It might have been decades ago how is it that the hallowed months and years in yeshivah, closed off from the mundane pressures of life, are still the engine pushing them forward?
The Game-Changer // Ner Israel, Baltimore
When I arrived at Ner Israel in Baltimore in March of 1995, I had expected to stay for two months, completing my second and final year of yeshivah that had started with a life-changing experience at Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem. In the fall, I would attend a major four-year university in New York.
In Baltimore, I quickly discovered a new level of devotion to limud haTorah and an immense kavod haTorah that was evident in the lives of inspiring peers and an entire city’s residents. More importantly, I was enveloped by the love of the mashgiach Rabbi Beryl Weisbord, my rebbi Rabbi Yissocher Frand, and the inimitable Rabbi Chaim Dovid Lapidus. As the yeshivah’s liaison with the university programs available for bochurim, Rabbi Lapidus played a crucial
The Loss of Yaakov’s Ladder By Rebbetzin Naomi Sprung | January 27, 2021
My sister, Rebbetzin Aviva Weisbord a h, was my sister, my compass, and my best friend
Rebbetzin Aviva Weisbord a”h wasn’t only my sister, she was like another mother, she was my best friend, my compass, my North Star. Her passing is not only my personal tragedy, but a loss to all of Klal Yisrael.
From as far back as I can remember, Aviva had such clarity in her mission: to do the retzon Hashem. She was made of iron mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. A cousin recently commented that Aviva was the picture of what you can accomplish when you don’t waste your time on gashmiyus. She never wasted a minute and was always on to the next thing to be accomplished. No wonder she was taken from us so much earlier than we could have imagined she had already used much more than her allotment of hours serving Hashem and His People.
The greatest success is the ability to own up to failure
In the Torah view, the single most essential ingredient of a person’s fitness to hold a position of responsibility is his ability to accept responsibility. There is no greater disqualification for leadership than one’s unwillingness to say the three words, “I was wrong.”
It works the other way, too: Someone with a conscience that impels him to accept blame when justified is also likely to feel unable to stand idly by when wrongs need righting, and will more readily volunteer to step up to act and take responsibility.
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