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<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox"> http://www.mozilla.com/en-us/firefox </a>Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-66565185877663542612012-04-02T00:50:00.000-04:002012-04-02T00:50:20.894-04:00Pesach in CzernowitzThe year was 1946. The Skulener Rebbe had been living in Czernowitz, which was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. It later fell into German and Romanian hands until the Soviet forces liberated the city in 1944. Czernowitz is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine. A number of Rebbes and other tzaddidim arrived in Czernowitz after the war to regroup and decide where to settle. But nobody Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-90541673026748273322012-04-02T00:47:00.002-04:002012-04-02T14:39:40.448-04:00Bluzhever Rebbe on Pesach in Bergen-Belsen
The Bluzhever Rebbe, Reb Yisrael Spiro, was one of the great chassidic leaders of the last century. His wife and children were slaughtered in the Holocaust. High on the Nazis' most-wanted list, the Rebbe himself had been interned in labor camps, and at some point was shipped to Bergen-Belsen. As Pesach approached that first year there was talk among the inmates about obtaining matzah. NeedlessChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-10129174830380763032012-04-02T00:45:00.002-04:002012-04-02T00:45:23.153-04:00Talking to HashemThe Klausenberger Rebbe used to tell a story on Pesach: There was a tzaddik (righteous person) who decided one year that he was going to out-due all of his work in previous years in regard to the mitzvah of clearing the house of chometz (leavened bread, which is prohibited on the Passover holiday). His soul was on fire as the month of Adar came to a close and the month of Nissan began. This year Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-56810483054536103532012-04-02T00:29:00.001-04:002012-04-02T00:42:17.004-04:00Women and MatzahOne Erev Pesach, the wife of Reb Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, Apter Rebbe and author of Ohev Yisrael (the lover of fellow Jews), was busy in the kitchen taking care of last minute preparations for the impending seder. She was bustling and in the midst of great activity when she heard a knock at the door. Too engrossed in her work, she let someone else in the house welcome the visitor. Two town Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-28270234752097201632012-03-30T01:00:00.000-04:002012-03-30T01:00:10.806-04:00Go'eil Yisrael Money (Shabbos Hagadol)The Sadigura Rebbe had a minhag (custom) of telling the following story after bedikas chometz (the search for leavened bread before Passover). There was a poor Jew who lived on the outskirts of the city of Kolbanov. He ran an old, dilapidated tavern and inn, which had been on lease from the local squire. Business had always been slow and, month after month, year after year, he failed to make Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-31177914266022418962012-03-30T00:57:00.001-04:002012-03-30T00:57:26.375-04:00Liska Rebbe on Shabbos HagadolJust a quick mai'sah in honor of shabbos hagadol. The Liska Rebbe, Reb Tzvi Hirsch Friedlander, talks of the minhag (custom) in those times, in which the Rav, in his grand shabbos hagadol drasha (sermon), would take two seemingly contradictory statements by the Rambam (Maimonidies), and over the course of his long drasha, try to resolve the apparent contradiction between the two statements. The Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-55346275929819584752012-03-06T23:23:00.003-05:002012-03-06T23:24:08.027-05:00The Rebbe on Queen EstherChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-33055358145269515192012-03-05T01:24:00.000-05:002014-03-12T23:06:56.084-04:00Lubavitcher Rebbe's Trouble on Purim
The story takes place in the year of 1932. Others say It was 1933. Some say it took place in Berlin, others in Paris. Rabbi Shmuel Buttman has told the story twice in recent years. On one occasion he spoke of Berlin, and on another occasion he spoke of Paris. But it has been confirmed by Rabbi Chaim Ciment, who heard the story directly from Rav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik, who was present at the Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-9799035455424250362012-03-05T01:19:00.000-05:002012-03-05T01:19:45.756-05:00Chiddushei HaRim on PurimThis isn't quite a story, but a short mashal (parable) about Purim and drinking from the Chuddushei Harim, Reb Yitchak Meir Alter, first Gerrer Rebbe. Just as a matter of interest, the name Alter was not the original family name, but had been changed when Reb Yitchak was Rebbe. Reb Yitzchak, believe it or not, was a Polish national, and supported the Polish nationalist movement, as did a number Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-85708501950099338462011-07-06T17:52:00.001-04:002011-08-16T01:37:23.923-04:00The Steipler Gaon
Bnei Brak: The city who's chol is kadosh, and who's kadosh is kadosh kadashim.
The Steipler Gaon (1899-1985) was in part responsible for making the Torah city of Bnei Brak the Torah beacon that it is today. Along with the Chazon Ish they settled into Bnei Brak before it was the famed city, and the rays of their Torah and tziddkus (righteousness), in time, attracted the multitudes. The Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-51127185579799066272011-05-04T03:06:00.002-04:002011-05-04T03:09:28.596-04:00Toldos Aharon RebbeChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-83256394291886473632011-04-13T22:04:00.000-04:002011-04-13T22:04:35.153-04:00Talking to HashemThe Klausenberger Rebbe used to tell a story on Pesach: There was a tzaddik (righteous person) who decided one year that he was going to out-due all of his work in previous years in regard to the mitzvah of clearing the house of chometz (leavened bread, which is prohibited on the Passover holiday). His soul was on fire as the month of Adar came to a close and the month of Nissan began. This year Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-58458334048107905772011-04-12T02:26:00.000-04:002011-04-12T02:26:04.994-04:00Bobover Rebbe Baking MatzahBobover Rebbe, Reb Shlomo zt"l in the matzah factory on erev Pesach. In the background the chassidim are singing "ani yeshaina v'libi er."
Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-59340372251233903152011-03-30T20:55:00.001-04:002011-03-31T23:31:11.370-04:00Divrei Chaim's Avodah in D'zikovOnce, Reb Chaim Halberstam, the Divrei Chaim, traveled to see Reb Eliezer of D'zikov. On the way, as he was passing through a certain village, he was recognized, and called into a house to be sandak (G-d-father) at a bris, right there on the spot. He accepted, and was led into the house. The father was very excited by his guest, and during the course of the seudah (celebratory meal), he went downChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-74426317523391941092011-03-22T01:19:00.003-04:002011-03-22T01:22:53.657-04:00Bobov Purim Night Tish 2011I taped this on Purim night at Bobov. The tish during the day is about ten times as big as this.
Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-7917796077568954032011-03-15T01:20:00.000-04:002011-03-15T01:20:51.531-04:00This Week's Funeral of the Fogel Family - Stabbed to Death by TerroristsChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-50407651756218914562011-03-01T01:47:00.000-05:002011-03-01T01:47:19.517-05:00Dveikus Niggun of the Rebbe Reb ElimelechChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-24076138474434659822011-02-27T02:58:00.001-05:002011-03-10T12:08:40.584-05:00Groping in the LightThis morning we read: "Lo seva'aru eish b'chol moshvoseichem b'yom haShabbas. You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath (Vayikra 35:3)." And so, the following mai'sah of Reb Nachum of Chernobyl.
Reb Nachum was a guest of the father of Reb Moshe of Savran for shabbos. It was the custom of the household to light a long candle before sunset so that if anyone wanted to Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-64354841456975209832011-02-22T00:22:00.003-05:002011-02-23T02:17:39.323-05:00Rav Shimon Shkop in Montreal
Rav Shimon Shkop (1860-1939) was the outstanding Rosh Yeshiva of yeshivos Telz and Grodno. Based on the talmudic methods of his mentors, Rav Chaim Soloveitchik and the Netziv, he synthesized his own method resulting in the deep and penetrating analysis of Rav Chaim with the straightforwardness and clarity of the Netziv. He embarked on fund-raising assignments for the yeshivos in England, Canada Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-41486504871286535082011-02-14T00:19:00.003-05:002011-03-01T01:48:38.173-05:00Bobov Wedding 45 st. 1/24/11Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-35172201375438174272011-02-09T04:18:00.001-05:002011-02-09T04:18:27.412-05:00IRANIUMChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-80918096446646740902011-01-29T18:12:00.009-05:002011-02-18T01:24:50.940-05:00The genius of Rav Moshe Feinstein
Rav Moshe Feinstein
Rav Moshe Feinstein, the great gaon and posek of the 20th Century, was the decider of many sheilos (questions regarding Jewish law), many being questions warranted by the new technology as it emerged in modern times, and others relating to modern issues in American life. On one occasion, a not-too-religious father approached him at home regarding his son's possible college Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-11014234219933250002011-01-27T17:06:00.003-05:002011-02-28T16:54:04.529-05:00Famous Births Part I - Ba'al Shem Tov and the Divrei ChaimThe story of the birth of the Ba'al Shem Tov is taken from an earlier post on the subject of hachnasas orchim (hospitality to guests).
Reb Eliezer, father of the Ba'al Shem Tov, was known for the mitzvah of hachnasas orchim. He would go so far as to send out emissaries to the town's crossroads, in order to see if anybody passing through might need a meal or refreshments, or even a place to stayChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-22994340455170486642011-01-08T23:58:00.011-05:002011-01-27T17:20:30.353-05:00Reb Nachum of Chernobyl and the Mountain JewsReb Nachum of Chernobyl, founding Chernobyler Rebbe, was a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch. Early on, the Maggid told Reb Nachum to become a maggid himself (preacher; someone who goes around rousing people to repentance), and travel to off-the-beaten-path communities to provide inspiration and hope to downtrodden Jews. During his travels, Reb Nachum happened upon a small community in an even Chazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100826787484326987.post-44806822246006296332010-12-20T19:06:00.007-05:002011-01-05T00:35:57.811-05:00Ba'al Shem Tov and the Nursing BabyThis week we begin the book of Shemos (Exodus). We learn that Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses) was hidden among the reeds in the swamp by the Nile after a decree had been issued by Pharaoh, saying that all male children should be thrown into the river. Pharaoh's daughter, Basya, finds the boy, and attempts to nurse him. She does not succeed, and neither do any of the other Egyptian woman. G-d said, "shouldChazzan805http://www.blogger.com/profile/01793574089409143023noreply@blogger.com0