Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun dorma (Lincoln Center, 1979

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otHFNxx2t0M

Wow. 

gain from what the nations have to offer to us

 Q: Do we gain the maximum benefit by staying to ourselves,

separate from the goyim? Wouldn’t it be beneficial for us to gain

from what the nations have to offer to us?

A: When you see an airplane take off for Eretz Yisroel, and inside there are many

people going to yeshivos to learn in Eretz Yisroel, that’s an example where we are

taking advantage of what the gentiles have to offer us. R’ Akiva Eiger didn’t invent an

airplane, and neither did the Vilna Gaon invent the airplane. The goyim invented it.

So we say, absolutely; utilize all that we can from the inventions of the goyim. Even

the scientific knowledge that the goyim have discovered we use. Make use of

everything; whatever we can we take it for ourselves.

Now, I think that when Moshiach will come, we’ll still use automobiles; we won’t

give up automobiles. The world will continue to run like it does today. The Gemara

says that. And if there will be automobiles, so there will have to be traffic lights too.

Traffic lights were invented by the goyim but there will be traffic lights too in the

time of Moshiach. On the contrary, there will be halachos, takanos chachomim: If a

person passes a red light, he’ll get malkos, lashes. No question about it. There will be

very severe penalties. That’s very important for us – for safety, piku’ach nefesh.

We’ll make use in Moshiach’s times of all the good takanos. I’m sure they’ll use

radio to let people know dinim, halachos, other important information; and people

will listen to Torah on the radio. And in those days there will be a kosher TV. Kosher

TV means people will sit in their homes and will look at the TV and they will see

tzaddikim teaching Torah and explaining things – halachos, and middos tovos, and

even halachos of Yom Tov and halachos of Shabbos on TV; and it will be much more

effective than merely words or printed pages. I’m sure all the modern inventions will

be utilized in the days of Moshiach. Therefore, certainly we want to make use of the

benefits the goyim bring to the world.

R' Avigdor Miller Zt"

Toras Avigdor

"Greatness of Jewish Women"

electric scooter

 HaGaon HaRav Bentzion Mutzafi, a leading Sefardic Posek in Eretz Yisroel, called electric scooters “horrible killing devices” in response to a question about a recent tragic accident in Israel.

HaRav Mutzafi was asked about the recent incident in Petach Tikvah, during which a 13-year-old was killed after being hit by a car while he was riding an electric scooter. The same evening, another resident of Petach Tikvah, a 30-year-old avreich who was injured while riding on an electric scooter last week, passed away.

HaRav Mutzafi referred to the incident: “There’s no police, there’s no deterrence, no governance. Day after day, we witness boys ‘flying’ back and forth at the most congested intersections with these horrible killing electric scooters. There’s not even a shadow of a police presence and nissim occur that no one is injured or killed, but today it happened.”

“I suggest to every parent who has a son or daughter who owns an electric scooter or bike to hang a list of those killed by these destructive devices in a central place in their homes and to warn their household members about these incidents. And the Borei Olam should bring peace on us and all of Yisrael.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Rav Yehuda Mandel

In Novardok, they used to say that the best chinuch is when a child or talmid observes good middos. People don’t realize when disciplining others how much one’s own Ga'ava, Ka'as, and

Ak'shanus, get involved. Rav Yehuda Mandel says that R' Nosson Wachtfogel Zatzal told him that a m'chanech needs good middos. Rav Mandel says that Novardokers pride themselves on their ability to tolerate chutzpah. Rather than be bothered by it, they shteig in working on their own middos.

Rav Yehuda Mandel, of Bitachon Weekly

Norvodick Musar

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Baruch Dayan Emes -- Rabbi Uri Zohar z'l

Rabbi Uri Zohar, the former secular Israeli media celebrity turned Orthodox Jewish scholar, gave the following advice in an interview with two young Jewish men:

I hope very much that you also listen to someone who is experienced. I know what you are talking about. But I wish to Hakodesh Baruch Hu that you will know what I’m talking about. Look into the Torah. Have something stable in learning every day. And don’t learn what you don’t feel you are close to. Learn whatever you want. אין אדם לומד תורה אלא ממקום  שלבו  חפץ  You learn what your heart pulls you to learn. It can be halacha. It can be Chumash. It can be Gemarah. It can be Mishnayos. It can be Midrash. Whatever. But don’t leave the Torah. This is life. Torat Chaim.[1]

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[1] Rabbi Uri Zohar, interview on “From Israeli Film to Bnei Brak Gadol - Rabbi Uri Zohar | Meaningful People #45,” 20:20-20:56.