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Miracle on the Boat from the Lebanon War

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

I saw this on this blog, as well as in an email that was sent to me:

Rabbi Frand, at his weekly shiur (broadcast via satellite from Baltimore), told over the following incredible story. He related how he had received a letter this past week from a person involved in rabbanut in Israel. The Rabbi wrote [...]

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Shay’s Grand Slam

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

I received this story via email (I think I heard it at an NCSY Shabbaton a number of years ago). I do not know who the author was. Still, it is worth sharing and reading at least once:
What would you do? You make the choice! Don’t look for a punch line; there isn’t one! Read [...]

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Atzmona

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

A member of my high school class is currently in an IDF officer-training course. His unit assisted in the disengagement. Below is an exerpt from an email (edited for spelling) he sent out to members of our class, telling about what he witnessed at Atmona. It is a very moving account, and I believe it [...]

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Sand & Stone

Friday, May 27th, 2005

I have seen this story before, but it is easy to forget. I do not know who wrote it (if you search for it on the Internet it appears with a few slightly different versions, but no author).

A story tells of two friends who were walking through the desert. During some point of the [...]

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The Never-Ending Story

Sunday, October 24th, 2004

By Stewart Weiss. Appeared originally in the Jerusalem Post, April 20, 1996
You might walk past it a thousand times - even tread directly upon it - and yet you would probably never take note of it. Amid the silent hills and grassy quietude of Mt. Herzl, a gentle spring wind blows over the grave of [...]

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The Arrival of Mashiach

Friday, October 15th, 2004

To all of ‘Us’ From One of ‘Them’
Note: A message that many people will agree should be an ideal, but only a few will only put into practice. However, I do not know where such a concept of Ahavat Chinam comes from. Does anyone have any sources?

It was the night of the geulah
And in every [...]

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The Holy Hunchback

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

By Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach zt”l
In the Warsaw ghetto there was a Rebbe, the heiliger Reb Klonimus Kalman. He wrote a book and knowing prophetically that he would not survive, he put the manuscript under one of the stones in the ghetto where it was found after the war.
He had a yeshiva not of young people [...]

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