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.”...
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...
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 ...