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Watch: Rav Hershel Schachter Calls Atzeres Tefillah “Utterly Ridiculous,” Says “Our Hashkafah Is More Normal”

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  All credit goes to Matzav.com and yutorah.org November 18, 2025 at 9:15 am 119 Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva >>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<< [Video below.]  A newly surfaced video of Rav Hershel Schachter,  rosh yeshiva  at Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS) of Yeshiva University and a leading  posek  for the Orthodox Union, features comments from him regarding the recent  atzeres tefillah  in Eretz Yisroel protesting the drafting of  yeshiva bochurim  into the army. In the video, Rav Schachter dismissed the large public gathering—attended by leading  gedolei Torah  and hundreds of thousands of people—as “utterly ridiculous.” “They just had in Eretz Yisrael, they had this whole  yom atzeret ,” he said. “I think it was utterly ridiculous. The country is at war and no one wants to go to the army? I think the whole thing was ridiculous. I don’t think anybody from YU would ever participate in ...

The Changing Face of Ohr Somayach

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 All credit goes to www.rationalistjudaism.com Natan Slifkin Feb 25, 2010 Way back when I used to teach at Ohr Somayach, it was a relatively moderate, open-minded place. True, Rabbi Nathan Lopez-Cardozo was no longer teaching there. But there was still my good friend Rabbi Mordechai Becher (now at Gateways). Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky was teaching that the universe is billions of years old and Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb was saying that Chazal could have been mistaken in science. Most significantly, Rav Nachman Bulman,  ztz"l , an extremely special person (pictured here), was the  mashgiach . I had some discussions with him about Torah/science issues. He told me that Daat Emet, who had just started disseminating their anti-religious literature, was doing a service for the frum community in that they would force it to confront these issues. And he read my early writings on these topics, and encouraged me to publish them. Rav Bulman passed away before the ban on my writings, which,...

All credit goes to Moshe Veisberg and Bhol.co.il

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  במעונו של הרבי: שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה בשבוע שעבר נערכה במעונו של האדמו"ר מתולדות משה בשכונת שמואל הנביא בירושלים, שמחת הברית לרגל הולדת נכדו, בן לבנו הרה"צ יצחק ישעי' גראס חתן הגאון רבי יצחק אייזיק כהנא אב"ד ספינקא, בסנדקאות כובד הסבא רבא האדמו"ר מהאלמין ובאמירת הברכות כובד האדמו"ר מראדושיץ, ויקרא שמו בישראל משה אליהו ע"ש הסב אבי השושלת זיע"א. צפו בגלריה משה ויסברג א' שבט התשפ"ו     19.01.26 | 17:43 שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה   צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנכד האדמו"ר מתולדות משה צילום: דוד פריד שמחת הברית לנ...

Rav Yitzchak Abadi zt”l

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  Monday, January 12, 2026 Matzav.c December 16, 2025 at 9:45 am all credit goes to Matzav.com 1 It is with great sadness that  Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Yitzchak Abadi  zt”l,  concluding a lifetime of singular dedication to  halacha , clarity in  psak , and the shaping of generations of  talmidei chachamim  who continue to spread his influence throughout the world. Born on March 12, 1933, in Venezuela, Rav Abadi entered the world far from the major Torah centers of the time. His parents soon brought him to Teverya, then under Mandatory Palestine, setting him on a path of Torah. His childhood was spent in Haifa, and from his earliest years, it was evident that he possessed an uncommon depth, seriousness, and yearning for Torah. His formative learning took him first to the Yishuv HaChadash in Tel Aviv and then to Yeshivas Chevron in Yerushalayim. The atmosphere of penetrating iyun, coupled with the yiras Shamayim that defined the y...