5782 Teshuvah The Kiddush this Shabbos was sponsored by Reb Yisrael (Roy) Neuberger in honor of his mother in laws Yahrzeit. She discovered the beauty of Yiddishkeit during the last years of her life through her children as Rashi says on the Pasuk in the end of Malachi 3:24 והשיב לב אבות על בנים ולב בנים על אבותם, Rashi says אבות ע"י בנים that children will bring their parents back at the end of days....
5783 Yahrzeit of Reb Shaul Brus This past Shabbos, ז סיון, was the Yahrzeit of the Rav’s Rebbe, Reb Shaul Brus. Rav Brus was a Talmid of Reb Baruch Ber in Kaminetz. When the Rav was about to open his Yeshiva, he went to speak to Rav Brus and Rav Brus told him, “If you are opening a Yeshiva for American bochurim, you are not allowed to tell them the truth....
5780 There is a מנהג in כלל ישראל to put non-bearing fruit trees in shuls on שבועות because on עצרת the judgement for the upcoming year’s fruit tree is decided (מג"א או"ח ס' תצד ס"ק ה). There are two questions that can be asked. Firstly, if we are judged in regard to fruit bearing trees, why do we put non fruit bearing trees in shul? Secondly, why is it that on ט"ו בשבת which is ראש השנה לאלנות do we celebrate by eating fruit and not with trees, an on שבועות which we are judged for the upcoming year’s fruit do we celebrate by putting trees in shuls, it should be the opposite?...
5783 Transition of the Shechinah Parshas Bamidbar is always read before Shavuos. Although generally, it’s read on the Shabbos immediately prior, on some rare occasions, its read two Shabbos’s before Shavuos, as is stated in the Tur in Hilchos Rosh Chodesh Siman 428. Therefore, there are lessons one can learn for Kabolas HaTorah in Parshas Bamidbar as the Shelah HaKadosh writes כי בודאי גלגול המועדים של כל השנה הנה אלה מועדי ה' הן, מועדי דרבנן או תענית וט' באב בכולן יש שייכות לאותן הפרשיות שחלות בהן כי הכל מיד ה' השכל (תורה שבכתב וישב מקץ ויגש הקדמה-שם הדרוש נאה להם צאן יוסף) -that the Parshiyos that we read are connected with the Moadim that fall out during those Parshiyos....
Videos Boca Jewish Center - Shavuos and Sefirah Yeshiva of South Florida - Bechukosai Boca Raton Synagogue - Behar Melaveh Malka Boca Raton Kollel - Tosefes Shabbos Heichal HaTorah Hollywood, FL - Hachanah for Kabalas HaTorah Write up of the Shiur Above As we approach the Yom Tov of Shavuos, besides for reading the Aseres Hadibros, we also read Megillas Rus. Why? There are various explanations, but maybe an idea is that we hear about Matan Torah-the Torah that was given to 600,000 people....