Rabbi Meyer Yedid is showing how the power of a daf Gemara can reshape not only a person, but an entire community
Photos: Moshe Oiknine
’m trying to write, but the quiet is unnerving because suddenly after months of talking, talking, talking, everyone’s out of words.
Montreal, where I live, is a few hours away from going into total lockdown stores, schools, everything. They are threatening a curfew and under the game faces and forced joviality, there is genuine panic.
Maybe not panic, but certainly not calm because how tranquil can you be when you really have no control over anything? Oh, and you have to smile for the children!
I pushed my way through and yelled, “Baruch Hashem you found him!”
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had met with the Rosenbergs to discuss their son Yechezkel, not because he had a mental illness, but because he was part of “the hilltop youth” movement. His parents were concerned that he was going to get into more serious trouble than getting beat up by the Border Police for putting up caravans on the hills of the Shomron. And they were right to worry. Part II
I had discussed an idea with Mr. Rosenberg to perhaps have his son meet with Avi, a more practical and less-intense settler figure who has a hilltop farm and is a mentor to many boys like Yechezkel.