Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 27, Emor

May 17, 2025; 19 Iyar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

Rav Yisroel Hager ZT”L, the third Rebbe of Vizhnitz, was the son of the saintly Rabbi Baruch of Vizhnitz. He was born on August 20, 1860 and was known as the “Ahavas Yisroel.” In 1893, he was appointed as Rebbe in Vyzhnytsia. He invigorated the Vizhnitzer dynasty and attracted many more followers from the surrounding provinces. He established many Talmud Torahs (small institutions for students with modest backgrounds), and he established a Yeshiva which became one of the largest dormitory Yeshivas in Europe...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 26, Acharei Mos - Kedoshim

May 10, 2025; 12 Iyar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

The year was 1844. The notorious Nicholai the First was the Tsar of Russia. Count Sergei S. Uvarov (the “Count”) was Nicholai’s minister of education for the entire Russian Empire. The Count’s goal and mission? To implement a malevolent scheme aimed at converting Jews to Russian Orthodoxy – the first step of which was to order the teaching of the Russian language in all of the schools in Russia. Russian Jewry was in a quandary. Would they relent and begin to teach Russian in Yeshivas? What else could be done? Perhaps a trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian capital at the time, to directly appeal to the Count to rescind his order could work...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 25, Tazria-Metzora

May 3, 2025; 5 Iyar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

Reb Yehoshua Ozer Halperin of Manchester was a close Talmud and later a Gabbai of the Manchester Rosh Yeshiva, Reb Yehuda Zev Segal ZT”L (“Rosh Yeshiva”). It wasn’t surprising that when Reb Yehoshua Ozer got married in Montreal, the Rosh Yeshiva agreed to fly in from England for the wedding. While in town, the Rosh Yeshiva was hosted by “Reb Yoni” who was to drive the Rosh Yeshiva to the wedding and to attend the wedding with him. As is often the case, the wedding got off to a late start. At 11:30 PM, the Rosh Yeshiva informed Reb Yoni that he was ready to be taken back to his house...

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