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
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
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
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
Please watch until the very end…surprise ending asks all the tough questions. Don’t worry, my heart is in the right places. Please don’t vent in the comment section. The internet is large enough to vent elsewhere…
From its heyday in the 50s and 60s until it took on a new role as the last of its kind. Tribute to Rabbi Abraham Krauss. Opening music by Seymour Silbermintz off a rare recording. /closing song:::: MIPAS Celtic Field – Patrick Smith, BMI. Some footage at the end lifted from the film “we were
A personal tribute to an influential teacher in our school, expressing in my own way some of what needed to be said upon his recent passing. The music is “Velvet” by “The 8th Day”, a song they wrote in tribute to their teacher.
Rev. Walter Hes passed away this last year at the age of 101. He and our beloved Mr. Hellmann o.b.m might have been the last two remaining alumni of the famed Wurzburg Seminary. This video tells the story of the students who dreamed of becoming “lehrer” and the lives they built on these shores.
For our community this piece tops anything ever written by anyone named “Handel”. And while this piece can be found many places online, we will always prefer it “our way”.
A few clips and then a speech. Some familiar Heights and Monsey faces here. Some of the video filmed by Mr. Fred Prince a’H.
Studying the history of our community means knowing it from its earliest days. From Its North to its South. The places we’ve come from and the places we’ve moved to. Our shuls our culture and our shared history. It means coming 2gether and talking. New Series. Breuers 2gether.
Here is a long-awaited beginning to what I hope will be a fruitful journey to the four corners of the neighborhood and to the various German kehillos they produced. Here we learn about the first Rav of Sharei Hatikvah and his previous position in Wurzburg. The project sent me down the path of learning about
From home movies of the day I entered Brith Avraham Avinu.
From the four-part series on the “Daled Parshiyos”.
Words of Rav Hirsch set to my own thoughts.
Published on Apr 1, 2016 With the author of Shivchei Yeshurun – Rabbi Dovid Roth. A brief excursion through the background of this week’s additions to the Tefilos interspersed with the words of praise themselves. Important: I follow the Rabbinate of this Kehilla in psak and have a strong affiliation to its hashkafos. The nuances
Published on Apr 19, 2016 Touches on korbanos and how we can relate to them.Articles mentioned are: 1) http://rabbisblog.brsonline.org/pleas… 2) http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/of-cou…
A brief talk about the piyut by Rabbi Dovid Roth author of Shivchei Yeshurun spliced in with its incantation by Benno Weis aH- in the Frankfurt tradition. A British nusach is featured on KAYJ. A short and meaningful article was used in preparation found here: http://www.kayj.net/en/forum/minhogim…
As Pesach cleaning and computer issues clog my schedule, I present here a tribute I made for another channel to K’vod Avi Morie Shlita – the owner of these precious archives. Please like.
Although I am personally a fan of all our chazzonim, the late, beloved Ch. Frankel has become the icon of the candle lighting in our Shul. It is at this time of the year that we think of him as we behold the Menorah he faced in service for so many decades. Some of the
There must be many people in possession of a video like this one. Here is vintage choir with some old faces. Seen here is Mr. Bernard Stone a’h a beloved choir baritone of yore. In the future I hope to post a chupah with our Chazonim as well.
Distributed at the Dinner of 1999. Fox Video Productions, with permission of Steve Fox.
From home movies of the day I entered Brith Avraham Avinu.
Words of Rav Hirsch set to my own thoughts.
This is the flagship video of the collection. This film was produced by Manny Meyer Studios for the 1974 Breuer’s dinner- long before “videos” were shown at dinners. The film was converted to 1/2 inch tape for large screen thetre mode.. Narration by Mr. Jacob Breuer a’h. Original rare footage of the Shul in Frankfurt
Published on Apr 1, 2016 With the author of Shivchei Yeshurun – Rabbi Dovid Roth. A brief excursion through the background of this week’s additions to the Tefilos interspersed with the words of praise themselves. Important: I follow the Rabbinate of this Kehilla in psak and have a strong affiliation to its hashkafos. The nuances
Here is a memory from my days in elementary school in the mid-eighties. Rabbi Avi Weiss had just returned from Poland, where he bravely protested the opening of a monastery on the grounds of Auschwitz, which is essentially the largest Jewish graveyard in the entire world. The school called an assembly and Rabbi Weiss was
Transcribed from a lecture by Rabbi Benyamin S. Hamburger Shlita on Chol Hamoed 5778. Video here. Please excuse that this is written in the flow of a spoken lecture and not as an essay or even a blog post. In the study of minhag we need to be discerning. For example, the minhag of
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,
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 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
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
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
In an interview with Rabbi Dr. Eric Zimmer of Jerusalem, for an upcoming video on the channel, we asked him about interesting minhagim that he remembers from his years serving as the Rav of a small congregation of German Jews from the countryside of Hessen and other outlying communities. The Shul, Ahavath Torah eventually merged into what is today, Shaarei Hatikvah. He recorded that the
