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Why is Fire the Example?

In today’s Torah portion of Vayakhel, the Torah opens with the general laws of Shabbos, prohibition against “work” and then gives one example: “Do not burn fire on the Sabbath.”...

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What’s the Difference?

by Rabbi Shlomo Galperin

In my Brooklyn synagogue this week I heard two stories of the Rebbe, half a century apart, yet with a similar message.

The first story I heard from Rabbi Ephraim Piekar...

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Purim-Kattan Shabbat Feb 14-15

On Friday Night Feb 14th and Adar I 14 we had “Shabbat with a Little Love.”

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Hearing from the Hendels

Rabbi Sholom Ber and Nechama Dina Hendel of Monsey (Raizy’s sister and brother-in-law) visited us this Shabbos with their three sons on their Presidents Weekend break. We, our children and the students...

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Remembering Zeide Piekarsky – Yartzeit Shushan Purim Kattan

Today is the yartzeit of my grandfather, Zeide Rabbi Yechiel Michel Piekarsky. He passed away almost twenty years ago. I lived in his home for ten years while studying in Yeshiva in Crown Heights, so I have ...