It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rebbetzin Tziporah Faiga Alter a”h, wife of the the Gerrer Rebbe, the Pnei Menachem zt”l. She was 97.
In her final years, Rebbetzin Alter’s health declined, leading to her hospitalization at Maayanei Hayeshuah Hospital in Bnei Brak.
Born on 27 Tishrei 5687/1926, the rebbetzin was a daughter of Rav Avrohom Mordechai Alter, son of Rav Moshe Betzalel Alter and grandson of the Sefas Emes.
Her mother, Rebbetzin Yenta, was a daughter of Rav Shaul Moshe Zilberman, rov of Wierzchow and a significant figure in the Chassidic community in Eretz Yisroel.

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Matzav.com would like to wish its readers all over the globe a chag sameiach. As we celebrate our 3,336th anniversary since receiving the Torah at Har Sinai, we are reminded of the supremacy of Torah learning above all else. There are myriad lessons to be learned at this time of year, and we share several with you here.
Once, after Reb Sholom Shwadron gave a speech a few days before Shavuos, one of the audience came over to him. He had a few issues in Yiddishkeit that didn’t sit well with him. He was a very smart and intelligent person who had once been non-religious, now he had become observant and attended shiurim. Therefore Reb Sholom understood that he looked disturbed about the issues, but he meant well and really wanted to understand.

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, a member of the War Cabinet and a member of Bibi’s Likud party, is set to vote against the Rule of Continuity for the Charedi draft law, according to the Jerusalem Post. Often, voting against a bill is considered a resignation by a Minister, so it will be interesting to see if Gallant’s involvement in the current Government continues moving forward.
The Rule of Continuity allows the Knesset to advance a bill that was previously passed in a first reading, but was stopped due to the Knesset’s dissolution. If the Rule of Continuity is passed, Bibi will be able to advance the Charedi draft law that was first brought up by the Lapid-Bennet Government in 2022.

More than 3,500 Israelis gathered at Park HaAsor in Efrat on Thursday to celebrate the completion of a Sefer Torah in memory of 48-year-old Lucy Dee, and two of her daughters: Maia, 20, and Rina, 15. The girls were murdered by a Hamas terrorist on April 7, 2023, while their mother succumbed to her wounds three days later, on April 10.
Since the beginning of the year, youth at educational institutions in Efrat attended a Safrus workshop, with more than 5,000 children partaking in writing the Torah’s 304,805 letters.
In addition, Yehuda Elon, an Israel Defense Forces reservist and ritual scribe affiliated with the “Sign of Love” organization, took the new Sefer Torah into the Gaza Strip, where soldiers helped write letters, Arutz 7 reported.

Two Likud Knesset members and a Likud minister are threatening to dodge party discipline on the Charedi enlistment issue.
Knesset members Dan Illouz and Moshe Saada, and Economy Minister Nir Barkat, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, who heads Likud, stating, “If the current draft recruitment bill for Charedi yeshivah students is brought to a vote, we will oppose it.”
“We know that this bill needs to be improved; also, the Supreme Court will disqualify it,” Saada told JNS. The draft law specifies that about 2,000 Charedi men will be recruited in the first stage.
There are 63,000 Charedi men eligible for the draft.

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Ahron Garfinkel zt”l, a longtime marbitz Torah. He was 78.
Rav Ahron had been in the hospital for an infection and his condition deteriorated.
A native of Monsey, NY, Rav Ahron was the head of Yeshiva Toras Chesed and a rebbi at Yeshiva Ohr Somayach in Monsey for many years.
He relocated to Jackson a few years ago to be closer to his children and grandchildren.
The levayah is being held at 2:30 p.m. today at the Congregation Sons of Israel Holocaust Memorial Chapel, located at 613 Ramsey Street, in Lakewood, NJ. The aron will then be flown to Eretz Yisroel for kevurah in Beit Shemesh.

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