By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

We postpone once again our crash course on tefilah for another Elul discussion.

“And those with understanding hearts walk around and around, tasting, at all times, small droplets from
that great sweetness of the Heavenly Delight which illuminates our eternity.”
– Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook zt”l
“On the way to the bar, one also needs a drink.”
– Chabad Anthem
Perhaps the most famous and foundational anecdote in Chassidic lore describes a meeting between the Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh, in a state of aliyas Neshama, and the soul of Moshiach.
“When is the Master coming?” he asks.
“When your streams extend outward.”

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Devarim, (28:10) the Torah tells Bnei Yisroel that the nations of the world will see Hashem upon you and will fear you. The gemara in Brachos (6a) says that this posuk is referring to the mitzvah of tefillin shel rosh.
In Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim (25:9-10) we pasken that one may not say any words between the putting on the tefillin shel yad and the tefillin shel rosh. If a person hears kaddish or kedusha, he should not answer, but rather pause and listen and then finish putting on the shel rosh.

Days before auction, unique religious artifact from Krumbach DP Camp pulled from sale, after original owner's son claims Brooklyn's Living Torah Museum has no right to sell it

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

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