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With my voice gone, I was doomed to a life of isolation

There was a man who sang and who learned and who taught

The days of Sefirah have begun. Counting in sequence is not too complicated. Two will always follow one, and three will always follow two and the serial continues until forty-nine. The calculations are minimal, as these are integers, not fractions. What complicates the counting are the accompanying rules and restrictions. Fewer celebrations, fewer indulgences. And […]

Rav Avraham Simcha Kaplan was the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Tzfas from the time of the founding of the State of Israel for nearly half a century. Before the war, while Rav Avraham Simcha was a student at the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus, he stayed with an older couple who had a single child. One […]

Rav Chaim and Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky became the couple who served as a source of inspiration and solace to Klal Yisrael

Dirshu’s Amud Yomi revolution fuses past, present, and future

Educated in Frankfurt-am-Main and the great Lithuanian yeshivahs, Rav Shimon Schwab was a talmid chacham and traditionalist interpreter of the path of Torah im Derech Eretz, balancing strict observance with a conservative participation in Western society. Rav Schwab composed “Ma’ayan Beis Hashoeivah” and numerous other classic Torah works, and for many years led Khal Adath […]

When Rav Baruch Rosenblum shared his distress over his wife’s illness with Rav Aharon Leib Steinman close to 30 years ago, the Rosh Yeshivah had one eitzah for him: “Go out there and inspire others.”

Rabbi Menachem Braun’s legacy of compassion, respect, and firm emunah continues to inspire

Israeli jurist Elyakim Rubinstein’s perspective on Israel’s legal battle in The Hague.