Yerushalayim is host to hundreds of different yeshivos. The “yeshivish” appellation would be an apropos tag for many or most.There are a few diras that belong to MO or non Orthodox institutions that for whatever reason wish to define themselves a yeshiva. Fine. This post does not apply to them. In any of the yeshivish [...]
I can’t take my eyes off of them. Their simple movements, so deep, so awkward, so graceful. Their actions, so completely without guile, are not performances, like ours.
Nowadays, we’ve got many Rabbis without semicha. We even have some semichas without the Rabbis. -Anonymous The below audio is an excerpt of Shlomo telling over the story of how got semichah from HaRav Hutner ZTZ”L. He did this at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s insistence. Classic matzav. Shlomo Gets Smicha from Yeshiva Guy on Vimeo. Direct [...]
News, in its pure form as a medium of delivering information, has always been a wonderful idea. Indeed, the musag of having a grasp of the events that shape the world around us was, to various degrees, was encouraged by our sages.
I used to think that perhaps the Mir simply had a better PR machine than the nonexistent one(s) of their Soleveitchik led brethren. But then I discovered the origins of the Chelm legends. And it all made sense.