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Rav Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari zt”l 96th yahrtzeit: 22 IYAR  BURIED: Har Hazeisim Known as: Saba Kadisha The Alfandari was a…

Yesod is the middah that gathers all the earlier middos and channels them down into the l’maaseh. It serves as…

Rav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman once tried to find a suitable yeshiva for a troubled teenager. He found one, but the…

It was once revealed to the heiligeh Baal Shem Tov that he would dwell in one of three places: Nimerov,…

The passuk says, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or gather?” The Torah…

Rashbi’s father, Yochai, was married to a woman named Sarah. They were married for many years and didn’t have children.…

When the kohein gadol would be anointed with the shemen hamishcha (the oil used to anoint him), if he was…

In the year 1762 there was a big earthquake in Tzfat and the whole area around it. When it happened,…

I was in a mainstream Bais Yaakov seminary when Lag Ba’omer rolled around. My close friends insisted that Meron was…

The B’nei Yissoschar has an amazing piece, Maamarei Chodesh Iyar, Maamar 3.  The calibre of his chiddushim there is such…

The middah of hod is represented by the left foot, which is generally the weaker foot. We often associate weakness…

אשרי‭ ‬העומדים‭ ‬על‭ ‬סודך‭ There are over 80,000 books on Amazon with the word “secret” in the title. Everybody wants…

Stories of Tzadikim with Harav yussie zakutinsky Reb Herschel of Zitichov was once sitting by his Lag Ba’omer tish, and…

The passuk says, “V’ahavta l’raeiacha k’mocha.” The seforim teach us a great exercise we can learn from this passuk. If…

When Reb Zundel of Salant was learning in Volozhin, some bachurim saw him going in the morning to the marketplace…

When the Kohein Gadol would go into the Kodesh HaKodashim on Yom Kippur, the passuk says that “no one should…

Reb Yitzchok Izaac Yehuda Yechiel Safrin zy”a 152nd yahrtzeit: Yud Iyar BURIED: Komarna, Ukraine The great Komarna was a most…

Sruli’s Story as told to Sara Klarberg Three counselors for one bunk? There were so many reasons it was a…

1. What was the Komarna’s last name? a. Eichenstein
 b. Komarna
 c. Safrin
 d. Zidichov 2. Where is the city…

Each sefirah represents a part of the body, and netzach and hod represent the feet. Our feet are what we…

Every tzadik is unique, and many tzadikim had an area of Torah that was their ‘specialty’ — some within the…

The halacha is, that if one has tzaraas, even if everyone knows that it is tzaraas, he is not tamei…

One year, there was a big potato shortage in Hungary. During the year, it was OK to go without potatoes,…

The Medrash says that the designs that the snake has on its skin, is really tzaraas! This is because the…