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Thanks for the article about washing machines. It was relevant, practical and interesting at the same time.
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I have an LG top-loader. The machine is so deep that I sometimes consider using a stepstool to retrieve that last sock.
It does not have an agitator in the middle, which means I can put an entire quilted bedspread inside, and it washes beautifully.
The lid is a sleek-looking, smooth glass top. The glass once cracked, but since I maintain a warranty, the entire top was replaced at no charge. The technician recommended that I allow the cover to close automatically without forcing it down.
I would recommend washing an adult terry bathrobe, or any large towel item, on its own (without additional towels), as the water weight may be too much for the machine to handle, and it will not rinse thoroughly.
A fun feature I enjoy: When the load is done, the machine sings!
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I bought my house thirteen years ago and installed new appliances. One by one, they all started to die around this year. I wish I had read your article before I bought my new washing machine, as I’m really unhappy with it. It’s an LG top-loader without an agitator, and I feel like it doesn’t clean the clothes. It just mixes everything around in dirty water, with the laundry coming out even dirtier than when it went in. My old machine (which they no longer produce) had an agitator, and the clothes came out perfectly clean.
When I complained to my husband, he fiddled around and pointed out that this machine was designed to conserve water, which is why the clothes are not being cleaned properly. He advised me to run the machine on the “deep wash” cycle every time I do laundry. It helped a little, although the deep wash cycle takes 1 hour and 38 minutes long, which is very inconvenient for a Yiddishe household. And even then, the wash is not nearly as effective as my
old machine. I wish I could give it back. If anyone has this machine and has any ideas for how to get it to function better, I would love to hear about it.
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I really enjoyed your Catskills series. I go to the Catskills every summer for a week, and I was excited to try something new. I went to Katrina Falls, which I read about in your article, and was surprised to discover that it was privately owned. Since we were already there, we knocked on the door to ask if we could visit the falls, but the owner was extremely unfriendly and barked at us to get away.
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I can relate to the sentiments of the letter-writer who doesn’t get to go on vacation. As a young family, that was us, but with one big difference: We were lucky enough to have older siblings who owned bungalows or summer homes, and who often invited us to the country for Shabbosos. It was a wonderful getaway for us — short but sweet, yet still meant a lot.
Baruch Hashem, decades later, we own our own place in the country now. Our married children come to us often. But on a week when none of them are here, we extend ourselves to invite other families who could use the mini-vacation. It’s a lot of work, and sometimes after a very busy week, I just want a quiet Shabbos, but we push ourselves to host because we remember what it feels like to need that break so badly.
The letters you printed are keeping that motivation strong. I hope others will also be encouraged to invite guests who wouldn’t have the opportunity for a break otherwise. We feel very blessed to be able to share our good fortune.
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For us, Shabbos Nachamu means Motzei Shabbos Nachamu, the night of the annual Skulener seudas hodaah that marks the Rebbe’s release from prison. We try not to miss a year!
We try to go away for Shabbos, along with our couples.
For Shabbos Nachamu, our bungalow colony’s tradition is to discuss the grand kiddush for weeks, often with lively debates about the cost. I’m glad we don’t have the pressure of arranging major entertainment for families. Personally, I appreciate a tidy bungalow with a clean hamper and fresh flowers on the table.
We rent a house in the mountains and spend Shabbos there with all of the couples. We have a beautiful time together. All cousins join, and it’s total family time and togetherness.
My husband hosts the most beautiful kumzitz every year after the Friday night meal of Shabbos Nachamu. I set up nicely with baked goods and snacks for the men, and sit in the kitchen to enjoy the most otherworldly singing. They sing about galus and geulah, and eventually move on to heartwarming Yiddish songs, old and new. The singing goes on practically until sunrise, and it’s something I look forward to all summer long.
We go away with our family for Shabbos Nachamu.
I never knew Shabbos Nachamu was a “thing” until I got married. My wife goes all out.
My family does not go away for Shabbos Nachamu. We make special food and invite all of our couples for the seudos, making it the highlight of the year.
I prepare a very fancy dairy kiddush for Shavuos, and freeze extra cakes, mousses and other goodies for Shabbos Nachamu. On Shabbos Nachamu, I serve it either for shalosh seudos or melaveh malka, and everyone really enjoys it.
We get together with family and friends and sing together. We invite family from Brooklyn to spend Shabbos with us.
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PARSHAS VA’ESCHANAN
The Seder of the Siddur
Y. Levenstein
The pasuk says: “And you will seek Hashem and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Devarim 4:29).
Later, in the words of Shema, we find the same language: “And you shall love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul” (ibid. 6:5).
What is the Torah conveying with the expression, “ b’chol levavecha” — with all your heart? Why specify the entire heart?
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY Lithuania, there was a Yid named Reb Chaim Zlatys. Everyone knew that a tefillah by Reb Chaim was sure to be answered.
If you were to watch him daven, you would understand why — even though there wasn’t much to see. Reb Chaim would stand upright, stiff and unmoving. There were no outward gestures — no shaking, rocking or exaggerated bowing. His avodas hatefillah was completely inward. When Reb Chaim davened, there was one thing going on: his connection to the Ribbono Shel Olam. He did not feel or see a thing that was going on around him. He was talking to his Creator.
For a living, Reb Chaim worked at a factory owned by a nonJew. The entire staff was dismissed for a one-hour lunch break every day, and the workers would all leave the facilities.
One day, Reb Chaim decided to take advantage of the time and use the space, which was completely empty of people, to daven Mincha. Since nobody was expected to arrive during this time, he locked the main door before positioning himself before a wall to begin davening
For some reason, that particular day, the factory owner needed something from inside the building. He knew Reb Chaim was inside, and so he knocked, expecting
Reb Chaim to open for him. There was no response. He knocked louder, but no one answered.
The boss went over to a window and peeked inside. He saw Reb Chaim standing, unmoving, before the wall.
Yelling through the window, he said, “Chaim! Open the door!” No response. “Chaim! Are you making fun of me? I need to get inside!”
But Reb Chaim saw nothing and heard nothing. He didn’t budge.
The boss grabbed a metal rod and began banging on the metal door. The noise was so loud, it alarmed the neighbors, who came running to see what was going on.
“That Jew is acting as if he doesn’t hear,” the factory owner told the crowd that was quickly assembling. “Even if he fell asleep standing, it’s impossible that he didn’t hear this loud banging. He must be doing this to spite me!”
Curses could be heard throughout the crowd. What an impudent Jew!
Yet the factory owner was surprised. He had never had such a loyal worker as this particular Jew. What had happened to him?
He began yelling from the window again. “Chaim! I don’t have time or patience. If you don’t open the door, I’ll shoot!”
“Chaim! I don’t have time or patience. If you don’t open the door, I’ll shoot!”
When Reb Chaim still did not budge, the factory owner kept his word and fired several rounds through the window. The bullets flew right past Reb Chaim, just inches from his ear, and lodged into the wall.
However, it appeared that Reb Chaim did not notice the whizzing bullets or hear the accompanying sounds. He continued to stand like a statue in front of that wall.
If one is davening and feels that he is not connecting b’tefillah, he should know that his heart is not completely pure – there is some mud attached
The crowd’s curiosity was growing. Why was that Jew was standing there frozen like that?
A few minutes later, Reb Chaim took three steps backward and bowed.
The factory owner immediately yelled, “Chaim! Open the door immediately!”
Reb Chaim rushed over and unlocked the door.
“Why didn’t you open up for me?” his boss shouted angrily.
“I opened the door right when you asked me to,” Reb Chaim replied.
“You didn’t hear the knocking, shouting and shooting? Look at the wall! Do you see these bullets?”
“No, I didn’t hear a thing,” Reb Chaim said simply. He truly had not heard. He was in conversation with his Creator.
Someone once asked Reb Chaim, “How do you do it? Many people shake, shout or clap their hands while davening in order to get themselves to focus properly. Yet you don’t flinch!”
Reb Chaim answered with a mashal
A king once announced in all of his provinces that anyone who could build him a palace with space for stacks of exactly three million gold coins — without an extra crevice of space — would be able to keep all those coins. The experts and architects tried to figure out the exact size, but it was challenging. A centimeter up or down could invalidate the purpose of the entire building!
One world-renowned expert offered to give it a try. He spent months building a large palace. Finally, the day came. The building was complete and ready for the gold coins. Three million coins, which were counted and recounted for precision, were brought inside. Neat stacks piled up from floor to ceiling. As the workers were completing the job, they found they were left with one extra coin. They tried pushing and shoving to get that coin inside, but it simply didn’t fit.
The expert calmly instructed them to stop. “If I said they’ll all go in, they
will all fit without any pushing,” he said. Instead, he told them to remove all the stacks of gold, and he himself went inside the palace. He looked around, inspecting every spot of the floor until he found a piece of mud stuck in one corner. He scraped it off, cleaned the floor, and then the three million gold coins fit perfectly inside.
In the same way, Reb Chaim Zlatys explained, Hakadosh Baruch Hu created the world, and He created man, who is a microcosmic world of his own. Inside, He implanted the heart. Hashem commands us through the Torah to serve Him with all our heart. As Chazal say, the heart is suited to tefillah and tefillah is suited to the heart. There is no need to push, shake or yell. If the heart is pure enough, the tefillah enters and fills it with precision. If one is davening and feels that he is not connecting b’tefillah, he should know that his heart is not completely pure — there is some mud still inside. When one attains 100% complete dveikus in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, with not even a bit of space for externals, there is no need for external expressions to awaken our hearts and minds.
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The Anshei Knesses Hagedolah established the basic structure and content of our tefillos, and their compilation was named “siddur,” which means “set order.” A simpler name would have been “sefer hatefillah.” Why is it named “siddur ”?
Our chachamim wanted to teach us an important concept. The tefillos that are recorded in the siddur are only there to give us a framework, a seder hatefillah, so we should know which words to say, and in which order. But that is not actual tefillah. Davening is dependent on the heart, not the text. Davening doesn’t come out of a sefer; it comes out of the heart. The “siddur ” is a “seder ” of the words we say, but it is the tefillah, the heart, which is accepted Above.
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pounds, at least.
Ezriel had noticed last night. “Perela, let’s just have some toast for melaveh malka. It’s been a crazy week, and you should take it easy.”
Many factors contributed to Perela’s carefully planned/totally spontaneous decision to visit Prance with Sheva, Charni and Yanky in tow.
One: It was Sunday. Self-explanatory.
Two: There was a magnetic pull attracting her to Prance, and she’d promised Tziri to stop by as soon as she could.
Three: It served as a great motivation to tackle the melaveh malka dishes that were still in her sink. She’d leave as soon as they were done.
And four: Perela felt like she was new on a diet where every gram of carbs counted. Only it wasn’t carbs she was counting; it was her parenting. All Shabbos she was an amazing mother. She listened, she played, she fed, she cared for, and she smiled.
She hadn’t napped, hadn’t grumbled and she hadn’t allowed that sensation of I need space now to even enter her consciousness.
If it would’ve been a diet, she would’ve lost ten
Of course, she’d gone all out, buoyed by Ezriel’s validation. It was a new feeling, and it filled her with the energy to go for homemade pizza, salad and shakes. Ezriel had pursed his lips and eaten the pizza with a lack of enthusiasm.
I shouldn’t have, Perela realized now, as she scraped the doughy bowl.
She had stood in her kitchen, watching a delighted Leiby and Yonah pile hot pepper slices onto their already spicy pizza, and she felt like she was choking. The kitchen was flying, the dishwasher was only semi-loaded with the Shabbos dishes, and the little ones still needed baths. And that feeling of I need space now overwhelmed her so completely, she almost lost it.
EZRIEL HAD NOTICED LAST NIGHT. “PERELA, LET’S JUST HAVE SOME TOAST FOR MELAVEH MALKA. IT’S BEEN A CRAZY WEEK, AND YOU SHOULD TAKE IT EASY”
SHE WASN’T BUILDING A BUSINESS. SHE WAS BUILDING A FAMILY, ONE DAY AT A TIME
She’d closed her eyes and taken a deep, cleansing breath — Tziri style.
“I miss it,” she’d murmured, the warm water running over her hands. “I miss it, okay?”
Yanky was holding onto her skirt, and she felt strangled.
“I miss it,” she told him sadly. “I hate that I miss it.”
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Now Sheva pulled open the Prance glass doors in the most unclassy way possible. She used both hands and managed to make some fingerprints along the way, underneath the sale sign announcing Chanukah Sale 60% off. At least her coat and boots sported the Terry Blass logo.
Perela smoothed her sheitel with gloved hands, causing the hair to stand up on static roots. The perfumed air hit her immediately, enveloping her in some kind of trance. Was the diffuser spiked with something?
The store was teeming with shoppers. Not the shoppers she was on first-name basis with, but the shoppers that looked more like her than Chaya Lazar. Or more like she used to look. The sale shoppers.
She quickly scouted the premises. Tziri was nowhere in sight, and only one cashier was manning the checkout.
For a minute she watched a group of three sisters, all wearing identical beanies and long coats — they must have splurged last year — fingering a pair of plaid pants. Perela’s alter ego instinctively took over. She asked Sheva to keep an eye on the kids, draped her coat over the handle bar of the stroller, and hurried over to the group.
“You’re lucky you found this,” she
AND HADN’T SHE HELPED HER CHOOSE ROSH HASHANAH DRESSES THAT WOULD ALSO WORK FOR PESACH? IT WAS ALL SO FUTILE
said sweetly. Who am I? “I didn’t think they had a single Limone left. A stunner!”
The women eyed her.
“You work here?” one of them asked.
Perela nodded confidently. She commented on a couple of other items, and they listened to her as if she was some kind of magician. She smiled again, and then she walked over to adjust a pile of messed up sweaters.
“Ma!” Charni screeched from the corner. “Yanky is kicking me.”
Perela blushed as the threesome turned to look at whose kids were causing the ruckus. Reluctantly, she headed back to her kids.
“You want to see my office?” she offered brightly. See? There was no reason to be nervous. Tziri was right; she had been away too long and forgotten how amazing she was at her job. Of course, she would make some adjustments, consult with Ezriel before committing and all, but she would be back.
Sheva nodded eagerly, but Charni continued whining. “I wanna siiiiit!”
“I’ll give you an office chair,” she promised. “It has wheels and you can turn it.”
She maneuvered the stroller around the racks and headed to the back.
Here goes.
She stood next to her office and gingerly touched the doorknob.
“These magenta shrugs,” she heard Tziri say, “are to kill Throw it on top of these white dresses here, and you’ll have heads turning wherever you go. Wear it with the sweaters for Pesach, and then you have the dress all summer.”
“Cute,” Chaya Lazar’s voice said. The woman had an opinion as strong as a Made in China toy. “Save them for me.”
“And these raincoats are also coming in,” Tziri continued. She was obviously showing Chaya next season’s stuff. The stuff they’d shot at the beach in the summer.
Wow. Seasons came, seasons went. In the summer, she thought that next summer was still a long time away, but here they were talking white dresses again.
Ugh. Her heart went out for Chaya. She hadn’t even had a chance to enjoy the thousands of dollars she’d spent on the winter clothes and she was already shopping for summer. And hadn’t she helped her choose Rosh Hashanah dresses that would also work for Pesach?
It was all so futile.
In the main storefront, the clothes that were being grabbed off the racks only a few months ago were castaways at 60 percent off. In a week or so, they’d be begging people to come clear the shelves and can you just take it. Only to fill it with new stuff that would soon also be castaways on sale.
An endless vicious cycle of futility.
“I want that turny chair,” Charni said, her voice grating in Perela’s ears. Could kids stop whining and needing all the time?
“Who’s there?” Tziri asked.
Thanks, Charni, for announcing our presence.
Perela opened the door.
“Hi, Tziri,” she said, injecting her voice with as much saccharin as necessary. Chaya was sitting on her chair and scrolling through her computer screen.
Tziri smiled frostily. “Hi.”
Perela gripped the stroller, feeling cold.
“It’s nice and busy in the front,” she said, hoping to thaw the air. “It’s good to be back.”
“Oh, Perela!” Chaya said, obviously delighted. “Tziri agreed to let me view the stuff in advance so she could save me sizes before it runs out.”
“Summer? Seriously? It’s only December. They’re predicting snow this week,” she said mildly.
Chaya looked miffed.
Tziri glared at her.
Perela stood still on the polished tiles. Her two daughters clung to her, and her baby was making a royal mess in the stroller with a bag of Bamba.
“Ma! Is this your boss?” Sheva shout-whipered.
Perela nodded slightly, averting her eyes. Why am I cowed by this woman?
“You brought your kids to the store?” Tziri said kids as if it were a dirty word.
“I wanted to stop in… say hi, and, you know, show them… the store,” Perela said lamely.
“I’m shocked you didn’t bring your mother.”
That was low, even for Tziri.
“Excuse me?” Perela inhaled sharply, finally leveling her gaze. Tziri stared back defiantly, and Perela was suddenly afraid of the coldness in those eyes. There was something frightfully off with the woman. She pitied her.
“So summer clothes in December are more important than caring for my mother who fell?”
Chaya Lazar didn’t have the grace to retreat. Instead, her eyes darted between the two in obvious fascination.
“Summer clothing is important,” Chaya put in. “It’s for tznius. And for simchas Yom Tov.”
Perela snorted loudly.
“You’re taking my words out of context,” Tziri said, her voice simultaneously dripping vinegar and honey. “All I said is that commitment is important.”
Perela’s eyes landed on a beautiful metal print on the wall. Funny how she’d never noticed it before. Tziri and her husband stood in the center, and she recognized Mali as the kallah. There was a bochur and two more kids, about ten and twelve years old.
Tziri’s family. She looked at the faces staring back at her. She didn’t need to be a mind reader to decipher these faces — the pasted smiles and hostile eyes of the older ones. The strained smile and shadowed eyes on Tziri’s husband’s face. But Tziri looked like herself — winning smile, in control, and in a gown that put Kaily’s new one to shame.
PERELA SMOOTHED HER SHEITEL WITH GLOVED HANDS, CAUSING THE HAIR TO STAND UP ON STATIC ROOTS. THE PERFUMED AIR HIT HER IMMEDIATELY, ENVELOPING HER IN SOME KIND OF TRANCE
“You know, Perela,” Tziri said. “I don’t know what I’ve done wrong, but at some point during the trip, you started giving me this vibe that you want to be anywhere but… there.”
“That’s not true…” Perela croaked. “Uh, my mother is sick. And my kids missed me, and you don’t understand that.”
“Your mother, your kids.” Tziri spat. “So it’s okay to leave me hanging? That’s not how things work. As I said, building a business is a commitment. Just like a marriage. Just like kids.”
Perela bit her lip to keep herself from asking Tziri, Do you invest as much in your marriage as you do in your business?
But Chaya said it instead. Not as eloquently, but the message came across.
“A marriage?” she echoed. “But can’t you be married to
only one thing in life?”
Tziri’s face drained of all color.
Instinctively, Perela turned her eyes back at the photo, and Tziri followed her gaze.
It was quiet.
Charni hopped over to the one swivel chair still unoccupied and started spinning. Sheva followed the conversation raptly.
Chaya still didn’t budge.
Finally, Tziri dropped her gaze from the picture and then turned to look at Perela’s kids.
“See?” she said lamely. “I raised a family too.”
“Did you always go to their plays?” Sheva piped up.
“Sheva!” Perela’s face heated up. “Go wait outside! I’ll be there in a minute.”
Sheva left, sulking, but Chaya stayed.
Perela’s head hurt from Charni’s wild spinning. She looked at the portrait again, listened to the intoxicating sound of shoppers in the storefront, and then looked at her toddler in the carriage, sticky face and fingers.
She wasn’t building a business. She was building a family, one day at a time. It took grit and involved dirt and endless hours of whining. Months and years of thankless, mindnumbing tasks. Many moments of blinding uncertainty.
But it wasn’t a vicious cycle of futility. It was the slow building of her own beautiful family portrait.
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ROCK HILL
Right off the same exit that leads you to Woodridge and other Jewish haunts throughout the Catskill Mountains is the town of Rock Hill. Rock Hill? What’s that? You may not have heard much about Rock Hill, but it’s about to explode on the frum Catskills scene.
The Rock Hill Scene
If you go back in time, there wasn’t even a place called Rock Hill; the town was originally called Mamakating. The town got its new name because the first post office was set up on a
rocky hill. It even had a small, year-round Jewish population, and the historic shul on Lake Louise Marie Road, called the Crescent Road Shul, served the Jewish population for almost one hundred years. (The shul building has fallen into disrepair over the years, and it is now up for sale.)
Rock Hill is a spectacularly beautiful part of the Catskills Mountain. It’s nestled right between two gorgeous lakes, Lake Louise Marie and Wanaksink Lake. The town’s picturesque beauty is starting to attract many new home buyers, and since COVID, has seen a rise in former city dwellers looking for a slower paced life amid scenic surroundings.
The jewel of Rock Hill is the new Hamaspik Resort. The Hamaspik organization, which has become renowned for its loving service to the special needs population, realized that they needed a bigger venue to host their camp. They purchased the former Ramada Hotel and immediately started on plans to make the Hamaspik Resort the one-stop destination for the frum vacationer.
The Hamaspik Resort
Right now the hotel is home to Hamaspik’s summer camp, Camp Mamtakim. But there are big plans underfoot. During the year, the beautiful resort is open for Shabbatons, family events and simchos. But come next summer, the resort will open as a full-service, year-round hotel, welcoming families of all sizes, and not just for reserved events. The accommodations are luxuriously upscale, and the amenities promise a vacation full of relaxation and recreation.
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The special pride of the Hamaspik Resort are its two magnificent restaurants. There is a fleishig restaurant called Rock Bistro and a new upscale milchig restaurant called Sasso.
Stepping into Rock Bistro, it’s hard to believe one is still in the Catskills, and not at an opulent Manhattan restaurant. The cuisine is a fusion of classic American steakhouse with a heimish touch. The inventive cooking of Aperion is on full display, where the classic flavors of American barbecue are given a Mediterranean twist. Woven Eggplant Pockets, for instance, have everything that’s wonderful about Middle Eastern cuisine: a breaded eggplant pocket that’s filled with a mouthwatering selection of meat and accompanied by matbucha, hemp seed crisps and sweet potato chips. Their grilled specialties offer classic steakhouse cuisine, such as cowboy steak, chimichurri steak and lamb chops, all grilled to perfection.
The dairy restaurant, Sasso, is the first of its kind in the mountains. It presents upscale dairy cuisine, featuring gourmet fish and pasta dishes in the starring role. A glimpse at the menu will have you wanting to order every single thing. Sasso offers truffle mushroom crostini, velvety spinaci pasta, and even personal pizza pies, among a full menu of delicious dishes. A
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With reservations already being accepted for Shabbatons and larger family events, the plans are for the resort to function exclusively as a luxury hotel by next summer, making the beautiful accommodations available to families and couples looking for a vacation that includes being wined and dined. With their upscale restaurants open and bustling, minyanim round the clock, and luxurious accommodations with every amenity that the frum vacationer is looking for, Rock Hill has truly become a destination in its own right.
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This Shabbos, we take comfort in Hashem’s promise that better days are yet to come. Sweeten your Shabbos Nachamu with these scrumptious frozen confections. They just might become your signature sweets.
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COOKIE DOUGH Ice Cream Cake Triple Treat
A spectacular dessert that isn’t too complicated to put together.
DIRECTIONS
Cookie Dough Base and Filling
One cookie dough does double duty — as the base for the dessert, and as the cookie dough ice cream layer.
1 cup liquid marble or homemade chocolate fudge (recipe below)
COOKIE DOUGH
1 stick margarine, at room temperature
½ cup sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
3 T. oat milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1½ cups Wondermills flour
½ tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
½ cup mini chocolate chips
1. Heat-proof the flour by warming it in the microwave for 60 seconds or by baking at 350° for 5 minutes. (This is done to ensure food safety since half of the cookie dough is eaten raw.) Allow to cool, and proceed with the recipe.
2. Preheat the oven to 350°. Line two 3-inch loaf pans with parchment paper and set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, cream margarine and sugars.
4. Add oat milk and vanilla, and mix.
5. Add the dry ingredients, and mix until just incorporated.
6. Add the chocolate chips, and stir to combine.
7. Once a dough has formed, divide it in half. Spread each half onto the two prepared loaf pans.
8. Place one in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. This one will serve as your crust.
9. Freeze the other half, and once it is mostly frozen, cut into small cubes for your cookie dough ice cream layer.
10. To assemble the ice cream pie, thaw half of an Abe’s ice cream container slightly, and fold in the cookie dough bites.
11. Spread the cookie dough ice cream layer over the crust. Freeze for at least 1 hour.
12. Mix 1 cup liquid marble or chocolate fudge into the other half of the ice cream, and spread over the cookie dough ice cream layer.
13. Decorate with a layer of cherries if desired.
Chocolate Fudge Sauce
It’s simple to create your own fudge sauce for the chocolate ice cream layer. Alternatively, you can use store-bought liquid marble.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup sugar
¾ cup cocoa
1 heaping tsp. coffee
½ cup cold water
1 tsp. vanilla
Pinch of salt
DIRECTIONS
1. Place all fudge ingredients besides salt and vanilla into a small pot set over medium heat.
2. Bring to a boil, and then allow to simmer for about 30 seconds.
3. Remove from heat, and add vanilla and salt. Stir to combine.
4. Allow to cool, and store in a container in the fridge until ready to use.
ICE CREAM Bombs Crispy Coated
Simple to prepare and elegant to plate, these crispy treats are the perfect ending to your meal.
INGREDIENTS
½ carton of your favorite flavor Abe’s Parvelicious ice cream
CRUNCH MIXTURE
3 T. margarine
3 cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
3 T. sugar
1 T. cinnamon Pinch of salt
DIRECTIONS
1. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
2. Melt the margarine in a large frying pan.
3. Add the remaining crunch ingredients and toast for 3 to 5 minutes, mixing often.
4. Transfer the crunch to a bowl, and allow it to cool.
5. Form balls out of ice cream, around the size of a full scoop.
6. Roll each ball in the crunch mixture and freeze immediately.
7. Top with whip and a cherry if desired.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE Pops
All of the strawberry shortcake magic in one simple-to-serve pop.
1. Blend the strawberries, sugar, orange juice and lemon juice with an immersion blender until smooth.
2. Cut the pound cake into ½-inch cubes.
3. Defrost the ice cream slightly. Mix the cubed pound cake into the ice cream, and then swirl with the strawberry sauce.
4. Smooth the mixture into silicone ice pop molds. Freeze for a few hours until firm enough to remove the pops from the molds.
5. Drizzle with white chocolate if desired.
SIVI SEKULA
On a quiet weekday morning, in kitchens, living rooms, school auditoriums and shuls around the world, a familiar scene unfolds. Women in flour-dusted aprons gather, sleeves rolled up, before large bowls of dough resting on tables. The unmistakable murmur of heartfelt tefillah is in the air. These gatherings are not new. But the force infusing them with fresh meaning and transformative energy is the magnetic and mission-driven Mrs. Suri Jaroslawitz.
Mrs. Jaroslawitz is the driving spirit behind a growing wave of challah bakes, or hafrashas challah gatherings, in communities across the U.S. and beyond. Though these events involve dough and baking, they’re far more than culinary workshops. They are soulrenewing gatherings of tefillah, emunah and connection.
How It All Began
Despite having performed the mitzvah of hafrashas challah countless times over the decades in the pizza shop she owned with her husband, it wasn’t until Mrs. Jaroslawitz joined a women’s challah gathering herself that she realized the transformative potential of doing this mitzvah in a group.
Fourteen years ago, a friend made an unusual request. “Suri,” she said, “I waited years for a certain yeshuah, and tried so many different things, to no avail. Then Rebbetzin Kanievsky, a”h, suggested that I gather a group of women to take challah at the same time, with each one saying the bracha aloud and answering amein for the others. Soon after, I finally saw a yeshuah. Since then, I do it annually as a zechus for others. Right now, I’m hoping for another yeshuah. Will you join?”
Suri answered, “I’ve been taking challah every day for years in the pizza shop. I’ll gladly add names to my tefillos while I’m working, but this kind of thing — a group of women in one room — sounds a little far-fetched to me.”
Still, the friend persisted. What happened next would change the course of Suri’s life.
“It was right before Yom Kippur,” she recalls. “Something changed in me that day. The power of a room full of women answering amein to each other’s brachos, the unity, the tears, the sincerity — it was otherworldly.”
From that day on, she began initiating and leading her own gatherings. What started as informal meetups soon became standing-room-only events drawing women from every walk of life: chassidish, yeshivish, Sefardi, Modern Orthodox. Her energy, charisma and unwavering emunah transcend communal lines and hashkafic labels.
The Power of the Rabbim
Mrs. Jaroslawitz explains the story behind Rebbetzin Kanievsky’s idea.
“Hundreds of broken people would come all day long to her husband, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l, for brachos
While they waited to see the Rav, they poured out their hearts to the Rebbetzin. Each day, the stories were worse
and worse, until she just couldn’t take it anymore. She formulated this peulah of gathering forty women for hafrashas challah as a way for women to take concrete action and amplify an existing mitzvah into a tremendous tool for yeshuos.”
Suri’s choice of the word “peulah” to describe the challah bakes is deliberate.
“Gathering a group of women to do hafrashas challah together is not a segulah!” Mrs. Jaroslawitz is clear on this. “There is no mekor for these challah bakes. Real segulos are those that Chazal bring down, and as such, they must follow a specified formula. These challah bakes are a peulah; the yeshuos that so many have seen as a result of a challah bake are simply because we’ve harnessed the tremendous ko’ach in the mitzvah of hafrashas challah.”
Suri is quick to clarify that a woman who is taking challah alone in her kitchen should also take advantage of this powerful eis ratzon and should have the correct kavanos while making the dough and saying the bracha
“Nonetheless, when there is a group — even if everyone is davening for themselves — the power of all their tefillos is combined, and every individual in the group can rely on the zechusim of the others, which creates a major impact.”
Since there are no “rules” for challah bakes, the group can be as small or as large as possible.
“The ko’ach is tefillah with the rabbim, “Suri explains. “Rabbim is any number greater than one. I’ve seen people have yeshuos after taking part in very small gatherings. Each woman says a bracha and answers amein, which itself has the power of a bracha.”
What started as informal meetups soon became standing-room-only events drawing women from every walk of life
Heartfelt Cries
While the power of tefillos in a group can’t be disputed, Suri shares a story that demonstrates how one woman alone in her kitchen can harness the ko’ach of hafrashas challah to move heaven and earth.
A woman called Suri to share her story. Her newlywed daughter had called her with the exciting news of an upcoming simcha. Instead of rejoicing with a full heart, however, the woman was torn by devastation. She couldn’t help but think of her older single son who had been skipped by several younger siblings. What would be with her son?
It was a Friday, so she took out her mixer and started making a challah dough. “I’m going to scream my son’s name out loud 200 times!” she said to herself. With every ingredient, she cried her son’s name out loud. With every braid and egg wash, she cried her son’s name again. By the time the challahs made it into the oven, she was overwhelmed with exhaustion.
A few minutes before the zman, her friend called her with a shidduch idea. Within the month, her son was a chasan “ Vanitzak! ” Suri exclaims. “If we cry from our hearts, surely Hashem will hear.”
The Anatomy of a Challah Bake
At a typical event led by Mrs. Jaroslawitz, the setup is deceptively simple: tables, chairs, bowls of dough, many tissues and a sense of quiet anticipation. Once she begins to speak, however, the air thickens with emotion. Within minutes, any distractions fade into irrelevance. She captivates her audience with stories of hope and miracles — “Not mine,” she emphasizes, “but Hashem’s.”
The stories come thick and fast. Older singles engaged weeks after a hafrashas challah gathering. A child born after years of difficulty within the year of a challah bake. A gathering of very sick women, none of whom passed away that year. A group of mothers of off-the-derech children, many of whom returned to Yiddishkeit.
And then Suri says, “Say amein!” and the crowd erupts, each woman’s voice joining in a harmony that feels like it’s tearing through the heavens.
She is careful to remind her audience: “We don’t come here to make deals with Hashem. We come here to daven, to grow, to get close. If a yeshuah happens, it’s because our tefillos shook the heavens. But we don’t put conditions on emunah.”
The Waiting Room
What does Suri tell those women who attend a challah bake but don’t experience the yeshuah they were hoping for?
“We have something called the Waiting Room,” Suri explains. “The Waiting Room is where all the people who are hoping for yeshuos wait for Hashem to answer their tefillos It’s not a pretty place to be; no one wants to sit in the Waiting Room. However, the Waiting Room is part of our story. If you’re in the Waiting Room, it’s because that’s where Hashem wants you to be.”
Suri concludes this beautiful mashal with a moving thought. “Bnei Yisroel were supposed to be in Mitzrayim for 400 years, but left after 210 years of slavery. What happened to the remaining 190 years — who paid for those? The answer is Avraham and Sarah. Avraham was 100 years old and Sara was 90 years old when they became parents. Their combined years of waiting for a child meant that Bnei Yisroel’s galus in Mitzrayim was shortened. Our tefillos are always going somewhere, even if we don’t see the results. And let’s not forget that Hashem is also in the Waiting Room; He has been waiting for 2,000 years.”
More Than a Bracha
The mitzvah of hafrashas challah, Suri explains, is more than simply removing a piece of dough. It’s a gateway to elevation. A woman who recites the bracha of “lehafrish challah min ha’isa” creates not only a sacred moment, but a spiritual opportunity that rivals the power of Ne’ilah on Yom Kippur.
“When we say ‘az ehyeh k’ilu noladeti meichadash, nekiyah meicheit v’avon’ — that I should be as if newly born, free of sin — we’re tapping into something powerful. The only other time we get that clean slate is Ne’ilah. Yet when a woman takes challah, she receives that same opportunity in her own kitchen. That’s not a small thing. That’s not something to rush through between errands.”
“The roshei teivos of lehafrish challah min ha’isah spells ‘machalah’ — illness1,” Suri adds. “When we separate the challah, we should ask Hashem to separate us from every type of machalah: physical, emotional, spiritual. Say it. Ask for it. He’s listening.”
Even amein is not just a word. “Amein has a gematria of 91, the same as malach. When you answer amein to someone’s bracha, you create an angel. You want to know what power is? Twenty women answering twenty ameins equals 400 malachim. That’s spiritual artillery.”
1Note from author: In some communities, such as my own, the minhag is to say “lehafrish challah,” omitting “min ha’isah.” When I heard this acronym, I was disappointed that I’m missing out. However, my husband discovered that the gematria of “lehafrish challah” with the kollel (+1) is “ המלש האופר.”
In the Blink of an Eye
Suri shares the story of a terminally ill woman, whose doctors had exhausted all options and were starting to make plans for hospice care. The woman was completely secular, but after she received her terrible diagnosis, some friends arranged a challah bake and invited Suri to lead it.
Suri arrived at the home of the friend who was hosting the challah bake. There were ten women around the table, all of whom were clearly very far from Yiddishkeit. There was
also a rebbetzin there. The rebbetzin pulled Suri to the side and said, “It’s good that none of the ingredients for challah can be completely treif, so we shouldn’t have a problem with the women making the bracha. I doubt this is a kosher home.”
Suri turned to the sick woman and exclaimed, “When you separate the dough, you’re going to pull the illness out of your body!”
The woman took Suri’s words to heart. She had never made a bracha in her life, so she followed along after Suri. While she said the words, she held one hand over her heart and pulled it away from her chest as she pulled the dough with the other — pulling and pulling the illness from her body.
Earlier that day, the woman had undergone a routine CT scan. Hours after the challah bake, her doctor called.
“We reviewed your records again,” he said, “and have discovered that you have a certain gene mutation. We believe there is a treatment that may help you.”
“Today,” Suri says, “this woman is completely cured.”
A Mission Born of the Mundane
While the world often separates the sacred from the mundane, Mrs. Jaroslawitz insists they are one and the same.
“Your kitchen is your mikdash me’at. Your home is your Beis Hamikdash. Bayis has a gematria of 412, while mikdash totals 444. The difference is 32 — the gematria of lev, your heart. When you put your lev into your avodah — your cooking, your laundry, your parenting, your challah — it all becomes heilig. You become the Kohen Gadol of your home. And nobody can replace you there.”
Suri urges women to stop minimizing their spiritual capacity. “There are so many mitzvos we can’t do. We’re not in Eretz Yisroel, we don’t have a Beis Hamikdash, we’re not men. But this? This we can do. And when done right, it’s as if we’ve fulfilled all 613 mitzvos.”
Indeed, “zu hi mitzvas hachallah” — this is the mitzvah of challah — shares the numerical value of 613.
“You’re not ‘just’ taking challah,” she says. “You’re engaging in a moment that could be your personal Har Sinai.”
A Universal Language
Perhaps what’s most remarkable about Mrs. Jaroslawitz’s gatherings is how accessible they are. No prior experience in challah baking is necessary. The room is filled with women of all ages and backgrounds: seasoned balabustas who bake weekly and firsttimers timidly mixing flour and water. Some come with lists of names. Others come with nothing but tears.
“I’ve seen it again and again,” she says. “The moment the dough is uncovered, the energy in the room shifts. Women cry quietly, whisper names, murmur heartfelt prayers. By the time the last bracha is said, no one wants to break the silence. The kedusha lingers.”
But it’s not just about the big moment of separation. For Suri, creating the dough is itself an opportunity for tefillah, and she teaches the women which kavanos to have while adding each ingredient:
YEAST
“Hareim keren Yisroel amecha ” — “Raise the mazel of Klal Yisroel.”
WATER
“Ein mayim ela Torah” — “May Torah flow through our homes.”
SUGAR
“Hareinu Hashem chasdecha” — “Show us the sweetness in Your chesed.”
FLOUR
“Im ein kemach ein Torah” — “Grant us parnassah in an honorable way.”
OIL
“Tov shemen mishemen tov ” — “May we find favor in Your eyes and the eyes of others.”
EGGS
“Ein kli machzik bracha ela hashalom” — “Let there be peace and blessing in our homes.” (Eggs are the binding ingredient, similar to shalom that binds us together.)
SALT
Salt accompanied every korban in the Beis Hamikdash — “Bring back the avodah to the Beis Hamikdash.”
A Call to Action
Despite her popularity, Mrs. Jaroslawitz insists that women don’t need her to lead a challah bake.
“Please don’t wait for me,” she pleads. “I want this to happen everywhere. Don’t wait until you have forty women. Gather four. Don’t wait for a special occasion. The dough is the occasion. Don’t wait for someone to tell you it’s a good time. Every time is a good time to daven.”
Her dream is that challah gatherings become as common as Tehillim mechulak groups.
“Decades ago, if you said you could complete Sefer Tehillim in twenty minutes, people would have laughed. Today, it’s normal. That’s what I want to see happening with challah. I want every neighborhood, every shul, every circle of friends to host their own challah gathering. It’s a tool Hashem gave us. Let’s use it.”
Mrs. Jaroslawitz has published a book, Lev Habayis, which is a laminated, kitchen-friendly compilation of tefillos and bakashos for the mitzvos that are special to women, including hafrashas challah. To purchase, please contact Mrs. Jaroslawitz directly at 718-930-5906 or suri1840@gmail.com. Proceeds go toward tzedakah for hachnasas kallah.
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Bringing in the Light
As the sun is about to descend, heralding the most special time of the week, women around the world experience transcendent moments of connection and kedusha behind a covered face. They whisper v’zakeini lg’adel, a special plea for the zechus to kindle the hearts of our precious family members and help spread the light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
The way we light, and the number of candles kindled, varies from woman to woman and family to family. Yet no matter the mesorah, a woman lighting her Shabbos licht has the power to illuminate generations.
BRINGING IN THE LIGHT
f rom mother to daughter
The strokes of our hands are laden with tradition. Once, twice and three times, we circle our hands around the licht — inward, drawing the kedusha of Shabbos into our homes and lives.
The number three represents a chazakah, and our desire to eternalize the menucha of this day.
Although we’ve all watched our mothers and grandmothers circle their hands in this very way, we don’t see much discussion of this practice in our seforim. Most likely, it is an outgrowth of the minhag to cover our faces until the bracha on the candles is recited.
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“It was several weeks after my chasunah,” Chaya* says, “and I noticed that the same thing happened every Erev Shabbos. Every week, my new husband made sure to remind me that it was almost time to tzind licht — and it bothered me. Here I was, trying to be a good wife — ready for him always — and these reminders made me feel inadequate. It’s a good thing I brought up the topic, though, because he explained that he wasn’t trying to boss me around; he was simply following the instructions of the Mishnah!”
The Shulchan Aruch says that when it is still day, it’s a mitzvah to remind one’s
household to light the candles, even if the husband knows his wife will. Those privy to the family life of gedolim over the generations watched this interchange. It is well known that the Chasam Sofer would tell his rebbetzin before leaving for shul on Erev Shabbos, “Mach Shabbos.”
Husbands preparing the licht on Friday is also a minhag. This enables the menfolk to have a part in their wives’ mitzvah, as well as make candlelighting easier and quicker when the time comes to light. In some circles, it is a minhag for the chasan to buy candlesticks for the kallah, as part of his responsibility to prepare the licht for his wife.
The men are rewarded for their efforts; the Zohar says that a woman’s neiros bestow the blessing of longevity upon her husband.
gI r ls and lIght I ng
Many view the minhag of girls lighting Shabbos candles as “minhag Chabad.” You may be surprised to hear that it is actually a much older and more prevalent minhag than that.
In the chassidic courts of old, such as Belz and Bobov in Galicia and Ger in Poland, young girls lit candles still before they got married. This was also the practice in Lithuania, in communities such as Volozhin and Brisk, as well as in several German kehillos. (We even
find sources that state that Rivka Imeinu lit Shabbos licht at the young age of three — even before she was a kallah!)
Over the years, possibly because of persecution and wars, people didn’t have the money to buy candles, and they faced danger when openly observing this mitzvah, which led to the minhag being forgotten.
Fifty years ago, in 1975, the Lubavitcher Rebbe embarked on a mission to rekindle the minhag, and introduced what was coined as “mivtza neshek,” a campaign known by the acronym for “neiros Shabbos Kodesh,” to spread the light of Shabbos to the world by having young girls begin to light candles from early ages of chinuch. Girls were instructed to light just a single candle until their marriage.
Shabbos, including the two sheep for the korban Mussaf, lechem mishneh and more. Two also represents ish v’isha, husband and wife, as it says, “Ner Hashem nishmas adam.” Additionally, the number two suggests the dual illumination of the guf and the neshamah, because Shabbos is a taanug for both.
spreadI ng the lIght
The mitzvah is to light two candles, but there are many minhagim when it comes to how many licht women light.
Two means one for zachor and one for shamor, and one for each of the two neshamos every Yid has on Shabbos Kodesh once the neshamah yeseirah descends upon us. Two signifies double, as in many aspects of
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After Tehilla’s* wedding, her husband, who has close connections to Breslov, asked her to light four licht, for the four letters of the Shem Havayah. “He told me that a woman who lights this number of candles weekly is sure to have the Shechinah rest in her home. Of course, that’s a dream we all share!”
Perhaps those who light two wax candles and two oil wicks satisfy this minhag too!
Rebbetzin Sima Feinstein, a”h, would light five candles every week, rather than following the widespread custom of lighting one for each additional child. After
Some light ten licht corresponding to the Aseres Hadibros, or for the ten menorahs fashioned by Shlomo Hamelech.
The Kaf Hachaim discusses the minhag to light according to the number of aliyos to the Torah. For example, on Shabbos, one should light seven, on Yom Tov five, and on Yom Kippur six.
BRINGING IN THE LIGHT
she lit her candelabra, her husband, the posek hador Harav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, would move it to his study so he could learn by its light.
Shevy shares that in her family, the minhag is to light seven candles. She was unaware of the reason behind it until I asked. When she looked into it, she found that this number of candles has kabbalistic roots, following the Arizal’s comparison to the seven days of the week. Furthermore, the Shelah Hakadosh links lighting seven candles to the seven branches of the Menorah in the Beis Hamikdash.
(As an aside, if you look for a seven-branched candelabra in a silver store, you’ll notice this configuration glaringly missing from the shelves. It is the prevalent custom not to create them since the seven-branched model is reserved for the holy Menorah alone.)
Perhaps the most popularly known minhag among bnei Ashkenaz is to begin with two licht, and then add another for each child. This is because, as Chazal say, one merits sons and sonsin-law who light up the world with their Torah as a reward for lighting beautiful neiros. It’s interesting to note the technical reason for this custom. Generations ago, women were confined to their beds for seven
When to lIght
In 1954, the Satmar Rav, zy”a, called an asifas harabbanim. The topic? Streamlining the zman of hadlakas neiros in New York. Since many minhagim abound, with some kehillos lighting twenty minutes before shkiah, some eighteen minutes, and others thirty minutes, to name a few, the Rav felt the time had come to create one unified zman, so the time for hadlakas neiros wouldn’t vary based on each beis hamidrash. The suggested timing was fifteen minutes before the shkiah, and most rabbanim agreed, as per notes of the meeting written by the Kashau Rav, zt”l
days after birth, requiring the husband to light the candles during that first week. The women would then light an additional candle, as one who missed tzinding
BRINGING IN THE LIGHT
is supposed to do.
Chavy* shares that her husband’s aunt, following her own mother’s minhag, lit candles for her sonsin-law and daughters-inlaw as well. “I asked her children about the source for the minhag, out of curiosity, but nobody in the family knew,” she says.
In Bracha’s* family, the Shabbos table is swathed in light with far more candles than the number of children in the family. “My mother lights candles for the neshamos of my grandparents who are no longer with us, and others. She also lights an extra candle for the week she missed candle-lighting due to a hospitalization.”
May we all be zoche to the promise brought down in
t h rough mI l lenn I a
the Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni, Behaaloscha): If we kindle the Shabbos lights, Hashem will show us the marvelous radiance that will shine upon Yerushalayim with the Geulah — may it be very soon, in our days!
On January 1, 2000, readers of The New York Times were surprised to find unusual front-page coverage. The headlines blasted fictional news — purportedly reported in the year 2100. Robots were demanding equality, politicians were misusing weather-controlling satellites, and more. On the bottom left corner was a small box announcing the candlelighting time in New York, with instructions to “touch” for times at other locations.
A behind-the-scenes report explained that when the newspaper staff met to discuss what to include in their fictitious millennium edition, there were various opinions as to what would be making world headlines in 2100. But there was one thing everyone in the room agreed on: Jewish women will still be lighting candles come Friday eve!
Indeed, the light of our candles has been illuminating the world for millennia. Mother to daughter, the mitzvah of hadlakas haneiros is passed on with its eternal glow and lichtige minhagim, sparked by pride in continuing our poignant mesorah
There’s always something baking in my kitchen — tarts, macarons, royal iced cookies, layer cakes, and so on. My Kitchen Aid mixer is on the counter most of the time. Nothing, however, compares to the deeply spiritual experience of baking challah. When I bake challah, my trusty Bosch mixer comes out, and I relish each part of the process. I also try to bake challah when it’s quiet and calm, allowing myself enough time to do things properly. As the heavenly aroma of freshly baked challah permeates my home, the Shabbos queen announces her imminent arrival.
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Here’s my favorite challah recipe — slightly adapted from my mother’s winning recipe. I personally prefer challah that is not too sweet.
INGREDIENTS
6 lb. high gluten flour (I use Quality brand)
36 grams active dry yeast
½ cup + 2 T. sugar
2 eggs
2¼ T. salt
¾ cup oil
1 cup + 2¾ cups + 2 cups water (5¾ cups total)
PREPARING THE DOUGH
1. Set the mixer and all the ingredients on the counter. Spray the inside of the mixer bowl and the underside of the cover liberally with cooking spray.
2. Fill a 32 oz. container with 1 cup warm water. The water should be warm as for a baby’s bath, not hot. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and the dry yeast to the warm water. Stir.
3. Meanwhile, add the following to the mixer: half of the flour, ½ cup sugar, eggs, salt, oil, and 2¾ cups water. Mix for 2 to 3 minutes until a paste forms. At this point, the yeast mixture should have begun to look foamy and bubbly. Stop the mixer, and add the rest of the flour, the yeast mixture and the remaining 2 cups of water. Mix for 8 minutes.
4. Transfer the dough into a large bowl coated with cooking spray. Spray a Counter Saver with cooking spray, and cover the dough with it.
SHAPING AND BAKING THE DOUGH
1. When the dough has doubled in size, separate challah with a bracha.
2. Prepare a clean workspace to braid the challah. You can prepare a plate with some flour (all-purpose flour is fine) to use if the dough is sticky, but I generally do not need flour at all when braiding.
3. I use a digital scale to weigh 6 equal strands of dough. Feel free to eyeball! I roll out each piece into an oval shape (see pictures by tips), then roll out the oval from one long side to the other. Once all 6 strands are rolled and shaped, roll each strand once again to achieve desired length.
4. Lay out the 6 strands as pictured, and braid as per instructions below.
5. Let the challahs rest for 45 minutes to one hour. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 360°.
6. When challahs are ready to bake, brush them very well with beaten egg, and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake for one hour.
7. As soon as you remove the challahs from the oven, take them out of their pans, and let them cool on a cooling rack. Freeze them in good-quality heavy-duty plastic bags.
8. On Erev Shabbos, defrost the challahs, and rebake them at 350° for 12 to 15 minutes.
PRO TIPS
Here are a few tricks of the trade that will help you produce flufflier challos with less cleanup.
A day before baking, make sure to have all the ingredients in the house.
Clear a space in your kitchen before baking so you have a clean, pleasant area to work.
Cooking spray is my best friend when making challah dough. After fitting the mixer bowl with a dough hook, generously spray with cooking spray. Also spray the inside of the cover, as well as the large bowl where the dough will rise.
Spray a plastic Counter Saver with cooking spray, and place it on the bowl of dough when left to rise. I’ve found that when I cover the dough with a towel, a crust forms, whereas when I use plastic, the top of the dough stays nice and soft.
Once the dough has risen and challah has been separated, I put a silicone baking mat on the counter. These mats (I have many!) come in very handy every time I make babke, rugelach, homemade brownie bars, wafer cake and sugar cookies. The surface is completely nonstick, avoiding the need to use any flour. Extra flour will make the challah dough (and any dough) dry and tough.
I use a digital scale to weigh each strand. For my medium size 6-strand challahs, each strand weighs 4.3 oz.
I learned an amazing tip from Tamar Ansch, the author of A Taste of Challah (Feldheim): After I separate 6 equal balls of dough, I take each piece and roll it out with a small rolling pin into a long oval shape, rolling the top and bottom thinner than the middle. Then I roll up the oval into a strand from right to left. This method makes the challah super fluffy, tasty, and look nicer and smoother too. Small white fondant rolling pins are the perfect size for rolling the dough into ovals.
Coat the challah pans very well with baking spray, not cooking spray. This will ensure easy release.
Do not let the braided challah over-rise. As soon as they have doubled in size, they are ready to bake — not more than 45 minutes to 1 hour. If they rise longer than that, the challah may split and burst while baking. Cover the challah loosely with plastic as it rises. When covered in plastic (as opposed to a towel), the challahs “sweat” and get warm, making them beautifully smooth and fluffy.
A skilled Bosch repairman who is also an expert bread baker shared the following advice to keep the Bosch mixer in top form.
THE BOSCH MIXER WAS DESIGNED to mix a dough of 5 pounds maximum. So especially when mixing 6 pounds of dough, go easy on the machine.
DON’T START BY ADDING THE YEAST and water to the Bosch bowl; proof the yeast in a separate container or measuring cup.
START BY PUTTING THE FLOUR, salt and sugar into the mixer bowl. Mix for a couple of seconds to evenly distribute the dry ingredients. Then stop the machine and add the wet ingredients, adding the yeast mixture last.
PULSE 15 TIMES, a second on and a second off. Then mix on number 1 for another 15 seconds. Finally, mix on number 2 for 5 more minutes. And that’s it! The dough is now ready to rise. (There is no need to mix the dough for 10 to 15 minutes. This will overwork the machine.)
NEVER KNEAD CHALLAH DOUGH on the highest speed. The machine will be forced to knead at a quick pace against the dough’s resistance. This is the surest way to break the machine.
SOME WOMEN LIKE TO REST THE DOUGH in the mixer bowl after kneading, and then give it another mix. This is not recommended and also overworks the mixer, as it must work very hard to pull the dough away from the sides of the mixer bowl.
WHEN YOU ARE DONE PREPARING THE DOUGH, clean the removable metal “pop out drive.” It is removable for this reason — so that no dough remains the machine.
ALSO KEEP CLEAN the infamous hole in the middle of the machine’s base. Use Q-tips to remove all the black gunk.
ALWAYS USE THE WHITE RUBBER RING when mixing dough. This has been designed to prevent leakage into the motor.
BRAIDING WITH SIX STRANDS
The first method below is the way I have been braiding challah my entire life. When the editors at The Williamsburg View asked me to prepare this feature, I incorrectly assumed that this was the only way to braid a challah with six strands. Only after offering many strands of Play-Doh to neighbors and friends and watching them braid did I learn that there were actually quite a few more braiding methods for braiding a standard “zekser” challah.
METHOD 1
1. First, create 6 equal balls of dough. Roll them into equal strands, and lay them out as pictured, pinching the top tightly. Number each strand from 1 to 6 starting from the left side
2. Move #2 up.
3. Move #1 over #3 and #4, and bring it down to the center between #4 and #5.
4. Renumber the strands from right to left.
5. Take #2 and bring it to the top left.
6. Bring # 1 down to the center between #4 and #5.
Steps 1 through 5 are one complete cycle of braiding. Begin the next cycle by renumbering the strands from right to left, moving #2 up to the far left, and then #1 down to the center. Renumber again from left to right, bringing #2 up to the far right and #1 down to the center. Repeat these 5 steps until the strands are too short to braid. Pinch the ends together. This is the completed challah.
METHOD 2
This method yields challahs that are higher down the center from top to bottom. Special thanks to my friends who so patiently taught me this method, which is probably just as well known to challah bakers far and wide.
1. First, prepare 6 equal balls of dough. Roll them into equal strands, and lay them out as pictured, pinching the top tightly. Number them from 1 to 6 starting from the right.
2.
3. The braiding cycle begins here: With your right hand, raise #4 together with its left neighbor (#5). Then use your other hand to bring the next left neighbor (#6) under the raised strands and up, towards the far right.
Move #3 straight up.
4. Bring down the strand that’s up from before the previous step (#3) to the center (between #2 and #4.)
5. Use your right hand to lift the one you have just brought down (#3) along with its right neighbor (#2), while using your left hand to bring the next right neighbor (#1) under the raised strands and up to the left. 210
6. Bring down the one from on top that has been put up before the previous step (#6) down to the center between #3 and #4.
At this point, one full braiding cycle has been completed. Numbering the strands will not be helpful anymore. Repeat steps 2 through 5 until the strands are too short to braid. Pinch ends together. For this type of challah, you may want to cut off the two ends with a knife.
Roll the trimmings flat, and place them in the center of your challah pan before placing the challah in it. This will yield a higher center.
This is the completed challah.
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erushalayim in all its glory! The Beis Hamikdash standing tall and splendid, a home for the Shechinah once again. The avodah, korbanos, an end to personal and communal tzaros. Kohanim, Levi’im, Yidden of all stripes and from all walks of life converging on our holy city. The shofar of Moshiach heralding the final Geulah.
We all dream of it.
It was the dream and vision of early Ashkenazi settlers in Yerushalayim, too. The journey to Eretz Yisroel and dwelling in the Land was fraught with hardship. It meant poverty, disease and danger. It meant hunger, fear and privation.
These first arrivals to the city did not come for material pleasures. They were driven by mesiras nefesh for a singular goal: inhabiting Eretz Yisroel, which they had confidence would be a step in hastening the coming of Moshiach.
So intense was the yearning of these settlers during the period referred to as the “Old Yishuv” that they were ready to face all physical difficulties, viewing them as part of the privilege of living and serving Hashem in His Chosen Land, while bringing the Geulah closer.
View of Yerushalayim in the 1860s
Yidden in Yerushalayim in the 1890s
OTTOMAN RULE
The Ottoman Turks conquered Eretz Yisroel in 1516. The sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, was kind to the Jews, liberally allowing them entry and providing positive legal standing and protection. In 1537, he rebuilt the Chomah of Yerushalayim, the famed stone walls surrounding the Old City.
It was a golden era for Yidden in Eretz Yisroel. Both Sefardim and Ashkenazim arrived in droves, and a dynamic society, steeped in Torah and yiras Shamayim, was established.
RAV YEHUDA HACHASSID AND THE CHURVAH SHUL
In 1700, Rav Yehuda Hachassid, zt”l, arrived in Yerushalayim from Poland along with roughly 800 followers. He envisioned a project of building what would later be known as Churvas Rav Yehuda Hachassid, which he intended to use as a center for Torah and Yiddishkeit. Immediately upon his arrival, he purchased a plot of land to build on, but sadly, a few days later, he passed away.
The venture went bankrupt and the shul could not be completed. The local Arabs in-
volved in the sale were angered at the balance that remained unpaid. They destroyed whatever remained of the shul and banned all Ashkenazim from living in the city.
Consequently, there was an interlude of many years with barely an Ashkenazi presence in Yerushalayim.
It took many years for the dispute over the Churvah Shul to be settled. In the 1860s, it was finally rebuilt. The Jews received permission for this by taking the matter to Turkish court. Turkish law dictated that a debt expires after a certain number of years. Since more than 150 years had passed, the Jews argued that the balance had no credence or consequence. Turkish court ruled in their favor, and after decades of standing in ruins, the Churvah Shul was rebuilt. For nearly a century, it was the main Ashkenazi shul in the Old City.
The Churvah Shul
THE OLD YISHUV
It was during this time of Ottoman rule over Eretz Yisroel when the first wave of chassidish and Lithuanian settlers arrived from Europe.
The Baal Shem Tov’s brother-in-law, Rav Gershon Kitover, zt”l, came in 1746.
Reb Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, zt”l, Rav Avraham Kalisker, zt”l, and others — talmidim of the Mezritcher Maggid, zt”l, a primary talmid of the Baal Shem Tov — were among the first. They settled in Tverya in the 1780s.
The Vilna Gaon had a passionate aspiration to inhabit the Land of Eretz Yisroel. He believed that if Yidden would live in Yerushalayim, it would inspire the arrival of Moshiach. The Gaon had plans to move to Yerushalayim, but they never materialized. Several versions are recounted describing why his plans fell through. Regardless, he had planted the concept strongly within the minds and hearts of his talmidim. With a passionate desire to develop their rebbi’s dream, numerous students, referred to as Talmidei HaGra, or the Perushim, actualized the Gaon’s vision by traveling to Eretz Yisroel after his passing.
At first, a small group of Talmidei HaGra left for Eretz Yisroel, in 1808. They wanted to look around and prepare the groundwork for more of their peers to come and settle. They made Tverya their destination, thinking that since there were already some Ashkenazi Yidden there, it would be easiest. After a while, they found it difficult to live side by side with the chassidim, whose minhagim and lifestyle were so different, and they decided to move to Tzfas.
In Tzfas, the Perushim established a flourishing Ashkenazi kehillah. This set the path for more Talmidei HaGra to follow suit.
One such talmid was Reb Yitzchok Chaslavisher, zt”l, the forebear of the famous Cheshin family of Yerushalayim. Prior to leaving Europe, Reb Yitzchok learned in the yeshivah of Volozhin, where he was a beloved talmid of Rav Chaim Volozhiner, zt”l. In Volozhin, Torah was learned round the clock, 24 hours a day, as Rav Chaim believed there could be no kiyum haolam otherwise. Yet, so dear was the value of yishuv Eretz Yisroel to Rav Chaim that, contrary to his style, he instructed all the
Shaar Shechem in the 1890s
bochurim to close their Gemaras and accompany Reb Yitzchok until the entrance of the city to see him off!
In 1837, the infamous earthquake of Tzfas shattered the Ashkenazi presence in the city. Many lives were lost, including those of young children. A large percentage of the community was afraid to continue living in Tzfas and began to leave for Yerushalayim.
The Chasam Sofer wrote at the time that the earthquake came as the hakpadah of Yerushalayim; Yidden were arriving in Eretz Yisroel and choosing not to live within her walls.
The local Arabs, who were still incensed at the Ashkenazim at large, refused to allow Ashkenazim into Yerushalayim. Sefardim, on the other hand, who dressed similarly to the Arabs, were not banned from the city. A Sefardi community, including gedolim such as the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh and the Chida, was already present in the Old City.
This was not a simple plan; Yidden were up against extreme Arab resistance. Most of them were afraid to move out.
Thus, the Talmidei HaGra dressed in Sefardi garb before entering the city. In this way, they managed to smuggle themselves past the unsuspecting Arabs who did not recognize their true Ashkenazi identity. And so the “Old Yishuv” flourished.
EXPANDING BEYOND THE CITY’S WALLS
The Talmidei HaGra had a mission: to purchase land from the gentiles. This would give Yidden the chance to own a chelek in Eretz Yisroel. The more land owned by Jews, the more mitzvos hateluyos ba’aretz could be fulfilled. Yidden would be able to keep shemittah, maaser, orlah and a host of other commandments exclusive to life in the Holy Land. Certainly, owning the land and performing these special mitzvos would hasten the Geulah. However, this meant moving outside the chomah of the Old City. Until this point, Yidden lived within its walls.
When the first neighborhood beyond the Old City was built, no one was ready to make the move. It was simply too dangerous. Finally, two or three brave families relocated, and the neighborhood was officially opened. Tragically, misfortune struck on the first or second night. Angry Arabs attacked the courageous pioneers in the middle of the night, taking several lives. Undeterred, the settlers remained, but positioned a shomer to guard the neighborhood every night.
Slowly, the community grew, and with time, additional neighborhoods were built. Nachalas Shivah, Meah Shearim, Beis Yisroel and Shaarei Chesed were among the first few.
The famous English entrepreneur, Sir Moses Montefiore, was heavily involved in the construction of these new neighborhoods. In fact many of these areas, including Zichron Moshe, Yemin Moshe and Kiryas Moshe, carry his name.
The great aspiration to inhabit the Land was unrelated to Zionism or Zionistic beliefs; it was solely built on ehrliche goals. The mitzvah of owning the Land was so great that its purchase was deemed permissible even on Shabbos.
Neve She’anan, one of the pioneer neighborhoods, was purchased on Shabbos. Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, zt”l, accompanied Reb Moshe Aharon Galunt, z”l, and his daughter, Chana Minzberg, a young girl at the time, on a Friday night to complete the transaction. The money was in Chana’s pocket. The Arab who was selling the land took the money out of her pocket and wrote up a contract of sale.
The Old Yishuv refers to the talmidim of the early chassidim and Perushim who settled in Tzfas, Tverya, Chevron and Yerushalayim, leading ehrliche, Torah-true lives. (In contrast, the “New Yishuv” denotes the early Zionist settlers who began to arrive in the Land in the beginning of the 1900s with completely different motives.)
Aerial view of Yerushalayim in the 1930s. Part of the Old City and some of the newer neighborhoods including Meah Shearim and Zichron Moshe are seen
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The money sent by the kollelim was practically the only means of support from which the residents of Yerushalayim lived. It was literally a life-saving arrangement.
There were no Jewish businesses and no income for the poor Yerushalmi residents. People could starve of hunger and deprivation, and illnesses and epidemics were common. The threat of death was so real that each day of survival was considered a miracle. A Yerushalmi Yid of many generations repeats that when his grandfather would come home, he used to call out the names of each of his children before entering the apartment. He wanted to hear their sweet voices calling back — an indication that they were still alive!
INTERVENTION FROM CHUTZ L’ARETZ
Funds for construction came primarily from European donors who considered it an honor and privilege to have a part in yishuv Eretz Yisroel. The houses built during that period are all of similar style and have one thing in common: a stone on the front of the building with the name of the donor or donors etched upon it.
A prominent talmid of the Gra, the Chayei Adam, wanted very badly to be oleh to Eretz Yisroel. When he realized that his dream was not materializing, he became a “shadar,” or a shelicha d’rabbana, going around the city of Vilna where he lived, collecting money to buy land and erect buildings in Eretz Yisroel.
The notion of kollelim was also initiated. This meant that each community in Europe would set up a kollel, or a fund, where people donated money for the people of Eretz Yisroel. This included Kollel Shomrei Hachomos, Kollel Chibas Yerushalayim, and the Polin, Vohlin and Lithuanian Kollelim, among others.
Besides the desperate poverty that reigned, neighboring Arabs also struck fear upon the poor Yidden, robbing and killing at leisure. There was absolutely no materialistic pleasure or gratification for those living in Yerushalayim at the time.
Life left its rigorous mark on these idealistic residents. Still, they considered themselves fortunate and felt it a true zechus to be able to live in the Holy Land. The walls of their small homes were saturated with sincere fervor, emunah and bitachon, as well as growth in Torah, the quality of which could certainly be attributed to their triumphing over the squalor conditions.
Bit by bit, with great mesiras nefesh, the inhabitants of the area established strong foundations for the magnificent palace known as the city of Yerushalayim.
RABBANIM AND GEDOLIM OF YERUSHALAYIM
The streets were filled with elevated “Yerushalayim-shelMaalah’dige Yidden,” some simpler, some more learned, some famous, and some who led more private lives. Standing
Jewish workers in Kerem Avraham neighborhood in Yerushalayim in 1855
During a snowstorm in Yerushalayim in 1921
out for their distinction in Torah learning and closeness with the Ribbono Shel Olam, many were gedolei olam
The first official Ashkenazi Rav of Yerushalayim was Rav Shmuel Salant, zt”l. In his humility, Rav Shmuel did not fully accept the role upon himself until a while after his official appointment as rav. Rav Salant was zoche to arichas yamim and lived into his nineties, shouldering the rabbanus for nearly seventy years. During this time, Yerushalayim saw exponential growth, multiplying by five times in size.
As Rav Shmuel aged, Rav Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teumim, zt”l, better known as the Aderes, was lined up to become the next Rav of Yerushalayim. However, he passed away still during the lifetime of Rav Salant.
Among the Torah scholars residing in Yerushalayim were Rav Yeshaya Bardaki, zt”l, Rav Moshe Leib Kutner, zt”l, and Rav Nachum Shadiker, zt”l. Another well-known personality
was Rav Meir Auerbach, zt”l, who, upon the backing of Rav Shmuel Salant, was recognized by all gedolei Torah as a leader and Torah authority.
Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin of Brisk, zt”l, arrived in Yerushalayim in 1877. While he was also a rav in the city, he never filled the official position of Chief Rabbi. Reb Yehoshua Leib was accepted and respected universally by the Torah-true community. His stance on any issue of Torah observance, which was typically strong and vehement, was considered final and was obeyed by all.
Rav Salant and Rav Diskin shared a warm relationship and worked closely together. Rav Shmuel, a man of peace, always followed Rav Yehoshua Leib’s ruling regardless of his agreement with the psak. In fact, with Rav Shmuel Salant’s prodding, Reb Yehoshua Leib even led his own beis din
Rav Shmuel Salant was succeeded by Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, zt”l
Rav Shmuel Salant, zt”l
Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, zt”l
Yidden davening at the Kosel Hamaaravi in 1870s
The Jewish Quarter of Yerushalayim in the early 1900s
POLITICAL CHANGES
In the mid-1800s, Yerushalayim paradoxically experienced much growth as conditions worsened.
Budding new neighborhoods were sprouting and expanding. More houses, schools and roads were developed. Two hospitals — Bikur Cholim and Misgav Ladach — were founded. In the Old City, there was progression as well, with more yeshivos and shuls established. In 1841, for instance, Rav Shmuel Salant founded Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim for the Ashkenazi community.
Nevertheless, Yidden were suffering more and more from the corrupt and harsh rule of the Turks. The Turkish Empire was in a state of decline, and the effects were felt throughout Eretz Yisroel. Persecuted by the Turks, acts of oppression and cruelty occurred on a daily basis. Yidden no longer felt protected by the law.
Despite the extreme living conditions, fresh immigrants continued to arrive. By 1845, there were 3,000 Jewish families living in Yerushalayim.
In 1850, Rav Moshe Biderman of Lelov, zt”l, arrived to Yerushalayim from Poland, leaving his flourishing chassidus and chassidim behind. He desperately wished to daven at the Kosel, which was believed to be a possible final straw in the bringing of Moshiach. Shortly after he arrived, however, he collapsed. For 72 days, he lay in bed, sick. On his final day, he was taken to the Kosel, but as they approached the site, Arabs pelted them with stones. Ultimately, he was not successful at reaching the Kosel. He was buried on Har Hazeisim, near Yad Avshalom and the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh. Sadly, there is no zecher of his kever today as it was destroyed by the Jordanians years later.
Soon, Torah-true Yidden were not alone in their desire to inhabit the Holy Land. The violent winds of the Haskalah movement that raged in Europe reached the shores of Eretz Yisroel. The enlightened Yidden who first arrived seemed pious and frum, and it took the discerning perception of the Yerushalmi gedolim to differentiate between them. Thus, the rabbanim of Yerushalayim faced the difficult task of keeping the fortress of ehrliche Yiddishkeit intact.
Yerushalayim during the Ottoman rule
OF SHECHITAH AND UNITY
In 1878, the Turkish authorities permitted the Ashkenazi community to slaughter cattle for the first time. Until this point, only the Sefardi community, under supervision of Chacham Bashi, had the right to do so.
Each kollel within the Ashkenazi community appointed its own shochtim and supervisors. This led to numerous breaches in halachah. Rav Shmuel Salant entrusted Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin to improve the situation. Rav Yehoshua Leib created the universal Shechitah Council of Ashkenazi Chassidish and nonChassidish Communities, with members of each kollel on the council. Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld was appointed leader of the council. This centralization, specifically under such rigid leadership, received the unanimous cooperation of the community at large, and the issues were resolved.
THE COURTYARD NEIGHBORHOODS
ane Yehudah neighborhood. A row of houses was built, with large balconies in the front. Each one had two floors, with steps leading up to them erected outside. There was no running water or bathrooms. The homes were small; each family was assigned two rooms.
Of Lithuanian descent, Reb Broida only allowed Litvishe families, referred to as Perushim, to live in his mini community.
Within the Jewish areas, little courtyard neighborhoods, sponsored by corresponding communities in Europe, were established.
One of the first ones was founded by Reb Hershel Broida and was known as “Batei Broida.” It is not far from the Mach-
At one point, a Polish chassid by the name of Reb Mendel Rand visited the development. As he was shown around, he was told that no chassid was allowed to live there as it was created for Litvishe Perushim only. Hearing this, Reb Mendel decided that he, too, would build a mini community — for chassidim only.
A narrow street divided the two developments. The hous-
Batei Broida
Batei Rand
es built by Reb Mendel Rand were slightly larger than the Batei Broida homes; each family was allotted three rooms. These projects were adorned with impressive batei midrash that can still be visited today.
Parallel developments, such as Batei Varsha, Batei Machseh and Batei Ungarin, among several others, were sponsored and built following a similar style.
Today, a system is in place for these apartments — which belong to the hekdesh of the kehillos and kollelim they correspond to — as to who gets the privilege of living in them. The apartments “belong” to the family that lives in it for as long as the primary resident is alive. When a resident passes away, the apartment returns to hekdesh and is conferred to another family for life.
YEARNING FROM UP CLOSE
In close proximity to the Kosel Hamaaravi and the Makom Hamikdash, the tzaar haShechinah was an almost tangible reality for old-time Yerushalmis. During the Three Weeks, the sadness and aching intensified. The people spoke about and cried for the Churban constantly. In every shul, Tikkun Chatzos was recited daily. Churban Hamikdash was a reality that everyone lived with.
Even in more recent generations, the aveilus was more aptly felt in Yerushalayim.
There was an interesting episode involving Reb Hershel Kretchnever, zt”l, who passed away nearly two decades ago. He approached a chassid, who was a maggid shiur in his yeshivah, and said that he wanted to be matir neder, but was reluctant to share his problem. All his years, from Shivah Asar b’Tammuz until Tisha B’Av, he explained, he would not lay down in his bed, but slept on the floor. Now, as he aged, he found it impossible to lift himself off the ground when he awoke. Thus, the Rebbe had no choice but to relieve himself of the neder
How we yearn that Yerushalayim’s unique level of mourning, of aching and of loss, be deemed unnecessary. How we yearn to hear the blasts of the Shofar Shel Moshiach at last. How we yearn for the time when the throne of Malchus Beis David will be restored to its post in a magnificent Yerushalayim Shel Maalah!
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Most minhagim referred to as “minhag Yerushalayim” stem from the Perushim. Many were instituted during this time period, under the Torah leadership of Rav Shmuel Salant, Rav Yeshoshua Leib Diskin and Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
MUSIC AT CHASUNAHS
Once, a cholera epidemic broke out in Yerushalayim. It claimed many lives, including that of some pious talmidei chachamim such as Rav Nachum Shadiker and Rav Moshe Leib Kutner. With the epidemic still raging, another calamity plagued Eretz Yisroel: swarms of locusts destroyed acres upon acres of crops.
Distraught, Rav Meir Auerbach turned to a Sefardi kabbalist, Rav Yedidya Abulafia, zt”l, for guidance. Rav Abulafia stated that he was mekabel from his rebbi that any hardship that befalls the Yidden of Yerushalayim can be attributed to a lack of proper
mourning for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash.
Rav Meir consulted with Rav Shmuel Salant and publicized a Yom Tefillah at the Kosel HaMaaravi. After everyone davened for an end to the terrible plagues, Rav Meir announced that from that point on, no musical instruments would be played at weddings in Yerushalayim.
As soon as this new restriction was declared, the cholera stopped and the locusts flew away.
There was confusion as to whether the ban on instruments applied in the Old City alone, or if it should be upheld in the outlying neighborhoods built outside of the Old City. It was once brought to the attention of Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin that at a wedding in one
of the newer neighborhoods, music was playing. Rav Diskin sent one of his disciples to instruct the music to stop, and out of deference to the rav, the band immediately stopped to play. Thus, it became accepted that the decree applied to the surrounding areas of Yerushalayim as well.
More recently, some have been matir neder playing music at weddings in outlying areas. However, true Yerushalmi tradition is still upheld for the most part. Reb Nechemia Cheshin, a chashuve Yerushalmi Yid, was at the sheva brachos of a family member where a friend had arranged music. Reb Nechemia refused to allow the music in Yerushalayim, even at a sheva brachos.
IMMEDIATE BURIAL
In Yerushalayim, it is customary to bury a niftar immediately and not wait even overnight.
naart, nur gelacht, veil tzvei mul lebt men nisht.” They were so glad to have been able to fulfill the custom of not allowing a niftar to remain unburied overnight in Yerushalayim.
KABBALAS SHABBOS
Another well-known minhag in Yerushalayim that was instituted during this time period is the welcoming of Shabbos 40 minutes before the shekiah. Meant to prevent chillul Shabbos, it also serves as tosafos Shabbos, the mitzvah of adding time to the predestined length of Shabbos.
YERUSHALMI LEVUSH
The famous golden caftan traditionally worn by Yerushalmis on Shabbos has its origins in the Middle Eastern garments that allowed Ashkenazim inconspicuous entry to Yerushalayim in the 1830s.
One Motzei Shabbos, a heavy snow fell over Yerushalayim. Members of the chevrah kaddisha were summoned to the home of a niftar in Meah Shearim. They were in a quandary. How were they to carry out a burial under such conditions? There were no cars — the niftar would have to be carried by foot — and it all seemed impossible.
One of the members ran over to Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld to ask what to do. Rav Yosef Chaim responded unequivocally: “Yes! The niftar must be buried tonight, without delay!”
Rav Yosef Chaim then gave them bottles of whiskey to drink so they could keep warm along the way, and he stationed himself outside, near the location of the Toldos Aharon shul today, waiting for their return.
When the chevrah kaddisha members finally arrived back, close to dawn, one of them was drunk from so much whiskey. They placed the inebriated man on a bed and carried him this way to Batei Varsha, where he lived. There, Rav Yosef Chaim and the chevrah kaddisha members began a lively rikkud, dancing to a song that went something like this, “Nisht ge-
There are a couple of differences between the cloaks worn by the Arabs and Sefardim, and the style used by Yerushalmis.
The pattern follows specific kavanos, introduced by Reb Mendel Biderman of Lelov, zt”l. It is stitched out of 26 pieces, reminiscent of the Shem Havaya. The caftan closes right above left, and the neckline is not closed like the Arab version. Additionally, on the body of the garment, the thin stripes are vertical. But on the arms, the stripes run across horizontally. This is meant to remind the wearer of tefillin, which are not donned on Shabbos.
There is also a V-shaped notch in the cuff that, when meeting with the seam near it, forms a “shin” referencing Hashem’s Name. Similarly, parallel swatches of material at the underarm signify the Luchos Habris, and the finely embroidered collar resembles the atarah of a tallis
The Yerushalmi caftan is not manufactured by a company, but is typically sewn by Yerushalmi seamstresses or tailors, home-style. These women and men lend the many kavanos behind the details in the garment a deeper meaning as they sew.
1. How do you divide loads?
a. Divide loads? What does that mean?
b. Dark and light
c. Dark, colored, white
d. Dark, dark delicate, colored, colored delicate, white, bleach white
RESULTS
2. Where do you keep your hampers?
a. In every bedroom
b. In the laundry room
c. Both in the bedrooms and in the laundry room
d. I have a laundry chute e. In the bathroom
3. How often do you wash?
a. Mostly in the middle of the night, when I realize the closets are empty
b. When the hampers look full; about once a week
c. Twice a week
d. Every day
d. Every second day
4. How many kinds of laundry detergent do you typically stock at one time?
6.
Who folds your laundry?
a. Me
b. My daughter(s)
c. The cleaning lady
d. No one. It stays in the laundry basket until someone needs it.
5. What do you put in the dryer?
a. Everything
b. Everything other than delicates
c. Whatever says tumble dry on the label
d. Nothing. I hang everything.
7.
What kind of iron do you use?
a. A steam iron
b. A handheld iron
c. I send everything that needs ironing to the cleaners.
d. An iron? I don’t even own one!
8. Do you take pleasure in any part of doing laundry? If yes, what is it?
Approximately 20% of responses included folding laundry
21% of responses mentioned seeing empty hampers or laundry baskets
Seeing the bottom of the hamper
Folding laundry; there’s something very relaxing about it
Having laundry done for the week
Ironing at night while schmoozing on the phone
Folding laundry; it’s a mindless and clean activity
Seeing the hamper empty
Putting away piles of freshly folded laundry
Seeing the hamper almost empty; baruch Hashem, it’s never completely empty
I enjoy every part of doing laundry; it doesn’t feel like a chore to me.
16% of respondents said they enjoy putting away the clean laundry
8% of respondents said they enjoy ironing, but several responses mentioned ironing as the laundry task they most dislike
Getting difficult stains out
I take immense pleasure in seeing an empty hamper on the rare occasion that it occurs.
The smell of fresh laundry.
Seeing drawers restocked.
Folding large things because it means that the pile vanishes quickly
Folding warm laundry out of the dryer
While folding laundry, I appreciate the opportunity to sit and relax while listening to something stimulating.
Finding that, miraculously, all socks have a pair
Seeing the completed pile of ironed clothing on my ironing board
Tournament 3! Coming this Sukkos
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IN REVIEW
CANON BACKSTORY
Founded in Tokyo in 1937 as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, Canon started off trying to build Japan’s first high-quality 35mm camera. Its first prototype was called the Kwanon. The name was later changed to Canon — easier to pronounce globally and conveniently close to the word “cannon,” implying power.
In its early days, Canon didn’t make its own lenses; it relied on Nippon Kogaku (later Nikon) to supply optics. Canon built the camera bodies, and Nikon made the glass. After World War II, Japan’s government pushed companies to become more self-sufficient. Canon took the cue and began producing its own lenses in the 1950s. The collaboration quietly ended, and a legendary rivalry was born. What started as a practical partnership evolved into one of the most competitive face-offs in photography — Canon vs. Nikon — a duel that still sparks debates among photo enthusiasts today.
MORE THAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Canon didn’t just stop at cameras. In the 1960s, it was already making office calculators, and by the 1980s, its bubble-jet printers revolutionized home and office printing. Canon’s development of bubble jet printing began when an engineer accidentally touched a hot soldering iron to a syringe and watched ink literally fly out. That moment inspired their thermal inkjet technology, which now powers millions of printers worldwide.
From precision optics to office essentials, Canon’s legacy shows how innovation, adaptability and a splash of serendipity can keep a company in sharp focus for nearly a century.
LOGO
Canon’s logo is a masterclass in understated confidence. The bold, custom red wordmark has barely changed since 1956. The vivid red color reflects passion, energy and reliability. Its rounded, slightly futuristic font balances modernity with heritage — just like Canon itself, blending 20th-century roots with 21st-century tech.
Est. 1994
STREET VIEW
How
did you get started?
Our first location was in Flatbush in 1994, where Mr. Klein rented a tiny storefront and displayed the nuts in milk crates. Thinking that fresh roasted nuts would be a hot Pesach item, he opened his doors right after Purim. Ironically, Purim has always been our biggest season.
What is your most popular candy and chocolate?
Candy keeps evolving, so whatever the current “shtick” is tends to sell best. And popcorn for Shabbos always sells out!
Dubai chocolate is a surprisingly longlasting trend, as are smash-cakes. We just rolled out a dairy chocolate–covered Viennese brittle, and we’re expecting it to be a hit. We had a bit of trouble getting it to the shelves — everyone kept eating the samples!
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Can you share something about Oh! Nuts that will surprise readers?
A number of our online customers are pet bird owners! They come back regularly to purchase the freshest nuts for their feathered friends.
Can you share any memorable stories or tell us about interesting customers?
I get customers before Purim whispering their theme to me in hushed tones, just in case someone overhears and finds out what their kid will be dressing up as. Some even bring in the exact ribbon they’ll be using for their mishloach manos and hold it up to the candy under the light to make sure it matches to perfection.
One time, a mother came shopping with her child and lifted him up so he could press the lever on the candy bin — except she forgot to hold a bag underneath. Candy went flying everywhere. I quietly sent someone to clean it up, no big deal. But then she turned to her son and said, “Wanna try again? That was so fun!” At that point, I respectfully asked her to give it another go — at home.
OVERVIEW
OF RAV YOSEF GREENWALD,
THE PUPA REBBE
(1903–1984)
Rav Yosef Greenwald, zt”l, the Pupa Rebbe, was a towering gaon who rebuilt the Pupa chassidus from the ashes of the Holocaust. Renowned for his depth in Shas and burning avodas Hashem, he became one of the pillars of Torah life in postwar America.
Born in 1903 in Brezovica, Hungary, he was the son of Rav Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald, zt”l, the Pupa Rav, and grandson of Rav Moshe Greenwald, zt”l. A talmid in his father’s yeshiva in Pápa, he later succeeded Rav Eliezer David Greenwald at the helm of Yeshivas Keren L’Dovid.
After losing his wife and ten children in the Holocaust, Rav Yosef survived by hiding in Budapest’s Glass House. After the war, he remarried and began rebuilding. In 1950, he settled in Williamsburg with a handful of talmidim and founded Kehilas Yaakov–Pupa. He became the Pupa Rebbe and quickly emerged as a Torah authority, known for his brilliance in halacha and heartfelt davening
He soon established a full network of mosdos: homes for orphans, kindergartens, talmud Torahs, yeshivos, and kollelim for Pupa refugees. He strongly supported building eruvin in urban communities, was a member of the Hisachdus HaRabbonim, and was appointed its nasi in 1980. Thousands sought his advice and brachos, especially on Rosh Hashanah night, when even other Rebbes would visit him.
His sefer Vaychi Yosef continues to illuminate the Torah world today.
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