TO LOVE A YID
Reb Laizer Geltzhaler taught by example what it meant to be concerned for another talmid, another Yid. New blinds were installed in the Yeshivah’s dining room, and a mischievous young talmid climbed up on the windowsill to check them out. Reb Laizer, the Rosh...
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Table Talk BEHAOSECHA
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THE MESSY LAB
In this week’s Parsha, B’haloscha, there are two verses that are cordoned off from the rest of the Parsha with a unique character resembling a parenthesis. The Talmud teaches us that these two verses form a book unto itself, thereby creating an additional two Books....
THE GHETTO ROOMMATES
By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s Torah portion describes the tribe of Dan as “the Gatherer of all the Camps”. Our Sages teach us that Dan would travel behind the rest of the camp to return any objects that were lost by along the way. This is a reference to the mitzva...
AMAZING SEEDS
AMAZING SEEDS Plants pour out seeds. A single plant of red clover only a few inches tall turns out 500 copies of itself. The weedy crabgrass makes 90,000 seeds on each plant. Pigweed produces a million seeds per plant. One orchid was estimated to grow 3,770,000 seeds...
RETURNING A NEEDLE AND MATCHES
One time Rav Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the Steipler Gaon, asked a batim-macher (someone who makes tefillin) if he could come to his home and repair the stitching on his tefillin. The Steipler stood over the craftsman's shoulder and supervised every detail of...
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