The Power of the Days Before Shavuos - The Amazing Teaching of the Chida

 

😭😭מרטיט, הנאום הדומע: המשא ההיסטורי שכולו אמונה וחיזוק מהמנהיג הרב לנדו לבר מצוה של הילדים היתומים

 

משא המרטיט ממנהיג הדור מרן ראש הישיבה הגר"ד לנדו שליט"א ששיגר למעמד בר מצווה לחתני בני מלכים היתומים מאבא או אמא, המעמד נערך ע"י ארגון זה לזה. מאוד רציתי להשתתף איתכם בשמחה הגדולה שלכם שמחת ה'בר מצוה' לילדי החמד חתני בר המצווה, אבל קשה עלי הנסיעה לירושלים, אך אני רוצה לומר לכם כמה מילים. נערים יקרים! שמעתי שלמרות קשיים אישיים וימים של כאב, הבנתם שלולא תורתך שעשועי אז אבדתי בעניי, וקיבלתם על עצמכם יחד עם החונך המלוה אתכם, להתעלות בתורה ולסיים מסכת שלמדתם בעמל. אתם חתני מצוות רכים בשנים, אך אתם ממשיכים את מסירת התורה והעמל של אבא או של אמא שנסתלקו לבית עולמם. אתם המשפיעים על כל האחים ועל כל הסובבים. כשאתם סוללים דרך של עמל התורה ותפילה, זה משפיע על כל המשפחה, ויש לזה משמעות גדולה. יושבים כאן חתנים בעלי השמחה ואימהות ובוודאי במצבים אלו יש להם קשיים רבים. אך צריך לדעת שאתם הקרובים ביותר לריבונו של עולם שהוא 'אבי יתומים' ודיין אלמנות, כמו שכתוב 'יתום ואלמנה יעודד' כל אחד הוא כיחיד בפני אביו שבשמים וזוכה לסייעתא דשמיא מיוחדת וכך כל אלמנה היא יחידה וזוכים לסייעתא דשמיא וחיזוק להמשיך הלאה ולראות נחת מיוחדת. דווקא אתם מי ללא אב ומי ללא אם, יש לכם אחריות מיוחדת במסירת הדורות, להיות קבועים ונטועים בתורה ששום דבר לא יזיז אתכם כל החיים. שום רוחות ושום פיתויים אינם שווים רגע אחד של תורה. אני מברך גם את כל המשפחות של חתני הבר מצוות, אתם צריכים להיות חזקים ולהיות שייכים רק לתורה ולא להתפתות לכל מיני הצעות למיניהם, אנחנו לא חוששים ממעצרים, אלא ממשיכים ללמוד בכל זמן ומתעמקים בתורה וזוכים לראות את האור של התורה. אתם ובני משפחתכם תקבלו היום עול תורה לכל החיים בהחלטה ברורה, ותזכו לסייעתא דשמיא מיוחדת להיות גדולי תורה ויראה, ולפום צערא אגרא. מזל טוב! קרדיט תיעוד: מנחת דבר

🔴 שידור חי: המעמד ההיסטורי! מנהיג הדור הגרמ"ה הירש והגר"ש אלתר בכינוס 'ירחי כלה' הארצי

 

הצטרפו אלינו לשידור חי ובלעדי מ"סדר יום ירחי כלה בארץ הקודש" – יום שכולו תורה, עיון והתעלות, בארגון ארגוני הקודש "שבתי" ו"תורתי ואומנותי". במהלך היום נצלול לעומקה של סוגיית "ברכות התורה" – שקלא וטריא בהיקף הסוגיא, בהעמקה, בחידוש ובמוסר, ונזכה לשמוע שיעורים מפי מרנן ורבנן גדולי הדור שליט"א. סדר היום המלא (לפי שעון ישראל): 11:00 - הגאון רבי ישראל לנדא שליט"א (ראש ישיבת היכל יצחק) 11:45 - הגאון רבי יצחק מרדכי הכהן רובין שליט"א (בעמח"ס אורחות שבת ורב קהילת בני תורה הר נוף) 12:30 - הגאון רבי יהודה אריה דינר שליט"א (רב ביהכ"נ דברי שיר בני ברק) 13:30 - רבי יוסף חברוני שליט"א (ראש ישיבת חברון) 14:00 - הגאון הצדיק רבי שמעון גלאי שליט"א 14:30 - הפסקה (תפילת מנחה וארוחת צהריים) 16:00 - הרב דוד ברודמן שליט"א 16:50 - ראש ישיבת חברון, הגאון רבי דוד כהן שליט"א 17:20 - מרן ראש הישיבה מגור הגאון רבי שאול אלתר שליט"א 18:20 - הגאון רבי יהושע אייכנשטיין שליט"א (ראש ישיבת יד אהרון) 18:45 - משא הנעילה מרבן של ישראל רבינו מרן ראש הישיבה הגאון הגדול רבי משה הלל הירש שליט"א הישארו מחוברים עמנו לאורך כל היום וזכו להגדיל תורה ולהאדירה! 👇 שתפו את הקישור לשידור החי עם חברים ומשפחה, כדי שגם הם יזכו להשתתף במעמד ההיסטורי הזה! 🔔 אל תשכחו להירשם לערוץ וללחוץ על הפעמון כדי לקבל התראות על שידורים עתידיים ותיעודים נדירים מגדולי ישראל. אנחנו פועלים להפיץ את אורם של גדולי הדור לכל יהודי בעולם. לחצו על הקישור, הירשמו לערוץ והיו שותפים לקידוש השם העצום הזה: https://www.youtube.com/@GedoleiHaDor...

🔥איפה הכוח האמיתי? • מרן המשגיח רבי דן סגל שליט"א במסר מרעיש על רודפי התורה

 

מעמד נשגב ומרומם של הכנה לקבלת התורה בהיכל ישיבת "ארחות תורה" רושם כביר והתרגשות עצומה אחזו במאות בחורי ואברכי ממלכת התורה "ארחות תורה", בעת שהסכיתו ושמעו את משא הקודש הדרמטי מפי מרן המשגיח, הגאון הצדיק רבי דן סגל שליט"א. המעמד התקיים כהכנה רבה לקראת ימי מתן תורה הבאים עלינו לטובה, והיה למפגן אדיר של חיזוק ורוממות הרוח. במהלך דבריו הנוקבים והמעוררים, עמד מרן המשגיח שליט"א על חובת השעה וחשף את שורש המאבק הקיים בימים אלו מול לומדי התורה. בדבריו המשיל את המצב לפסוק "אויבי תחכמני" והסביר בבהירות כיצד כוחות הרע מבינים היטב שכל כוחו של עם ישראל טמון אך ורק בעמלה של תורה, ועל כן עיקר מלחמתם מכוונת לשם. מתוך דבריו של מרן המשגיח שליט"א: "ראו – 'אויבי תחכמני'. למה הם כל כך נלחמים נגד התורה? אין משהו אחר? העיקר זה על זה, כי הרע יודע את הסוד. שאיפה הכוח האמיתי? הכוח האמיתי זה רק בלימוד התורה הקדושה, אין עוד! וממילא אדרבה, זה צריך לעורר אותנו כמה אנחנו צריכים בעזרת השם יתברך להתעצם בלימוד התורה." בסיום דבריו הנרגשים, חתם המשגיח בברכה ובמסר של ביטחון, כשהוא מדגיש כי ככל שנתחזק ונגביר את קול התורה, כך יתבטלו ויכלו כל האויבים המנסים להצר את צעדינו – הן המאיימים מבחינה גשמית והן אלו המנסים להרע מבחינה רוחנית. הצטרפו לצפייה ברגעים המרוממים, מתוך היכל הישיבה המעטירה צילום: בקודש פנימה

Shavuos: The Saga of the Ger Tzedek of Vilna, Avraham ben Avraham

 

😭מה יהיה עם חתני הצדיק? פוסק הדור הרב זילברשטיין עצר את שיעורו והעתיר בדמעות לרפואת חתנו רבי דוב קוק

😭What will happen to the sons-in-law of the righteous? The generational judge, Rabbi Zilberstein, stopped his class and tearfully petitioned for the healing of his son-in-law, Rabbi Dov Kook 

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - Master of Prayer - Mighty Warrior is Moshiach ben Yosef - Part 2

 

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - The Master of Prayer - Moshiach Fixes the World - Part 3

The Real Reason the IDF Punished a Soldier Over a Mashiach Patch

In this important message, Avi Abelow exposes the deeper story behind the recent controversy surrounding an IDF soldier punished for wearing a “Mashiach” patch on his uniform. Was this really about military regulations and uniform policy or does it reveal a much larger battle over the Jewish identity and future direction of the State of Israel? 

As Jew-hating antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda explode around the world, including shocking modern blood libels in major international media outlets, something very different is happening inside Israel itself. A new generation of proud Jewish Israelis is rising. Young soldiers are openly embracing Jewish identity, Jewish destiny, and the spiritual mission of the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland. Across Israel today, young people wave Temple flags, wear shirts depicting a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, and proudly display Mashiach patches as symbols of Jewish pride and redemption.

Rabbi Winston: Parashas Naso – Shavuos

 THIS IS THE 3,338th Shavuos of history. The Jewish People first received Torah in 2448 (1313 BCE), and it is now 5786, so, that’s 3,338 years, a very large number and hard to relate to.

It becomes more tangible if we talk about it in terms of generations, which are about thirty years long. That would make our generation the 111th since the one that actually heard G–D speak and personally received his Torah. That’s a much smaller number and certainly one we can imagine. People have stood in line for something and started off at least a hundred spots back. This morning at the Kosel I was surrounded by at least a hundred people there for the same reason.

You could call it the birthday of the giving of the Torah, but it is obviously so much more than that. Birthdays usually only “celebrate” that a person is one year older with very little connection to the past. This “birthday” celebrates our ability to re-experience an event from our national youth. It’s like a time machine to go back to the original receiving of Torah.

Why do we even need to? Because it’s all about roots. We are what we are and we do what we do because of our roots, spiritually and physically. Children are too young and unaware to know that what they are living through will leave an indelible impression on the rest of their lives until the day they die from old age. Similarly, we are what we are based upon the root of our soul, and there is nothing we can do to change that, not our roots or the spiritual tendencies they give to us. We’re better off to understand them and use the knowledge to our understanding than to fight against it.

That’s why the Torah is spending so much time in these parshios on yichus, our familial origins since Mt. Sinai. I don’t know if it is only my imagination (I believe that it is real), but I feel some kind of historic connection, as a Levi, to my ancestors when we read these parshios about the Levi’im. It feels like a resetting of history every time we get here each year. 

After all, though most of the flower is above ground, a plant only grows as well as its roots below ground. Flowers and leaves can fall off and later grow back, but a diseased root can kill the entire plant for good. A good gardener knows how to protect the root to help the flower thrive.

What this means in practical terms is don’t celebrate Shavuos 5768, because, as you can, it doesn’t mean that much beyond cheese cake and staying up all night and learning. Both are great in and of themselves but neither is unique. What makes them unique is the fact that they are tied to what happened 3,338 years. 

So, instead, celebrate Shavuos 2448 by taking time to recount what it must have been like to stand at the base of Har Sinai, actually hear the Creator of the Universe break protocol and talk to man, and then share his “thoughts” in the deepest intellectual form ever. If your body doesn’t tingle from top to bottom thinking about Torah, then you haven’t really come to grips with what it is and what it means to all of mankind.

You’re not alone in that. Unfortunately, it is the reality of many Jews, religions ones as well, today. That’s why G–D gave us the holiday of Shavuos, as virtual door that we can walk through to recreate the Sinai experience according to personal worthiness. We just have to turn and face it, open it, and be willing to step through. Hashgochah Pratis will take care of the rest.

Chag Shavuos Samayach,

Pinchas Winston

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Sha’ar HaGilgulim, Version 3, VOLUME 2 is now available through Amazon and Thirtysix.org. 

The “Sha’ar HaGilgulim Course” began, on April 27, and Session 4 is this week, b”H, with four more to go after that. For more information, go to: https://www.shaarnunproductions.org/Sha-ar-HaGilgulim-Course.html.

Have a great Shabbos,

Pinchas Winston

Rabbi Wein: Shavuot

WEEKLY PARSHA FROM THE DESTINY ARCHIVES
Shavuot

Every biblical narrative has at its heart a main character, a hero or heroine. Even though the book and the scroll of Ruth is named for her, the true main character and heroine of the story is Naomi.  This is confirmed in the book itself when the prophet Samuel, the author of the book, relates that when Ruth gave birth to Oved, the women of Bethlehem declared; “A male child has been born to Naomi.”

 

It is obvious that they did not mean this literally, for Naomi was widowed and no longer of child-bearing age. Nevertheless, the wise women of the town recognized that if it were not for Naomi, Ruth would never have met Boaz in a matrimonial relationship.  It was Naomi who planned the entire series of events that would lead to the birth of this child and the beginning of the dynastic monarchy of the Jewish people.

 

 The book instructs us not to view things in a superficial manner but rather to analyze and understand the causes and circumstances that eventually lead to the details of the narrative.  The whole linchpin of the story is the steadfast commitment of Naomi, and her determination not to be crushed by the tragedies that engulfed her.  Because of her, there can be a Ruth, a Boaz and eventually, a King David.

 

Life is oftentimes very difficult, and its burdens can be crushing.  For many of us, we are passing through such a time currently.  Everything that was familiar, and in fact taken for granted, has been struck from our daily lives.  Our future is certainly murky and mysterious.  Because of this, strength of character and an iron will to persevere and overcome is vitally necessary.  

 

Naomi is the symbol of these strengths that we desire for ourselves and our community.  It is her resourcefulness and true understanding of human nature that will stand us in good stead in our hour of difficulty and adjustment that is upon us. The challenge is how to summon up these characteristics and apply them to our own lives.

 

In this we can also be instructed by Ruth herself.  Her selfless devotion to Naomi even though it meant the forsaking of everything she had known, and of her worldly positions, became her strongest asset.  Her commitment was complete and boundless.  Her determination not to abandon Naomi, and the faith and tradition of Naomi, became the turning point in her life and brought her to unimagined glory and success. Sometimes in life, forsaking everything becomes the key to acquiring greater things.  Judaism teaches that we are measured not by what we take and acquire but by what we give, donate, and forsake.

 

This is a difficult lesson to put into practice since it runs counter to much of our innate nature, but both Naomi and Ruth rise to greatness on the basis of what they were willing to give up for a higher and nobler goal in life.  One has to be willing to humble oneself and to sit amongst the gleaners of fallen grain to become, eventually, the matriarch of Jewish eternal monarchy.

 

Chag Sameach

Berel Wein 

Unimaginable Threat……coming to your neighborhood!

 This could give impetus to other hate-filled attackers. Not just protesting in the streets, foaming at the mouth tirades, breaking and entering homes is on the horizon!

PHILADELPHIA:  A man was shot and killed early Monday morning after forcing his way into a Jewish home in Philadelphia in the early hours of Monday. The incident happened shortly after 1 a.m. on the 1600 block of Griffith Street in the *Rhawnhurst section of the city. According to YWN sources, a male suspect forcibly entered the property, prompting a struggle inside the home. During that struggle, the suspect was shot. 

ÑOTICE HOW THE ARTICLE BEGINS WITH THE PERP INTRUDER AND NOT THE DEFENSELESS FEMALE BABYSITTER WITH CHILDREN PRESENT BEING ATTACKED!

Responding officers transported the man to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 1:39 a.m., according to police.

The suspect’s identity has not yet been released.

YWN sources say a frum woman was inside the home at the time with her two children. The woman, who babysits for many frum infants, screamed when the intruder came in. A neighbor who heard the woman screaming forced the door open with a crowbar and shot the intruder, killing him.

No injuries were reported among the woman, her children, or others inside the home.

No arrests have been announced as of Monday, and police said the investigation remains ongoing. The case is being handled as a homicide investigation, which is standard procedure in fatal shootings, while detectives work to determine the full circumstances surrounding the break-in and shooting.

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2550697/philadelphia-burglar-shot-and-killed-after-breaking-into-popular-orthodox-jewish-babysitters-home.html

*I once lived in that area many many years ago. A Jewish area of homes and families. Who was this attacker? And where B”H for the neighbor!

🌊הים שאיים לבלוע ישיבה שלמה: חודש לאסון במשפחת שפיגל

לפני חודש עמד עם ישראל מול גלי הים בנתניה בייאוש ובתפילה; בעוד יששכר דוב נמשה מהמים למלחמה חסרת סיכוי בבית החולים, אחיו אברהם ישעיהו נותר במצולות במשך שבוע של חיפושים מורטי עצבים • היום, במלאות השלושים לקבורה הראשונה, אנחנו מבינים שהים לא לקח רק שני בנים - הוא מאיים לבלוע ישיבה שלמה

 

Shavuous: The Chofetz Chaim on Recognizing the Divine Origin of the Torah From the Luchos

 

Shavuos: The Universal Reverberations of Torah Study

 

Reb Neuberger: Shavuos – The Curtain Opens……

 

THE CURTAIN OPENS ON INFINITY

Sefer Bamidbar is referred to by some as the “Book of Numbers,” but the numbers really begin in the previous two parshios, Behar and Bechukosai. There we learn about two remarkable – and related – numbers, “seven” and “forty nine.”

My friends, these are more than numbers. Like everything else in the Torah, they are beyond this world; they are reflections of eternity.

The number “seven” is the centerpiece of the first portion in the Torah, the building block of the world. There is no major culture in the world which does not accept the seven-day week. Even our enemies live according to this cycle, which only substantiates the universality of our Torah.

Those who hate us unconsciously proclaim the Truth of our Torah and the existence of the Master of the Universe, against whom they rebel!

At the end of six days, Hashem rested. The seventh day is devoted to understanding the nature of what had just been created, meaning that we are to understand that the previous six days were created by the Master of the Universe.

Rashi explains that the Torah was revealed in discrete parshios in order “to give Moshe Rabbeinu an interval of time for contemplation between one section of the Torah and another, and between one topic and another.” (Rashi on Vayikra 1:1)

We are supposed not simply to read the Torah or Gemara or say the tefilla, but to think and try to comprehend everything we have read! This requires constant effort. Hashem gave us brains with which to understand! (Which is, I believe, one reason why the bracha of “daas” is placed so forward in Shemoneh Esreh, to indicate to us that we are supposed to contemplate everything we are saying.)

Just as we pause between parshios to understand what we have learned, so on the Seventh Day, we pause and enter a different realm in order to understand the nature of the previous six days. Apparently the same holds true, perhaps to an even greater extent, when we multiply seven times seven. On the day after the forty-ninth day, we reach a tremendous elevation; the Fiftieth Day is different. On that day our ancestors stood at Har Sinai and beheld the Throne of Hashem. They saw Reality with their own eyes.

Additionally, in the Fiftieth year, the Land of Israel the land receives total rest. Am Yisroel arises from its labors in order to contemplate the nature of life. Who created this Land? Who owns this Land? At this moment of understanding, all Eretz Yisroel reverts to its original pristine state, as if creation is beginning once again.

On the day of Shavuos we read “Megilas Rus,” which tells the story of the origins of the Redeemer of Israel, who arose from the refuse heap of Moav and brought redemption and renewal to Israel. This resembles a seed which has disintegrated in the dark and “dirty” soil. Following its disintegration and destruction, the seed sprouts; glorious flowers and fruits emerge. On this day Hashem’s Kingdom is revealed. All creation springs from darkness, just as Beraishis began with chaos, “tohu vavohu” and Adam was created from the earth.

The disintegration of the seed, its destruction and subsequent flowering, is reminiscent of the six days of Creation, the six days of the week, the forty-nine days of Sefira and the forty-nine years of the Yovel cycle. All creation goes through a process of creation, production, decay and death, followed by glorious renewal on a new level.

Before G-d had fashioned the earth and the inhabited land, He created this pattern. “You [Hashem] reduce man to pulp and say, ‘Repent, Oh sons of man!’ …. In the morning they blossom and are rejuvenated. By evening they are cut down and brittle .... Our days passed by because of Your anger and our years like a fleeting thought …. [But Hashem will] gladden us according to the days [He] afflicted us.” (Tehillim 90)

All our trials and toil during the weeks and years of our lives will be seen at the end as a blessing from the Master of the Universe and we will sing Hallel, just as we sing Hallel  on Shavuos after our arduous ascent from the depths of Mitzraim.“Praise Hashem all nations! Thank him all peoples!” (Tehillim 117)  The Redemption from Mitzraim was prodigious, but the Redemption from our current  Golus will be beyond imagination.

During the Pesach Seder, the minhag is to dip our finger in the kos when we mention the Esser Makkos. We place those ten drops of wine on the plate before us. There is a powerful moshul here, that those ten drops of wine represent Yetzias Mitzraim, but the wine remaining in the kos represents the Geulah Shelemah!

Imagine the vast difference in magnitude between those ten drops on the plate and all the wine remaining in the kos! That is how much bigger the Geulah Shelemah will be than Yetzias Mitzraim! (Be’er Miriam as seen in the Artscroll Interlinear Pesach Haggadah)

That is the Redemption which we are currently awaiting! On the Fiftieth Day the curtain will open on infinity, revealing a world in which the nature of life will become evident to all creatures who desire to understand. May we see it soon with our own eyes!

Flowers, fruit and wine

 

 

GLOSSARY

Am Yisroel: the Jewish People

Daas: Insight

Eretz Yisroel: the Land of Israel

Esser Makkos: the Ten Plagues

Geulah Shelemah: the Final Redemption

Har Sinai: Mount Sinai

Megilas Rus: the Book of Ruth

Minhag: Jewish custom or practice

Mitzraim: ancient Egypt

Moav: a degraded nation

Moshe Rabbeinu: Moses

Moshul: a parable

Rashi: classic commentator on the Torah and Gemara

Sefira: the 49 days between Passover and Shavuos

Tefilla: prayer

Tohu vavohu: chaos which existed at the beginning of the process of creation

Yetzias Mitzraim: the Exodus from Egypt

Not Sure About Netanyahu…….me too….

 But read this, A Process of Redemption over at ShiratDevorah:

https://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-process-of-redemption.html

Leave your comments there.

A Shabbos Like No Other…..Photos

 Whatever else one could say, this was “historic”!

READ THE FULL DETAILS: A Shabbos Like No Other: Inside the White House’s Historic “Shabbos 250” [PHOTOS]

For the first time in American history, a sitting president called on American Jews observe Shabbos in honor of the country itself. And this past Friday night, Parshas Bamidbar, a Shabbos table was set inside the White House.

The occasion was “Shabbos 250,” President Trump’s call, issued in his Jewish American Heritage Month proclamation on May 4, asking Jewish Americans to observe Shabbos from sundown May 15 through nightfall May 16 in honor of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary. No president had ever formally encouraged Shabbos observance before. The proclamation was tied to the broader “Rededicate 250” initiative and invoked George Washington’s famous 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue, with its promise of “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

Among those invited was Rabbi Moshe Margaretten of the Tzedek Association, the Williamsburg-born askan known for his work on the First Step Act, infertility advocacy, and his role in rescuing the last Jews of Afghanistan. Reb Moshe shared a firsthand account of the Shabbos with YWN. Also in attendance was Jonathan Burkan, a twice-appointed member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by President Donald Trump.

The Tzedek group left their hotel in DC at around 6:20 PM and arrived at the White House about twenty minutes later. As they made their way through security, they watched Marine One come in over the South Lawn, bringing the President back from his two-day state visit with Xi Jinping in Beijing, his first trip to China since 2017.

Inside, a Shabbos table had been prepared in one of the White House reception rooms, with Shabbos licht ready to be lit. The room was packed with Yidden from across the federal government, frum and not-yet-frum staffers from nearly every sector of the administration. Rabbi Levi Shemtov of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) in DC, who has been a fixture of Jewish life in the capital for decades, warned the room not to be mekabel Shabbos yet, with the sole exception of Emily Austin, the sports broadcaster and pro-Israel commentator who had been honored with hadlokas neiros.

After she lit, all cell phones, cameras, and other muktzah items were collected and handed off to non-Jewish staffers to be brought back to the hotel for the duration of Shabbos.

From there, the group walked over to the nearby Decatur House, the historic 1818 mansion adjacent to Lafayette Square, where davening took place. Mincha and Maariv were davened with a full minyan of administration officials and guests. Jacob Reses, chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance, said kaddish at the end of davening.

davening.

Then everyone went inside for the seudah. Each guest received a challah cover embroidered with the presidential seal as a memento of the night. The becher used for Kiddush had been recovered from one of the yishuvim ravaged by Hamas on October 7.

The event was arranged by White House Jewish Liaison Martin Marks together with investor Paul Packer, Former Chairman of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.

Many more photos https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2550046/read-the-full-details-a-shabbos-like-no-other-inside-the-white-houses-historic-shabbos-250-photos.html

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - The Master of Prayer - Moshiach in America - Part 1

 Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's story of The Master of Prayer. How Moshiach comes to America and begins to fix the world.

CUNY Yiddish History Documents Plus

 I’m up very early these days occupied with a family matter. Moses Ben Esther IY”H

9 miles of archives: NYC Jewish history documents come to life in CUNY trove
City University of New York public system’s material includes Yiddish jokes, posters for champion boxers, and student newspapers discussing same issues as today

https://www.timesofisrael.com/9-miles-of-archives-nyc-jewish-history-documents-come-to-life-in-cuny-trove/

SONES: The Guinea Pig State

 "No man among you may mislead his fellowman, and you shall fear your G-d. Behar 25:17

Guinea Pig State: How Israel Went from COVID ‘Trial Lab’ to an Open-Air Chemical Experiment

Why classified carcinogens banned in Europe are sold next to your potting soil

🐹🇮🇱 The Guinea Pig State

From COVID “Giant Trial Lab” to open-air chemical experiment.
“Bug-free” Shabbat lettuce saturated with toxic pesticide cocktails.
Professional-grade Roundup & Galigan (carcinogens, $18B+ in lawsuits) sitting openly on Tambur shelves next to lightbulbs.

The State isn’t incompetent — it’s experimenting on its citizens.

Full shocking investigation 👇
https://jewishhome.news/guinea-pig-state-how-israel-went-from-covid-trial-lab-to-an-open-air-chemical-experiment/

#GuineaPigState #Israel #FoodSafety #Pesticides

Rabbi Weissman:

 

This article is very long and thorough, because it has to be. I hope this will not deter you from reading it in full.

There are countless rabbis, community leaders, and influencers who pushed the Covid dogma. They did not do this because they independently studied the matter with an open mind and their honest, unbiased conclusion was that the Covid protocol was scientifically sound, the most appropriate option, and it was mandated by the Torah. The vast majority of them were serving as paid celebrity spokesmen, just doing their job, just following orders, and parroting their lines from others who were parroting the lines, which were fed to them by those who butter their bread. 

They were not teachers; they were mouthpieces. They were like the false prophets of old, who sold their souls to dine at the king’s table, or for much less. There is nothing new under the sun.

Asher Weiss — I will not debase the title any more than it has already been debased by calling him a rabbi — was one of the earliest and most prominent Jewish clergymen to push the Covid shots, and he did so emphatically. Watch this from the end of this viral video of his from December 17, 2020:

Once again I will remind people that, according to Chazal, one who is megaleh panim b’Torah shelo k’halacha, one who distorts the Torah to arrive at conclusions that contradict Jewish law, loses his share in the world to come — even if he has Torah and good deeds under his belt (Avos 3:11).

Based on this and much more, if Asher Weiss offered me his share in the world to come for a nickel, I would turn him down. I’d rather have the nickel.

Before continuing, I will remind everyone that Weiss admitted on camera that he serves as a consultant for the Shabak. You know, the same shadowy state intelligence agency that infiltrates Jewish communities in Israel, conducts false flag operations, and brutally tortured Amiram ben Uliel for 17 days until he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. That Shabak. 

They consult with Asher Weiss. For “psak and guidance”.

Since when does the Shabak care about halacha? What sort of “guidance” might Weiss be giving them? Perhaps how to better infiltrate religious communities? Can you come up with a more plausible answer? 

Did Weiss use his connections to protest their use of torture? Don’t be silly.

Throughout the Covid era Weiss repeatedly doubled down on masks, lockdowns, and shots, using extreme rhetoric against those who defied instructions.

I documented much of his activity during this time, and called him out for the numerous ways he misled the public with Torah sources cherry-picked, taken out of context, and misapplied, plus doublespeak and other forms of deception. I will provide numerous links at the end of this article to substantiate these harsh claims. I urge readers to study all the information, share it, discuss it, and draw appropriate conclusions. 

One cannot claim that Asher Weiss himself was misled, uninformed, or was being yashar — straight — with the public. Like the Mengeles for whom he works, he leveraged his knowledge, oratory skills, position of authority, and facade of greatness to manipulate his listeners and stifle critical questions. 

In 2023 I approached Weiss and asked him if he had anything to say to the many people who were harmed by the shots he demanded they take and emphatically declared were safe. He refused to speak about it — “not right now” — and when I persisted, he made a menacing move at me, and one of his cronies assaulted me.

Watch it on Rumble here or below below: 

The fact that Chemed organizers took it for granted that the establishment got something wrong with Covid speaks volumes about how unreasonable it is to deny and deflect anymore, yet Weiss continues to do just that.

Furthermore, if there were ever a “safe place” for Weiss to address this topic, where he is held in the highest esteem, where everyone believes in vaccines and The Science™, this was it. For Weiss to weasel out of addressing the matter even there, with such a desperately poor excuse that gaslights his most loyal followers, should make it clear that he has no intention of addressing critical questions about his Covid rulings from anyone, anywhere, ever. 

2:07 — Weiss changes the subject and laments the fact that many people developed a mistrust of the medical establishment and “conventional” remedies and approaches, opting for alternative ideas and cures. He will repeat this throughout his speech, yet at no time does he explore why that happened.

It would behoove people of integrity to perform introspection and try to determine why so many people who had always trusted them, and who wanted to trust them, no longer do. 

The most logical explanation for why this happened is not that they all went insane and decided a few fringe lunatics who were being censored made more sense than everything and everyone they ever believed in and wanted to believe in.

No, the most logical explanation for why people stopped trusting the medical establishment is because they found the medical establishment untrustworthy. 

It would further behoove people of integrity to reach out to these people with sincerity and humility, to be open and honest about where the establishment went wrong, to hold corrupt people accountable, and to earn back people’s trust not by promoting their authority and “expertise”, but by actually being trustworthy.

Of course, Asher Weiss proceeds to do none of these things. He does the opposite.

For the next 16 minutes he bloviates about the Torah granting doctors the right to heal, which gives sick people the obligation to go to doctors, which grants doctors authority. What Weiss is really doing here is engaging in a sleight of hand. This little drasha, aside from being a distraction, is a ploy to reinforce his rabbinic credibility and authority by citing a bunch of sources and engaging in some pilpul. 

He did the same thing in his initial Covid presentation that made such an impact. Instead of talking about the actual matter at hand, he bloviated for over 45 minutes about smallpox and polio, before emphatically urging everyone to take the Covid shots. His speech can be summarized like this:

Smallpox very bad, smallpox vaccine very good, polio very bad, polio vaccine very good. Therefore, Covid vaccine also very good. 

Interestingly, Weiss did not treat smallpox and polio as mere “historical events”, a non-halachic discussion, but as a basis for his “halachic” rulings about Covid. 

Leaving aside the claims about earlier vaccines saving the world, which are highly disputable, the logical fallacy of pushing the Covid shots based on presumptions about other vaccines is as wide as the Grand Canyon. Nevertheless, Weiss banked on listeners being so wowed by his drasha on something far from the heart of the matter that they would accept his Covid ruling without question. And they did.

But the sleight of hand doesn’t end there. What he cites about doctors is cherry-picked and one-sided. He paints a distorted picture that grossly exaggerates the level of trust given to “establishment” doctors and the degree of authority they have. 

He does not discuss the possibility of the establishment being corrupted at the top, with doctors on the ground being forced to just follow orders or lose their license, even if they know better or have serious doubts. 

He does not discuss the reality of drug corporations wielding massive influence over medical education and practice. 

He does not discuss the reality of many doctors having little actual knowledge and wisdom, instead following a recipe and asking as if they know how to cook. 

He does not discuss the bribery in so many forms. He does not note that trust is predicated in large part on accountability, which existed only for doctors who expressed independent voices against the Covid narrative, not for those who pushed the shots or even for the companies that produced them — thus rendering the latter completely untrustworthy according to halacha. 

He does not discuss the extreme skepticism Chazal and our poskim expressed about doctors, from the earliest times until Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in the previous generation, despite granting them a limited degree of authority under specific circumstances. (I wrote many articles about this, which only scratch the surface, and will share some links at the end.)

No, Weiss spent 16 minutes showing off his “scholarship” and making a perverted argument that we should blindly submit to the medical establishment.

The fact that Asher Weiss can cite many Torah sources and expound on them does make him righteous or trustworthy; it makes him more dangerous. 

18:14 — Weiss asserts that medicine needs to be proven and logical, something we can explain and understand.

Those Covid shots were far from proven when Weiss jabbed his finger in your face and bellowed that they were safe. The notion that an injection would teach your body to produce spike proteins that were bad for it, which wouldn’t go where they weren’t supposed to, which your body would destroy and remember for the future, and then your body would stop producing them, was far from proven and quite a dubious sales pitch, besides.

But Weiss doesn’t go there, of course. Instead, he uses this assertion as a springboard to attack “alternative medicine”. You know, medicine that comes from nature, and knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation, but largely muscled out by artificial, corporate medicine whose overlords branded “conventional”.

19:42 — Weiss takes it a step further by equating “conventional” medicine with natural remedies, and “alternative” medicine with segulos, mystical remedies such as amulets.

If your blood is not boiling by now, you should be disturbed that you are so desensitized. Hashem wants you to be outraged by such evil.

19:52 — Is it a proven treatment or not? Is it reliable based on our experience?

Were the Covid shots you pushed so emphatically?

20:11 — Weiss cherry-picks a few words from the Rema: “You only administer a medicine if it is known to be effective or if a mumcheh [expert] recommends it.”

This is hardly a black and white rule, with nothing else to say on the subject, but Weiss deviously takes these words way out of context:

“Which means, might be a new treatment, a new procedure, a new medicine that we are not really aware of.”

The Rema was referring to treating sick people in a sensible, responsible fashion. If no proven treatment is available, and the situation calls for it, we may need to rely on an expert recommendation for a treatment that we are not familiar with.

The Rema was most certainly not referring to injecting billions of healthy people with innovative, unproven, highly suspicious Covid shots because “experts” recommended it. 

Of course, as far as Weiss is concerned, the same principle of trusting experts does not apply to experts who defy the establishment Weiss serves. 

23:25 — Weiss advises “cancer patients, especially those who are desperately ill, to try anything, but not at the expense of conventional medicine that was proven to be helpful…proven statistically to be helpful, and the people that administer this medicine are reliable people and they bear consequences for wrongdoing.”

If you lie persistently and confidently from a position of authority, you can get people to believe anything.

23:58 — “With conventional medicine you don’t know who are the charlatans and who are the serious ones and probably there are serious ones. Most of this stuff was not statistically proven and many of these remedies we don't really have a clear explanation how they work.”

He meant to say unconventional medicine. What a delicious Freudian slip.

Meanwhile, Weiss continues to lump everything outside the establishment in one basket, and equate it with segulos, amulets, and other mystical, inexplicable treatments. Hence, even if some of them work some of the time, we really shouldn’t be going there — and never in place of “conventional” medicine:

25:09 — “So alternative medicine, I don’t want to say is illegitimate, but it should never be taken instead of conventional medicine.” 

Really, never?

Weiss proceeds to wax nostalgic about the Covid era, particularly when people were suffering the most.

26:01 — “I think Covid stage one brought out the best in us. There was a feeling of Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Lazeh, people cared about one another. We locked ourselves in our homes. We closed shuls. The young, the healthy, the vibrant understood that they must limit activities to care for the elderly, for the feeble, for the ill. It was a very special atmosphere.”

Ah, the good old days. Isn’t that how you remember them?

I remember, among other things, elderly people in nursing homes and hospitals being refused visitors, deteriorating and dying alone. 

It was definitely a “special atmosphere”, but, then again, so were the ghettos and concentration camps, which also brought out the best in some people. 

26:33 — “And then at some stage everything fell apart and our society was torn about and unraveled and it brought out so much machlokes [division] and so much strife and so much pegiah b’chvod haTorah [damage to the honor of Torah].”

Weiss is not referring to charlatans like himself causing the strife with divisive rhetoric and damaging the honor of the Torah by misrepresenting it. He is referring to those who ceased obeying the high priests of Covid.

He then makes an unintelligible rambling analogy to the seven years of plenty in Egypt preceding the years of famine before stating this:

27:43 — “And one of the, I think, problematic things of the period of Covid was in many circles in our communities that didn't trust the medical establishment. But it caused a total breakdown and a total mistrust in medicine, in doctors and whatever doctors say, whatever they represent. These insane conspiracy theories — and I really want to say insane, because that is the way I see it — and it caused a total breakdown of trust. Trust we always had since Chazal said “מכאן שניתנה רשות לרופא לרפאות” [from here the doctor is given the right to heal].”

Weiss does not venture to explain how a fringe minority of people with insane ideas caused a total breakdown and total mistrust in medicine in doctors, especially in contravention of Chazal and thousands of years of supposed “trust we always had.” As always, he relies on rhetoric and deception to swerve around the elephant in the room.

28:43 — “No profession is clean from charlatans. But generally speaking we need to trust medicine because otherwise we are totally lost. And it goes against מכאן שניתנה רשות לרופא לרפאות. That means you trust your doctor.”

No, snake, it means a doctor has permission to properly treat sick people, not poison healthy people or take over society.

For the next few minutes Weiss bloviates more about this lack of trust, the phenomenon of cancer patients who won’t go for radiation and chemotherapy, and parents who won’t give their children the measles shot, before returning to his favorite scare tactic:

32:20 — “We don’t want to go back where we were 100 and 200 and 300 years ago. Smallpox wiped out 50% of the population in Europe! Just think what 50% means. Many gedolei Yisrael died from smallpox, from cholera. I remember polio when I was a young kid. So many people were in wheelchairs, couldn't move their legs. And these diseases didn't go away because someone wrote a kemiah [amulet]. Vaccines took away these diseases.”

And a fat man came down your chimney with presents.

Weiss concludes with one final distortion of the Torah:

35:53 — The concept of shomer pesa’im Hashem, that God watches over those who behave with simple innocence, only applies to those who blindly follow instructions and guidance of establishment doctors, no matter how much or little they know. 

“So you’re always on the safer side even in Torah hashkafa and in Halachic hashkafa by following the rules, the attitudes, the approaches, the recommendations, the guidance of the medical establishment and of doctors of our communities.”

Weiss distorted this concept as well in his finger-jabbing Covid video from 2020. Safe and effective indeed. Five days later I explained the actual Torah perspective in my article “‘God Watches Over Fools’ Explained”. 

It is high time we stopped tolerating charlatans, frauds, false prophets, sold-out creeps, hocus-pocus rabbis, and Erev Rav moles in our communities. It is high time we stopped showing them deference, keeping silent, and allowing them to bring spiritual and physical harm on our people. It is high time we stopped making excuses, hiding behind buzzwords like achdus and avoiding machlokes to cover for cowardice and apathy.

Share this and speak out.

My previous videos about Asher Weiss and his snakery can be found on Rumble here.
Additional recommended reading:
15 Questions to Ask Your Rabbi
Trusting Doctors in Halachic Responsa – Part 1
Trusting Doctors in Halachic Responsa – Part 2

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