Sunday, December 25, 2022

Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 15: Rav Yaakov Weinberg and Rav Moshe Shapiro zichronom livracha: A Super-Sized Nitel Nacht Shmooz with Rav Yochanan Meir Bechhofer shlita

At left, under the chuppah, Rabbi Yochanan Meir Bechhofer, shlita. In the middle, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg zt"l. Reading the kesubah, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro zt"l.


Rischa D'Araisa Season 6 Episode 15:

Rav Yaakov Weinberg
and Rav Moshe Shapiro 
zichronom livracha

A Super-Sized Nitel Nacht Shmooz
with
Rav Yochanan Meir Bechhofer
shlita

Friday, December 16, 2022

New Archives for Audio Yerushalmi Shiurim

 I am very grateful to Reb Eli Gurevich for maintaining yerushalmionline.com for so many years.

As in the near future he is "retiring" from serving as a webmaster, he has copied all the shiurim to https://archive.org/details/ygb_yerushalmi.


Archive.org provides several new options for downloading the shiurim individually or in bulk.

And, as I noted in a previous post, I have also begun uploading the audio shiurim in mp4 format (with a static picture) to

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

New Series! So What's Davening All About Anyway? For Adults, part 1(see links to subsequent parts in the comments)

The priorities of the purpose and the kavannah of davening.

Hint: It's probably not what you thought!

Taken from the Besamim Rosh commentary in the Siddur Otzar HaTefillos. The 14th perek, with which we began, can be found at https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=57995&st=&pgnum=45&hilite=

(see links to subsequent parts in the comments)

Monday, December 12, 2022

The original of the picture of Reb Avrohom Elya Kaplan zt"l, and from the same issue, ברכות on the engagement of my grandparents

 From the HaNe'eman dedicated to RAEK's memory,

Clearer than the copy in the sefer.


And, from the same issue,
ברכות on the engagement of my grandparents zt"l.


The third and fourth boxes on the right side, and the second and third boxes on the left side.
(He was also called Berel or Aryeh Leib, besides Dov Yehuda. Long story.)



Wonder Where That Letter Is Today...

I would love to see Reb Elya Meir zt"l's letter to my grandfather zt"l...



 

Sunday, December 11, 2022

New Series! So What's Davening All About Anyway? For Teens, part 1

The priorities
of the purpose and the kavannah of davening.

Taken from the
Besamim Rosh commentary
in the Siddur Otzar HaTefillos.

See the comments for links to subsequent parts.


Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Talmud Yerushalmi Audio (Daf Yomi) Playlist

The audio shiurim from the 1997-2001 cycle of the Daf Yomi Yerushalmi as recorded live at the Frumi Noble Night Kollel in Chicago. The pagination follows the Vilna edition of Talmud Yerushalmi.  IYH, I will convert them to YouTube format and upload them ahead of the current cycle's calendar. 

The entire series in mp3 format may be downloaded as individual files or in bulk at https://archive.org/details/ygb_yerushalmi

For video shiurim according to the pagination of the Oz V'Hadar/Artscroll edition of Talmud Yerushalmi, please see

A Daf Yomi Yerushalmi calendar for the Vilna cycle is at

A Daf Yomi Yerushalmi calendar for the Oz'VHadar/Artscroll cycle is at

Sunday, December 04, 2022

My father ז"ל's Hakomas Matzeiva

https://youtu.be/BIf0F8-ojOk

My brother, Rabbi Yochanan Meir Bechhofer שליט"א's words at our father ז"ל's הקמת מצבה today. 

(Seven months after our father's פטירה.

I composed the wording of the מצבה in collaboration with our father's devoted wife תלחט"א, Edna.