MKY Moments https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html A Jew finds a way! Outside the Regency in Lawrence, being mekadesh the levana In North Woodmere, Rabbi Witkin delivers a daled minim shiur…. to children !!!! Outside Memorial Sloan Ketterering Hospital’s 14th floor balcony, a reassuring and welcoming home – with thanks to Dr. Neil Halpern, Rabbi Sholom Freundlich, Robert Spitz and MSK builders (& decorators!) Rabbi Walkins JWave students, after a long day at public school, find time and headspace to speak to the Ribbono shel Olam Rav Yitzchok Soloveitchik: a man who can uproot mountains, but the world stops as he examines the precision of the point atop the Lulav. Nine measures of that beauty, Yerushalayim took! See My children! Kollel Chazzu’s inaugural season in Woodmere, with Bochurim from 5+ yeshivos in the Five Towns creating a new zman during bein hazmanim The Daily Q A Maariv coming forth from Abu Dhabi, on the way home #StuffJewsKnow Elul is gone. The aseres yemei teshuvah have passed. Yom Kippur is over. But Rav Yaakov Ades stands in prayer, as if this is the most important tefillah ever He might have hosted a presidential visit to his yeshiva an hour earlier, but Rav Yaakov Bender finds koach to show real respect for R’ Naftali Miller, heart and soul of Chasdei Lev and director of development at Agudah, celebrating the bar mitzvah of his son Dovid An airport netz minyan not in the tristate area but in Milwaukee, one more pathway leading home… Lights of our Nation: 12 Tishrei- Rav Avrohom Friedman At Scheiner’s, the Selichos tents come down, and Rav Naftali Rubin, Rov of Chevra Beis Dovid in Queens, in shul now – doing what Rabbanim do so his people can do what Jews do The Daily Q It’s noisy in the Darchei Torah auditorium in advance of the visit of Argentinian President Javier Milei, but Rav Shlomo Avigdor Altusky hears none of it Songs of the Season: on the yahrzeit of Reb Yankel Talmud #MKY Glimpses: On the yahrzeit of the Vilna Gaon #MKY Glimpses: Rav Ahron Soloveitchik In Maalot Dafna, music! In Flatbush, a table covered in wares – and an open Tehillim between customers. What a nation He chose! In the great Stoliner beis medrash, Reb Chanoch Schwadron and sons focused on the most important point of all From Chabad of Newport, Florida comes another reason why Kol Nidrei is specifically recited before sunset Rav Elimelech Resnik, one more visitor at home in the daled minim shuk After vasikin today, Rav Shloime Stein of Sterling Park, discussing lulavim The Stein home in Far Rockaway is always the site of a special motzoei Yom Kippur gathering – but in middle, Rav Tzvi Yaakov, who is a text posek to so many, continues to guide and instruct In Kerestir, Rav Goldstein of London celebrates a siyum hashas last night in memory of his rebbe, Rav Usher Freund, whose yahrzeit is today Overnight in the holy city Tzedek volunteers who gave their Yom Kippur to complete a minyan for those behind bars at the close of the holiest day Two holy kehillos uniting for the simcha of Motzoei Yom Kippur, Rabbi Groner and Yeshiva Ateres Shimon welcoming Rabbi Zakutinsky and Khal Mevakshei Hashem At the close of an uplifting Yom Kippur at the Lev Teen Center, the Rabbeim celebrate the investment of the boys, who left this world and its distractions behind for 25 hours Here’s Why: His Day #MKY Glimpses: Rav Usher Freund On the yahrzeit of Rav Usher Freund The end of Yom Kippur in Lebanon with the wish and hope that keeps us going In Moscow, Rabbi Berel Lazar leads the singing of Napoleon’s March, as is traditional in Chabad during the final moments of Yom Kippur, a statement of triumph A talmid of Rav Shlomo Freifeld, Rav Shmuel Brazil recalls the spirit of motzoei Yom Kippur at his Rebbi’s table The rabbanim and talmidim of Yeshivat HaKotel make their way directly from davening to the Kosel, center of the universe On the yahrzeit of Rav Shimon Nosson Nota Biderman In Toldos Ahron, the simcha that accompanies the niggun unique to this special night On the yahrzeit of Reb Itzikel of Pshevorsk The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s erev Yom Kippur bracha to his many children #MKY Perspectives The Satmar Mikveh. Sukkah plugs and candles and fasting pills. Stuff this holy nation needs. Yom Kippur Reflections: Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky The white paroches, the bima covered in plates, and in the empty Mir beis medrash, Rav Yisroel Glustein and Rav Peretz Tarshish wish each other a gut yohr Home