About zoning and new construction in Mirkaz Ha'Ir to attend.
Did anyone attend the planning meeting with Ofir Lang in August. I was unable to?
Is there actually a plan for the streets bordering on Rehovim Narkis, HaMaalot King George and Shmuel Ha Nagid?
I am hearing bits and pieces.
I have concerns about the pace of development, tearing down? viable? buildings and replacing them with high ones many more than the 6 or 7 that exist now.
Please let me know about the meeting. Perhaps a few of you would be interested to? follow this development?? You are welcome to post to any neighborhood watts app? group.? I am not a member of the Nachlaot one. Perhaps there is already a wattsapp group concerned with the environment in City Center. Kol tuv Ida Farkash? 0525227635 9 Shmuel Ha Nagid
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Re: HELP!! I'm Drowning in Books
I started to do this in the merit of my late father. Had to put on hold due to moving. If you figure out how to raise money to do a library in the merit of a parent, please let me know.
Also be careful about what seforim you accept. We got inundated with bad quality, musty books and books not suitable
On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, 12:01 raizi steinberg, < 18raizi@...> wrote: hi i have a dream to make a library? with english sfarim in memory of my mother and i am looking for a place that needs it and? a place i can put a bookcase or two and a table and chairs? -- maybe nachlaot would be a good place .. and maybe you want to donate some of your books .. maybe you would like to help me make it happen ???
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:46 AM Shmuel Meyer < shmuel@...> wrote: Shalom,
Please help me! I'm literally drowning in books
If the over 600 used books listed on my website weren't enough and then there are hundreds more that (very) slowly I am adding to that list, I just received another 300 books! Help me!
There are biographies, for children, non-fiction & self-help titles among others. LOTS of fiction.
You can help me by taking any 10 15 shekel books for just NIS 100.
On the web page, you can sign up to receive notifications when books are added.
They are located in Ramot, Jerusalem. It might be possible to meet elsewhere, including outside of Jerusalem, depending on where my clients take me.
Have a look & order before the best books are taken.
Shmuel
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D'var Torah from Rav Fanger
A man walked into the Interior Ministry and asked to have his name changed for the New Year. The clerk asked: "Why do you want to change your name?" Said the man: "Because everyone laughs at me." "OK,? what's your name?" Asks the clerk. "Joshua Flotzka," the man said. The clerk tried to hold back her laugh. With difficulty, she said with a straight face, "And what would you like to change your name to?" The man answers: "Nachum Flotzka? ." A new year, new beginnings. This is an optimum time for change, but sometimes we are not so successful. This week's Torah portion begins with the action - "????" - "Went" ?"???? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ???? ?? ?? ?????..."And Moshe went and spoke these words to all of Israel" What does " Moshe went" mean? Where is he going? It would be sufficient to have written "and Moshe will speak these words" ...? The sages explain that Moshes' words to Israel were always geared towards progress, movement, productivity - "will go" - to go and ascend all the time. What then do we do if past thoughts remind us of who we once were? There is a story told of a righteous person who repented and mended his ways. He went to the Maggid of Mezrich z"l, to lament, that the thoughts of his past do not give him rest. The Maggid told him: There was once a Jew living in Poland, and he owned a pub that was adjacent to his house. Every day the locals would visit him to drink until they got drunk and defile his place with their vomit. Not only that they would also break his chairs, cups, and bottles. The pub owner had enough of this trouble and decided to close the pub and turn the place into a clothing store. Once in the middle of the night some drunkards came, and started knocking on the door of his house shouting - "Jew, let us have a drink, open up for us, we are looking for good wine".? The Jew heard their shouting in the middle of the night and ignored their wails, did not get up or move. - They did not let up, they, kept knocking again and again on the door of his house. Eventually, he called back to them from behind the locked door -? "I no longer own a pub, there is no wine here, and no beers, you have nothing to look for here anymore. From now on you will only find clothing here. The Maggid concluded ?"This is the way to deal with all kinds of bad thoughts. We do not quarrel with them, do not start a conversation and discussion with them, but simply decide - to open a new page. Recognize you are no longer the same person". ?Even if the thoughts from the past knock on the door and try to remind us of who we were - do not get dismayed or discouraged, do not let them in. They may come back again and again, but eventually, they will leave.? We have opened a new year, do not let past thoughts drag you backward. No matter what happens, the main thing is to continue - "will go"."????"? Keep in mind- every new endeavor takes time. Only if you keep pushing forward and do not give up will you reap the benefits. Shabbat Shalom ?Rav Yitzchak Fanger
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Fruit and vegetables suitable for shmita
Shalom
Someone mentioned there is an organisation or service that has fruit and vegetables suitable for shmita and delivers. Do you know anything about this? If so, I am interested to hear more details and contact information.
The store near us does not have mehadrin standard and uses a system we don't hold by. We are not traveling due to Covid what options are available
Many thanks
Shoshanah
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Re: HELP!! I'm Drowning in Books
hi i have a dream to make a library? with english sfarim in memory of my mother and i am looking for a place that needs it and? a place i can put a bookcase or two and a table and chairs? -- maybe nachlaot would be a good place .. and maybe you want to donate some of your books .. maybe you would like to help me make it happen ???
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:46 AM Shmuel Meyer < shmuel@...> wrote: Shalom,
Please help me! I'm literally drowning in books
If the over 600 used books listed on my website weren't enough and then there are hundreds more that (very) slowly I am adding to that list, I just received another 300 books! Help me!
There are biographies, for children, non-fiction & self-help titles among others. LOTS of fiction.
You can help me by taking any 10 15 shekel books for just NIS 100.
On the web page, you can sign up to receive notifications when books are added.
They are located in Ramot, Jerusalem. It might be possible to meet elsewhere, including outside of Jerusalem, depending on where my clients take me.
Have a look & order before the best books are taken.
Shmuel
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Free Yom Kippur Shiur on ZOOM
We are happy to inform you that Rebbetzin Legumsky will be continuing her series of shiurim with a fourth shiur next Sunday night at 9:00pm Israel time.
"Yom Kippur....journey of the Soul" ? from?8.55pm,?Israel?time:?03 978 6688 / 055 330 1762?? USA: 646 558 8656 /? 669 900 9128 ? (2pm?East Coast USA /?11am?West Coast USA) UK:? 0203 901 7895 / 0131 460 1196???(7pm?UK time)?? S. Africa: 087 550 3946 (9pm?South Africa time) Australia: 03 7018 2005 (6am?Melbourne time) ? Find your local number:??? Meeting ID:??864 5187 7751 (if it asks for a participant ID, you can just press #)
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Channel 20 live Selichot concert from Design City, Ma'ale Adumim
Hi Everyone!
Channel 20 is broadcasting a live Selichot concert
from Design City, Ma'ale Adumim
on TV channel 20, Facebook and Youtube.
The Youtube address of the concert is:
Gmar Chatima Tova!
Shabbat Shalom,
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UPDATE Re: Please help family for Chagim
Shalom and Shana Tova.
Since
my previous posting below, the father received very bad news
last week about his health. He is now being sent to the "Nuclear Medicine
Department" in Hadassah Hospital for treatment. He is suffering very
much. Kindly help him and his son and pray for the health of Ephraim
Fishel ben Tsirel. Details on how to donate are below.
I
can supply documentation on his medical tests and also send letters
from Rabbis Berel Wein and Zvi Schwartz about this poor family
Thank you.......Gmar Chatima Tova
Shalom :) Shavua Tov to all.
I have been trying to get the word out about a father and son in Jerusalem we have been trying to help.
I can send letters from Rabbis
Berel Wein and Zvi Schwartz about the family, and both are happy to
speak on the phone about this terrible situation. Please contact me for
details.
The
group moderators ask me to keep it short, so I will try my best. If anyone wants more
details or information, please email me and I will explain more if
needed.
This
is a father that is very ill with a
son in a special school. The father worked for a company outside of Israel
that went bankrupt, owing him a very large amount of money, which put
him in serious debt.
They are alone, just the two of them, with no other family to assist them..
The
father's health problems are getting worse. He is running around to
different doctors and taking many tests in Hadassah, including his
heart, lungs, liver, intestines and nervous system. He is in pain all
the time,and does not sleep. He also has pains in his
back, legs, and feet. He has vision problems, and has lost most of
his teeth. It is heartbreaking to see this once strong man. He looks ten
years or more older than his age.
The constant stress of the financial problems is making things even worse for his health.
They
are in danger of having their electricity disconnected at any moment.?
This is also the time of year they needed to renew their rental contract
and their landlord would not renew their contract unless all bills and
rent are paid. They paid part, but still owe more. They must stay in
this apartment. They have nowhere else to go plus the boy's school is
nearby.
This
is a very nice man who always helped others, and now desperately needs
help. We are trying to give him some peace before the Holidays so he can
focus on his health and enjoy the Chagim.
Please kindly help them.
Please
email to me with the donation details if you donate so we can get them the money faster, and also please help us pass this on to any
friends and contacts that may be in a position to help.
There are American and
Israeli charities accepting donations online for them. It is also possible to
help through their local grocery store or by bank transfer to friends
helping the family. Please contact me for details.
For USA tax deductible receipts, the Bayswater Neighbors Fund has
a website to donate. I will write the link below. If anyone prefers to
send a check, please email me and I will send the details.
Right above the SUBMIT button on the donation form is written "My
contribution is for:" and then they have a drop-down menu to choose
where the donation will go. Important to choose, "Family in
Jerusalem", and push Submit button once.
This is very important or they will not know to whom to give the
donation. Please also email me if you donate so we can follow
up.
Here is the link.
For Israel donations/receipts, please see the link below. It is
VERY IMPORTANT to write FUND 2110 in the comment box or the donation will
not go to the family and to email me if you donate so we can
follow up. Here is the link for the Mekimi organization donation page.
Then click on
"Secured donation by credit card" and please remember to write FUND 2110 in the comment box.
Thank you all in advance. Tizku L'Mitzvot
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Some of my best thoughts come to me while I am davening. It's a battle to shove them out of the way. These are not what I choose to be concentrating on; but, somehow they find a way to squeeze themselves in and pre-occupy my mind while I am trying to have lofty thoughts of the greatness of G'd and His many kindnesses.
Some of my best thoughts come to me while I am davening. It's a battle to shove them out of the way. These are not what I choose to be concentrating on; but, somehow they find a way to squeeze themselves in and pre-occupy my mind while I am trying to have lofty thoughts of the greatness of G'd and His many kindnesses.
I am guessing I am not the only one who at times finds it challenging to concentrate on Tefillot. To this end, I have asked Rae Shagalov and Tzirel Liba Mitzmann to join me on a panel where we will all learn techniques to help us to get into the correct frame of mind and to focus on our tefillot.
Join us on Monday, September 13, 7 Tishrei, for some concrete tips to help you get the most out of your tefillot. To sign up for this FREE panel click the link below
I look forward to seeing you, Gila
P.S. It's a 45 minute investment of your time. Treat yourself. Monday: 8.30 p.m. Israel 6.30 p.m. UK
1.30 p.m. NY
10.30 a.m. LA
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Worth watching online....Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews
Worth watching online....
Ritchie Boys: The secret U.S. unit bolstered by German-born Jews
that helped the Allies beat Hitler
Gmar Chatima Tova!
Shabbat Shalom,
Jacob
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Today's Inspiration - Shabbat shalom - G'mar chatima tova!
TThe Scarlet Thread
Said the Koretzer: "We read: 'Like the scarlet thread are your lips' (Song of Song 4:3). As the scarelt thread hung at the Temple on Yom Kippur showed by its miraculous change into white the forgiveness of sins, your sins now will be forgiven if you are able to change your everyday prayers ands tudy, mixed as they are? with foreign thoughts, into pure worship and concentrated study."
Source: Nofeth Tzufim
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Free daily Shmitah Halachot from Keren Hashviis
Do you want to learn the Halachot of Shmitah in English?? Keren Hashviis will send you a daily Halachot on keeping Shmitah.? Sign up here
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Shana Tova from Rav Fanger and the English office
The most beautiful painting, as well as long journeys, are made up of many brush strokes, and many small precise steps. Step after step, heel after heel, a drop of paint followed by another drop, until the painting appears in its entirety and in all its glory. Until the road comes to an end and the person reaches his destination.
The road to Rosh Hashanah is long and full of obstacles. Many stains cover a person's sheet, and he has to work to remove?the?blemishes and mold his Rosh Hashanah. The journey is long, yet short. One small step, step by step,?is the beginning of the long journey? One?brush stroke joining the other until the painting is complete.
Each and every person creates his or her own Rosh Hashanah.
Three books?are opened?on Rosh Hashanah -Tzadikim, Reshaim, and?Benoni.??You write yourself in whichever book you choose.?Written?by decisions?- "What do I choose to be?"?The holy rabbi "Toldot Yaakov Yosef"?writes-dependent on how a?person decides in his mind how he will behave?in the coming year that?it is?what will be?written?for him?from above. Take upon yourself a?positive resolution?for Rosh Hashanah, a?positive action,?behavior, one mitzvah that you may have neglected last year.?Let?us?come?to Rosh Hashana?with a "gift" in hand for?the upcoming year may it be filled with only good. May it be His will that we are?privileged to be written in the book of the righteous immediately for a good life and peace out of faith, joy, unity, and love.
Shana Tova
Rav Yitzchak Fanger?
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Today's Inspiration - Tzom Kal - G'mar chatima tova!
Hiding from Supplicants
Said the Koretzer: "It is the royal etiquette that if guilty persons succeed in seeing the King, He pardons them. To prevent wholesale pardons, the King hides himself from the supplicants. It is thus with the King of Kings: He conceals Himself on the Judgment Day and we seek for the key which will open the door to the place of His hiding. We try our customary prayers, our hymns amd special prayers, the blowing of the shofar, and the varied intonations for the reading of the Torah. And when the traditional keys have all beeen used, one of them will surely open the hiding place of the Lord."
Source: Nofeth Tzufim
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Free Rosh Hashanah Shiur on ZOOM
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We are happy to inform you that Rebbetzin Chaya Legumsky will be continuing her series of shiurim with a third shiur this Sunday night at 10:00pm Israel time.
"Rosh HaShanah....Around and around and around...."
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from 9.55pm,?Israel?time:?03 978 6688 / 055 330 1762??
USA: 646 558 8656 /? 669 900 9128 ? (2pm?East Coast USA /?11am?West Coast USA)
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DON¡¯T TALK DURING DAVENING. SHANA TOVA
SOURCES FOR NOT TALKING DURING DAVENING-FROM?
1) It is extremely important to refrain from talking ¡°Sichas Chulin- mundane conversation¡± in a Shul, especially during davening and surely during Chazaras HaShatz and Krias HaTorah.
One who talks during Chazaras HaShatz is a sinner, and this sin is too great for any individual?to bear (This is the one and only place the Shulchan Aruch uses such language regarding not keeping
a Halacha. The reason for this?is that just as when Kayin killed Hevel he virtually killed half of the world and Hashem told him that his sin is too great to bear, so too one who talks during davening is not only harming himself, but he/she is harming their
children and all the other people in the Tzibbur, as when there is talking in Shul it causes the Shechinah to leave, and causes the tefilos of the entire shul to not be ¡°heard and¡± accepted by Hashem.?Based on Tosefos Yom Tov, Sefer HaGan Derech Moshe, Igeres
HaKodesh of MaHarDaB of Lubavitch?and other commentaries)
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2) All Jews are instructed to [respectfully] chastise anyone who talks during Chazaras HaShatz. It should first be done in a way that the offender isn¡¯t being singled out, rather a s a general ¡°announcement¡± to the
Shul that it is too noisy. If that doesn¡¯t work, the individual should be approached quietly.
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If one is told to be quiet and he ridicules the person rebuking him/her, they are subject to the [ quite unpleasant] rules prescribed in the Rambam?(Hilchos De¡¯os Perek 6:7)
and may eventually be barred from?entering the Shul. If one will talk in Shul, it is better for him/her to not come in the first place?(Kaf HaChaim Siman 151:8 and Chida in Sefer Pesach Einayim)
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This is not a Minhag (custom), Chumra (stringency) or Midas Chasidus (something only pious people do). It is an undisputed Halacha Mefureshes in Shulchan Aruch Siman 124:7 with its source in the words of Chazal and
the Rishonim.
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3) Many sharp words have been written about the gravity and dire consequences of transgressing the sin of talking during davening, yet unfortunately too many otherwise religious Jews are still very lax when it comes
to talking in Shul. Below is just a small sampling of the plethora of sources bemoaning this sinful practice, in the hopes that it may help people to start taking this Halacha more seriously and thus hasten the coming of Mashiach:
¡¤????????One who talks?while the Tzibbur is praising Hashem Yisborach (i.e. during Chazaras HaShatz) is showing that he wants no part in [the praising of] Hashem?(Shulchan
Aruch HaRav Siman 124:10 quoting the?Zohar in Parshas Terumah)
¡¤????????Woe is to those that talk during Chazaras HaShatz, as many Shuls throughout Jewish history have been destroyed due to this sin.?(Mishna Berura 124:27 quoting
the Elya Rabbah)
¡¤????????Many Shuls have been turned into churches due to the fact that talking took place in those Shuls.?(Mogen Avraham Siman 151)
¡¤????????One who talks during davening, his mouth becomes ¡°Tamei- impure¡±, and when he davens with this mouth it is as if he is being Oved Avoda Zara- serving idols?(Drashos
Chasam Sofer Vol. 2?Drasha for 7 Av)
¡¤????????One who [habitually] talks during davening has no portion in Olam Haba, the world to come.?(Sefer M¡¯Am Loez Parshas Bamidbar)
¡¤????????The holy Rebbe of Gur, the Imrei Emes Zatzal, was known to have said that the tragedy of the holocaust that befell the Jewish people and cost us 6,000,000 lives, was brought upon us
due to the sin of talking during davening, and the reason the Sephardic communities were for the most part spared, was due to their being scrupulous in not talking during davening?(Quoted in Sefer Tuvecha Yabiu Vol. 2 Page 321)
¡¤????????Talking during Tefilah is delaying?the Geulah (final redemption/coming of Mashiach)?(Sefer Yesh Nochlin from?the father of the Shl¡±a HaKadosh. See also Sefer
Mikdash Me¡¯at Page 27 and Shu¡±t Yabia Omer Vol. 1 Siman?10:11)
¡¤????????Talking during davening is the worst sin a Jew can do! It causes the Yetzer Hara to become empowered over the person, and one who talks during davening is a Choteh U¡¯Machtee Es HaRabim-
causes others to follow in his ways and sin as well, and is degrading the glory of Hashem?(Sefer Yesh Nochlin ibid.)
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4) Every Shul should appoint?a G-d fearing, strong person to be a Mashgiach to??reprimand and punish those who talk during davening?(Vavei HaAmudim quoted in?Pri Megadim Siman 124:11, and in
Mishna Berura 124:27).
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The congregation should support and assist the aforementioned ¡°Mashgiach¡±, and by doing so they will merit having their Tefilos answered.?(Sefer Birchas HaBayis Sha¡¯ar 42)
In the zechus of strengthening ourselves in this important area, may we be zoche to the speedy arrival of Mashiach!
?Shana Tova
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Hotsites, Videos, Photos and Some Humor....Shana Tova!
Hi Everyone!
The Rosh Hashana hotsites have been updated at:
- Hamizrachi Magazine:
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur 5782 (pdf, 64 pages)
- YU Torah To-Go Magazine
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur 5782 (pdf, 44 pages)
- Ohrnet: OHR Somayach Torah Magazine
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur & Sukkot 5782 (pdf, 30 pages)
- Torah Tidbits including Rosh Hashana Section
- Philo Torah including Rosh Hashana Section
There are now 893 Rosh Hashana videos at:
I added photos to the Rosh Hashana photo gallery at:
and...
Here are some oldies but goodies from the Rosh Hashana humor section:
World's Largest Gefilte Fish Caught in the Wild
Tequila Gedola
Apple Dipped in Honey
May Everyone Have a Healthy, Sweet and Good New Year!
Shana Tova!
Jacob
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Gila Slonim
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