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  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. NATHAN BIRNBAUM  By  Gedalia Guttentag   | SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Email Print Dr. Nathan Birnbaum embarked on a quest that led him to the “promised lands” of Zionism and secular Yiddish culture. Then he had an encounter that changed everything   All credit goes to Gedalia Guttentag and The Mishpacha Magazine I t was soon after arriving in Israel to learn in yeshivah that I went in search of Rechov Nathan Birnbaum. The street named after my great-great-grandfather, I was told, was somewhere in the upper reaches of Jerusalem’s Zichron Moshe neighborhood. Making my way past Geula, I encountered Zichron Moshe’s legendary shul, once the stage for Rav Sholom Schwadron and beloved of bochurim from Brisk. At the corner of Rechov Soloveitchik, I turned left and went uphill. Filled with anticipation at seeing a road named after my ancestor, I almost missed the blue and white sign. “Rechov Nathan Birnbaum,” it read, “writer and ...

  | PROFILES | TIME TO SHINE THE LIGHT  By  Refoel Pride  all credit goes to him and the Mishpacha Magazine | MARCH 28, 2018 Email Print For years, Rav Shlomo Bussu, grandson of the Baba Sali, was an anonymous kollel avreich… until pressured to forge the next link in his chain of tradition and meet a thirsting public   “We have to focus our bechirah only on the things that are in the realm of free choice, which is the choice between tov and ra. But when you come to a choice between two ways to good — don’t choose. Leave it to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The more you leave in His Hands, the more He does. Because the best thing is to say, ‘I don’t want anything — He knows the best.’ In my own experience, nothing went better when I went the way I wanted. Hashem always knows better” (Photos: Moshe Shapoff)   Y ou have to climb the stairs at the side of the Hamelech Hachassid print shop in order to get to Beit Medrash Tiferet L’Yisrael, but for those who know ...