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The honor Reb Volf Greenglass fled from followed him to the end

By Yochanan Gordon One of the interesting features of the event of Mattan Torah, which we read about in last week’s parashah, was the description of the nation seeing the sounds and hearing the sights. I have heard an attempt to suggest that they had experienced some form of synesthesia where a person’s senses become […]

Reb Chaim Elazar Spira, the Munkatcher Rebbe, (1868-1937), was a tzaddik and gaon of unusual piety known after his multi-volume Minchas Elazar. One of his expressions of uncompromising zealotry was his fierce, outspoken opposition to political Zionism and the Agudath Yisrael. Rav Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, zt’l, (1884-1966), was one of the great roshei yeshivah and […]

By Yochanan Gordon I hope I don’t sound too preachy in my articles. The word “preachy” often has a negative connotation. The truth is I hope the ideas I share in my weekly column do not come off sounding preachy. Most of the time I am thinking out loud and sharing these thoughts with you […]

By Yochanan Gordon On the 10th day of Shevat in 1950, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson passed away. It was a Shabbos morning and he had distributed a Maamar prior to that Shabbos to be studied in observance of the yahrzeit of his grandmother, Rebbetzin Rivkah, a volume that ended up being […]