new and harder trials

Not for his own Goluth but for the Goluth of the Torah does the Jew mourn. And must this morning die away, must the sorrow disappear, must these tears dry up if the nations become more humane and just, if they loosen the chains on the hands and feet of the Goluth-weary Israel, and an emancipated Israel steps into the company of non-Jewish states as a fully-privileged member? Will the Torah be any the less in exile for this? Will the “Goluth of the majesty of God” be brought to an end by this? … Or has it to endure new and harder trials, is it faced with new Goluth sufferings, is it threatened with a new and more painful and bitter exile? 

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, "Av I," Collected Writings, Vol. I, p. 345.

Polite German policeman

 Who also speaks excellent English

She met Van Gogh!

 

Gershon Veroba Mimkomcha

 

27 Teves, Yahrzheit of Rav Hirsch

Tonight and tomorrow is the 138th yahrzeit of Rabbiner Hirsch. (137th I believe.) According to the Zohar, on a yahrzeit a tzadik is more present in the world than he was in his lifetime. Not only that, but he is elevated with each passing year. You can connect to this through love of the tzadik. Also, when you study his Torah, you are transported to his gravesite where you can daven for salvation in his merit. 

How Rabbi Moshe Feinstein almost became the lubavitch Rosh yeshiva in 770

 

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