I pulled an all-nighter to get Conversations III done. BH, I hope it will be ready for publication by December 1st, and thanks to those who dedicated names etc for the book. In the meantime, slow posting for the next couple of days, while I take some time to do some other stuff. I have […]
Everyone needs Hashem – comments from the Rav
Shavua Tov!
I managed to catch up on the Shivivei Or newsletters over Shabbat, BH.
This week's has a real doozy of a shiur, which I will BH try and translate a lot of. In the meantime, these are some interesting comments from two weeks ago:
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Shiur…
This girl’s on fire
I'm posting this up, as it made me laugh out loud when I watched it.
And that is more valuable than gold, in today's world:
And it's shmirat eynayim friendly too!!!
Olam hazeh v'olam habah.
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My book designer is currently getting…
Returning lost things – comments from the Rav
Amazingly, as I was reading last week’s Shivivei Or, which I missed because I was in Uman last Shabbat, trying to recover some ‘lost things’ – whaddya know?!
The Rav was giving a whole shiur on how you have to travel to the Tzaddik…
Rectifying the four elements
The English translation of Rav Ofer Erez's book, 'Ahavat Kedumim' is nearly ready, BH.
Here is a snippet I got sent by the translator, which is very pertinent to what we've been discussing recently, here on the blog:
From 'Ahavat Kedumim'…
A Shabbat by Rabbenu
For a change, we got to Uman fairly easily this time around.
Sure, our taxi never showed up, so we had to find someone else (who ended up being much nicer, spoke English, and was really a good experience, if you ever want an Uman driver. We…
Back to Uman
Baruch Hashem, just got back from Uman.
All told, it takes about 15 hours door-to-door, to get to Uman at the moment.
An hour to Ben Gurion...three hours check in...three hours flight...an hour in Chisinau airport figuring out the taxi to…