Watch What You Say
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzRav Eliyohu Mann of Bnei Brak would speak with Rav Chaim Kanievsky daily, and people who had questions or sought brachos from Rav Chaim would often call him. One day, a rebbi...
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By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzListen to this story about Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l, about leadership, responsibility, chinuch, and caring about every Jewish child. One morning, twenty-five years ago, after...
View ArticleTransforming and Transmitting
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz My dear friend, Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin, was in the United States a couple of weeks ago, and we were discussing the loss of Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l. As head of Lev L’Achim and...
View ArticleThe Climb
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzA certain sadness washes over many people when Yom Tov ends, and they find difficulty in returning to performing the various mundane activities that comprise our days. After...
View ArticleThe Rest of the Story
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzHere we are into the third week of Sefirah, the second perek of Pirkei Avos,and studying Parshas Kedoshim, all intertwined and charged with the theme of the posuk found in...
View ArticleTeach Them to Believe
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week’s parsha of Emor contains the various Yomim Tovim that we celebrate, as well as the obligation to count the days between when the korban ha’omer is brought on...
View ArticleHopeful
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, we celebrate Lag Ba’omer and the legacy of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai. We celebrate the conclusion of the plague that affected the 24,000 students of Rabi Akiva, who...
View ArticleThere for the Taking
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe don’t have to be too knowledgeable to recognize that the world is sinking to levels unparalleled since the days of Greek and Sedomite hedonism. You don’t have to be a...
View ArticleToday is the Day
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIn the initial days of this world, when there was little more than the earth and the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars, the world was waiting. Even after Adam was created...
View ArticleSparks Aflame
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWhile I was in Eretz Yisroel last week, I came across a pithy saying I had never seen before. In Hebrew, on a keychain in a store in Zichron Yaakov that doesn’t cater to...
View ArticleSeeing the Good
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIt is interesting that as we enter the period of the most enjoyable weather, following the Yom Tov of Shavuos which celebrates Matan Torah, for several weeks we lain parshiyos...
View ArticleLet’s Be Better
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIt was, in a sense, the first gathering of the Bnei Yisroel, the twelve pillars of our nation surrounding the bedside of their father. Yaakov Avinu looked at each of his sons...
View ArticleWho We Are
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIn this week’s parsha, we learn about the parah adumah, the purely red cow, whose ashes are used in the purification process of people who became tomei by being in contact...
View ArticleIts all About Middos
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIt is a well-worn truism that people hear what they want to hear. People can be having a conversation about a specific topic, and each participant will take have a different...
View ArticleIn Mourning
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe heart refuses to accept and the hand cannot write what the mind is trying to process. A young rosh yeshiva, scion to a royal family and traditions, groomed his entire life...
View ArticleStill on The Journey
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzOn Friday, we usher in the month of Av, which conjures up so many bitter collective memories. On Shabbos, we lain the parshiyos of Mattos and Masei, which discuss the travels...
View ArticleNever Alone and Never Lost
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWhen you walk into a room where people are sitting shivah, the atmosphere is heavy and sad. Not a word is exchanged. Then a menachem, a comforter, walks into the room....
View ArticleThe Power To Triumph
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzTisha B’Av is a day of sadness for the Jewish people, the day of mourning for the many tragedies that befell our people throughout the year and during the days of Av. This...
View ArticleVacation
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzReaders of this publication are familiar with Rabbi Moshe Garfinkel, a fine, dedicated cheder rebbi and yorei Shomayim who regularly writes letters to the editor. Last night,...
View ArticlePress the Switch
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Gemara in Yevamos (63a) quotes Rabi Elozor, who derives from the posuk (Bereishis 12:3), “Venivrichu vecha kol mishpichos ha’adamah,” that blessing flows to all families...
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