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.

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הגר”מ שטרנבוך בבדיקת חמץצילום: באדיבות המצלם
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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.

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Three Israelis were wounded this morning in a car-ramming attack in Yerushalayim’s Romema neighborhood.
Magen David Adom emergency paramedics treated the victims at the scene for light injuries. Two of the victims were then evacuated to the city’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Police released surveillance footage showing a car accelerating into a group of Orthodox men on a sidewalk, sending them flying in the air.
A terrorist then exited the vehicle and tried to open fire on the victims using a makeshift “Carlo-style” submachine gun.
According to police, the weapon jammed and the two terrorists discarded it while fleeing on foot.