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Dvar Torah Parshas Ha'azinu: Based on the Torah of our Rosh HaYeshiva HaRav Yochanan Zweig

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 All credit goes to Talmudic College of Florida | Rohr Talmudic University Campus, 4000 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140 Pars has Ha'azinu .... . ............... .. .............................. ......... Tishrei 5783 Based on the Torah of our Rosh HaYeshiva HaRav Yochanan Zweig Weekly Insights Printer Friendly Format  Click Here This week’s Insi ghts is  dedicated in lovi ng memory of  Shoshana bas Yechezkel Feivel . “M ay her Neshama have an Aliya!” To sponsor an issue of Insights  Click Here From Finite to Infinite The deeds of the Mighty One are perfect, for all His ways are just. He is a faithful God, never unfair; righteous and moral is He (32:4).   This week’s  parsha  discusses Hashem’s attribute of justice and His ultimate system of reward and punishment. Rashi (ad loc) quoting the  Sifri  (307) explains; “Hashem is faithful to pay the righteous for their righteousness in the World to Come. Even though He postpones their rewa...

A HEAD OF HIS TIME: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE MEITSCHETER ILLUI, RAV SHLOMO POLACHEK

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  | MAGAZINE FEATURE | All credit goes to Dovi Safier & The mishpacha  By  Dovi Safier   | OCTOBER 6, 2022 Email Print Today, it is clear that his faith in America’s fledging yeshivah world bore generations of blessed fruits Photos: Yeshivah University Archives, Torah Vodaath Archives, YIVO. Rabbi Dovid Kamenetsky, Gordon Family, DMS Yeshivah Archives, Feivel Schneider, Feldheim Publishers, US Library of Congress, NYPL Yizkor Book Collection, Friedman Family and Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet Rothkoff IN Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood there’s a street with an unusual name: Rechov Ha-Illui — Street of the Genius. Illui is a rather modern term dating back to the last 200 years or so. The Rambam and Rashi were never referred to as illuyim; the term seems to have become popular only with the advent of the European yeshivah world. Fittingly, the street sign in Kiryat Moshe refers to one of its most exemplary and fascinating figures: Rav Shlomo Polachek, the...