On this past Tisha B'Av, I was watching a lot of live streaming from TorahAnytime.com and LearnTorah.com. This segment by Rabbi Bentzion Shafier, IMHO, was the most significant. I'm glad that TorahAnytime.com was able to capture it and uploaded it to their website (the reason for the Internet).
In this shiur, you'll learn about Dovid HaMelech and his quest for being on par with the Avos and his test that he failed with Bat Sheva, the difference between the Yetzer Hara of a Malach (angel) and of an Adam (man), the levels of modesty that has declined over the century, and what life will be like after Moshiach comes, according to the view of the Rambam.
It is a must watch for all Yidden (except children), it has parenting advice, marriage advice, self-growth advice, teshuva advice and the Internet!
To watch, go here:
We need Moshiach now, and let's do enough teshuva to merit him b'rachamim.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Most important Elul, אלול החשוב ביותר
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi's latest shiur about the most important Elul, last chance for teshuva.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
The life of HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt"l -- חייו של הגאון הרב יוסף שלום אלישיב, זצ"ל
Below is a partial copy of the text:
After 17 childless years, his very birth was a miracle. During his childhood, he suffered several serious illnesses from which doctors said he would not recover. At the tender age of 12, he was uprooted from his home to settle in a foreign land, and throughout his youth, he never attended formal yeshiva. Nobody could have imagined that this unassuming and modest prodigy would grow to become one of the greatest Torah leaders of the modern age, or that his remarkable life of 102 years would leave an indelible impression on Jewish history.
An enormous void was left in the Jewish world with the passing of one of the greatest sages in our generation on 28 Tamuz 5772 (July 18, 2012). The gadol hador (leader of the generation), Hagaon Harav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv z.s.l. passed away after being hospitalized in Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek hospital for six months due to an extended illness. The emotional funeral that followed on that Wednesday night (at 9:00 p.m. EST) drew an estimated 250,000 people who came to pay their last respects to the great leader of the nation. For months, Jews around the world had been praying for the venerable sage’s recovery so he could continue to lead us. Rav Elyashiv, the leading Ashkenazic halachic authority of the generation, was the natural address for virtually every complex, intricate halachic question that arose. Throngs of people would come to him and write to him seeking his guidance, advice and blessings. On that sultry summer night in Jerusalem, thousands came to express their grief over the fact that Rav Elyashiv is no longer with us to lead and inspire us.
True to his legendary and characteristic humility, Rav Elyashiv had specified in his will that no eulogies should be delivered at his funeral. The enormous crowd thus filled the streets of Jerusalem not to listen, but to pray, reciting Tehillim and Selihot in light of the great tragedy that befell our nation, beseeching Gd to ensure that we are properly led in the absence of this Torah luminary. The rabbi’s body was tearfully escorted by many thousands to his final resting place in Har Hamenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem.
A Kabbalist’s Blessing
Rav Elyashiv was born on Rosh Hodesh Nisan 5670 (April 10, 1910) in the city of Shavel, Lithuania, to Rabbi Avraham and Haya Musha Orener. Haya Musha was the daughter of the great kabbalist Rabbi Shelomo Elyashiv z.s.l., who was more famously known as the Baal Haleshem, or “the Leshem,” a reference to his monumental kabbalistic work, Leshem Shevo V’ahlama. When they moved from Lithuania to Jerusalem in 1922, the family assumed Rebbetzin Haya Musha’s maiden name – Elyashiv – in order to gain a certificate to enter the British Mandate with their relatives, and they were known by this family name ever since.
The Leshemwas regarded as a leading scholar of kabbalah.It is documented that when the Leshem Shevo V’ahlama was ready for publishing, Rabbi Shelomo Elyashiv sent the manuscript to Baghdad, to the great Hacham Yosef Haim z.s.l. (the Ben Ish Hai), one of the leading sages and scholars of kabbalah at that time, so he could review the work and give his approbation. When the Ben Ish Hai received the manuscript, he stood up and exuberantly recited the blessing of shehehiyanu over having received such a precious work. And students of the Hafess Haim z.s.l. related that their teacher held the Leshem in such high esteem that he even had a portrait of him on the wall – the only portrait in the Hafess Haim’s modest home. The esteemed contemporary mekubal Rabbi Yaakov Hillel shelita has said that the works of the Ba’al Haleshem might be the greatest contributions to the study of kabbalah in recent generations.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
The truth about the origins of Xianity, האמת על הנצרות
Moshiach is not yet here, but we have Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty, whose shiur about the origins of Xianity, called "The Yeshka Conspiracy", is excellent and appropriate to be revealed at this time in history where truth must be revealed to all.
Thank Torah Anytime (the reason for the Internet) and Rabbi Mashiach for this. What the Rabbi said at the end of the shiur is similar to what I have learned from my own Rabbi, but it was learned so many years ago, and I don't have the written sources. This shiur speaks it all. You must hear and understand why there are so many Messianics in the world pretending to be Jews and worshipping an idol, much like the historical facts hidden in our Talmud. Just like the original Xians were Jews who were misled by Yeshki, who was an idolator, according to the sources in our uncensored Gemara, there are Jews and non-Jews today who belong to the Messianic sect who copy many Jewish customs, including their women covering their hair with Jewish style hair coverings and their men wearing kippot. But their style of worship is very different and they don't speak the Jewish speak and you can easily identify them.
Facts learned: Rome did not have a language until a Jewish Rabbi taught them Latin. Latin was a Jewish man-made language to separate the Xians from the Jews so that they have Latin, an unholy tongue, and we have Hebrew, the holy tongue.
Listen to the shiur here.
Thank Torah Anytime (the reason for the Internet) and Rabbi Mashiach for this. What the Rabbi said at the end of the shiur is similar to what I have learned from my own Rabbi, but it was learned so many years ago, and I don't have the written sources. This shiur speaks it all. You must hear and understand why there are so many Messianics in the world pretending to be Jews and worshipping an idol, much like the historical facts hidden in our Talmud. Just like the original Xians were Jews who were misled by Yeshki, who was an idolator, according to the sources in our uncensored Gemara, there are Jews and non-Jews today who belong to the Messianic sect who copy many Jewish customs, including their women covering their hair with Jewish style hair coverings and their men wearing kippot. But their style of worship is very different and they don't speak the Jewish speak and you can easily identify them.
Facts learned: Rome did not have a language until a Jewish Rabbi taught them Latin. Latin was a Jewish man-made language to separate the Xians from the Jews so that they have Latin, an unholy tongue, and we have Hebrew, the holy tongue.
Listen to the shiur here.
Monday, July 30, 2012
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