Hi My name is Yonatan and I wanted to share my story with you. First the good news – I am a 26 year old guy and Baruch Hashem, I got engaged to a wonderful God-fearing girl and soon I will also be able to stand under the Chupa. Hashem gave me life and saved me several times. I was born without an iris, which caused colored blindness. Additionally, I had enlarged kidneys and suffered severely from continuous fevers. Later, doctors found that I had a congenital heart defect, and genetic testing came back positive for a rare syndrome that causes sleep apnea. Today, I cannot sleep without a machine that circulates air. At the age of 3, I got kidney cancer due to his enlarged kidneys, which required a long journey of hospitalization and ongoing surgeries.

It’s rare for a Non-Jewish couple to discover Judaism. It’s even more rare for them to fall in love with it, leave everything behind, travel across the ocean and live as fully Orthodox Jews in the land of Israel.  But for Aryeh and Miriam Abramson, it’s exactly what happened. When Aryeh and Miriam met ten years ago, they knew that they were soulmates. The two wed, but soon after their marriage, they felt like something was deeply missing. “We were searching for meaning in life,” explains Aryeh. After over six months of soul-searching, the two were accidentally exposed to Yiddishkeit (a story for a different time!). And something struck a chord.

Dear Klal Yisroel, I would like to give you an opportunity to bring true simcha to a pain ridden family. I will not go into too much detail, suffice it to say that the mother of the family was in a serious accident, and the whole family is suffering financially and emotionally. They are now making a Bar mitzvah. This could turn out to be an oasis of simcha, a ray of light in their difficult lives. IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU. As of this date, they lack the basic needs for the bar mitzvah – clothing, teffilin and other basics. They are in bad shape. DONATE NOW! You can change this and give this bar mitzvah boy a royal send off into manhood as he becomes another diamond in that crown called Klal yisroel.

You could have cut the silence in the air with a knife as Asher Rosen & his family sat in the living room of their Bnei Brak apartment awaiting a very special guest. Asher had now been on a few shidduch dates with a young woman named Shani and was ready to introduce her to his parents. When she arrived smiling shyly at the door, however, Asher’s mother was temporarily speechless.   The yeshiva bochur had failed to mention to his parents that his kallah-to-be had a very unusual appearance. Whereas most young ladies in their community had shoulder length hair or longer, often tied back into a ponytail, Shani had “boy-short” tufts of curly hair poking out rambunctiously over her ears & jutting out in several directions.

Hundreds gathered yesterday to pray in unison for the quick and complete recovery of Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi shlit”a. The Rav is reportedly ill and needs the tefilos of klal yisroel at this time.    Some have also taken on doing other mitzvos in the merit of the Rav’s refua shalema. Shortly before news of his illness became public, a letter was written and signed by the Rav together with Rav Chaim Kanievsky, and the Vizhnitzer Rebbe.   The letter detailed the struggles of a group of impoverished orphans struggling to get married this month, a cause which Rav Ezrachi has lent his public support to many times. Donations are being accepted to help the orphans get married here.

It’s been 68 years since the Chazon Ish passed away at the age of 74. Klal Yisroel was left bereft, having lost one of its greatest leaders, but the original home of the Chazzon Ish is still intact. However, the home is in ruins. The Tashbar Yeshiva, with over 900 talmidim, which is built on the home of the Chazon Ish, has undertaken a project to restore the holy home to its original state, so the public can benefit from the kedushah that has seeped into its very walls.  This Thursday, 15 Cheshvon.

Yehudis Segal couldn’t help but shriek as she watched Moishy and Mimi walk through the threshold of her apartment, cheeks flushed and eyes twinkling.   “Mazel tov!” she cried, giving her son and then his new kallah a tight embrace.   Moishy had been dating Mimi for several weeks and tonight, he had finally popped the question. Yehudis was amazed to see that Mimi was exactly as Moishy had described over the past few weeks: Warm, intelligent, fun, and possessing beautiful middos. But as the l’chaim continued on, something in Yehudis’s stomach started to churn. She tried to push the thought away, but the more she resisted, the more it ate at her…   Was the wedding even possible?

On Sukkos – R’ Eliyohu Kaufman tragically passed away, he was in his early 60’s and left a broken hearted widow and a young orphaned son. As a convert, the almana has no family or relatives who can help her, so we – Klal Yisroel – must be the ones to support her and make sure she has food to eat, clothing to wear, and her bills are payed. We have no way to bring the husband / father back but it is our responsibility to provide them with their basic needs. DONATE NOW! The Torah repeats the command to love the ger (convert) 28 times. Additionally, it’s a tremendous mitzvah to make widows and orphans happy and to take care of them. Therefore, by supporting this case we are fulfilling many positive commandments! May we be spared any more pain or sorrow in our midst.

Today, Sunday October 10th at 8:00pm, join Lomdei HaDaf across the world to mark the completion of Maseches Beitza. On the verge of starting the ninth Masechta, we’re already nearly one third of the way through Shas!  ‘Yoma Tova L’Rabonon’- It’s Yom Tov again as we celebrate the Siyum on Maseches Beitza- the Masechta which Chazal call Maseches Yom Tov. And as with the inspiration of Yom Tov, we hope that the inspiration aroused by this Siyum will accompany us into the next Zman, giving us increased passion for our Torah and Avodas Hashem. Tune in live tonight at 8pm @ KHC.global to join the celebration!

The studies and personal offices of the biggest rabbis in Israel are often communal spaces: During set hours of the day the nation’s spiritual leaders accept guests, who come to them with questions in Torah learning, ot to ask for their blessing. One young woman who was brought to the home of Rav Chaim Kanievsky had a story so dire, and tears so genuine, that she moved all who met her.   That young woman was Esther Levine. Esther is the child of two people with severe heath issues. Having essentially “raised herself,” she often went to the homes of friends to eat dinner.