MKY Moments https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Daily Q A new zman begins and Rav Hershel Shachter is back at his post, teaching… Celebrating Chai Elul at KMH, Rav Yussie Zakutinsky with Joey Newcomb and a look ahead to a world of perfect joy Like a wellspring that keeps giving fresh water… Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl shlit’a paskening shaylos this morning… At the simcha of a grandchild, Rav Yisroel Simcha Schorr dances with his brother Rav Refoel, along with the mechutanim (via RK) At a Crown Heights hall, the caterer is busy Rav Shalom Kamenetzky arrives in Eretz Yisroel, joining the airport Shacharis minyan and enjoying the opportunity to sit in the back JFK Airport wake-up calls Lights of our Nation: 19 Elul- Rav Moshe Tzvi Aryeh Bick #MKY Inbox Hakaras hatov. It’s #HowJewsRoll #MKYFriend–Submitted: I just witnessed one of the most moving displays of kavod haTorah I have ever seen, boarding the flight to TLV. One of the younger American machzikei Torah noticed the Philadelphia Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Sholom Kamenetzky, during mincha before boarding. When he learned that the Rosh Yeshiva was seated in economy, he tried upgrading him, but there were no more seats left in business class. On the spot, he insisted on giving the Rosh Yeshiva his seat and he refused to take no for an answer! I have heard people say great things about his father, Reb Yaakov Rajchenbach a’h, but now I see the effects of that chinuch in real time, as I watch this successful businessman sit in a crowded economy row, content and happy that Reb Sholom is where he should be – in business class, learning !!!! 3 am. And the Sanzer Rebbe, who travels to Betar and Yerushalayim before the holy days to share individual brachos with each chassid, is not yet done for the night Signs of the season everywhere – even where it’s least expected #MKY Friend-Submitted: I was sitting in the Pagi shul near Sanhedria, alone- just me and the elderly gentleman who was sweeping. Then, when he was done, and he went to the back and opened his own sefer, the broomstick standing proudly behind him as his lips started to move, one more holy Jew in the back of a newly-cleaned shul The Daily Q At the Talmud Torah bearing the name of Baba Sali and Baba Meir, a celebration opens with traditional Morrocan piyyutim And following today’s neitz minyan, Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel there to benefit from the perpetual gift of birchas kohanim A reminder to the Ashkenazic world of the schedule facing our Sephardic brethren at this time of year – here the morning schedule at the Bnei Yosef ‘shtieblach’ in Flatbush Singing for ATime in London, magnificent strains of the Mendy Hershkowitz Orchestra Lights of our Nation: 18 Elul- The Maharal of Prague The end of a long week and the children are home, making things right Home At the Mir, deep in the season of teshuvah, a portend of the joy that follows At Chasdei Lev Monsey, Reb Moshe Auslander paying tribute to the greatest job in the world The fire alarm went off at the Cedarhurst Kollel, but even outside, the fire of creation burns on… One frame, endless harbatzas Torah: noted posek Rav Tzvi Yaakov Stein, whose printed and digital Halacha shiurim reach tens of thousands, with Reb Sruly Bornstein, whose daf has reenergized a generation of lomdim Lights of our Nation: 17 Elul- Rav Ovadia Somech At the הכתרה of the new Rov of Chayei Yisroel, HoRav Yitzchok Horowitz שליט”א, dancing with the shul’s founder, R’ Yosef Friedland. At Chabad of the Town of Mont-Royal bringing in Shabbos, with a pre-Shabbos kumzitz led by musician Yo Aisenstark After a long day of fulfilling work, Monsey Chasdei Lev volunteers join together for mincha Overnight setup for Moadim l’Simcha, in Cincinnati Today is the yahrzeit of Rav Elimelech Bluth, preeminent talmid of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Talmidim felt that when Rav Bluth was niftar, they also lost Rav Moshe once again, for so much psak and hadracha lived on through him Parting ways to hold the torch of Torah high: Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel, heading to America, and Rav Yitzchak Ezrachi, heading to South Africa, at the airport last night After a Shabbos in Meron with chassidim of Vizhnitz- Monsey, Reb Meilech taps into the holiness of the place on motzoei Shabbos At the A-Time ShasaThon in London, one sort of sweet song… At the ATime Shas-a-Thon, Rav Ehrentrau of Antwerp with a dramatic and powerful message In Phoenix, Arizona, a new Kinyan Masechta chaburah grows, one more wellspring in the desert Montreal having its turn to pay tribute to Rabbeim After decades during which his brothers visit was an annual Yom Tov in Johannesburg, today Rav Yitzchak Ezrachi arrives in South Africa for the very first time! Lights of our Nation: 16 Elul- The Strikover Rebbe of Bnei Brak Elul zman is underway at Ateres Shimon, and with it, so many hearts prepare for the light of Shabbos #MKY Harmonies: Eternal Love At the KMH fabrengen marking the release of Rav Judah Mischels new sefer, B’derech, Reb Moshe Auslander and R’ Sochy Majesky express the perpetual cry of every Jew As the Rebbe of Zidichoiv- Baltimore marries off a daughter, Rav Ahron Feldman and Rav Yaakov Hopfer take their places in the Rebbishe post-chuppah dance The Mapleshade Kinyan Mesechta program goes on, even as one of its members marries off a child! After the CEO of Kedem visited the Zone and met with the Shteigers, he was very taken by the commitment of these young men. One camper mentioned that he had just kept Shabbos for the first time at the Zone – and when he arrived home, he received this erev Shabbos package from Mr. Herzog himself, along with the invitation to reach out or learn any time! Lights of our Nation: 15 Elul- Rav Chanoch Henoch Eiges Late summer Sundays at the Tucson Torah Center Under a gray Passaic sky, the song of ‘Thank you dear Rebbi!