Tuesday, July 20, 2021

FW: What is Greatness?





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Tu B'av and Nachamu

Yeshiva University

Center for the Jewish Future

July 20-26 • Av 11-17

The newsletter is sponsored this week by Mrs. Maurice Lamm in memory of Rabbi Dr. Maurice Lamm z"l and in honor of the birth of their 53rd great-grandchild

This learning on the site this week was sponsored:

by the Feen Family for a refuah shleimah for Meilech Mordechai ben Rus

for a refuah shleimah for Ephraim Yechiel ben Atara Tzipporah by his friends

by Dr. Joseph Shainbaum לעילוי נשמת רב בנימין בן רב יוסף ז"ל ולעילוי נשמת שבע בת רב בנימין ע"ה

by Mrs. Maurice Lamm in memory of Rabbi Dr. Maurice Lamm z"l and in honor of the birth of his 53rd great-grandchild

by Susan Dworken Koss in memory of her father, Chaim Moshe Yosef Haberman's Yarzheit on Tisha B'Av

by the Isaacs grandchildren in memory of their Zaide, Albert Isaacs' yarzheit, Avraham ben Yehuda

by the Leibler, Goldofsky and Weberman Families l'iluii nishmas R' Shlomo ben Chaim Nosson Leibler HaKohen z"l

by the Gittleman Family l'ilui nishmos R' Shlomo Shmuel ben R' Yitzchok and R' Shmuel ben R' Pesach

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