The Olam HaTorah is davening for a refuah for Rav Asher Soloveitchik, youngest son of Rav Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk, and a grandson of the Brisker Rov.
Early this morning, Rav Asher collapsed in his home on Rechov Nechemiah in Yerushalayim, and after prolonged resuscitation efforts, he was transferred to Shaarei Tzedek Medical center, where it was determined that he suffered a severe neurological episode.
Rabbi Asher, age 54, was visited today at the hospital by his mother, Rebbetzin Yehudis, sister of Rav Moshe Shternbuch.
All are asked to daven for Rav Asher Shlomo Zalman ben Yehudis.
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Tonight, Motzoei Shabbos Chol Hamoed, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef addressed the recent missile attacks on Israel, attributing the nation’s protection to lomdei Torah.
Reflecting on the onslaught of thirteen thousand missiles, Rav Yosef asserted, “What miracles. By whose merit is it? In the merit of the Chief of Staff? In the merit of the Torah learners, the yeshiva students. This is the correct perspective.”
Despite facing criticism for his previous remarks on the Draft Law, Rav Yosef remained steadfast in his conviction, stating, “A few hesder yeshiva deans…called on me to rescind my statements. I said that I will not rescind them. Anyone who does not believe in this is a heretic.”

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Har Habayis in Yerushalayim on Thursday during the mass Birkas Kohanim.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Yosef blessed Ben Gvir’s son at the Kosel.

This year, a tefillah was recited for the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, for the safety of Israel Defense Forces soldiers and security forces and for the peace of the people of Israel.
There was heavy police presence at the entrances to the Old City and the Kosel due to heightened tensions amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. JNS

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Yitzchok Notis zt”l.
Rav Notis was a beloved maggid shiur at Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland for over 50 years, impacting generations of talmidim.
Rav Notis began delivering shiurim as a bochur, standing out for his yedios haTorah, his hasmadah, his humility and his extraordinary middos tovos. His career in harbotzas haTorah continued after his marriage, the bochurim witnessing how Torah transforms a person into an outstanding oveid Hashem suffused with ruchniyus.

Today, Rabbi Feivel Mashinsky is the director of Kupath Ezrah of Rockland County. Decades ago, the longtime Monsey resident was a talmid of the Klausenberger Rebbe zt”l, and the interactions that he had with the rebbe forever changed his life. Rabbi Mashinsky merited a close connection to the rebbe, including writing his shiurim and shmuessen.

הגר”מ שטרנבוך בבדיקת חמץצילום: באדיבות המצלם
הגר”מ שטרנבוך בבדיקת חמץצילום: באדיבות המצלם
הגר”מ שטרנבוך בבדיקת חמץצילום: באדיבות המצלם

הרבי מויז’ניץ באפיית מצותצילום: יהושע פרוכטר
הרבי מויז’ניץ באפיית מצותצילום: יהושע פרוכטר
הרבי מויז’ניץ באפיית מצותצילום: יהושע פרוכטר

Watch: Rav Itche Meir Morgenstern and a large crowd performing biur chometz at the site of this morning’s terror attack in Yerushalayim, not just fulfilling the mitzvah, but doing so in way that expressed gratitude for the Heavenly miracles that spared those at the site of the frightening car ramming.

At the instruction of Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich, the chief rabbis of Israel sold all of the chometz owned by the state to an Arab Israeli businessman, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel announced.
The sale has “halachic and legal validity and allows the citizens of Israel to properly observe the commandments of Pesach without the fear of chometz remaining in their possession,” the Chief Rabbinate said.
Hussein Jabar, 64, from the Arab town of Abu Ghosh west of Israel’s capital, paid a deposit of 20,000 shekels ($5,300).
After Yom Tov, he will be offered the possibility of completing the transaction, which has an estimated total value of $150 billion.

U.S. District Judge Jon D. Levy sentenced a man from the state of Maine who circulated an online plan to shoot Jews on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
Brian Dennison, 27, received 12 months and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release following a guilty verdict in December. Dennison had written on Twitter: “I’m going to kill jews with my ar15 tomorrow” in September 2021.
Law enforcement found 1,700 rounds of an AR-15 rifle and proof of his hatred of Jews after an initial search of Dennison’s residence, and later, the AR-15 and more ammo hidden in the woods behind his home.