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  \\ All credit goes to  Dirshu   |   911 County Line Rd.   ,   Suite 205 ,   Lakewood, NJ 08701 A  talmid  of Chevron Yeshiva related that one day during the  Aseres   Yemei Teshuvah  he passed the  Rosh Yeshiva  Rav Chazkel Sarna, and Rav Chazkel asked him why he looked so sad. He replied that it was because it was in the middle of  Aseres Yemay Teshuvah . “And who said that these days do not allow for happiness?” countered Rav Chazkel. The  bochur  explained that the obligation and requirement to affect  teshuvah  is so immense and intense, and the  Rambam  asserts that  Teshuvah  is complete only once the  Eibershter,  who is privy to all hidden thoughts, is able to testify that one will not return to repeat those  aveiros . Upon hearing this, Rav Chazkel exclaimed, “Why are you  machmir  to  pasken  like the  Rambam ? The  R...

  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | By  Eliezer Eisikovits all credit goes to him and the Mishpacha Magazin   | MARCH 15, 2022 Email Print A year after his passing, Rav Dovid Soloveitchik's memories live in print  Photos: Mishpacha archives A lthough Rav Meshulem Dovid Halevi Soloveitchik  ztz”l  lived on Amos Street in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood, his mind remained in a faraway Eastern European town. Reb Dovid, the Torah world’s senior rosh yeshivah who passed away on 18 Shevat last year at the age of 99, was the link between the past and the future: He lived in the alleyways of Jerusalem, but his spirit was still on Listovksa Street in Brisk. During one of his  shiurim , Reb Dovid related to his  talmidim  a certain  chiddush  from his father, the Brisker Rav, and then he sighed.  “I remember that when my father gave this over at the time, we literally danced with joy,” he said. “But now, when I say that same  shtickel , I see...

  | TRIBUTE |  all credit goes to the mishpacha   By  Mishpacha Contributors   | JANUARY 31, 2021 Email Print Rav Dovid Soloveitchik lived in a world where the only reality was spiritual. The last living son of the Brisker Rav, his petirah marks the end of a glorious era in the dynasty’s history I   n the yeshiva world, the word “Brisk” is uttered with reverence. It conjures up images of  batei medrash  pulsating with activity, erudite scholars steeped in solemnity, scintillating and rigorous analyses, and uncompromising dedication to the truth of Torah. If Brisk is a kingdom, then it has several royal palaces—the yeshivos dotting the heart of Yerushalayim—and a royal family that presides over those bastions of Torah. The members of the Soloveitchik family hail from a long line of  gedolim  who pioneered and perennially honed its famed approach to Talmudic analysis. There was Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the  rav  of Brisk,...

  | FOR THE RECORD | HAIL TO THE RAV By  Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer  all the credit goes to them and the Mishpacha  | AUGUST 2, 2022 Email Print Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s candidacy served as a catalyst for his only visit to the Holy Land Title: Hail to the Rav Location: Tel Aviv Document: Broadside Time: 1935 W ith the passing in 1935 of Rav Shlomo Ahronson, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, the first Hebrew-speaking city geared up for rabbinical elections. With the institution of the chief rabbinate still in its early stages, the religious establishment, the Zionist leadership, and of course the British colonial government looming in the background, all saw this is an important election that would impact the religious character of the burgeoning Yishuv as well as the city of Tel Aviv, which had a large religious population at the time. The candidates for the position were Rav Moshe Avigdor Amiel, the rabbi of Antwerp and a student of both Rav Chaim...