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Rav Gedalia Miller became a game changer in the way frum parents relate to their children, no matter how far they’ve gone
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Gedalia Miller has been in the insurance and financial services industry for nearly three decades, and with all due respect to his affiliated companies, MassMutual and Guardian Life, today he’s involved with another kind of life insurance policy: He’s helping turn the darkness and isolation faced by so many in this generation into light, by changing the way parents look at their struggling, at-risk children.
While Reb Gedalia, a Bobover chassid from Boro Park, is an award-winning salesman and recruiter, social engineer was never on his CV. But then he faced the challenge of his life when his own child began to struggle with religious observance a challenge he calls the “nisayon of the dor.” Shocked and confused, he and his wife sought guidance, pushed through their pain, and realized they could bring light and hope into t
A building should ultimately be judged not by its height or its dimensions, but by its structural integrity
Over two millennia ago, a magnificent building stood on a mount in Judea. The building was impressive and splendid and admired by all.
All, that is, except for Chazal.
When Nevuchadnetzar destroyed the Beis Hamikdash and boasted that he had “bested” HaKadosh Baruch Hu, a voice said in response, “You have ground into flour that which was already flour” (Midrash Rabbah Shir Hashirim 3:4). Meaning, the Beis Hamikdash was already rotten and destroyed from within because of our sins; all that Nevuchadnetzar accomplished was to bring this state of spiritual decay into plain view.
Together We Stand By Elana Moskowitz | July 13, 2021
Six women offer their insights and personal experiences on encountering and navigating diversity within the frum community
It’s been nearly three months since Lag B’omer, when 45 people tragically died while celebrating Rabi Shimon bar Yochai’s yahrtzeit in Meron. Numb with shock and grief, Jewish communities across mourned both the personal and collective facets of the disaster.
Of particular importance was honoring the 45 kedoshim as individuals, underscoring the singularity and distinctness of each person we lost. While encountering the kedoshim on a more intimate basis, countless people shared an observation: The victims of the Meron tragedy represent a nearly complete cross-section of the Jewish religious demographic: Chassidic, Litvish, Dati-Leumi, Modern Orthodox, Israeli, chutznik, Brisker, yeshivish. All are tragically accounted for.
Era of Hidden Faces
After the tragic Erev Shavuos scaffold collapse in Stolin that left three dead and dozens injured, there was a message on social media I found particularly poignant: “Lag B’omer wasn’t Lag B’omer, and Shavuos wasn’t Shavuos, halevai that Tishah B’Av won’t be Tishah B’Av.”
Well, here we are, and Tishah B’Av is Tishah B’Av.
To say we are living in a time of great hester Panim would be a gross understatement. I have long struggled to understand what “hester Panim” truly is. On some level I understand what galus is and even what churban is. Rav Avrohom Schorr said in a passionate address a few years ago that when we hear statistics from Chai Lifeline, “es darf unchapen a tziter,” it must cause us to shudder. “There is no such thing as we can’t feel churban, this is churban! These bitter, bitter tzaros, this is galus!”