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At The Center of the Universe
At The Center of the Universe
by Mordechai Plaut

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Note about Our Schedule

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NEWS

HaRav Binyomin Yehoshua Zilber zt"l
By S. Bruchi

Thousands joined rabbonim and roshei yeshivos at the levaya for HaRav Binyomin Yehoshua Zilber zt"l, a former talmid at Yeshivas Novardok and an oved Hashem from his early youth, who passed away on the Thursday before Rosh Hashanah at the age of 92.


Magen Lacholeh Races to Fly Three-Week-Old Patient to Jerusalem
By Yechiel Sever

Residents of Jerusalem's Bayit Vegan neighborhood are already accustomed to these sights, but once again seeing Magen Lacholeh volunteers dispatching extensive medical equipment from its office facility on Shabbos and loading it onto an ambulance for a patient being transported to Eretz Yisroel for urgent medical treatment sanctified the Name of Heaven and made a powerful impression on all those who witnessed the selfless workers in action.


Kever Rochel Linked to Jerusalem Eruv
By Yechiel Sever

The compound surrounding the gravesite of Rochel Imeinu o"h has been connected to the Jerusalem eruv through the efforts of the Center for Eruvin in Eretz Hakodesh, which was founded by the Rabbinical Committee for the Sanctity of Shabbos. The eruv was set up under the guidance of HaRav Avrohom Moshe Katzenellenbogen, the rov posek for eruv matters in Jerusalem.


Request to Set Up Police Station in Meron
By Yechiel Sever

United Torah Judaism activists are making concerted efforts to bring about the setup of a police station at the site of Kever Rashbi in Meron and are demanding police act to ward off the disorderly toughs who have been desecrating the site through their recent unacceptable conduct.


OPINION & COMMENT

Kabbolos For Yom Kippur

[An excerpt from Toda'ah (Parshas Vayeilech, 5754)]

In the short time remaining between Rosh Hashonoh and Yom Kippur, it is fitting to study the ways of our mentors, who illumine the generations, the geonim vetzaddikim. Let us examine their behavior during the holy day of Yom Kippur, and perhaps by doing so we will learn something that we can adopt so as to influence our own behavior on Yom Kippur.

Let Us Rejoice And Be Happy With This Torah — Stories and Anecdotes Excerpted from Sorosecho Sha'ashu'oi

Rejoice On Your Festivals, You, Your Son and Your Daughter

The Rambam writes (Hilchos Yom Tov 17-18), "A person must be happy and glad of heart on [the festivals] he himself, his wife and his children . . . each of them with something suitable for them. For women, one should buy clothes and fine jewelry etc."


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