MKY Moments https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Daily Q Home At the Park East Synagogue, a new voice and a new era: Rav Yosef Wilhelm with pre-Selichos words of inspiration Rav Meilech at the close of a Shabbos in Meron with RCCS patients and donors Lights of our Nation: 24 Elul- Rav Yechezkel Abramsky In Melbourne, where the various shul’s join together for a pre-Selichos seder, the Rav of Adas Yisroel takes his place in the crowd The worksheets written by Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Berkowitz when he served as a young rebbi: these primers for the 13 middos of Rachamim, recited again and again during these days, were kept by talmidim and used year after year, a reminder of a master mechanech Here’s Why: Selichos on Motsei Shabbos In the greater Mirrer beis medrash tonight, the awe is tangible Songs of the Season: Rachamana niggun After sustaining damage in a fire , Mordy’s Shtiebel held an evening of chizuk with Rav Uri Deutsch. Here, musician R’ Moshe Katz plays a sacred niggun, ushering in the season At a hachnassas Sefer Torah erev Shabbos in Passaic, Rav Pinchas Novoseller and Rav Ahron Cohen, whose shuls face one another, celebrating together Lights of our Nation: 23 Elul- Rav Yosef Babad Lights of our Nation: 24th of Tishrei- The Ribnitzer Rebbe Songs of the Season: The Pittsburgher Rebbes niggun Songs of the Season Songs of the Season Moments before the last Shabbos of the year, a cry of separation, of preparation and of anticipation At the Chofetz Chaim butcher shop, Mesechta Chulin comes to life Shlomo Reich and the Holy Brothers of the Shaar – the kiruv yeshiva in the Five Towns – shteiging and farbrenging with Rav Yossi Schwartz and his chevra from Kodesh Shul in North Woodmere In Brooklyn, the song of #Thank YouDearRebbi comes to life Rav Dovid Merling’s nightly mishna berura shiur shifts locations in honour of a Simcha The morning after the Siyum in Houston, 6:00 am, Beis Medrash full for Kollel Boker, joined by Kollel Boker Ohr Shmuel founders R Moshe Gellis and R Feivish Waxman. From the Archive of a Nation: Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi z’l, learning up Avraham Frieds classic niggun- composed by Yossi Green- to the words of the pasuk in this weeks parsha. The Gerrer bochurim being tested on hundreds of blatt Gemara are impressive – and through the lens of photographer Kobi Katz, they are also photogenic Rav Yaakov Bender stops off at his brothers seat, instantly drawing a crowd of bochurim, hanging on to every word The Daily Q The Daily Q At the Elul experience, Yaakov Shwekey, from backstage, takes his own video of a childhood hero, singing a beloved song Lights of our Nation: 20 Elul- Rav Eliyahu Lopian Summer and Rosh Hashanah merge seamlessly in Woodbourne Deep in the Kiryat Bialik night, Selichos with Rav Meilech, there to strengthen the hands of brothers building in holiness. A new Mezuzah on a new Yeshiva on the eve of a new year. Rabbi Joey Haber affixing the Mezuzah to the door way of the newly established Yeshivat Osher Hatorah At the Chabad Shul in Los Angeles, stuff Jews worry about (especially at this time of year) L’maancha… for Your sake, Hashem. A glimpse from the center of the universe. So many different ways one destination. In Johannesburg, a neilas hachag on the last night of Rav Yitzchok Ezrachis visit before he heads off to France, with so much chizuk to give. Near Starbucks, in Howell, someone is getting energized The air conditioning technician sent to the Tampa Kollel turned out to be Israeli, so obviously he couldn’t leave without a few minutes of true nourishment. Intense moments at the Elul experience as Mordechai ben David leads the crowd in giving thanks…(via RK) From the hands of the Mirrer Rosh Yeshivah, a wish for a year filled with sweetness and bracha Today is the fifth yahrtzeit of Harav Elya Fischer, Rav of the Gerrer chassidus in NY. Rav Elya was a Gaon and a Tzaddik- and especially sensitive. He and his wife never merited biological children, so every Friday he would stay home waiting until after his wife lit the Shabbos lecht. He explained that she had no children to wish Gut Shabbos to after candle lighting so he made sure to be there to wish, and to be wished. At a Jerusalem traffic light, he continues to learn Mishnayos. “This way,” the driver – who has already completed Shisha Sidrei Mishna three times!- explains, “I also don’t feel drawn to look all around me!” In North Woodmere last night, Sholom Stein – who came from Lakewood to encourage the next generation of Torah supporters- in conversation with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel Chabad Shluchim gather in Taipei, strengthening, encouraging and supporting one another, brothers rejoicing before a new year Talmidim of the newly opened yeshiva for Sephardic bochurim, Orach Mishor, led by Rav David Dayan, having the zechus to receive a bracha of chizuk from Rav Dov Landau Reb Beri, the talmidim, and a wake-up call for a new day On the yahrzeit of the Ponevezher Rov, builder of a new world. Here, visible at the 21 second mark, in conversation with Rav Shmuel Rozovsky On the yahrzeit of the Ponevezher Rov- Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman At the Houston Kollel community-wide siyum Lights of our Nation: 21 Elul- Rav Yonasan Eibschutz