MKY Moments https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Home Here’s Why: Ohr Somayach At BMG, a new Zman brings its unique circumstances- and with it, a flood of new halachos At the close of three days of bracha and inspiration, Rabbi David Haber parts from Rav Binyamin Finkel as he leaves Deal Lights of our Nation: 4 Elul- Rav Baruch Refoel Yehoshua Soloveitchik The Daily Q The radiance of Rav Asher Arielli after the first shiur of Elul: clarifying, analyzing, and enlightening Sights of a new Zman: At Rabbi Aron’s yeshiva in Lakewood, bochurim who are all in Rav Yankel Drillman addressing an overflow crowd at Torah Links in Lakewood, marking the 100th yahrzeit of Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk Rabbi Privalskys camp visiting with the Bnei Brak posek Rav Amram Fried, who managed to test them while fielding endless phone calls and shaylos In Vienna Airport, all roads leading home How does Mesivta of Clifton finish a year of shtieging? With a bechina on the whole mesechta! The beauty of Lake George elevated at this moment One season gives way to another as families finish up their vacations in the Catskills In the mountains of northern Quebec, Vizhnitzer baal menagen Reb Meir Adler leads melava malka for those in Trout Lake, along with singer Motty Rosenfeld At Camp Agudah , a summer of achdus ends with a clean up – be’achdus #MKY Glimpses: Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kook Even the train schedule cries out “Wake up!” Lights of our Nation: 4 Elul- Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk #MKY Glimpses: Rav Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz Today is the second yahrzeit of Rav Avraham Ausband, the Riverdale Rosh Yeshivah. Here, the Rosh Yeshiva just one week before his petirah, at the chasunah of the son of his talmid, Rabbi Gedaliah Zlotowitz 100 years later, remembering Rav Meir Simcha Hakohein in Lakewood tonight, at a gathering paying tribute to the Ohr sameiach From wherever it comes, the cry is one and the same: Rachem Aleinu! And in Lakewood, New Jersey, so many options for Selichos minyanim throughout the month! Cause you never really leave Eretz Yisroel The Malchus Choir with a musical rendition of the traditional “Wake up for Selichos” chant…. It’s been a Shabbos packed with drashos, brachos, meetings and visits to shuls across Deal. But when Rav Binyamin Finkel is about to make havdala, there is no sign of exhaustion- only serenity Hamavadil, with the Belzer Ruv, in the nusach of Sephardic selichot Children who just want to be home… Lights of our Nation: 2 Elul- Rav Eliezer Hager At the center of the universe, welcoming a new season Lights of our Nation: 2 Elul- Rav Shmuel Dovid Walkin At the installation of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod as chief rabbi of Chisinau, Moldava In Chevron, city of our fathers, the passion and power of Selichos Rav Yerucham Olshin shares a story with Rabbi Ephraim Eliyahu Shapiro, voice of inspiration to so many Mr. Michael Rosenberg once again wakes up Portland, Oregon, with the blast of the shofar. A Friday morning in Deal elevated, as Rabbi David Haber and the community join to welcome Rav Binyamin Finkel of the Mir The overlap of seasons, in Yerushalayim Preparing for Shabboat Shalom, an Erev Shabbos meeting of boats in beautiful Lac Des Sables, at which Rabbi Emanuel Carlebach distributes challos, candles and chizuk to Jewish boat owners from all over the Laurentians Songs of the Season: Ma Navu A new month, and in Yerushalayim, a new Sefer Torah Mordechai Shapiro and Zanvel Weinberger usher in Chodesh Elul, at a chasunah Photographer Shlomi Cohen capturing the dramatic first moments of a new zman at Ateres Shlomo, in Rishon L’Tzion Stuff Jews care about Neshama strains in Newark… Last Thursday night mishmar for the bein hazmanim season in Perth, Australia At Khal Yotzei Ashkenaz in Lakewood, holding fast to mesorah (mesowrah!) and blowing shofar on the first day of Rosh Chodesh The Daily Q On the sands of Deal, a first-ever Miami Boys Choir alumni gathering, representing all the different eras of the group, with one Elul’dike plea At the “Hanechemodim” maamad last night in Prestwich, Manchester, celebrating the opening of another new Kollel, Rav Leibush Rabinowitz shares the message of Rav Avrohom Gurwitz.