Listening for a Divine Echo
When will God speak to us? First, we might want to consider how carefully we are listening, because a bit of wonder changes what one can hear.
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When will God speak to me? As a Yeshiva student in my early twenties, I was on a serious spiritual quest. I would pray intensely and yearned to receive a response from God. I was looking for direction in making some difficult decisions and wanted God to guide me; I was also struggling with questions about faith, and I hoped that a divine revelation would banish my doubts.
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The Parsha in Chesed – Shvi’i Shel Pesach
Rav Aryeh Levin, the famed Tzadik of Yerushalyim, like many other great men, was reputed to carry only small coins with him. This practice was not only due to a modest lifestyle. Rav Aryeh was frequently approached by those asking for alms. Rav Aryeh did not want to pull out a larger denomination and ask for change, lest the petitioner think for even a second that he was going to receive a larger donation. For Rav Aryeh it was preferable to walk around with the burden of many small coins than to potentially disappoint another person for even a second.
Rav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman reflects on half a century of miracles in this turned-around development town
Photos: Menachem Kalish, ArtScroll
Whatever you’ve heard about Israeli development towns is probably unpleasant. Thrown together with no foresight to house teeming groups of Jewish refugees from Arab lands, these 1950s-era outgrowths of the ma’abarot featured Second World construction, inadequate utilities, few services, no amenities, and little prospect for escape. Unemployed men loitered in town squares, and the musty, dusty streets were too dangerous to walk at night.
Migdal Ha’emek, in the center of the Lower Galilee, was probably the most notorious of these towns, the poster child of the gritty immigrant cities in the 1950s and ’60s.
Shanghai to Telz to Baltimore: Chaya Milevsky’s Life Story
Home → Shanghai to Telz to Baltimore: Chaya Milevsky’s Life Story
zt”l, a
musmach
of Ner Israel yeshiva, was the former Chief Rabbi of Mexico and
founder/lecturer at Ohr Somayach Toronto. Chaya shared her incredible life
story with me.
My paternal
grandfather was a big Rav, first in Germany and then in England. My father,
Rabbi Hillel Mannes,
zt”l, was considered intellectual and went to
university in Bavaria. He was in the middle of writing a thesis on “The Talmud
and Freud’s Psychoanalysis” when he found a sign on the university door, one