I Pledged; I was Saved

Dear Vaad Harabbanim, I want to tell you two stories that happened to me. The first happened a few weeks ago. A day before we were to travel abroad, I was riding in a taxi with one of my children to arrange one of the children’s passports. I was holding a large envelope with the […]

Last summer, we went on a trip up north. I borrowed my brother’s camera. We ended the day kayaking on the Jordan River. I guess I shouldn’t have, but I brought the camera on the kayak, and it fell out at the beginning of our route. I was so upset and didn’t know what to […]

Dear Vaad Harabbanim, I am enclosing a contribution to thank Hashem for helping us in merit of our mitzvah of giving tzedakah. One evening during chol hamoed Sukkos, we went to see the simchas beis hashoevah at Toldos Aharon. Everyone knows how crowded it is there, as hundreds of women and girls stand packed in on the bleachers, trying to get a glimpse of the […]

Dear Vaad Harabbanim, I would like to share my story with you, and thank you for helping me. I was enjoying the Pesach preparations – the organizing, and removing all the chametz – but I was really looking forward to the actual cleaning. Finally, the moment I had been waiting for came later that night. I felt […]

There is a credit card statement on the refrigerator door with yellow highlights on some of the lines. Ayalah insists that it stays there until her wedding. Then, she intends on moving it into her new home. Her mother, Nechamah, searches for a pen and paper. Ayalah interrupts her just as she is about to […]

Winner gets / h. Rosenberg “A person giving a penny Lani- Receives over called “(Bava Batra H)   Aֶmֶsׁ Sָgַr Hַsִּdּoּr Bְּhָdָr Nָsַׁk him right Same Nֶaֱnַh, And shall not Sָgַr Aֶt’s heart, ill-Sָgַr Im- Hַlֵּb – Tֶrֶm Nִfְtַּh.     Sִׁlְsֹׁm Bַּhֲtzoֹt Sָgַr Hַgְּmָrָa Nָsַׁk and ְdָmְoּ yonder deadlight, Insensitive Sְׁzָּrְhoּ Bo Aoֹrָh and […]

Growled the planes taking off and landing one after another at breakneck speed bustling airport of Miami, joined the unbearable odors coming from the decay of the thousands of small plastic bags filled with mostly food scraps or broken half of them spread over a huge area. Medium was Rabbi Meir Jungreis, is currently engaged […]

Right-Lfrsm_harb-Kanievsky     “Stay here until Sunday?” I glanced out the corner of my eye. Jerusalem street was changing his face, and it seems that something exaggerated predictions may be realized. The doctor gave me a stern look. “We want the good of your wife, sir. Surely you know.”   I sighed in resignation. When […]