ .4‬א פיציקע איי‪ ,‬וועלכע ווערט געלייגט דורך די ָ‬ ‫מאמע‪ ,‬אויף די אונטערשטע זייט פון א בלעטל‪.‬‬ ‫‪ .5‬א פרישע 'קעטערפילער'‪ ,‬וואס איז יעצט ארויס פונעם איי‪ ,‬עסט אויף‬ ‫די איי‪-‬שאלעכץ אין וועלכע ער איז געבוירן‪.‬‬ ‫פלאטערל טרינקט 'נעקטאר' פון‬ ‫נארך ַ‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫‪ .6‬א הערליכע‪ ,‬קאלירפולע ָ‬ ‫א אראנדזש‪-‬געלע בלום‪.‬‬ ‫‪1. A huge army of monarch butterflies, after setting out on‬‬ ‫‪their yearly migration, landing on a field.‬‬ ‫‪2. A caterpillar feeding on a ‘milkweed’ leaf, on which he was‬‬ ‫‪born.‬‬ ‫‪3. A close-up picture of the head and antennae of a monarch‬‬ ‫‪butterfly.‬‬ ‫‪4. A tiny egg, which was laid by a mommy monarch butterfly,‬‬ ‫‪on the underside of a leaf.‬‬ ‫‪5. A newborn caterpillar, just hatched, eating the eggshell‬‬ ‫‪from which he was born.‬‬ ‫‪6. A stunning monarch butterfly drinking nectar from an‬‬ ‫‪orange-yellow flower.‬‬

‫פאקטן און ציפערן‬ ‫פלאץ‪ :‬אמעריקע און נאך עטליכע לענדער‬ ‫וואג‪ :‬אומבאקאנט‬ ‫לענג‪ 2-2.5 :‬אינטשעס‬ ‫פליגל‪ 3.5-4 :‬אינטשעס‬ ‫אייער‪ :‬צווישן ‪ 290‬און ‪1180‬‬ ‫עסן‪ :‬אלס 'קעטערפילער' ‪' -‬מילקוויד' בלעטער; אלס 'באטערפליי' ‪-‬‬ ‫'נעקטאר' פון בלומען‬ ‫שונאים‪ :‬חיה'לעך‪ ,‬קאלטע וועטער און קרענק‬ ‫לעבן‪ :‬מאקסימום‪ 1 ,‬יאר; נארמאל א חודש‪-‬צוויי‬ ‫באפעלקערונג‪ :‬היפש איבער ‪ 100‬מיליאן‬

‫‪TIDBITS‬‬ ‫‪Habitat: America and some other countries‬‬ ‫‪Weight: unknown‬‬ ‫‪Length: 2-2.5 inches‬‬ ‫‪Wing: 3.5-4 inches‬‬ ‫‪Eggs: between 290 and 1180‬‬ ‫‪Food: as Caterpillars - milkweed leaves; as Butterflies - nectar‬‬ ‫‪from flowers‬‬ ‫‪Predators: small animals, cold weathers and illnesses‬‬ ‫‪Lifespan: maximum 1 year, normally 1-2 months‬‬ ‫‪Population: more than 100,000,000‬‬

By: Chaim Gold

Gedolei Yisrael Urge Learning of Masechta Shabbos and Hilchos Shabbos in Dirshu’s Amud HaYomi and Halacha Programs

The Power of Shabbos Can Save Us!and Minds of Klal Yisrael!”

“The Gemara teaches that if Klal Yisrael would keep two Shabbosos the geulah would come immediately. Perhaps we can say that this refers to the learning of both Masechta Shabbos and hilchos Shabbos,” said HaGaon HaRav Dovid Cohen, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chevron, to a delegation of senior members of hanhalas Dirshu led by Dirshu’s Nasi, Rav Dovid Hofstedter who recently met with him in his home in Yerushalayim.

It was Rav Dovid Cohen who, even before the Amud HaYomi’s inception, ardently hailed the establishment of the program because he presciently saw that it would address an important need and fill a void for Klal Yisrael.

“Even I was Surprised by the Way Amud HaYomi has Conquered the Hearts and Minds of Klal Yisrael!”

Rav Cohen has been a major advocate of the program since its inception and has enthusiastically hailed Dirshu’s Iyun Ha’Amud booklets that infuse the Amud HaYomi with a unique geshmak in learning by endowing the Amud HaYomi learner with many of the foundational aspects of each sugya’s lomdus in a userfriendly way.

He explained that the limud established by Rav Meir Shapiro for Klal Yisrael is extremely necessary because by nature, every person needs a mechayev and a framework that obligates him and enables him to learn with a plan, in an orderly manner. Otherwise, one’s daily obligations get in the way and rob him of learning time. In Rav Meir Shapiro’s generation, people had more time for learning. They would spend hours every day in the shteibel and the Daf HaYomi was therefore an ideal limud. Today, people are much busier with the overwhelming obligations of everyday life and need a limud with more geshmak to engage them. Even bnei Torah need a certain geshmak to enable them to sustain their goals in bekiyus. The Amud HaYomi program, which gives a person more time to cultivate a real geshmak in learning, addresses all these needs. “That is why I encourage it,” Rav Cohen explained.

He added, “That being said, even I was surprised by the way it has conquered the hearts and minds of Klal Yisrael in such a short time! I can tell you,” he told Rav Hofstedter, “this is just the beginning. You will see in the future how many more people will upgrade their limud haTorah by joining the program and how it will literally take over Klal Yisrael.”

Masechta Shabbos Plus Hilchos Shabbos Equals a Golden Opportunity!

The Dirshu delegation also met with HaGaon HaRav Reuven Elbaz, shlita, Rosh Yeshivat Ohr Hachaim and a member of the Shas Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah. Rav Elbaz focused on what he called “a golden opportunity” for lomdei Torah.

“I think,” he said, “that the fact that the Amud HaYomi is about to start Masechta Shabbos and that the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha will begin hilchos Shabbos in a few months offers a golden opportunity. One can learn Masechta Shabbos and thereby become familiar with all the concepts and sources of the halacha. Then, one can proceed to the next step to see how all those concepts and sources translate into halacha l’maaseh! It is amazing how Dirshu has ‘set the table’ for the lomdim by producing such wonderful sefarim. Their Iyun Ha’Amud booklets enables lomdim to easily access and understand the underpinnings of the sugya and the Dirshu Mishnah Berurah which helps every lomed truly understand the practical halacha as it relates to our times, gives us no excuse not to learn!”

Rav Elbaz added that he himself uses the Dirshu Mishnah Berurah daily and experiences remarkable to’eles, benefit from it.

“Moiredig!”

HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Ezrachi, Rosh Yeshiva at the Mirrer Yeshiva and one of the elder Roshei Yeshiva of the generation, was simply amazed as he perused the Iyun Ha’Amud booklet, exclaiming, “Moiredig! Moiredig!”

He then expressed his fervent hope that the pace and schedule of the Amud HaYomi would give the learners a true geshmak in iyun, while enabling them to cover ground www.lakewoodvibes.com

and complete masechtos on schedule. Indeed, Rav Yitzchok himself is scheduled to travel to Argentina where hundreds of lomdim have joined the Amud HaYomi program, to participate in the Amud HaYomi siyum on Masechta Brachos there.

“We are Living in Yemos HaMashiach!”

One of the most gratifying aspects of the Amud HaYomi is the way it has brought entire kehillos together, on the same page, literally! One such kehillah is Khal Adas Yerushalayim commonly known as Kehillas Hamasmidim led by Rav Elimelech Mintzberg. The kehillah has thriving branches in Yerushalayim, Bet Shemesh, Modiin Illit, Beitar and other places. The kehillah decided to adopt the Amud HaYomi as their official limud and soon, tens of shiurim will be established in each of their centers. Both kollel yungeleit and baalei battim are learning the Amud HaYomi. The kollel yungeleit have added it to their regular kollel schedule and the baalei battim had adopted it as their main limud.

At an event held together with senior members of Kehillas Hamasmidim and its Amud HaYomi Maggidei shiur, Rav Mintzberg spoke passionately about the limud haTorah revolution that he has witnessed in the kehillah since the Amud HaYomi began the cycle with Masechta Brachos on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan.

“I feel,” he said, “that if my father, Rav Leibel Mintzberg who led the kehillah for decades, would be here, he would say that we are living in yemos haMashiach!

Wherever I go I see our baalei battim and avreichim deeply immersed in the limud, learning, chazering and taking tests in a way that we have never witnessed before. Yes, yemos haMashiach is an age when everyone has the ability to become a talmid chochom! That is what I am seeing today in our kehillah. Everyone is so taken up with the limud.

There are no words to describe our profound gratitude to Dirshu for being the catalyst for this revolution!”

The Antidote to The Difficulties of Galus In his remarks at the Masmidim event, Rav Dovid Hofstedter noted the darkness of the galus in which we find ourselves and the difficult times facing Jews both in Eretz Yisrael and throughout the entire world.

“Hashem has given us the antidote to combat the difficulties of galus!” he exclaimed. “He has given us special siyatta d’Shmaya, He has endowed Klal Yisrael with the Amud HaYomi and the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Even within this terrible galus Hashem has shown us ha’aras ponim. The way Klal Yisrael has embraced this limud, the night kollelim, the different programs in various kehillos where tens of thousands have immersed themselves in this limud and are taking tests, show how Hashem has sent us this antidote!

Torah protects and Shabbos protects.”

The Largest Beis Medrash in the World!

Rav Aryeh Zilberstein, one of Dirshu’s most successful maggidei shiur, has hundreds listening to his Amud HaYomi shiur in person and many thousands throughout the world listening to the recordings of his shiurim. He inherited the clear, eloquent powers of elucidation from his illustrious father, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Zilberstein, shlita.

At a special gathering for Amud HaYomi maggidei shiur, Rav Zilberstein said, “We are part of what is certainly the largest beis medrash in the entire world! This beis medrash encompasses many tens of thousands of people who are learning the Amud HaYomi. Yes, everyone may, in practice, be learning in his own local beis medrash, but we are all connected. The Gemara teaches that the more people who learn together, the greater hashraas haShechina there is. I think,” Rav Zilberstein proclaimed, “this amazing new Amud HaYomi program brings the Shechina and so much bracha because, by its very nature, it pushes the lomed to keep on learning.

It is relentless, yet doable. The monthly tests that create a tremendous feeling of obligation to not only learn the amud well, but to review it repeatedly until it is so clear in one’s mind that one can take a test on it.”

Indeed, the siyum on Masechta Brachos and the beginning of Masechta Shabbos will coincide this year with Dirshu’s Annual Convention this coming weekend of Shabbos Parashas Tetzaveh, February 22-25, in Stamford, Connecticut, to be graced by leading Gedolei Yisrael who will impart chizuk and guidance.

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‫וועלכע‬ ‫נדלער‪,‬‬ ‫ענ ַא סע‬ ‫פון איר‬ ‫שיכטע‬ ‫יכע גע‬ ‫מגלויבל‬ ‫די או‬

‫געט ָא‬‫ו ַארשע‬ ‫ער פון ו‬ ‫‪ 2‬קינד‬ ‫ט ‪,500‬‬ ‫ַאטעווע‬ ‫ויסגער‬ ‫ָאט ַאר‬ ‫ה‬

‫אין קורצן פון פריער‪:‬‬ ‫ווארשע‪ ,‬שטעלט אויף ַא נעץ פון ָ‬ ‫ביורא אין ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ציא ַ‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫אירענא סענדלער‪ַ ,‬ארבעטנדיג אינעם ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫וואלונטירן וועלכע זענען איר גרייט צו העלפן מיט איר‬ ‫לע‪-‬ארבעט‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געוואגטע‪ ,‬העראאישע ארבעט פון פעלשן דאקומענטן צו העלפן און ראטעווען אידן‪ .‬טיפוס הייבט אן בוזשעווען אין די אידישע קווארטלען‪ ,‬און זי ווערט‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געוואויר אז די נאציס ּפלאנירן איינצושּפארן ‪ 20‬טויזנט אידן און זיי לאזן אויסגיין פון הונגער‪.‬‬ ‫ליינט ווייטער מיט ַ‬ ‫שּפאנונג!‬

‫ַ‬ ‫קא ּפיטל ‪ :20‬גיי שוין ַארויס!‬ ‫ווארשע‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫מאי‪-‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָאקטאבער ‪.1940‬‬

‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געווארט אויף דעם‬ ‫האט‬ ‫אירענא‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫פולקאם‬ ‫מאמענט און איז געווען דערויף‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫גרייט‪ .‬זי האט געוואוסט ּפונקטליך וויאזוי‬ ‫מאביליזירן שנעל איר ַ‬ ‫צו ָ‬ ‫גאנצע נעץ פון‬ ‫לע‪-‬ארבעטער מיטהעלפער ַ‬ ‫ציא ַ‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫פאר דעם‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פארצווייגטן ּפראיעקט‪ .‬מען דארף ראטעווען‬ ‫די ‪ 20‬טויזנט אידן‪.‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַא ַ‬ ‫סטראטעגיעס זענען‬ ‫סאך וועגן און‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫דורכגעלאפן אירע געדאנקען‪ ,‬זי האט אויך‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געהאט קיין צווייפל ַאז עס וועלן זיין‬ ‫נישט‬ ‫ּפראבלעמען און סכנות‪ָ ,‬אבער ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫וואס צו טון‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫למעשה‪ ,‬האט זי שנעל געוואוסט‪.‬‬ ‫זי ָ‬ ‫האט צום ערשט ָאנגערופן יעדן‬ ‫ציא ַ‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫לן‪-‬ארבעטער און זיך אידענטיפיצירט‬ ‫האט זי זיי ָ‬ ‫דאן ָ‬ ‫לענטא'‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געזאגט‬ ‫'דזשא‬ ‫ַאלס‬ ‫קרא ַ‬ ‫ּפראצעדור ‪ָ – 5#‬‬ ‫"אנצוגרייטן ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫כמאלנע‪.‬‬ ‫נא ָ‬ ‫דעטאלן וועלן ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫כפאלגן‪".‬‬ ‫ווייטערדיגע‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האט געמיינט ַאז‬ ‫ּפראצעדור ‪5#‬‬ ‫גא ָ‬ ‫ּפאסירן אינעם ָ‬ ‫עּפעס וועט ַ‬ ‫ר‪-‬נאנטן‬ ‫‪732.930.2500‬‬

‫דארפן ַ‬ ‫צוקונפט‪ ,‬און מען וועט ַ‬ ‫באלדיגע‬ ‫נבא ַ‬ ‫קאנצענטרירטע הילף ַא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫לאנגט‬ ‫און‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫עסן‪ .‬דאס האט אויפגעוועקט דעם גאנצן‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫קוואנטום זעק‬ ‫נעץ ָאנצוגרייטן ַא גרויסע‬ ‫ָאנגעפולט מיט תבואה‪ ,‬מעל און ָ‬ ‫ווארצל‪-‬‬ ‫וואס ַ‬ ‫גרינצייג [=גרינצייג ָ‬ ‫וואקסט אונטערן‬ ‫קא ָ‬ ‫ווארצלען‪ ,‬צום ביישּפיל‪ַ :‬‬ ‫ערד ווי ָ‬ ‫רטאפל‪,‬‬ ‫מייערן‪ ,‬צוויקל אד"ג‪ ,‬וועלכע מען קען‬ ‫האלטן און ַאוועקלייגן ַ‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פאר ַא לענגערע‬ ‫צייט]‪ .‬זיי ָ‬ ‫האבן אויך געוואוסט ַאז מען‬ ‫פאלשע ָ‬ ‫סאך ַ‬ ‫דארפן ַא ַ‬ ‫וועט ַ‬ ‫דאקומענטן‪,‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פארשטייט זיך ווי מער איז בעסער‪ ,‬פון‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫נשטאט די אידישע‪.‬‬ ‫ּפוילישע נעמען ַא‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אירענא‬ ‫טאג איז‬ ‫דעם קומענדיגן‬ ‫כמאלנע ַ‬ ‫קרא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאס‪ .‬זי‬ ‫רויפגעגאנגען צו‬ ‫ַא‬ ‫איז ַאריבער פון איין ַא ַ‬ ‫ּפארטמענט‪-‬הויז‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫איבעראל גערעדט מיטן‬ ‫צום צווייטן און‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אירענא‬ ‫הויז‪-‬קאמיטע‪.‬‬ ‫פארזיצער פונעם‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האט זיי ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געווארנט איבער'ן‬ ‫פארציילט און‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫וואס וועט ָאט‬ ‫דיסאינפעקציע‪-‬אקציע‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫פארקומען‪ ,‬די סכנה וואס דאס ברענגט מיט‬ ‫דארף טון‪ .‬ביים ענדע ָ‬ ‫וואס מען ַ‬ ‫און ָ‬ ‫האט זי‬

‫זיי איבערגעגעבן ַאז הילף איז אויפ'ן וועג‪.‬‬ ‫אין דער זעלבער צייט‪ָ ,‬‬ ‫האט דער‬ ‫גאן – ָ‬ ‫ווא ָ‬ ‫ציאלע‪-‬הילף ַ‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫וואס איז געפירט‬ ‫דא ָ‬ ‫נטאני ַ‬ ‫געווארן דורך ַא ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫נבראווסקי –‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫ּפצוטראגן ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האלטענערהייט‬ ‫ָאנגעהויבן ָא‬ ‫ּפראדוקטן ַ‬ ‫די זעק מיט ָ‬ ‫פאר די ָאנגעגעבענע‬ ‫ַאדרעסן‪.‬‬ ‫די זעק תבואה און ָ‬ ‫ווארצל‪-‬גרינצייג‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אינגאנצן איבערגעדעקט‬ ‫געווארן‬ ‫זענען‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫פארשמירטע ַ‬ ‫מיט ַ‬ ‫נדאזשן און שמוציגע‬ ‫ליילעכער‪ ,‬עס ָ‬ ‫זאל אויסזען ווי מען גייט ָאדער‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫קומט פון הייזער וואס דארפן סאציאלע‬ ‫ָאדער מעדיצינישע הילף‪ָ .‬אנקומענדיג צו‬ ‫די ָאנגעגעבענע הייזער‪ָ ,‬‬ ‫האבן די קינדער פון‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫יעדע געביידע שנעל ַ‬ ‫האלטן די זעק אין‬ ‫די בוידעמס ָאדער קעלערן‪ַ ,‬אז די ּפוילישע‬ ‫דאס נישט ַ‬ ‫זאלן ָ‬ ‫ליציאנטן ָ‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫באמערקן‪.‬‬ ‫ַא ַ‬ ‫סאך אידן זענען יענע טעג געזוכט‬ ‫אירענא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געווארן דורך די ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫נאציס‪.‬‬ ‫האט זיכער‬ ‫באקומען נייע‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫געמאכט ַאז זיי ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פאלשע‬ ‫ציע‪-‬קארטלעך און זי ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האט זיי‬ ‫אידענטיפיקא‬ ‫כמאלנע ַ‬ ‫קרא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאס‬ ‫ּפלאצירט ַאוועק פונעם‬ ‫‪1/24/2024‬‬

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‫ביז די ַאקציע וועט ַאריבערגיין‪.‬‬ ‫יעצט זענען שוין געווען ָ‬ ‫כאטש ‪30‬‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫קאנטע פעלער פון טיפוס אויף‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫קראכמאלנע גאס‪ .‬די דייטשע אקציע האט‬ ‫געקענט קומען אין יעדע ַ‬ ‫ליאדע מינוט‪ .‬עס‬ ‫נאך ָ‬ ‫טאג ָ‬ ‫איז שוין געווען דער פערטער ָ‬ ‫וואס‬ ‫נגעמאכט דעם טומל‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫אירענא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫מאי ‪,7‬‬ ‫האט ָא‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫און איז געווען א ווארעמער פרילינג טאג‪.‬‬ ‫אירענא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ּפונקט אינעם מינוט ָ‬ ‫האט‬ ‫וואס‬ ‫קרא ַ‬ ‫רלאזט די געביידע פון ָ‬ ‫פא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫כמאלנע ‪,35‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האבן זיך ּפלוצלינג צופיפן די טרויעריג‪-‬‬ ‫בארימטע סירענעס און ַא ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫לארמען פון די‬ ‫ּפוילישע ָ‬ ‫ּפאליציי‪.‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אין ַ‬ ‫געווארן ַא שרעקליכע‬ ‫גאס איז‬ ‫בהלה און מענטשן ָ‬ ‫האבן ָאנגעהויבן צו‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫לויפן אויף ַאלע זייטן‪ .‬דייטשע ָ‬ ‫ליציאנטן‬ ‫געשטאנען ביי די עקן פון ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאס‪ ,‬עס‬ ‫זענען‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫טא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ּפגעשלאסן און קיינעם נישט‬ ‫טאל ָא‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַארויסגעלאזט‪ .‬שטרענגע באפעלן זענען‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געווארן ָאן אויפהער פון סּפעציעלע‬ ‫געהערט‬ ‫הויכהילכער וועלכע זענען געלעגן אויף‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ווערמאכט‪-‬טרעקלעך‪.‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫"אלע יודן העראוס! [=אלע אידן ארויס!]"‬ ‫דארף ָ‬ ‫"מען ַ‬ ‫דא רייניגן פון לייז‪ ,‬צוליב די‬ ‫טיפוס עּפידעמיע‪ .‬ווער עס וועט נישט זיין‬ ‫ַארויס פון די געביידעס אין ‪ 15‬מינוט‪ ,‬וועט‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געשאסן ווערן!"‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ּפלוצלינג ָ‬ ‫אירענא געהערט ַא רונדע‬ ‫האט‬ ‫שיסערייען פון נישט‪-‬צו‪-‬ווייט‪ .‬זי ָ‬ ‫האט‬ ‫געהערט ווי ַא דייטשער ָאפיציר ַ‬ ‫באפעלט‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫פאר די ּפוילישע ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ליציאנטן צו גיין‬ ‫ַארויסטרייבן דעם עולם‪ .‬מען ָ‬ ‫האט זיי נישט‬ ‫געדארפט צופיל בעטן‪ .‬פלינק ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האבן זיי זיך‬ ‫ַאריינגעריסן אין די געביידעס‪ ,‬געשמעטערט‬ ‫אויף די טירן און אויסגעליידיגט ַאלע‬ ‫הייזער‪ .‬שטיוול ָ‬ ‫האבן געזעצט אויף די‬ ‫שטיגן‪ ,‬געשרייען ָ‬ ‫האבן זיך געהערט אין‬ ‫ּפאליציי‪-‬שטעקנס ָ‬ ‫רידארן און ָ‬ ‫קא ָ‬ ‫די ָ‬ ‫האבן‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געהאקט אויף טירן און ווענט‪.‬‬ ‫פון ַאלע זייטן ָ‬ ‫האבן מענער‪ ,‬פרויען און‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫רויסגעשטראמט‪ .‬אונטער דייטשע‬ ‫קינדער ַא‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אויסגעשטרעקטע וואפן‪ ,‬האט מען זיי‬ ‫צאמגענומען אינמיטן ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאס‪.‬‬ ‫ַא פרישע רונדע קוילן ָ‬ ‫האט זיך געהערט‪.‬‬ ‫ַא פרוי ָ‬ ‫האט געשריגן שרעקליכע קולות‪.‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫די דייטשע סאלדאטן האבן נערוועזערהייט‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געהאלטן זייערע פינגער‬ ‫ַארומגעקוקט און‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫רעוואלווערס‪.‬‬ ‫אויף די‬ ‫געשטאנען אויפ'ן ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאס און‬ ‫אירענא איז‬

‫"כ'בין זיכער ַאז ָ‬ ‫דאס‬ ‫פאלש‪ָ ",‬‬ ‫איז ַ‬ ‫האט‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געזאגט‪,‬‬ ‫ער בייסיג‬ ‫"און כ'בין זיכער ַאז‬ ‫דא ּ‬ ‫דו טוסט ָ‬ ‫עפעס‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫אומלעגאל‪ָ ,‬אבער‬ ‫איך ָ‬ ‫האב נישט‬ ‫יעצט קיין צייט זיך‬ ‫ָא ּפצוגעבן מיט דיר‪".‬‬ ‫מיט שרעק זיך צוגעקוקט‪ ,‬ווען ּפלוצלינג‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫האט ַא ּפוילישער ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ליציאנט איר ָאנגעהויבן‬ ‫צו שלעּפן ַאריין צום מיטן פון ַ‬ ‫גאס‪ ,‬וואו די‬ ‫פא ַ‬ ‫געשטאנען ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫רזאמלט‪" .‬רוק זיך‬ ‫אידן זענען‬ ‫שנעל‪ ,‬דו ַ‬ ‫פארשטונקענע דזשיד‪ .‬גיי שוין‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫רעם‪-‬באנד?"‬ ‫ַאריין אינמיטן‪ .‬וואו איז דיין ָא‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫אויפגערעגט ווי ַאזוי מען באהאנדלט‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫איר‪ָ ,‬‬ ‫אירענא געקוקט דעם ּפוילישן‬ ‫האט‬ ‫ליציאנט אין ּפנים‪ ,‬און ַ‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫באמערקט ַאז ער‬ ‫דערשראקן קינד‪ָ ,‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫וואס פריידט‬ ‫איז ַא יונג‪,‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫זיך צו ָ‬ ‫בעפארן קריג‪,‬‬ ‫האבן עּפעס ַארבעט‪.‬‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האט ער זיכער ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געהאט מיט די‬ ‫גארנישט‬ ‫בא ָ‬ ‫האט מען אים ַ‬ ‫אידן‪ ,‬יעצט ָ‬ ‫צאלט זיי צו‬ ‫ּפייניגן‪.‬‬ ‫כ'האב ַא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ּפאס‪",‬‬ ‫"כ'בין נישט קיין איד‪.‬‬ ‫געזאגט מיט ַא ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫גראדן‬ ‫אירענא אים‬ ‫האט‬ ‫עּפידעמיע‪-‬קא ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫נטראל‬ ‫ּפנים‪" .‬קוק אויף מיין‬ ‫ציע‪-‬קארטל‪ ",‬זי ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האט אים‬ ‫אידענטיפיקא‬ ‫דזשא ָ‬ ‫מא ַ‬ ‫קטאר ַ‬ ‫דא ָ‬ ‫דערלאנגט ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫קאווסקי'ס‬ ‫ּפאס‪ .‬דער יונגער ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ליציאנט ָ‬ ‫ּפא ַ‬ ‫האט איר גלייך‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָאּפגעלאזט‪ .‬א מינוט דערויף‪ ,‬האט זי געזען‬ ‫ווי ער גיבט ַאן אכזריות'דיגער זעץ מיט‬ ‫זיין שטעקן ַ‬ ‫פאר ַא צומישטע‪ַ ,‬אלטע פרוי‪,‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫וועלכע ָ‬ ‫געוואלט צוריקגיין צו איר הויז‪.‬‬ ‫האט‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫די פרוי איז ַא ָ‬ ‫ּפגעפאלן‪ ,‬ווען בלוט‬ ‫רא‬ ‫הייבט ָאן רינען פון איר ָ‬ ‫קאּפ‪.‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫אויטא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫הינגעלאפן‪,‬‬ ‫אירענא ַא‬ ‫מאטיש‪ ,‬איז‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫טראכטנדיג אז זי וועט כאטש אּפשטעלן‬ ‫איר בלוטיגן‪.‬‬ ‫אירענא איז שוין געווען ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫הארט נעבן‬ ‫ווען‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫האט איר ַא ָ‬ ‫די צובלוטיגטע פרוי‪ָ ,‬‬ ‫לדאט‬

‫ַ‬ ‫נגעכאּפט און געשלעּפט צום דייטשן‬ ‫פעסט ָא‬ ‫מאנדיר‪ .‬ער ָ‬ ‫קא ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האט שטרענג געבליקט אויף‬ ‫קאּפ ביז פיס‪ַ .‬‬ ‫טראכט פון ָ‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫איר און ַ‬ ‫דאן‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האט ער אויסגעשטרעקט זיין מגושמ'דיגע‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האנט‪ ,‬וועלכע איז געווען ָאנגעטון מיט‬ ‫פא ַ‬ ‫לעדערנע הענטשוך‪ ,‬און ַ‬ ‫רלאנגט אירע‬ ‫אירענא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫האט ּפרובירט נישט‬ ‫ּפאּפירן‪.‬‬ ‫ַארויסצואווייזן קיין ָ‬ ‫טראּפ שרעק‪.‬‬ ‫"דו ַ‬ ‫דארפסט מיין ערלויבעניש צו קענען‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געבן הילף‪ָ ",‬‬ ‫געזאגט מיט ַא‬ ‫האט ער‬ ‫בא ַ‬ ‫האט ַ‬ ‫שּפאטישן שמייכל‪ .‬ער ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫טראכט איר‬ ‫נטראל ַ‬ ‫עּפידעמיע‪-‬קא ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ּפאס‪.‬‬ ‫פאלש‪ָ ",‬‬ ‫דאס איז ַ‬ ‫"כ'בין זיכער ַאז ָ‬ ‫האט‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫געזאגט‪" ,‬און כ'בין זיכער ַאז דו‬ ‫ער בייסיג‬ ‫אומלעגאל‪ָ ,‬אבער איך ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫טוסט ָ‬ ‫האב‬ ‫דא עּפעס‬ ‫נישט יעצט קיין צייט זיך ָאּפצוגעבן מיט‬ ‫דיר‪".‬‬ ‫מאנדיר ָ‬ ‫קא ַ‬ ‫דער ָ‬ ‫האט ַא שּפיי געגעבן‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫געפאלן נעבן‬ ‫אין איר ריכטונג‪ ,‬און עס איז‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫אירענא'ס פוס‪" .‬די פרוי ליידט נישט פון קיין‬ ‫אינפעקציע ָאדער עּפעס ַאן עּפידעמיע‪ .‬דו‬ ‫האסט נישט קיין רעכט איר צו העלפן‪ַ ".‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫דאן‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫האט ער אויסגעפירט‪" :‬יעצט‪ ,‬גיי שוין ארויס‬ ‫דא‪ .‬כ'וויל דיר נישט זען ַ‬ ‫פון ָ‬ ‫פאר די אויגן!"‬ ‫⋅⋅⋅‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פרישע געזעצן ָ‬ ‫געהאלטן אין איין‬ ‫האבן‬ ‫ַארויסקומען צו איינצוימען און ּפייניגן די‬ ‫אידן‪.‬‬ ‫סעּפטעמבער ‪" :1940 ,28‬עס איז נישט‬ ‫פארן אויפ'ן ַ‬ ‫פאר אידן צו ָ‬ ‫ערלויבט ַ‬ ‫טראמוויי‬ ‫צוזאמען מיט ַאריער‪ .‬אידן מעגן ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫פארן‬ ‫ווא ָ‬ ‫נאר אין ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫גאנען אויף וועלכע עס שטייט‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫'פאר אידן‪ַ '.‬א אידישער‬ ‫אויפגעשריבן‪:‬‬ ‫ווא ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫גאן‪ ,‬וועט צוגעלייגט ווערן צו יעדער‬ ‫דריטער ַ‬ ‫טראמוויי‪".‬‬ ‫קטאבער ‪ַ :1940 ,4‬‬ ‫ָא ָ‬ ‫"אלע ַארישע דינסטן‪,‬‬ ‫פאר אידן‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫וועלכע ַארבעטן ַ‬ ‫דארפן זיך מעלדן‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אויטאריטעט‪".‬‬ ‫ביי די דייטשע‬ ‫קטאבער ‪" :1940 ,10‬אידן ַ‬ ‫ָא ָ‬ ‫דארפן זיך‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫רוקן אין דער זייט און מאכן ּפלאץ פאר‬ ‫סא ַ‬ ‫פאר ַא ָ‬ ‫מאן‪ ,‬סיי ַ‬ ‫יעדער דייטשער ַ‬ ‫לדאט‬ ‫און אויך פאר ציווילע וועלכע ָ‬ ‫טראגן מונדירן;‬ ‫זיי ַ‬ ‫דארפן זיין ַאוועקגערוקט ביז דער‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫ַ‬ ‫דייטש פארלאזט דעם טראטואר‪ .‬היטלעך‪,‬‬ ‫קאּפ‪-‬צודעק‪ַ ,‬‬ ‫רא ָ‬ ‫ספא ַ‬ ‫ווא ַ‬ ‫ָאדער סיי ָ‬ ‫דארפן‬ ‫ראּפגענומען ווערן ַאלס רעסּפעקט ַ‬ ‫ַא ָ‬ ‫פארן‬ ‫דייטשן מונדיר‪".‬‬

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‫הכנות צו חמשה עשר בשבט אין ירושלים‬ Preparations for Tu Bishvat in Yerishulayim

‫שמחת התנאים לנכד האדמו”ר מטעמעשוואר עב”ג הכלה נכדת הגה”צ רבי צבי מאיר זילבערבערג והגה”צ אב”ד זרע קודש וראש ישיבת בית מאיר‬ Tenoim for grandson of the Temishvar Rebbe with Granddaughter of Rabbi Tzvi Meir Silberberg and Rosh Yeshivas Beis Meir ‫ שוקי לרר‬:‫צילום‬

‫שמחת השבע ברכות לבת האדמו”ר מטאהש לאברכי הכולל‬ Sheva Bruches for daughter of the Tosh Rebbe by the Kolel

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‫שמחת השבע ברכות לבת האדמו”ר מטאהש לעסקני השמחה‬ Sheva Bruches for daughter of the Tosh Rebbe for the Askonei Hasimcha

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!‫שטיצט אייער לאקאלע געשעפטן דורך איינקויפען לאקאל‬

‫ביטע שטיין ביים‬ ‫באס סטאפ פינף‬ ‫מינוט פאר'ן צייט‬ ‫וואס שטייט אויפן‬ .‫סקעזדשול‬

388 Chestnut

Flag-down shuttle 10:00 a.m-2:00 p.m

Vine cor. Wadsworth

Evergreen

Stop is by M&T bank cor.

Seagull Square

Cor. Stamford Hill Rd.

Chestnut

Vilna

Flag-down

Woodbine

GRANITE

GROVE

VINE ST

OTL

CEDARBRIDGE

FIRE HOUSE

CEDARBRIDGE

HANOVER

HARMONY VILNA

11:00

Hanover

12:00

11:55

11:53

11:50

11:45

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1:58

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1:05

Gourmet Glatt | Clifton | Cedarbridge | Vilna Hanover | Grove | Harmony

RETURN BUS STOPS:

Clifton | Chemed | Gourmet Glatt

Hanover | Grove | Harmony | Vilna | Cedarbridge

BUS STOPS

10:55

10:53

10:50

10:45

10:45

10:40

Grove

Harmony

Locust

Across the Fire house

Cedarbridge

Bus Shelter near OTL

Cedar bridge

Corner of 4th St.

Clifton

Across Tag Office

10:25 10:30

Gourmet glatt

10:20

Chemed

Corner of 4th St.

Clifton

Across Lingerie Shop

Cedar bridge

10:10

10:10

Cedarbridge

At the Fire house

10:05

10:03

10:02

10:00

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Locust

Harmony

Grove

Granite

Granite

BUS STOPS

10:30

10:20

10:15

10:15

10:10

10:00

9:55

9:50

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9:40

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| Oak & Vine | Cedarbridge

9:30

9:20

9:15

9:15

9:10

9:00

8:55

8:50

8:40

8:40

8:35

8:30

Oak & Vine |

Granite

Gourmet Glatt | Clifton | Cedarbridge

RETURN BUS STOPS:

Clifton | Chemed | Gourmet Glatt

Granite

Oak & Vine

Across the Fire house

Cedarbridge

Bus Shelter near OTL

Cedar bridge

Corner of 4th St.

Clifton

Across Tag Office

Gourmet Glatt

Chemed

Corner of 4th St.

Clifton

Across Lingerie Shop

Cedarbridge

At the Fire house

Cedarbridge

Oak & Vine

Granite

MONDAY - FRIDAY

SHUTTLE SCHEDULE

office@carescouncil.org

1:00 Locust Route

12:00

added to the business listing please email:

#2 - GRANITE 1:00

The Rishon Center 130 1st St Lakewood 206. Golden Rose Flowers & Gifts 207. That Hat 208. Vaping Connection

Gourmet Glatt Plaza 1700 Madison Avenue 183. CSO Radio 184. Toys 4 u 185. The Nuttery 186. Vineyard 187. Gourmet Glatt 188. Verizon 189. Schreibers shoes 190. Hatcraft 191. The Gym Lakewood 192. Immediate Medical Care 193. Nails 194. Linen Garden 195. Kaylah's Jewelry 196. Zober Cleaners 197. Fraylich Uniform 198. J2 Pizza 199. Brooklyn Southwest 200. Step on Me Flooring 201. Judaica Plaza 202. Chase Bank 203. Shoppers Paradise 204. Sprinkles 205. Emporio

Shloimy's Plaza 95 East Kennedy Blvd 171. Shloimy's Kosher Supermarket 172. Coco Nails 173. Best Cleaners 174. Prime Ninety-Five 175. New Additions 176. Little Women Too 177. Trousseau 178. French Press 179. Shell Station 180. Photo express 181. Best cleaners 182. Upper Crust

158. Latin Bistro Grill 159. Celebration Boutique Lakewood 160. Technoman Repair & Services 161. Bagel Nosh 162. Lakewood Cleaners 163. Clearview Eyewear 164. Paradise Garden Boutique 165. Express Laundromat 166. Brothers Restaurant 167. Metro by T-Mobile 168. Ideal Travel Services 169. Latino Agency 170. Ruby Kitchen

MONDAY - FRIDAY

SHUTTLE SCHEDULE

Downtown Lakewood 140. DB Electronics 141. NPGS 142. Pizzaleh 143. Twin City Jewelers 144. Sewing Alterations By Edith 145. Suitshoppe 146. Creative Kids 147. Ladida 148. Authentic Kosher Chinese 149. Latino Community Connection 150. lI Center Electronics and Repair 151. Clover Women's Clothing 152. BMBGLLC 153. TechSafe Recyclers 154. Cesar's Beauty Salon 155. Eat a Pita 156. El Oaxaqueño Supermarket 157. Exito Fresh Market

Cedar Bridge Shopping 123. Polka Dot Boutique 124. TOTTINI 125. Piccolino 126. Focus Camera 127. A Shoe Dream 128. The Hat Box 129. Secure Data Recovery Services 130. Mike's Chicken 131. Tomahawk Steakhouse 132. Chase Bank 133. GB Clothing 134. Seasons Supermarket 135. Chai Urgent Care 136. Juice by Julie 137. Whimsy 138. The Cookie Corner 139. The Uniform Shoppe

CHEMED HEALTH 1771 Madison Ave 118. CHEMED 119. Cubicles 120. WIC Lakewood Office 121. Professional Career Services 122. Yapchik

104. Building Bridges 105. Brain Builders 106. Evergreen Supermarket 107. French Press 108. Asisa Urgent Care 109. STYLE AND TREND 110. Augenbraun Bridal 111. PERROQUET 112. ELEMENO 113. His Place Collection 114. Mefoar Judaica 115. Precious Health of Lakewood 116. Dr. Shanik 117. Children’s dental

For comments and suggestions or to be

Evergreen Plaza 945 River Ave 100. Center of Town 101. J2 Pizza 102. Wine on the 9 103. Optical Eyeland

Grand Central Plaza 355 Cedarbridge Ave. 62. Cosmetic Center 63. Direct Line Carpet 64. Simi's Socks & Shells 65. Molly's Jewelry 66. Trendsetting 67. Sary's Wig 68. Sole Connection 69. The Lighthouse 70. Kova Hats

37. Pizzano 38. Rena's 39. Health Market 40. Namery 41. Royal Kids 42. Copier Toners 43. I-optix 44. Rite Aide 45. M&T Bank 46. Glatt Bite 47. B&B Party Shop 48. Shoe Spot 49. Lakewood Nail Salon 50. Shalom Cleaners 51. European Finesse 52. Hosiery Plus

Clifton Shopping Center 163 East Kennedy Blvd

Cedarbridge Area 250 Cedar Bridge Ave. 27. The Lingerie Shop 28. Finale Boutique 29. Dimensions 30. Whimsy Childrens Wear 31. Coco Nails 32. Miri's 33. Out to Lunch 34. Step in Elegance 35. Caplan Cuts 36. The Custom Shoppe

22. Circa NY 23. Express Cleaners 24. Supreme Health 25. Emes Pharmacy & Grocery 26. Living Quarters

Washington Square 415 Cedarbridge Ave.

Partial list of local businesses the Lakewood Shuttle commutes Lakewood residents to:

#1 - LOCUST ST

Harmony

10

12

CNR 4th st

CLIFTON

CHEMED

Paid for, in whole or in part, under the Urban Enterprise Zone program.

Day | Day after Thanksgiving | Christmas Day

Labor Day | Columbus Day Election Day | Veteran’s Day Thanksgiving

President’s Day | Good Friday | Memorial Day | Independence Day

New Year’s Day | MLK’s Birthday | Lincoln’s Birthday

Lakewood Township observes the following holidays so please call the phone system Ext. 9 to check the schedule updates on these holidays.

Thank you for making this service a success!

Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

It is expected that all riders will be respectful of the driver and other passengers.

Take your seat promptly and quietly.

Allow passengers to exit the bus before boarding.

No food or drinks are allowed on the shuttle.

Strollers are permitted on the shuttle but must be folded prior to arrival of the shuttle.

Before planning your trip, please check with our phone system if there are any changes to the schedule.

Scheduled times fluctuate slightly, so it is important that you be at your stop five minutes early.

‫ביטע אויספאלגן די פאלגענדע אנווייזונגען‬ .‫פאר די טובה פון אלע "שאטל" באניצער‬

Hanover

Todd Plaza

11

GOURMET GLATT

across TAG office

SHUTTLE HOTLINE

732.929.6929

Effective: July 1, 2023

DOWNTOWN ROUTES

LAKEWOOD SHUTTLE SCHEDULE

PLEASE NOTE: Our goal is to provide reliable, safe, and affordable transportation to residents of Lakewood Township. For this to be successful, we need you, our passenger, to follow some basic guidelines and policies so everyone will have a positive experience.

Grove

Hanover

9

8

6

5

4

3

2

1

Pick-Up / Drop-off

‫געדענקט צו שעצן און באדאנקן‬ !‫דעם באס דרייווער‬

office@carescouncil.org

added to the business listing please email:

For comments and suggestions or to be

78. Gingerbread

74. Children’s Dental

73. Dr. Shanik

72. Mefoar Judaica

71. Moda Home

70. Eternity Jewelers

69. His Place Collection

Cross Plaza - 32 Cross St.

63. French Press

57. Evergreen Supermarket

6

56. Precious Health

55. Pizza on the 9

Evergreen Plaza - 945 River Ave.

53. Linen Loft

51. ZBerman

75. Scarpe

50. 3M Pharmacy

Chateau Plaza - 916 River Ave.

45. Nail Spa

42. Lakewood Family Dental

36. Royal Family Shoes

39. Toys 2 Discover

48. Friendly Urgent Care

41. Laundromat

35. Print flash 49. Westview Shop

47. Shell Station

40. Upper crust

34. Closeout Connection 46 Mr. Clipper

Todd Plaza - 1091 River Ave.

By shopping locally, you are supporting our local stores and businesses!

SEAGUL SQUARE

CROSS PLAZA

9

CHATEAU PLAZA

EVERGREEN SHOPPING CENTER

LOOP ROUTE MAP

Paid for, in whole or in part, under the Urban Enterprise Zone program.

Day | Day after Thanksgiving | Christmas Day

Labor Day | Columbus Day Election Day | Veteran’s Day Thanksgiving

President’s Day | Good Friday | Memorial Day | Independence Day

New Year’s Day | MLK’s Birthday | Lincoln’s Birthday

Lakewood Township observes the following holidays so please call the phone system Ext. 9 to check the schedule updates on these holidays.

Thank you for making this service a success!

Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult.

It is expected that all riders will be respectful of the driver and other passengers.

Allow passengers to exit the bus before boarding.

No food or drinks are allowed on the shuttle.

Strollers are permitted on the shuttle but must be folded prior to arrival of the shuttle.

29. Check Cashing

24. Burger King

23. Dollar General

22. M & T Bank

21. Beacon Flooring

20. Hazorfim

19. Shira's Salon

18. Pastel

17. TH interiors

Chestnut Plaza - 1201 River Ave. 28. River Pharmacy

15. Rebecca's

7. Exquisite Gowns

27. Eyewear Unlimited

14. Cross Fitness

6. Pediatric Dental

26. Condor

13. Photo Point

5. Shirtsleeve Mens Wear

25. Four Corners

12. Heads of Class Outlet

4. Judaica Square

Before planning your trip, please check with our phone system if there are any changes to the schedule.

11. Kiwi Health Food

3. Vineyard

16. The Yellow Door

10. Purple Orchids Lingirie

2. Toys 4 U

8. Borsalino

9. Cleaners

1. Gourmet Glatt

Gourmet Glatt / Seagull Square - 1328 River Ave.

Partial list of local businesses the Lakewood Shuttle commutes Lakewood residents to:

Scheduled times fluctuate slightly, so it is important that you be at your stop five minutes early.

‫ביטע אויספאלגן די פאלגענדע אנווייזונגען‬ .‫פאר די טובה פון אלע "שאטל" באניצער‬

Our goal is to provide reliable, safe, and affordable transportation to residents of Lakewood Township. For this to be successful, we need you, our passenger, to follow some basic guidelines and policies so everyone will have a positive experience.

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Hi, Heshy. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your company?

Most of the homes that are having a hard time selling is because

I’m Heshy, and I own a solar-panel company. I started out in this

companies that take advantage of customers and don’t really give

industry because I understood the need and that a lot of people weren’t taking advantage of this system. I put in a lot of hard work to master it, to the point that we’re now one of the biggest names in the solar industry.

the seller got into a very bad deal. Unfortunately, there are many them any savings. Most of those systems are leases, with high prices and annual increases on the solar. Nobody wants to take over a deal that isn’t any good. However, we sell a lot to the local community and provide real savings, so anyone who went with our

I’m seeing a lot of houses recently that have solar panels. Are they being given away for free? How much does the system cost?

company and is now selling their house can expect to have an easy

A solar system generates electricity. Any electricity produced through the solar panels is the owner’s at no cost. In other words,

Is there any way you help your clients besides for lowering their electric bills?

you don’t make payments to the electric company for all that

There are other things that come along with a solar system — like

electricity. While there is the cost of installing the system, you get

we discussed earlier regarding redoing roofs. Additionally, many

a very traditional return on investment. You can also take a loan to

people can take advantage of very large tax credits for installing a

finance it, which some people do just like financing a car. Lately,

solar system. For example, in the five boroughs of New York City

we’ve been seeing a lot of people lease the system, since the

there are tremendous tax credits, including income tax credits, that

lease price has come out to be significantly cheaper than people’s

incentivize people to install solar.

current electric bill, and people like paying less from day one.

Wow, this sounds like a cost-effective solution to our ever-increasing bills. What happens if there’s a leak on a roof after a solar system is installed?

We generally only install on new roofs. If a homeowner is interested in the system but their roof needs repair, we’ll generally replace the roof first. Often, we’ll include the cost of the new roof in the monthly cost for the system, so the customer will pay one monthly bill for two assets. However, in such a case, the owner has to realize that their monthly savings won’t be as drastic, since part

time transferring the deal and passing on the savings to the next buyer.

Sounds like a no-brainer, then. Are you seeing an increase in demand with all these incentives your offering?

Yes, baruch Hashem, the business continues to grow every single year, and most people who buy from us will eventually refer two to three people down the road.

What are some things to look for when house hunting if a buyer wants to see if the home would be a good candidate for solar?

The condition of the roof is the very important. Also, clear southeast and west sun exposure, with no obstructing trees.

the system is still cheaper than a new roof plus a typical electric

It was a pleasure speaking with you, Heshy.

How can an interested homeowner reach out to you?

bill.

Call us at 347.670.4369, or send an email

We also provide a ten-year warranty against any roof penetrations.

to info@selective.solar.

of their bill to us includes the new roof. However, a new roof plus

As a realtor, I’m seeing many homes with solar having a harder time selling because some people are overpaying for their system. Can you explain that?

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