Reflections
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The Jews of Persia – Iran
Motty Meringer 03/12/2009 15:14The origins of Iranian-Persian Jewry are rooted deep in the past, going back to the time of the exile of the Ten Tribes during the Bayis Rishon period. From then and until the present day, the Jewish community of Iran has been a continual presence in that country, numbering at the peak of its prosperity close to a quarter of a million souls.
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Rabi Shlomo Luria (the Maharshal)
David Sofer 02/12/2009 08:00Rabi Shlomo Luria was one of the greatest Torah sages of Poland at the beginning of the fourth century five thousand years after Creation.
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Harav Yaakov Moshe Charlap ztz”l
Avi Lazar 01/12/2009 17:17Harav Yaakov Moshe Charlap was the rav of the Shaarei Chesed neighbourhood in Yerushalayim. He was one of the most prominent talmidim of Harav Avraham Yitzchak haKohen Kook and served as the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Mercaz Harav in Yerushalayim.
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The Talmud Bavli
Motty Meringer 01/12/2009 11:01Unprecedented in its magnitude, the ‘Babylonian Talmud’ was written by the Amora’im of Bavel over a span of seven generations during which they sat before their teachers and plumbed the depths of the Mishnah, until they reached Halachic conclusions by which we conduct our lives until this day
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Raising the Torch of Torah: Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer zt’l
29/11/2009 09:59Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer was one of the giants of the previous generation; a beloved Rosh Yeshiva to thousands of Talmidim and author of the Sefer ‘Even ha’Ezel’ on the Rambam
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Yeshivat Porat Yosef
Motty Meringer 26/11/2009 13:13The flagship yeshivah of the Sephardi Torah world is the Porat Yosef Yeshivah, located in the holy city of Yerushalayim. Former talmidim of the yeshivah today number among the most respected rabbanim and poskim around the world.
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The Bostoner Chassidus
Motty Meringer 25/11/2009 11:06The Bostoner chassidus is a relatively young dynasty in comparison to those of other chassidic courts – yet even during the short period of its existence, the Admorim of Boston have succeeded in making remarkable achievements in Yiddishkeit in the United States of America.
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Harav Chaim Michel Dov Weissmandel ztz”l
David Sofer 24/11/2009 10:08Harav Chaim Michel Dov Weissmandel was the chareidi rav of the kehillah of Nitra in Slovakia. During the period of Churban Europa, he dedicated himself to efforts to save what he could of European Jewry. To his great sorrow, he was not given the assistance he hoped for from the Jews of the free world, which possibly could have stalled or halted the extermination of the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
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Rav Shmuel Eliezer Eidels – The Maharsha
David Sofer 23/11/2009 11:26Rav Shmuel Eliezer Eidels was one of the greatest commentators of all time. His works are printed at the end of the Gemara and many of the Acharonim (later commentators) toiled extensively to understand his teachings
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Trailblazer in the Desert: Rav Aharon Kotler zt’l
Avi Lazar 19/11/2009 09:00Rav Aharon Kotler was the founder of the Torah world in America, and the undisputed leader of American religious Jewry
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