Reb Chaim Elazar Spira, the Munkatcher Rebbe, (1868-1937), was a tzaddik and gaon of unusual piety known after his multi-volume Minchas Elazar. One of his expressions of uncompromising zealotry was his fierce, outspoken opposition to political Zionism and the Agudath Yisrael. Rav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, zt’l, (1884-1966), was one of the great roshei yeshivah and […]
There are times when we teach the most by saying nothing. When Yosef revealed himself to the brothers, “his brothers could not respond to him because they were shocked and confused.” The Talmud (Chagigah, 4B) records that Rav Elazar would cry when he read this verse, reflecting, “If the brothers could not absorb the rebuke […]
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