Howard was born as Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897, in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bensonhurst, the fourth of five sons born to Jennie Gorovitz and Solomon Horwitz. They were of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
compare
Compare to frum dating:
do you have a chavrusah?
do you have a rav?
how much Torah do you learn?
where did you take her?
love comes later, love doesn't matter
imagine having fun on a date!
what we are not
https://youtu.be/MBVpWsa0y3k
I watch things like that and contrast it to the orthodox jewish world
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Every Person and Their Uniqueness Matter
The once-in-seven-years event of Hakhel serves as a refresher of the original Siniaitic experience. Like Sinai, Hakhel fosters Jewish identity, connection to G-d, and the enhanced observance of Torah and mitzvos. Most relevantly, just like Sinai, Achdus Yisrael, Jewish unity, is the integral theme of Hakhel. Despite the comparison of Hakhel to Sinai, the display of unity was different. When the Torah tells of the Jewish People who gathered at Sinai to receive the Torah it provides the number of heads of households: Six-hundred-thousand men, without enumerating their families. Meanwhile, at Hakhel, all segments of Jewish society receive individual attention. The Torah enumerates, “Gather the nation, the men, the women, and the children, and the converts at your gates” (Devarim 31:11). This indicates that while Hakhel was an experience where the core of the Jewish soul and identity was expressed, it did not override the details. Rather than causing us to ignore our diverse strengths and capacities, Hakhel teaches us to embrace them as part of our wholesome, indivisible oneness. Absolute oneness and diverse contributions would seem contradictory, but not for Hakhel. This is a time when the boundless relationship between G-d and His people comes to the fore and even the diversity of the Jewish People expresses nothing but unity. Excerpt from Hakhel: The Inside Story Published by Sichos in English סיפור חסידי Once Upon a Chasid When the Rabbi Made a Mistake G‑d descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And G‑d called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses ascended. (Yisro19:20) If G-d descended from the supernal heights, couldn’t He come down just few thousand feet further? Why trouble a man of eighty to climb to the top of the mountain? Yet therein lies the essential nature of man’s comprehension of Torah. G-d is infinite and undefinable. Torah is His wisdom and will—by definition, ungraspable by the finite mind of man. The notion that the human intellect can relate to the divine truth, or even meet it halfway, is ludicrous. It is only because G-d gave us the Torah, only because He chose to suspend the line He drew at creation separating the finite from the infinite, that we can access His communication to man. But the Almighty desired that man’s understanding of Torah not be a gift from above, but the result of a combined effort, the issue of a union between the human mind and the mind of G-d.
lub rebbe
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
not bitul torah
so i guess it isn't bitul torah, i write sarcastically
About R' Meir Soloveitchik, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk
Harav Meir Soloveitchik was born in 5689 (1929) to his illustrious parents, Harav Yitzchak Ze’ev (Reb Velvel) and Rebbetzin Hendel, in Brisk, Belarus, where his father served as Rav and Rosh Yeshiva following the petirah of his father, Harav Chaim Brisker, zt”l. Growing up in the home of the Torah giants of Brisk left an everlasting impression on Reb Meir.
The Brisker Rav and his family managed to leave Europe and arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 5701 (1941), where the Rav re- established the Brisker Yeshiva in Yerushalayim. Reb Meir was twelve years old at the time. He learned in Yeshivas Eitz Chaim, and later under the tutelage of his father.
The Brisker Rav would fondly call Reb Meir the “iluy” of his sons and would often talk to him in learning.
When he came of age, Reb Meir married, lhbch”l, Rebbetzin Elisheva, the daughter of Rav Yechiel Benedikt, zt”l, of Bnei Brak, a close confidant of the Chazon Ish, zt”l. He was married just a few months before the petirah of his father, the Brisker Rav.
In Yerushalayim, Reb Meir disseminated Torah to hundreds of bachurim and avreichim, teaching them the noted Brisker derech halimud. His yeshivah was in Rechov Reishis Chochmah, in the Zichron Moshe neighborhood.
Reb Meir was noted for his Chumash and Rashi shiurim, in
which he would intertwine words of mussar to his talmidim.
He was 87 when he passed away on 25th of Adar II, 5776 (3 Apr 2016).
His children:
1. R' Yitzchak Ze’ev, husband of Chana Miller, who succeeded his father as Rosh Yeshiva.
2. R' Yechiel Naftali, husband of Liba Weinberger, who opened a new yeshivah.
3. R' Chaim.
3. R' Avraham, husband of Reichel Kogalsky.
4. R' Yosef Dov.
5. Rebz. Hendel who is married to R' Tzvi Grossbard
gittn 7a
Rabbi Abbahu says: A person should never impose excessive fear upon the members of his household, as a great man imposed excessive fear upon his household and they fed him something that carried a great prohibition.
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