Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight
  

A Window into the Chareidi World

5 Iyar 5766 - May 3, 2006 | Mordecai Plaut, director Published Weekly
NEWS

OPINION
& COMMENT

OBSERVATIONS

HOME
& FAMILY

IN-DEPTH
FEATURES

VAAD HORABBONIM HAOLAMI LEINYONEI GIYUR

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

POPULAR EDITORIALS

HOMEPAGE

 

Produced and housed by
Shema Yisrael Torah Network
Shema Yisrael Torah Network

OPINION & COMMENT

We Have Lost a Living Example of Closeness to Torah

It has been a difficult week for the Torah community with the loss of three great rabbonim: HaRav Moshe Teitelbaum, HaRav Moshe Halberstam, and HaRav Moshe Shmuel Shapira zichronom livrochoh. Our remarks in this small space are not intended to fulfill the obligation of hesped tzaddikim.

The Necessity of Suffering: Perfecting an Individual Jew's Soul and Bringing Tikkun Ho'Olom
by HaRav Yechezkel Taub

Part II

In the first part, HaRav Taub explained that yissurim are a kindness from Hashem, to cleanse us of our sins in Olom Hazeh. This is a kindness because the cleansing of the neshomoh in Olom Hazeh is immeasurably easier than the purification of the neshomoh in Gehennom.

Meaningful Prayer
by Dovid Leitner

Part 11

Before beginning to explain and analyze the numerous individual tefillos contained in the Siddur, I would like to describe the pattern that these explanations will follow.

No Correlation Between Level of Child Allowances and Number of Children
by Rabbi Yitzchok Roth

There is a common belief, especially among those who hate chareidim, that there is a correlation between the level of child support allowances and the size of families, and the more allowances are reduced the more the number of children per family will shrink — as if people had children in order to get the allowance.

A Garnering of Sheaves from the Mussar Lessons of Sefiras Ho'Omer
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Fifty Days Correspond to Fifty Years

The Alshich Hakodosh writes that the fifty days of Sefiras Ho'Omer symbolize the fifty central years of a person's life: from the time he reaches the age of twenty, when he becomes accountable for his deeds, in the Heavenly court, and is liable to punishment, up till the designated age of "the span of our life is seventy years."


All material on this site is copyrighted and its use is restricted.
Click here for conditions of use.