While the world is glued to the game, we’re glued to our gemara. Tackling a Tosfos. Wrestling with a Rashba. While the world is captivated by the roars of the crowd, the music of pop-culture. We are swept up by the roar of the Bais Medrash. The sweet sound of Torah. The room is on fire. The atmosphere is electric. The achdus, the energy, nothing compares! On SuperSunday, February 7th, 2021, 200 talmidim, avreichim and Rebbeim in Yeshivas Aderes HaTorah will be learning through the night at their annual SuperSeder! Despite Covid and its attendant barriers, the hanhala and talmidim are connecting and shteiging on a “super” level.

RESERVED “Don’t worry Abba, it’s not good for your heart.” These were the words tenderly spoken by 21 year old Michal Yavrov to her father Rabbi Yehuda Yavrov just this week, as they noted that her wedding date was coming closer. It was hard not to feel just how drastically their lives had changed: Just a month ago, Michal had been an excited blushing bride, Yehuda had been head of a prestigious frum Israeli newspaper, and most importantly of all – Michal’s mother had been alive. Mrs. Rivka Yavrov passed away after a heroic 12-year battle with cancer. During those 12 years she defied all odds by continuing to survive and care for her 9 children. It was with great joy that she was able to see her beloved daughter’s engagement.

While many leaders in the Chasidic community have come under fire lately for being lax on their pandemic safety, one prominent figure is actively fighting to keep COVID patients out of ICU wards. Rabbi Salomon, Rav of the Stefanesht community, has become known in the city of Jerusalem as an essential contact for procuring oxygen machines. It began with a small operation: The Rav & a small team of people donated their money to purchase oxygen concentrators and began distributing them to sick people. It was a huge success: Many patients were able to raise their oxygen levels rather than needing to be transported to overcrowded hospitals.

See why Bochurim from all over the tri-state area,  from Lakewood to Waterbury and all communities in between, flock to Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale.  Watch the film that was screened at Ohavei’s Open House and get a glimpse of Ohavei’s tremendous mission: Ohavei’s application deadline is February 4th. The application can be found on their website: https://www.ohaveitorah.org
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Yossi, the owner of a Jerusalem butcher shop, stepped in early to take some inventory one morning and was shocked by what he found: A man sleeping on the floor. The man, however, was not just any stranger. It was his star employee, Reb Avrohom Yitzchok Segal. Woken by the sound, Segal jumped off and brushed off his clothing with embarrassment. Avrohom Yitzchok was called in for an early shift that morning, and his car was in the shop. Buses weren’t running at this time, so with the blessing of his wife at home he had slept in the store to make sure he would not be late. Yossi smiled slyly – This was classic Avrohom Yitzchok Segal. Segal took his job more seriously than any employee he had ever had. That’s because he never took it for granted.

Estee Kornblit was used to getting funny looks. As she walked her disabled brothers on their way to school on the busy streets of Eretz Yisroel, strangers would glance at her with a sentiment that she was all too familiar with: Pity. In truth Estee loved her brothers to pieces, but due to their various medical issues, they simply looked different.  Estee knew all too well that “different” was something that not everyone understood. Aside from her brothers Estee’s mother was handicapped as well. Her father Dov did not earn enough to support the family as a cleaner. She walked around in tattered clothing that was given from local volunteers. Simply put, the young girl was seen as a nebuch case.  Unfortunately, this made Estee an easy target for bullies.

Growing up in the Ukraine, little Leah Viner wasn’t sure what it meant to be Jewish. She knew she was different, but apart from that, it was a mystery. When Rav Shlomo Baksht started his legendary kiruv movement in Odessa, hundreds of Jewish children were exposed to Torah for the first time. Leah was one of those kids. She was in awe of the gadlus of klal yisroel: The depth of Torah, the warmth of shabbos. What moved her most of all, was the generosity of the frum Jews she met. She decided she wanted to pursue a religious life. One by one, several of her siblings made the same decision. It was a hard fought journey, with many sacrifices, but they could not have been happier. Recently, Leah’s greatest dream came true: She got engaged.

“Incredible.”  That’s what many readers have commented as they scrolled upon a moving letter recently spotted on TheChesedFund. In a most profound essay, Shira introduces herself as a 10 year old that’s been fighting cancer for more than three years. “Right now, I am sitting in the children’s hospital. My parents don’t even know I am doing this. But sometimes when life throws you a rope, you have to grab on with all your might.” Shira goes on to explain that although she has been receiving top-notch treatment, conventional treatments for childhood cancer have not brought her any success.

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