MKY Moments https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html At Montreals MJU, connections being formed…. At their posts on the border…at their posts in Menachos!!!! Morning at KMH, led by Reb Yussie Zakutinsky: a special guest at Shacharis, the Rav’s father, Reb Yehuda #MKY Glimpses: Rav Naftali Nussbaum During the days of sefira, there are no ‘gigs’, but opportunities abound, Rivie Schwebel, Shloime Dachs and Sruly Wulliger joining to bring chizuk to another #MKY Quote of the Day: The Ropshitzer Rav Galey being greeted by Chabad @the airport as he carefully carries the Rebbetzin’s sheitel box Electric vehicle, electric message! Lights of our Nation: 11 Iyar- Rav Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz Rav Shimon Galey, in Chicago, teaching others with every step! Here, on a walk with the rebbetzin, as is their custom every evening after supper. A car stuck in a storm drain!- but Chaverim of CJ there to do their thing In advance of tomorrows MJU- the largest Jewish business expo in the world, in Montreal – organizers Isaac Blackman and Motty Weiss welcome the Gaavad of Skver, Rav Yochanan Wosner, there to give a bracha at the venue before it begins On a visit to America, Rav Dovid Lau addresses talmidim of Beth Medrash l’Talmud…. in English! In the sun-dappled streets of Kew Gardens, Rav Yitzchak Bilitzky, R’M at Shaar HaTorah, walks with a talmid, immersed in the sugya At the H3 women’s conference, Rav Chaim Meir Roth answers questions from a sincere, eager audience Home In Lancut now, by the heilege Ropshitzer The energy to do for Torah comes only from…Torah. As Reb Ezra David waits for the flight to Toronto before tonight’s Mir parlor meeting, his posture and focus is that of one more yungerman in an army of thousands From the desk of R’ Gedalia Weinrib of Chai Lifeline – nearly $500 from a group of 4th graders, a new generation learning from the example of those who came before them What Jews Do. On the yahrzeit of Rav Meir Hershkowitz: The Stamford Rosh Yeshiva receiving the first copy of his sefer, Nesiv Meir, but before checking the contents, the Rosh Yeshiva reviews the names of the sponsors, a show of hakaras hatov. Always with joy… the Loitzker Rebbe at the close of a Shabbos with the chasidim in Pennsylvania In North Miami Beach, even the neighborhood basketball hoop proclaims ‘Shabbos Kodesh!’ At the close of a week, Reb Meilech unburdening his soul at the center of the universe It’s morning in Lizhensk, and Reb Itche Meir Morgenstern is trying to arouse Heavenly favor with every step A davening so intense that an air conditioner is placed nearby, ensuring that Rav Yaakov Ades does not ‘overheat’, Glimpses of Greatness: 10 Iyar- Rebbetzin Chana Perel Kotler Lights of our Nation: 9 Iyar- Rav Moshe Hager On the yahrzeit of the Poltava Gaon, the image of his handwritten notes on the Yerushalmi- written with such sacrifice and clandestinely taken out of Russia by Rav Tzvi Bronstein, who published it. From the collection of M.D Yarmish, grandson of Rabbi Bronstein Lights of our Nation: 10 Iyar- Rav Yitzchok Eizek Krasilschikov The Makover Rov in transit, but so at home Where you look, you see it: His love for us As a new week begins, Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel slips into a Sephardic minyan in Brooklyn to access the brachos that come through the Kohanim Outside a Givat Shaul office building, the most important meeting of the afternoon Before recording his motzoei Shabbos Torah Anytime shiur, Rabbi Avrohom Walkin takes a moment to deliver a different ‘Shiur’, focusing on the decor in the room of his father, Rav Moshe Yoel, and the story of unceasing ameilus beTorah A rainy motzoei Shabbos in Lakewood means Chaverim of CJ members have a busy night Preparing for Shabbos…on the road, but always at home! Talmidim of Ateres Shimon join Rav Shimon Galey in Chicago on Thursday night, hearts being readied for Shabbos At the Zone, Oorah hosting 120 day school principals from across the country – because good educators always want to be educated on how to do it better! A glimpse of the radiance, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and the Lev Simcha of Gur on this date Rav Yisroel Taplin, R’M at BMG, preparing for Shabbos Rav Yaakov Bender starts off his weekly shmuess with a story about the middos of his fellow Rosh Yeshivah, who apologized for the fact that he would be missing the shmuess due to a family simchah… In a Surfside bakery, a challah as big as the excitement for Shabbos! The Rebbe of Toldos Aron counting sefira in a new beis medrash established specifically for yungeleit who work to support their families Pure hearts, whispered prayers, and children who know they are being heard In Cincinatti, the Yom Tov of a siyum on Shas, and new musmachim, and of welcoming the Rosh Yeshivah of Ner Yisrael, Rav Ahron Feldman In the streets of Antwerp, an #MKY Favorite anticipates the Shabbos He died alone, hopeful that a minyan would attend his burial. The funeral, coordinated by Rabbi Bernstein of Chabad of downtown San Jose, drew more than minyanim, brothers there to bid a fitting farewell Chaverim of CJ powering Hatzalah of CJ, a cycle of chessed that never ends No detail overlooked … all the way to the dips at the Bikur Cholim of Lakewood kitchen, preparing Shabbos for patients and their families Some see a splendid blue ocean. In Surfside, Rav Yitzchak Kolodetzky sees the opportunity to make a bracha