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A Lesson on Hirsch

Admin January 4, 2019

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Rav Hirsch wrote his first work under the pen name “Ben Uziel”. In the leaf preceding the work he quoted the Talmud megilah 3a “ But You know very well that I did it not for my own honor, nor for the honor of my father’s house, but rather I did it for Your Honor, […]

German Chazonim!

Admin November 27, 2018

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I recently came into posession of several records of German Chazonim. Cantor Binyamin Z. Barsilai in record above. A Cantor Shlomo Barzilai officiated at the Great Synagogue in Vienna. Today his son Shmuel Barzilai has this position. The record does not identify where this chazan prayed. Click here for a record that seems to have […]

Sukkos per the Roedelheim

Admin September 30, 2018

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Before this Yom Tov passes I want to share a “shtikel Torah”. That is not the standard for this Torah blog, but I don’t have confidence that my yeshivah styled derech halimud would qualify my Aschkenaz oriented pieces to the pages of the revered Torah journal that is devoted to this (Yerushaseinu). So, part of […]

The Tekios Demeumad

Admin September 17, 2018

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The Shofar is blown during the repetition of the Amidah. There are several opinions mentioned in the rishonim as to just what to blow. The source for this practice is the Talmud hRosh Hashana 17a. “Say before Me (G-d) the malcios, zichronos and shofaros on Rosh Hashana…MAlchios, to make Me your King, Zichronos […]

Kiddush Friday Night (The other one)

Admin September 13, 2018

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This was Chazan Frankel’s signature kiddush (composed by Cantor Abraham Katz of Amsterdam). On one of my other channels I have this as sung by a young budding Chazan in Erets. I took the performance and had the organ added by my friend Yehoshua Solomon (who is available for simchas…) and voila. Enjoy before the […]

Our Way in Tora im Derech Eretz

Admin September 13, 2018

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This video, third in a series, gives the history of Tora learning and pursuit of career in the community over 150 years. It also has alot of 80s tidbits- because, if you haven’t realized, I am stuck there. Finally, it adresses the comment of YGB in the previous video about the kehila and TIDE. In […]

Hirsch Part 2; The Ideas

Admin September 13, 2018

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Three thinkers within the Orthodox community speak to Hirschian ideas in America today. Rabbi Dr. Moshe Miller whose doctoral thesis was on Rav Hirsch and is a professor of Judaic Stuudies at Touro College and teaches a course at Lander College for Women about R. Hirsch, Dr. Yitzchok Levine who writes on American-Jewish history for […]

Shaarei Hatikvah Part 4. A Chanukah Miracle

Admin September 13, 2018

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An emotional look at a shul that has meant so much to so many people and its will to continue. We have discussed the history of this institution in three parts, and in this final installment we see it through to this very day. Discusses Rabbi Avraham Gross ZtL, and the shul today under the […]

Rav Hirsch and the Ramban on Parshas Vayelach

Admin September 13, 2018

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A quick thought that I once had. Rav Hirsch in his commentary to the 24th Psalm, explains the repetition and nuance of the last few verses: Seu She’arim Rasheichem – Let the gates lift their heads Vehinasu Pischei olam– Let the portals of the world be raised up Veyavo Melech Hakovod– and the Glorious […]

A Selichos Minhag

Admin September 9, 2018

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One Minhag that is practiced in Breuers is the practice that one who leads the congregation in Selichos will also serve as chazan the evening before, and during the day when feasible. Reb Yisroel Strauss adds that they still allow for an Avel to daven with the following qualifiers: An Avel can daven (except 1st […]

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