Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Haazinu and Sukkos 5777 Sponsor an issue of the newsletter – contact Lev Seltzer for details Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:30 and 17:53. Mazel Tov to the Weinblatt Family on the birth of a baby boy. Shalom Zachor at their home Nachal Ayalon 13/6. Congratulations to Danny Wajnblum for winning the Last [...]
The Power Of Belief The Medrash tells us that immediately after Yom Kippur we are supposed to be in a festive mode and that we are to eat with simcha because we can be certain that the process of teshuva was successful. Obviously we understand that there is no guarantee, and there have been many [...]
Sponsor an issue of the newsletter – contact Lev Seltzer for details Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Vayeilech 5777 Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:30 and 18:02. Shabbos Shiurim: The Rav’s shiur on Beis Elokim written by the Mabit takes place this and every Shabbos at about 07:50. Rav's Shabbos Shuva derosha in Hebrew at 22:00 on Friday [...]
Rabbeinu Yona in Shaarei Teshuva (paragraphs 24 and 25) discusses the components necessary for teshuva (repentance): One must have hachna’a (submissiveness) and shiflus (humility), and must serve Hashem “b’tznaya” (modesty) - and then he explains this in detail. The question is, what does modesty have to do with repentance? When the gemora explains what “acts [...]
Winter 5777 Schedule
Tishrei 5777 Schedule Updated 6-Oct-16
Sponsor an issue of the newsletter – contact Lev Seltzer for details Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Nitzavim 5776 Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:30, 16:52 and 18:10. This is the last week for “early Shabbos” until next summer! Shabbos Shiurim: The Rav’s shiur on Beis Elokim written by the Mabit takes place this and every Shabbos at [...]
You Are Standing today (Devarim 29:9) Chazal ask why is it necessary to mention the obvious that “you are standing here today…”? They answer that being that Klal Yisrael just heard the awesome responsibility of their obligation to keep the mitzvos, Moshe Rabbeinu pointed out “Don’t worry! You are doing fine and you will be [...]
אַתֶּם נִצָּבִים הַיּוֹם (דְּבָרִים כט:ט) מפני מה הוצרך משה רבינו להצהיר לבני ישראל את המובן מאליו, שהם עומדים היום מול הקב"ה ? עונים חז"ל, שמטרתו היתה לחזק אותם בפרט לאור המשימה הכבירה שעכשיו קיבלו (שמירת כל המצוות). בעמדינו לפני יום הדין, יש מאיתנו שחשים באימת הדין וגודל האחריות המוצבת מולינו. אולי בהכרה זו, אנו נעצרים, קפואים [...]
This issue is sponsored in honor of Nechemiah Seltzer’s 16th Birthday. Please wish him well when you see him! Sponsor an issue of the newsletter – contact Lev Seltzer for details Shabbos Newsletter Parshas Ki Savo 5776 Reminders: Mincha Friday at 13:30, 16:59 and 18:19. Shabbos Shiurim: The Rav’s shiur on Beis Elokim written by [...]
