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Rav Chanoch Aryeh Friedman zt”l

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  Rav Michoel Sorotzkin April 15, 2026 By Rav Michoel Sorotzkin There are lives that impress, lives that inspire, and lives that quietly but indelibly redefine what a ben Torah can be. And then there are the rare lives that seem to belong less to the ordinary rhythms of this world than to a higher orbit altogether, lives of such constancy in Torah, such refinement in middos , such fidelity to truth, that when they are taken from us, we feel not merely the absence of a man, but the sudden dimming of a luminous world. With the petirah of Rav Chanoch Aryeh Friedman, the olam haTorah has suffered precisely such a loss. “ Vayishalech Chanoch es haElokim ve’eineno ki lokach oso Elokim .” The posuk seems to have been written for such a moment, for such a person, for such a man. He lived a life of Elokus , of palpable dveikus , of relentless avodah and unembellished greatness, and then, in a manner as painful as it was awe-inspiring, he was taken from us. His final days themselves see...
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Gedolei Torah View on Har HaBayis- a Halachic Analysis

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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman as seen on YWN all credit goes to both of them By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Recently, President Yitzchok Herzog indicated to the leaders of the Shas party that one of the greatest political challenges that lies ahead is in the negotiations about the status quo of the Temple Mount. He said that Itamar Ben-Gvir, the head of Otzma Yehudit, is feared around the world. President Herzog made the comment when he thought that the microphones were not recording a hot mike. There is one topic that I did not raise because I did not want to attack anyone. You will have a problem with the Temple Mount. This is a critical issue. You have a partner who all the world around us is fearful of. I also told him this between us. Really this is not for publication. I don’t want to make trouble, but I think you have a responsibility. President Herzog is named after his illustrious grandfather, Rav Yitzchok Herzog. His grandfather, however, would have felt that it was actually a ve...
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