Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

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  Lech L’cha: “Go For Yourself” Rashi explains that Lech L’cha means to go for your benefit and pleasure. “There I will make you into a great nation, while here you cannot have children. In addition, I will make êòáè [your nature or name] known in the world.” On the words, “I will make you into a great nation,” Rashi elucidates that, ordinarily, traveling negatively impacts three things: procreative capacity, money, and fame. For this reason, Hashem promised Avraham that his journeys would bring him children, wealth, and renown. It is well known that Avraham was so completely unconcerned with the material that he was willing to be cast into the fire for Hashem’s honor. Surely he served Hashem with complete self-sacrifice at all times. As Chazal said, “The Avos were themselves the Merkavah or Divine chariot, as it were.”3 It is only possible to be the vehicle that bears Hashem’s glory if one has first attained the deep self-sacrifice which is an aspect of Arich Anpin. What possible ...

By  Nicholas Wade  ALL CREDIT GOES TO HIM AND THE NEW YORK TIMES June 9, 2010   Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East share many genes inherited from the ancestral Jewish population that lived in the Middle East some 3,000 years ago, even though each community also carries genes from other sources — usually the country in which it lives. That is the conclusion of two new genetic surveys, the first to use genome-wide scanning devices to compare many Jewish communities around the world. A major surprise from both surveys is the genetic closeness of the two Jewish communities of Europe, the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim. The Ashkenazim thrived in Northern and Eastern Europe until their devastation by the Hitler regime, and now live mostly in the United States and Israel. The Sephardim were exiled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497 and moved to the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the Netherlands. The two genome surveys extend earlier studies based just on...

  Individual and Collective Responsibility All credit goes to ou.org and Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks I once had the opportunity to ask the Catholic writer Paul Johnson what had struck him most about Judaism during the long period he spent researching it for his masterly  A History of the Jews ? He replied in roughly these words: “There have been, in the course of history, societies that emphasised the individual – like the secular West today. And there have been others that placed weight on the collective – communist Russia or China, for example.” Judaism, he continued, was the most successful example he knew of that managed the delicate balance between both – giving equal weight to individual and collective responsibility. Judaism was a religion of strong individuals and strong communities. This, he said, was very rare and difficult, and constituted one of our greatest achievements. It was a wise and subtle observation. Without knowing it, he had in ...

  The Three Stages of Creation Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Covenant and Conversation Family Edition on OU Life All credit to Rabbi Sacks and Ou.org “And God said, let there be… And there was… and God saw that it was good.” Thus unfolds the most revolutionary as well as the most influential account of creation in the history of the human spirit. In Rashi’s commentary, he quotes Rabbi Isaac who questioned why the Torah should start with the story of creation at all. [1]  Given that it is a book of law – the commandments that bind the children of Israel as a nation – it should have started with the first law given to the Israelites, which does not appear until the twelfth chapter of Exodus. Rabbi Isaac’s own answer was that the Torah opens with the birth of the universe to justify the gift of the Land of Israel to the People of Israel. The Creator of the world is  ipso facto  owner and ruler of the world. His gift confers title. The claim of the Jew...

 The Chronicles of Noach “You are the ones who have been shown, so that you will know [that Hashem is G-d, there is none beside Him.]”3 This phrase alludes to the holy days of Tishrei we have so recently celebrated and the beginning of Cheshvan when we begin to feel that the Tishrei experience has gifted us with a new path of spiritual understanding. This is how we have “been shown, so that we know that Hashem is G-d.” The outcome or toladah [the opening phrase of the parshah is, “These are the chronicles/toldos/outcomes...”] of this new understanding is a new level of avodah. This new outlook is an aspect of  [the name Noach is repeated in the opening verse]. As the Midrash explains: Noach / tranquility for the elyonim [literally, those who dwell on high], and Noach for the tachtonim [literally, those who dwell in the lower worlds].4 This signifies an aspect of holy tranquility where one doesn’t lose track of his avodas 1 This lesson was first delivered at the third meal of S...

  Rabbi Yosef Weiss zt”l October 21, 2020 10:40 am 0 >>Follow Matzav On Whatsapp!<< It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rabbi Yosef Weiss zt”l of Lakewood. He was 59 years old. Rabbi Weiss served as the menahel at Yeshiva Shaagas Aryeh, as well as the principal of the Satmar Cheder of Lakewood. A veteran mechanech, Rabbi Weiss devoted himself to the field of chinuch with great dedication for decades. Rabbi Weiss was also the author of the popular  Visions of Greatness  series, published by CIS.  Visions of Greatness  contains hundreds of inspiring stories that have been enjoyed by thousands. Rabbi Weiss contracted Covid-19 some months ago and battled valiantly during trying periods of illness. The levayah is scheduled to take place at 1:30 p.m. at the parking lot of Lake Terrace Hall off of Oak Street in Lakewood. Kevurah will follow at the bais hachaim off of East Seventh Street in Lakewood. Yehi zichro boruch. { Matzav.c...

 It was posted on Matzav.com  February 25, 2009 Tonight, the wedding of grandchildren of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak and the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey will take place in Bnei Brak. The  kallah  is a daughter of Rav Boruch Shamshon Hager,  rov  of the Vizhnitz  kehillah  in Monsey, who is a son of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, who in turn is a son-in-law of Rav Yisroel Hager, son of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak.  The  chosson , Shneur Zalman Ernster, is a son of Rav Dovid Ernster, who is a son of Rav Zev Ernster, who is a son of Rav Moshe Ernster and a son-in-law of Rav Naftoli Nussbaum,  rosh yeshiva  of Yeshivas Chaim Moshe. Rav Moshe Ernster is a brother-in-law of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak. The wedding will take place in a tent specially erected for this occasion in Bnei Brak. {Dovid Bernstein-Matzav.com Newscenter} All Credit goes to them. Rav Zev is Oldest Grandson of The Imrei Chaim of Viznitz. Zt Rav...

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