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COMING SOON FROM ARTSCROLL Rav Gifter The Vision, Fire and Impact of an American-born Gadol

Born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Attended public school in Baltimore. Knew only one blatt Gemara at his bar mitzvah. Was this a Jewishly deprived American youngster?

Not at all. It was the world renowned gaon and rosh yeshiva Harav Mordechai Gifter, Rosh Yeshivah of Telz and one of the world's greatest Torah scholars and revered leaders!

In this warm and anecdote-filled biography, Rabbi Yechiel Spero introduces us to one of the most fascinating Torah giants of recent times. Rabbi Spero's best-selling "Touched by . . . " series has earned him many thousands of admiring readers. In this, his first biography, he outdoes himself.

To Rav Gifter, every minute of Torah was a precious gift. His intense and successful effort to master the Torah was phenomenal. All his life he carried with him - and personified -- the memories of his mentors and his years in the Telz Yeshivah in Lithuania. He was a peerless orator, who moved listeners to tears and inspired them to scale heights. He had an awesome sense of responsibility to the yeshivah, the community, and even to the youngest talmid and most humble petitioner -he made time for everyone. Most of all, he loved Torah. It was his life's goal - and his contagious zeal for learning created legions of talmidei chachamim in his image.

He interacted with the greatest sages of the era and was a fearless champion in the intellectual battles for the truth of Torah. And he was tender and understanding with the Jewishly unlearned US Navy veteran who stumbled into Telz, and the college girl searching for an Orthodox prayer experience. Students were awed by his intensity, but warmed by his tender and loving embrace.

He described himself as a "simple melamed" a teacher. His mission was to master Torah and transmit it in all its grandeur. He succeeded.

The book is lavishly illustrated , including many never-before published photographs. And it is filled with Rav Gifter's ideals, teachings, perspectives, and classic orations, in his own words.

When he was a teenager, his wall was adorned with pictures of Torah giants - and there was one empty frame with the words "What about you?" The youngster from Portsmouth answered the question with his own magnificent life.

Read about him. You'll be thrilled and your aspirations will be elevated.

[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven- Surgery Thursday

I received the following request:


Could you please post on your list for people to say Tehillim for Chaim Simcha ben Malka Rochel. He's having surgery tomorrow (Thurs.) morning.

[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven for Newborn

From an Aneinu member:

Please daven for Avishai ben Bracha Golda, my 12 day old grandson who is in the hospital

JI JM365 – JUNE: ALL STARS/ALL YEAR/ALL YOURS

There’s calendars for lovers of everything from Autos to Zebras…everything that is except Jewish Music. Think about it, why can’t Jewish Music fans have a calendar with 12 months of top stars to enjoy? Well as we couldn’t think of a reason either, we decided to do something about it. So please join us in welcoming (and enjoying) JM/365 the calendar created especially for lovers of Jewish music…and those who love seeing them smile. Its 12 months of everybody’s favorite stars just a click and download away–then ready for printing and displaying on your wall, desk or as a screen saver!

This month, in honor of summer, simchas and for that matter, summer-simchas, we’re featuring Abie Rotenberg…a composer/performer whose seminal work on Journeys and HASC–to name but a few, has resulted in Abie being recognized as Jewish Music’s “Poet Laureate”. His 1971 “double debut” (as composer and performer) was on Noach Dear’s Clei Zemer album, this was quickly followed by the instant classic “Dveykus” an album which became a “series” (6 and more on the way…hopefully!)whose songs have graced more Chupas than any other composer except perhaps Rav Shlomo Carlebach himself. As a bonus, this month we are give YOU a FREE download of Abie’s first composition, the opening track on Clei Zemer “Ki Lecha”. Just click HERE to download the song.

Despite being a star of true supernova stature, the former Queens native (who now makes his home in Toronto) comes across as unassuming and soft spoken…though his music is anything but. Case in point, his lyrics run the gamut from intense and intelligent to wonderfully whimsical to inspired and insightful while his tunes are usually equal parts striking and simplistic.

Despite a career that spans decades, an Abie Rotenberg release is every bit as anticipated today, as it was 10,20 or 30 years ago…what better was to begin to understand and hence, better appreciate the man behind the music than everybody’s favorite JM resource Jewish Insights/the Z Report and JM/365!

Be here next month as we take a hop across the pond and celebrate summer by going to “School”…
Again special thanks go out all all those amazing photographers and designers who contributed; Baruch Ezagui, Stan Weiss, Reuvain Stone, Srulik Klein etc.

[chicago-aneinu] Please Daven- Surgery Wensday

Please daven for Dvasha Dova bas Sara Leah, who is having surgery today.

Spiritual Guide to the Omer Day One of Week 7: Chesed of Malchut 43rd Day of the Omer TUESDAY NIGHT/WENSDAY

(PLEASE LEARN THIS POST FOR A YESHUA FOR Yoel Zev ben Mirel Rissa Chava AND Yaakov Yoseph ben Raizel THE BOYS IN JAPAN)

Week Seven - Malchut

Sovereignty - the last of the seven attributes - is different than the previous six. It is a state of being rather than an activity.

Leadership is a passive expression of human dignity which has nothing of its own except that which it receives from the other six emotions.

On the other hand, malchut manifests and actualizes the character and majesty of the human spirit. It is the very fiber of what makes us human. When love, discipline, compassion, endurance and humility are properly channeled into the psyche through bonding - the result is malchut. Bonding nurtures us and allows our sovereignty to surface and flourish.

Malchut is a sense of belonging. Knowing that you matter and that you make a difference. That you have the ability to be a proficient leader in your own right. It gives you independence and confidence. A feeling of certainty and authority. When a mother lovingly cradles her child in her hands and the child's eyes meet the mother's affectionate eyes, the child receives the message that I am wanted and needed in this world. I have a comfortable place where I will always be loved. I have nothing to fear. I feel like a king in my heart. This is malchut, kingship.