18 July 2026
Rabbi Glatstein: Illuminate The World With Torah
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Canadian Wildfire Update
Wildfire Updates: Smoke Pushes Air Quality to
Dangerous Levels for Millions
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires is choking a vast stretch of the Northeast and
Upper Midwest. Officials encouraged residents, including in New York, to stay indoors.
Upper Midwest. Officials encouraged residents, including in New York, to stay indoors.
Officials and health experts expressed growing concern on Thursday about dangerously
poor air quality across much of the northeastern United States and southern Canada,
as a cloud of dense smoke from scores of raging wildfires darkened skies and irritated
throats from the Great Lakes to New England.
Residents of some of the region’s most populated cities were urged to stay indoors or,
if they did go out, to avoid spending too much time in the polluted air. And as the
wildfires continued to burn, sensors that monitor the air quality index for millions
of people recorded figures sometimes nearly twice as high as what is considered
hazardous.
Screenshots from NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/weather/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality#heres-the-latest
* Air quality: Air is considered hazardous when the quality index — which measures the density of five pollutants — tops 300. On Thursday, Toledo, Milwaukee and Detroit were among the places with A.Q.I. levels over 500. Read more ›
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what in the world are they burning?
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Re-enactment of Second Beis Turmoil
Chv”s How much lower can one go?? …….Jew? vs Jew?? He can’t be Jewish…..check his lineage
Charedi Assaulted With Beer Bottle In Ramat Gan: ‘In 5 Minutes I’ll Come And Kill You’
Peleg Yerushalmi…..
When the force of evil rises so shall the Bnei Talmidim rise up to counter with the energy of Torah!
The Sanzer Rebbe at a previous atzeres tefillah outside Prison 10. (Photo: Moshe Goldstein
The Peleg Yerushalmi faction is preparing to hold a protest on Thursday following the arrest of a talmid of Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim.
The protest is expected to begin at 5:00 p.m., but its official location has not yet been announced.
In addition, a tefilla rally and protest is scheduled for this evening outside Prison 10, led by the Sanzer Rebbe, with thousands of Sanzer chassidim from throughout the country expected to attend.
The protest was organized following the arrest of an avreich and yeshiva bochur. According to the organizers, additional Chassidic communities are expected to join.
In an interview with Kol Chai, Bnei Brak Deputy Mayor and Sanzer asken Yossi Yaakovovitz said that the two were arrested last week after arriving at the military recruitment office to resolve technical matters regarding their status.
“They came to regularize their status in accordance with the law, and from there they were sent directly to the detention facility,” he said.
Yaakovovitz noted that about a year ago, during the Three Weeks, the Sanzer Rebbe joined other Gedolei Yisrael at a rally outside Prison 10.
“Now, one year later, as the measures against Lomdei Torah, bochurim and avreichim continue to intensify, we are once again raising our voices,” he said.
Yaakovovitz added that other Chassidish communities have asked to participate because, “This is not only a Sanzer protest—it is a protest on behalf of the entire Torah world.”
He said that in recent days, community representatives and attorneys focused on efforts to secure the detainees’ release, but after the military court extended their detention by 20 days, the decision was made to hold the rally.
“We are Jews. We are not coming to fight, throw stones, or block roads. We are coming to pray, to cry out, and to awaken Rachamei Shamayim,” he emphasized.
He further noted that the rally is being held in full coordination with the police and the prison administration.
“We met with the prison commander and reached a full understanding. Everything will be conducted in a respectful manner,” he said.
Buses and organized transportation have been arranged from all 12 Sanzer kehillos throughout the country, along with parking areas and shuttle service. The program will include Mincha, divrei chizzuk, the recitation of Tehillim, and a sicha by the Sanzer Rebbe.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
17 July 2026
Trusting in the Almighty – It Is Permitted to Desecrate Shabbat Even When Doctors Give No Chance:...
Yartzeit Y"d to the Rishta"g Maran Posk Hador HaGrish Elyashiv ztuk"l - Last night a central memorial gathering was held at the HaRan Yeshiva Hall in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, with the participation of many students and those who cherish his memory. At the center of the gathering, the Chadvan Maran Posk Hador Gaon Rabbi Yitzhak Zilberstein Shlita spoke.
And at the beginning of his speech he said:
Being here and looking at the holy flock expands the heart. Everyone is afraid. Who knows what will happen? Who knows? Everyone is afraid. We are not afraid. Our strength is this strength. There are great scholars here with the little ones. This is our strength. We are not afraid.
And he brought laws that he heard from his father-in-law, our Rabbeinu ztzu"l, and at the end he said: You should know that the Shekhinah is here now, the power of Rabbi Elyashiv was a truly terrible power, what I was privileged to have near him, who is now found and sheltered under things that are spoken about Rabbi Elyashiv, in my opinion it is a very great privilege, everyone here is protected from all kinds of evil. We will all be saved, we will try to follow in his footsteps. Every time you see the things he said, you really see with a sense of faith, blessed are all of you who are together,
16 July 2026
Rabbi WInston: Devarim and Shabbos Chazon
THERE IS THE story of a philosopher who, while contemplating the secrets of the universe at the base of a mountain whose peak was in the clouds, was interrupted by a scientist running past him. “Why so fast?” the philosopher asked him.
“Join me!” The scientist answered him, “I am running to unravel the mysteries of the universe by climbing this mountain!”
The philosopher chuckled to himself and said, “No, no, you go ahead,” the philosopher said. I’m too old to run up mountains like that.”
“As you wish,” the scientist said, as he ran off and began his ascent.
It took the scientist a lot of time, but he finally broke through the clouds and reached the summit of the mountain. Satisfied with himself and all that he had accomplished, the smile left his face when he noticed on the other side of the top that the philosopher was already there, contemplating the secrets of the universe!
Was the universe designed, or did it come to exist as it does randomly? The Torah answers this historic philosophical question from the very first verse in no uncertain terms. Philosophers over the ages have come to the same conclusion just by observing the world around them. And now, thousands of years later, scientists have finally built a supercomputer that can answer the question in empirical terms, and it’s the same answer. They just can’t yet get the computer to actually say “G–D,” so they’re sticking with mathematics as their creator, while others use “aliens” for theirs.
Of course, the debate would come to a close with the same answer for everyone if G–D would just come out of hiding and re-introduce Himself to mankind. If He would just praise the righteous like He did Pinchas and take down the evil like He did Bilaam, we’d get our answer about this universe in no uncertain terms, right?
Seemingly, yes and no. One of the most astounding things about Jewish history is how, despite G–D’s obvious involvement in that history, people still made mistakes. Catastrophic mistakes that could have been avoided if the Jewish People had taken G–D’s threats seriously.
We’re not talking about the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans because, by that time, prophecy was long gone and no one had “seen” G–D for centuries. We’re talking about the First Temple, when miracles abounded and prophets spoke in the name of G–D all the time. We were able to look G–D in the face, so to speak, and still look away…
And not just look away, but look the other way entirely. Just read the prophets like Hoshea and be shocked how far people can move away from G–D knowing full well that He is looking on. Only when it finally hurt did people realize how ridiculous their approach to life had been.
It all comes down to vision. Vision is one of those things that is so obvious and yet so mysterious. We take it for granted when we should be marveling at it every day. We call this Shabbos “Shabbos Chazon,” not just because that is the first word of the Haftarah, but because it sums up the Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av perfectly.
The Gemora asks why Yirmiyahu put the Peh before Ayin in Eichah. It answers because the spies spoke about things they did not see (Sanhedrin 104b). More accurately, they spoke about things they did see, but not the way they were meant to be seen. It is amazing how personal biases skew personal vision.
Until reality sobers a person up. We can run from reality but we can’t hide from it, not forever. Life catches up to us, and it doesn’t have to even be in one lifetime. A person can pay for a current lifetime in a future one, and certainly after all of them in Gihenom. Certain “laws” are immutable, and though it took hundreds of years for that to become clear during Temple times, invasion, destruction, and exile made it real.
That’s what it is all about, being real. Being real with G–D, being real with Torah, and being real with yourself. That doesn’t always happen naturally, especially when it comes to spiritual matters. Often, we have to do something, or something has to happen to us, to make it happen. You can worry daily about paying back your loan, but once the bank calls the concern goes to another level.
The Three Weeks, culminating in Tisha B’Av, is supposed to be that “something” that happens to us to make us real with our situation, and how it is far from the ideal. If it’s enough, then we may not need more. If not, well, then, history has an answer for that…
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I am very pleased to announce that Volume 3 of Sha’ar Hagilgulim has now been published through Amazon. This completes the comprehensive re-edit and re-publication, b”H.
On the same topic, Series Two of the “Sha’ar HaGilgulim Course” continues this week, b”H. For more information or to register, go to: https://www.shaarnunproductions.org/Sha-ar-HaGilgulim-Course.html.
Have a great Shabbos, a meaningful fast, and GEULAH SHLAIMAH.
Rabbi Pinchas Winston Shlit”a
Reb Neuberger: Dvarim – How Can We Save Ourselves?
HOW CAN WE SAVE OURSELVES?
We approach Tisha b’Av.
A cloud of darkness covers us. Unbearable tragedies occurred during these days and in the intervening millennia. The fast of Tisha b’Av creates an emotional atmosphere in which one feels enwrapped by events so powerful that their effects have lasted almost two thousand years and brought about catastrophes of unimagineable magnitude.
Who could have foreseen the events of our Galus?
Well, actually the Torah did foresee them. We had been warned.
Did the Tochecha not say that conditions will become so unbearable that “Hashem will strike you with madness and you will grope at noontime as a blind man gropes in the darkness.” (Dvarim 28:28)
Do we not say in the Shema, “Beware … lest you turn astray …. Then the wrath of G-d will blaze against you … and you will swiftly be banished from the goodly land which Hashem gives you.”
I would like to try to identify one midah which I feel is the most important thing we can work on during this season. You won’t be surprised, because I have discussed this previously. But, since the Bais Hamikdosh is not here yet and Moshiach has not been revealed, we clearly have not done enough.
Every day we say a Mishnah which details those precepts “whose fruits a person enjoys in This World but whose principal remains intact for him in the World to Come.” The last two are: “bringing peace between ‘adam l’chavairo’” and “Talmud Torah keneged kulam.” This implies that we cannot attain Torah if there is no peace among us.
In my humble opinion, this is our avoda: bringing peace to the Family of Israel.
There is nothing more pressing at this moment. “Why was the Second Temple destroyed? …. Because of the gratuitous hatred that existed there. This teaches you that gratuitous hatred is tantamount to the three [cardinal] sins of idolatry, immorality and bloodshed [which destroyed the First Temple].” (Yoma 9b)
My friends, can we get past this? We cannot close our eyes. Hashem has informed us that, unless we overcome this terrible and powerful gratuitous hatred among ourselves we are in great danger, G-d forbid.
If you don’t believe me, look around at the nations of the world. Is there a logical reason for them to hate us? Of course not! If you ask the hordes of Jew haters, I promise you that they will be unable to explain why they hate us! It is like my personal story when two thugs confronted me on the New York subway some fifty years ago. When I confronted them, they were literally unable to speak, despite the fact that I was alone and each of them was twice my size.
The haters have no clue why they hate us. That indicates that their hatred is a Heavenly decree. It is a decree against us because we need to become one nation again. The world is unified against us and we – lehavdil – must be unified in order to merit our own survival.
Where is this sinas chinom coming from?
In truth, if I search in my own heart, I see it there. I see hatred. I see anger. I see jealousy. I see my own desire to be on top of others. I see a lot of things I don’t like right there in my own heart and brain. It’s like lifting the rock and seeing all those disgusting creatures swarming there.
I believe that is why we look at the tzitzis every morning. We are begging Hashem to allow us to become engrossed with utter devotion to Torah and mitzvos, which are completely pure. They allow us to elevate ourselves above our own lowly desires, our competition with our own flesh and blood, Klal Yisroel, our sisters and our brothers.
Rabbi Eliahu Eliezer Dessler zt”l asks what is the solution for the sickness of the soul which afflicts us. And he answers: total absorption in Torah and mitzvos. How do you get to a world of Torah? It is what I said earlier: “peace between adam l’chavairo.”
All our gadolim were tzaddikim. The heroes in our history, the greatest people who ever lived, were all masters of chessed. Look at Reb Chaim Kaniesvky zt”l, before whom thousands of Yidden passed. He and his Rebbetzin were like fountains of pure water poured upon souls who desired to be cleansed.
At the entrance to the Bais Hamikdosh stood the kiyor. Before the Kohanim could do their avoda they had to cleanse themselves. My friends, we have to bathe in this water. We have to dive into the mikveh of purity. It all begins in our own neshomas. We have to look with courage and honesty and cleanse our souls of jealousy and competition.
“Reb Yechezkel of Kozmir said, the Temple was destroyed because of unwarranted hatred. It will be rebuilt because of unwarranted love.” (Nechmad MiZahav, Artscroll Maseches Yoma 9b, footnote 18)
This is the way to build the Bais Hamikdosh and renew the world!
The Temple Mount Today
GLOSSARY
Adam l’chaveiro: Man and his friend
Avoda: spiritual labor
Bais Hamikdosh: Holy Temple
Gadolim: great rabbis
Golus: Exile
Keneged kulam: is equal to them all
Kiyor: Vessel filled with water in the Holy Temple
Kohanim: priests
Lehavdil: to distinguish between …..
Midah: character trait
Mikveh: gathering of water in which a Jew immerses for ritual purity
Mishnah: part of the Oral Torah
Sinas chinom: unwarranted hatred
Talmud Torah: Learning Torah
Tisha b’Av: the 9th day of the month of Av, on which both Temples were destroyed
Tochecha: passages of Admonition found in the Torah
Tzaddikim: holy people
Tzitzis: the “fringes” required by the Torah, attached to a four-cornered garment
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