How, really, can one deal with the tremendous abundance of these modern times and not be caught up with the race after luxuries? We presented this question to HaRav Arye Leib Shapira, Menahel Ruchani of Yeshiva Ketana of Ponovezh.

A doctor in Jerusalem sent a letter to HaRav Wosner describing his efforts to promote road safety. The latter reacted effusively: "You are most praiseworthy and deserve encouragement. Each Beis Din in its city, with the public servants must do all in their power to prevent damage to its residents, and it is a mitzvah to encourage them and to reprove a person who does not obey those safeguards and rulings which were made for his protection and for the welfare of the general public, for if he fails to do so and acts without conscience, he endangers himself and others as well."

Tens of thousands of Jews here and abroad are planning these days, with emotional anticipation, for a significant trip to Lizensk, Poland, to pray at the gravesite of the Rebbe R' Elimelech of Lizensk on his yahrtzeit. Such a trip has been hailed over the years as laden with sanctity by tzaddikim past and present, and as very propitious and powerful.