On the tables at Rabbi Browns shul, a list of names of those waiting for their shidduchim, harnessing our greatest weapon Home On a trip to Houston, Rav Ariel Shoshan, who has done so much to make Scottsdale bloom, offers words of chizzuk to baalebatim who join the Houston Kollel night seder. Rav Berel Povarsky at Mearas Hamachpela this morning, accompanied by talmidim from Lakewood Thank you for sharing this with me, Rav Dov Landau tells Reb Reuven Wolf, when being informed of the remarkable success of the seminary girls phone-bank campaign for the Keren Olam HaTorah While Rav Shimon Spitzer brought his unique message of chizuk to Lakewood The Thursday evening Achdus shiur which unites various Queens shuls featured Rav Yaakov Bender last night Lights of our Nation: 7 Tishrei- Rav Binyomin Zeilberger At Darchei Torah, the middle school marks the time of year with a retzufos seder, accumulating zechuyos The Rosh Yeshiva Rav Malkiel, his son in law and grandchildren together in purity Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin comes out to greet a very important arrival At Yeshivas, Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, a full beis medrash preparing for the holiest day of the year with the traditional Maamar In Meah Shearim shtieblach, an informal post- Shacharis chazzanim prep session. From the Archive of a Nation: Rav Hershele of Kretchniff, who traditionally said Tashlich on the day that the selichos of 13 Middos is recited, at the water’s edge. In Lakewoods Klausenberg shul now, connecting with the avodah of teshuva through a sacred minhag In the Kiryat Belz evening, chickens, a commotion and kapparah Behind the scenes at last nights Nishei Adirei HaTorah gathering, Avrumi Berko and Reb Shmuel Lemberger find time to focus on the goal Across Klal Yisroel, people are seeking Pidyon Nefesh but at Aish, there were actually five Pidyon Habens in one week!!!! Songs of our Season: Emes Ki Atoh The pond at Montreals Pratt Parc pond has been mysteriously been empty for most of this summer, but now, just time for Tashlich, there is water! The simple joy on the face of a Rebbi speaking in learning with his talmid Athens, Greece is just one more stop along the way back home #MKY Inbox Lights of our Nation: 6 Tishrei- The Shpola Zaida Surprise guests at the shiur of Reb Eli Stefansky this morning- a delegation of Agudas Yisroel Siyum Hashas committee-members, Reb Shlomo Werdiger along with Meilech Rubin and Yoeli Edelstein, there to experience the magic in person. Rav Yanky Kahan’s yeshiva is a place of ambitious goals in learning …and to night, they celebrate the sweet taste of accomplishment The 13 middos of Rachamim on the only hillside in Meron At Pollak Esrogim, the joy on the face of Rav Tzvi Fink, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin The tzaddik of Amshinov, doing tashlich Customer service excellence at Home Depot in Howell, New Jersey. After visiting Yerushalayim to deliver a shmuess at the Mir, Rav Dov Landau went to visit the Brisker Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Near the kever of Avraham Avinu, Reb Moshe Taragin delivering a shiur to talmidim As a gadol b’Yisroel arrives, all of Beis Yisroel becomes a vantage point from which to behold the glory Akiva Johnson goes up high and cuts branches off trees – and during these days, he goes from appointment to appointment, making porches kosher for Sukkos. The eager customers don’t negotiate on price, he says, seeing it as a privilege! Rav Yitzchok Soloveitchik, performing the Minhag of Kapparos At Shefa Mall in Yerushalayim- the cashier is out and the inventory waits quietly and securely When Mearas Hamachpela is open to the public, the opportunity is seized – Rabbi Wiesenfeld and talmidim tapping into the power of our fathers and mothers to plead The Daily Q Why was brilliant light created if not for this? Rav Yonasan Sacks examines an esrog From the Ahavas Yisrael Charity of Baltimore event, director of development Reb Aryeh Bogopulsky opens hearts There are no borders, delays, or roadblocks that can block the simcha of a chassid An overflow crowd. An overwhelming desire to just be home From the Archive of a Nation: Selichos of fifty years ago in the beis medrash of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin Glimpses of Greatness: Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson At an event to benefit Montreals Karlsburg beis medrash, three neighborhood rabbanim in conversation, Rav Yechiel Meir Katz of Dzibo, Rav Yaakov Elya Unsdorfer of Mesifta and the Karlsburger Rebbe The power is out in Rabbi Dienna yeshiva in Monroe, but the energy is surging At Monsey’s newly established Mesifta Ohr Chanina, Rav Avi Slansky acknowledging the hard work of bochurim who chazzered hundreds of amudim over the Elul zman Talmidim of Yeshivat Orach Mishor getting into Sukkos mode Near midnight at the Keren Olam HaTorah headquarters, Rav Meilech Biderman and Reb Reuven Wolff react to the news that the campaign staffed by seminary-girl volunteers had raised more than 24 million shekalim for Torah (photo: Daniel Nafusi) In the nine years since its founding, Ohel Sarale has been the Divine shliach for close to 9,000 new homes and 2,000 babies born – last night, Rav Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg celebrated the launching of the organization in Eretz Yisroel