Aneinu Baruch Dayan HaEmes

With a heavy heart I inform you of the loss of Yaakov Yisroel ben Tzviyah Rochel Chaya, Yaakov Yisroel Topper. From the 2nd whatsapp:  Yaakov Yisroel takes with him all the זכותים of the tefiloncaa s said on his behalf. May Hashem turn over our sadness into a complete joy with the coming of Mashiach.

OU TORAH YU TORAH and NAALEH.COM Enhancing Exuberance By Shira Smiles

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein “Mishenichnas Adar marbin b’simcha/From the arrival of the month on Adar we increase joy.” This well known Chazal seems to be the linchpin for all the Purim festivities. But, as Rabbi Rothberg notes in Moda Labinah.[quoting Rashi] the motto talks not about the one day of Purim, but rather about a continuous process that begins on Rosh Chodesh Adar and goes through Pesach, from the hidden miracles of Purim through the overt miracles of Pesach. What is the essence of this joy, and how can we keep it going?

OU TORAH YU TORAH and NAALEH.COM Glorified Garments By Shira Smiles

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein We’ve all the heard old adage, “Clothes make the man.” Like many old sayings, there is much truth in this one, clothes do in fact make the man on many levels, including how his clothes impact his relationship with himself, how they affect others, and ultimately how they affect his relationship with God.

YU TORAH Parashas Zachor By Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik

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YU TORAH Toronto Torah: Purim Torah 5778

Toronto Torah for Purim 5778 includes a serious article on Purim... and then a lot of other material...

OU TORAH Tetzaveh Purim 5778 By Rabbi Shalom Rosner

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RABBI WEIN ON PURIM 5778

The book of Esther promised us that the days of Purim would not pass from the Jewish people for all of its generations. The rabbis of the Talmud even stated that all of the holidays of the Jewish year would not necessarily be celebrated in the messianic era but that the holiday of Purim would remain eternally.

RABBI WEIN ON TETZAVEH 5778

The Torah reading of this week deals with the garments and vestments of the children of Aaron, the priests and High Priest of Israel. At first glance, the garments that these men were to wear present a clash of ideas and a contradiction of policies. On one hand, the garments of the ordinary priests were simple, modest and low key – a hat, a belt in the form of a sash, trousers and the tunic. They were pure white in color and represented purity of body and soul and humility of behavior and attitude.

RABBI WEIN ON MY ORCHID PLANT

Among my many failings is the fact that I do not have a green thumb. Plants and I do not agree and, in fact, many times I feel that the plants that I have in my home are just downright hostile to me. The care of these plants and the reason that they have survived so long has always been due to the distaff side of my home. I very much enjoy flowers and plants and I see in them some of the bountiful goodness of the pleasures that the Lord has arranged for humans in this world.

OU TORAH Rabbi Weinreb’s Parsha Column, Tetzaveh (Shabbat Zachor)

“Don’t Rain On My Parade!” If you have raised a child, you have had this experience. Your little boy or girl came home from school with a sample of his or her artwork. To you it just looked like a hodge-podge of scribbles, random color smears. But your child exclaimed, “Look, Mommy, it is a picture of the trees and fields that we pass on the way to grandma’s house.” Or, “Wow, Daddy! I drew the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky!”

OU TORAH Crushed for the Light By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

There are lives that are lessons. The late Henry Knobil’s was one. He was born in Vienna in 1932. His father had come there in the 1920s to escape the rising tide of antisemitism in Poland, but like Jacob fleeing from Esau to Laban, he found that he had fled one danger only to arrive at another.

RAV KOOK ON PURIM Shekalim Part 2: All For One

“When you take a census of the Israelites [to determine] their numbers, each one will be counted by giving an atonement offering for his life.... Everyone included in the census must give a half-shekel.” (Ex.30:12-13) Why were the Israelites commanded to give a half-shekel coin, and not a whole shekel? And why is this donation required when counting the people?

RAV KOOK ON PURIM Part 1:Timna and Purim

The following description of Purim in Rav Kook’s house during the years when he served as chief rabbi of Jaffa (1904-1914) was related by Rabbi Yeshaya Greenberg, headmaster of the Sha’arei Torah school in Jaffa: The joy overflowed in the Rav’s house during the Purim holiday. Breslov hassidim, who throughout the year were warmly received by Rav Kook, on Purim became the head merry-makers. Reb Meir Anshin and his friends would dance on the table, and the sounds of song and laughter drew many people to the Rav’s house. Between songs and dances, Rav Kook spoke about the holiday, making frequent interruptions to drink a lechaim. Any question or comment received an immediate rejoinder, with the Rav finding a direct connection to the holiday.

RAV KOOK ON Tetzaveh Part 3: The Sanctity of the Temple Mount

With the Jewish people’s return to the Land of Israel, the question of the Halakhic status of Har HaBayit — the plot of land where the Temple once stood in Jerusalem – became a hot topic. Does it still have the unique sanctity that it acquired when Solomon consecrated the First Temple? Does a person who enters the area of the Temple courtyard (the azarah) while ritually impure (tamei) transgress a serious offence, incurring the penalty of karet?1 Or did the Temple Mount lose its special status after the Temple’s destruction? This issue was the subject of a major dispute some 900 years ago. Maimonides noted that the status of Har HaBayit is not connected to the question about whether the Land of Israel in general retained its sanctity after the first exile to Babylonia. The sanctity of the place of the Temple is based on a unique source — the Divine Presence in that location – and that, Maimonides argued, has not changed. “The Shekhinah can never be nullified.”2 Maimonides buttressed his position by quoting the Mishnah in Megillah 3:4: “Even when [your sanctuaries] are in ruins, their holiness remains. However, Maimonides’ famous adversary, Rabbi Abraham ben David (Ra’avad), disagreed vehemently. This ruling, Ra’avad wrote, is Maimonides’ own opinion; it is not based on the rulings of the Talmud. After the Temple’s destruction, the Temple Mount no longer retains its special sanctity. A ritually-impure individual who enters the place of the Temple courtyard in our days does not incur the penalty of karet. Rav Kook noted that even Ra’avad agrees that it is forbidden nowadays to enter the Temple area while impure. It is not, however, the serious offence that it was when the Temple stood.3 What is the source of this disagreement?

RAV KOOK Tetzaveh Part 2: Clothes of Dignity and Beauty

“Make sacred clothes for your brother Aaron, for dignity and beauty.... They will be used to consecrate him and make him a priest to Me.” (Ex. 28:2-3) Why Do We Wear Clothes? Clothing has a dual purpose. Its first function is utilitarian, protecting us from the elements — the cold and the rain, the wind and the sun. In this respect, our apparel corresponds to the fur of beasts and the feathers of birds, except that the animals have it better. They never need to change clothes or worry about acquiring new ones when their garments wear out or no longer fit. Their wardrobe comes naturally. The second function of clothing, on the other hand, is unique to humans. Our attire affects our state of mind; it influences how we feel about ourselves and the image that we wish to project. We feel unhappy when wearing unattractive or ill-fitting clothes, and feel good when wearing apparel that is flattering. We feel comfortable in casual clothing, and dignified in formal wear. This second aspect of clothing has great ethical value. It stresses those qualities that separate us from the animals and their simple physical needs. It enables us to attain a heightened sense of holiness and dignity. When we cover our heads, wear modest dress, and observe the mitzvot of tefillin and tzitzit, we deepen our awareness of God’s constant presence.

RAV KOOK ON Tetzaveh Part1: The High Priest's Clothes and the Convert

The Talmud (Shabbat 31a) tells the story of three Gentiles who wished to convert. In each case, they were initially rejected by the scholar Shamai, known for his strictness, but they were later accepted and converted by the famously modest Hillel.

Aneinu Tefillos Still Needed For Har Nof Victims

FROM HAKHEL: YOUR TEFILLOS ARE STILL NEEDED:  In response to a reader’s inquiry, we  have received the following updates on the medical condition of some of the victims of the horrific Har Nof Shul attack over three years:   Eitan ben Sarah -  He is still suffering from bleeding in the brain and other after-effects of the attack.  He is not functioning well and needs our tefillos.   Shmuel Yeruchem ben Baila - He is much better at this point (learning and teaching at the Mir all day), but he still gets very tired at the end of a full day at yeshiva.  He is thankful to be able to be there all day, but when he comes home he is too tired to go to night seder, as he did every evening before the attack.  His wife was informed by their Rav that we should continue to daven for him until he gets his strength back.   Aryeh ben Brocha - One of the police responders, he was badly injured in his leg and is still suffering from his leg injury.  He is still in pain, and we should still daven for him.

Aneinu Please Daven Surgery Monday

Please say Tehillim for the husband of an Aneinu member who is scheduled for surgery tomorrow, Monday, afternoon. His name is Yitzchak Hunah ben Chana Rushka. Please daven that the surgery goes smoothly, without complications, and the least pain and that he should have a refuah shlemah.

Aneinu Whatsapp for Tehillim for Yaakov Yisrael ben Tzivya Rochel Chaya (Topper)

Whatsapp link for Tehillim for Yaakov Yisrael ben Tzivya Rochel Chaya (Topper)Cl ick here.

Aneinu Tehillim Yahad for Yaakov Yisrael ben Tzivya Rochel Chaya (Topper)

Please go to the link and say a kappitel or more of Tehillim for Yaakov Yisrael ben Tzivya Rochel Chaya (Topper) a 20 year old Chicago bachur in critical condition after a car accident in Florida.Click here to Sign up.

Upiryo Matok Shemot (Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein)

Lessons of halacha by the order of the weekly parasha, by Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein.Order here.

OU TORAH NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH Menorah’s Mystery Shira Smiles

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein Parshat Terumah begins the instructions for building the Mishkan/Tabernacle and its vessels. The instructions are quite detailed, yet Moshe and the artisans Bezalel and Oholiav have everything under control. Everything, except the construction of the golden menorah. True, the design was quite complex, and it was to be formed completely from one solid piece of gold. No cups were to be screwed in or legs soldered onto a base. Moshe was perplexed as to how to create the Menorah. According to the Medrash, the angel Gavriel appeared to Moshe and demonstrated how to construct the Menorah. Perhaps Moshe tried to follow those instructions, but in the end, Hashem told Moshe to just throw the gold into the fire and the Menorah would miraculously emerge. What was so unique about the Menorah that it defied Moshe’s ability to create it, and Hashem Himself fashioned it?

RABBI WEIN ON TERUMAH 5778

It seems that building campaigns are built into the DNA of the Jewish people from time immemorial. Beginning with this week's Torah reading and continuing for the next number of weeks we will be informed of the contributions of the Jewish people to the construction of the Mishkan/Tabernacle and to the exquisite details regarding the construction of that building and of its holy artifacts.

RABBI WEIN ON TOUGH TIMES

Unfortunately, it seems that things are heating up in our part of the world again. An Iranian pilotless drone invaded Israeli airspace and was shot down by an Israeli attack helicopter. Israel then mounted an attack against anti-aircraft facilities in Syria and during that operation an Israeli fighter jet was shot down. The two crewmembers of the downed jet were able to eject from the plane and one of the pilots remains in serious condition but hopefully will survive and recover.

OU TORAH Teruma 5778 By Rabbi Shalom Rosner

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YU TORAH Toronto Torah: Mishpatim 5778

Toronto Torah for Mishpatim/Shekalim 5778 includes articles on the parshah, the Land of 1000 Caves, Zionism and Jewish Unity, selling seats in shul, and more.

OU TORAH The Missing Tzedakah Box By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

It was a cold winter, all over the world. It was the year 1991, and it was the time of the great Gulf War. Scud missiles were falling upon towns and cities throughout the State of Israel. To say that times were tense would indeed be an understatement. The city of Baltimore had a sister city relationship with Odessa, in the former Soviet Union. The communist regime had just fallen, and travel to places like Odessa was becoming more practical. The Jewish community of Baltimore had begun to send representatives to assist the Jews of Odessa in various ways. Every six months or so, they would assign a different rabbi to travel to Odessa to ascertain the needs of the Jewish community there. That winter, it was my turn as a local Baltimore congregational rabbi to visit Odessa. It was a tense time for such a visit, and my family and friends urged me not to go.

OU TORAH Why We Value What We Make By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

The behavioural economist Dan Ariely did a series of experiments on what is known as the IKEA effect, or “why we overvalue what we make.” The name comes, of course, from the store that sells self-assembly furniture. For practically-challenged people like me, putting an item of furniture together is usually like doing a giant jigsaw puzzle in which various pieces are missing, and others are in the wrong place. But in the end, even if the item is amateurish, we tend to feel a certain pride in it. We can say, “I made this,” even if someone else designed it, produced the pieces, and wrote the instructions. There is, about something in which we have invested our labour, a feeling like that expressed in Psalm 128: “When you eat the fruit of the labour of your hands, you will be happy, and it will go well with you.”[1]

RAV KOOK ON Terumah Part 2: Take for Me an Offering

In preparation for building the Tabernacle, God commanded Moses to collect the necessary materials: “Speak to the Israelites and have them take for Me an offering. From every person whose heart inspires him to donate, you shall take My offering.” (Ex. 25:2) Why did God command Moses to take the donations? The verse should read that they must give an offering! The language of “taking” might lead one to conclude that the materials could have been taken from the people by force. But this was not the case, for the Torah stresses that the offerings were donated freely — “from every person whose heart inspires him to donate.” Why, in fact, did this collection need to be voluntary? The Talmud in Baba Batra 8b teaches that a community may force members of the community to support the poor and the needy. Using our money to help others is a trait that needs to be trained and developed. So why did God command that these gifts for the Tabernacle, the first act of tzedakah (charity) on a national level, be donated solely out of sincere generosity?

RAV KOOK ON Terumah Part 1: Betzalel's Wisdom

The Torah reading of Terumah begins the section dealing with building the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and making the priestly clothes. These chapters are among the few in which the Torah places great emphasis on external beauty — art, craftsmanship, and aesthetics. Of particular interest is the protagonist of this unique construction: the master craftsman, Betzalel. The Midrash weaves many stories about Betzalel’s wisdom and skill. In particular, the Sages noted the significance of his name, which means, “in God’s shadow":

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Tuesday February 20, 2018, 4:28 PM Skokie Police Department Alert: Missing Child: Roberto Dimarco, HAS BEEN LOCATED 15 years of age, male, white, 5'11'', 140. Last seen: 3900 block of Harvard Ter. **MISSING JUVENILE** HAS BEEN LOCATED The Skokie Police Department is requesting the help of the public in locating Roberto Dimarco. Roberto Dimarco was last seen on the 3900 block of Harvard Ter. on February 20, 2018 at approximately 12:30 PM. Roberto Dimarco is described as a male white, 16 years of age, 5'11'', 140 lbs. hazel eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing an orange/gray puffy coat, dark colored Adidas pants and blue Nike Air Jordan shoes. If you know the whereabouts of Roberto Dimarco, observe a subject matching his description, or have ANY information that could aid the Police Department in locating him, please call 9-11 immediately. The Skokie Police Department can also be reached by calling 847/982-5900. Instructions: If you know the whereabouts of Roberto Dimarco, observe a subject matching his description, or have ANY information that could aid the Police Department in locating him, please call 9-11 immediately. The Skokie Police Department can also be reached by calling 847/982-5900. POSSIBLE SIGHTINGS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO 9-1-1 WITHOUT DELAY. Contact Information: Kelsey Angarone Field kelsey.angarone@skokie.org For full details, view this message on the web. Alert Details Severity: Extreme - Extraordinary threat to life or property Urgency: Immediate - Responsive action SHOULD be taken immediately Certainty: Observed - Determined to have occurred or to be ongoing Category: Law enforcement, military, homeland and local/private security Event Description: Missing Child Sent by Skokie Police Department 7300 Niles Center Road, Skokie, IL 60077 Powered by Nixle. © 2018 Everbridge, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Tuesday February 20, 2018, 2:27 PM Skokie Police Department Alert: Missing Child: Roberto Dimarco, 15 years of age, male, white, 5'11'', 140. Last seen: 3900 block of Harvard Ter., 12:30 PM, 2/20/2018. Dear Dorron Katzin, **MISSING JUVENILE** The Skokie Police Department is requesting the help of the public in locating Roberto Dimarco. Roberto Dimarco was last seen on the 3900 block of Harvard Ter. on February 20, 2018 at approximately 12:30 PM. Roberto Dimarco is described as a male white, 16 years of age, 5'11'', 140 lbs. hazel eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing an orange/gray puffy coat, dark colored Adidas pants and blue Nike Air Jordan shoes. If you know the whereabouts of Roberto Dimarco, observe a subject matching his description, or have ANY information that could aid the Police Department in locating him, please call 9-11 immediately. The Skokie Police Department can also be reached by calling 847/982-5900. Instructions: If you know the whereabouts of Roberto Dimarco, observe a subject matching his description, or have ANY information that could aid the Police Department in locating him, please call 9-11 immediately. The Skokie Police Department can also be reached by calling 847/982-5900. POSSIBLE SIGHTINGS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO 9-1-1 WITHOUT DELAY. For full details, view this message on the web​: https://local.nixle.com/alert/6417235/?sub_id=56726 . Alert Details Severity: Extreme - Extraordinary threat to life or property Urgency: Immediate - Responsive action SHOULD be taken immediately Certainty: Observed - Determined to have occurred or to be ongoing Category: Law enforcement, military, homeland and local/private security Event Description: Missing Child Sent by Skokie Police Department 7300 Niles Center Road, Skokie, IL 60077 Powered by Nixle. © 2018 Everbridge, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Aneinu Tefillos Needed Surgery Now

Please daven for a Chicagoan, Mordechai Rasha Hacohen ben Chasha, who is having surgery right now.

Aneinu Please Daven Tests

Please say Tehillim for the friend of a Chicagoan, Sarah Hendel bas Miriam Rivka,  who is having scans done today and tomorrow. Please daven that she hear good news.

Aneinu Please Daven For Injured Soldiers

Update on injured soldiers: Please continue to daven for Chaim Shilo ben Aviva who is in critical and life threatening situation. Two other soldiers are Ohad ben Fanny and Emanuel Yitzhak Alexander ben Yehudit Please daven and say tehillim for them.

Aneinu Please Daven For Injured soldier

Yesterday while on patrol of the border with Gaza 4 IDF members were wounded from moderate to very serious condition.  They were trying to remove a Hamas Flag, which was apparently booby trapped with two bombs which exploded injuring them.      Please daven for complete and speedy recovery for: Chaim Shilo ben Aviva (he is the most seriously wounded of the four and is currently under heavy sedation and on a respirator.) I don't have any of the other names.  There is a tehillim yahad read open for him at: Click here for Tehillim Sighn up .

OU PRESS and KOREN Megillat Esther Mesorat HaRav

Megillat Esther Mesorat HaRav contains the text of Megillat Esther with a running commentary drawn from the teachings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, collected from a variety of publishedrav picture writings, notes and lectures, and a new, contemporary translation by Jessica Sacks. Co-published by OU Press and Koren Publishers Jerusalem. Rabbi Soloveitchik, known to all as “the Rav,” was a towering rabbinic figure of the twentieth century, whose dazzling brilliance and profound philosophical insight left an enduring impact on Jewry in America and around the world. Rabbi Soloveitchik finds in the Megillah not only a story of political intrigue but a timeless drama of Jewish, and indeed human, existence. In addition, this volume also includes the Ma’ariv service for Purim, a section of Reshimot, and a derasha by the Rav on the nature of Purim. Commentary – Insights collected from the Rav’s writings, recorded lectures and students’ notes. Translation – A new contemporary translation by Jessica Sacks. Reshimot – Additional in-depth synopses of Rabbi Soloveitchik’s halachic lectures related to Purim. Typesetting – Koren’s clear and aesthetically pleasing fonts and intuitive layout. Order here or at your local bookstore.

MAZEL TOV OU'S NACH YOMI 6TH CYCLE FINISHED SHOFTIM AND HAS STARTED SHMUEL

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OU TORAH YU TORAH and NAALEH.COM Bias, Beware! By Shira Smiles

(L"N my zadie Asher Zelig Ben Shmuel whose yortzeit is this Shabbos)

Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein Mishpatim are generally considered social laws that help society run more smoothly. As such, we usually consider them logical, that mankind would have arrived at most of these laws on its own as they began structuring society. But the mishpatim in our Torah are different. Certainly they appear logical, but there is also a spiritual element in each of these laws. Let us examine one of these laws and explore how society and religion, logic and passion overlap to create a system for living that will encompass the various aspects of human existence.

RABBI WEIN ON MISHPATIM 5778

(L"N my zadie Asher Zelig Ben Shmuel whose yortzeit is this Shabbos) One of the many diverse and detailed subjects covered in this week’s Torah reading is that of the laws regarding lending money to a fellow Jew. And though the language of the verse is couched in a conditional manner –“if” or “when” you will lend money – the rabbis of the Talmud interpreted this as an imperative – a positive commandment requiring one to be open to lend money to those who are in need of temporary aid. There are many laws, details and technicalities attached to this commandment and this short article is not the place to address them. But the overriding principle is clear. Lending money to others and helping them to extricate themselves from otherwise burdensome circumstances is a positive commandment of the Torah.

RABBI WEIN ON NOT ME

(L"N my zadie Asher Zelig Ben Shmuel whose yortzeit is this Shabbos) The current dispute between Poland and Israel, really between Poland and the Jewish people, highlights one of the great weaknesses of the human character. Even after committing and participating in the worst of atrocities against innocent fellow human beings, the perpetrators rarely have the courage and moral fortitude to acknowledge their actions and attempt to atone for their guilt.