Year: 2024

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Most opened and most engaging mailing

• December 17 סרטון נדיר של מרן החזו”א זלה”ה (העורך Editor)
• December 17 קול מהיכל גליון 18# (קול מהיכל Kol Meheichal)
• December 17 How To Organize Your Day (העורך Editor)
• December 17 לא מן המקדש אתה ירא אלא ממי שפקד על המקדש (העורך Editor)
• December 17 How Yaakov Answered Reuven… (ללא מחבר No Author)

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• December 14 ספר הדרת פנים זקן: בענין גילוח וגידול הזקן לאור ההלכה, משה ניסן ווינער (העורך Editor)
• December 14 קדושת הברית: הדרכה להורים למלמדים ולבחורים‎ (ונשמרתם Venishmartem)
• December 14 Gathering To Request the Geulah (העורך Editor)
• December 14 Gary North Exposes Classical Greece (העורך Editor)
• December 14 Suggesting JEWISH TERM for the ‘Diamond–Water Paradox’ (העורך Editor)

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• December 25 ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Against ASHKENAZI JEWS! (העורך Editor)

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• December 4 Javier Milei on the Connection Between Peace and Prosperity (העורך Editor)

After encountering the enormity of R’ Bunim Shreiber, I decided to learn more (call it unpaid oppo research) by listening to him on Kol Halashon. But of course, he is giving shiurim. Many shiurim. Is the damage worse than the benefit? Well, if so, what is the alternative? Rosh Yeshiva is not a low-watt job. We can’t just bring someone else…

The very first shiur I listened to is ישיבת תורת אליהו, בענין הגונב מן הגנב – ביסודות החילוק בין גנב וגזלן – כ’ אייר פג, find it here. R’ Shreiber quotes the Brisker Rav (“perhaps in the name of Reb Chaim”) [minute 13] as the source for an insight into the difference between Ganav and Gazlan. Rabbi Asher Weiss disagrees and makes a few good points here. Rabbi Rosental’s “Mishnas Yaakov” at the beginning of Hilchos Geneiva also brings this distinction.

Chas veshalom, I’m not calling them all Briskers!

By the way, while the Mishnas Yaakov usually appears to be scrupulous about giving credit, perhaps he innocently forgot where he first heard the Brisker chiddush and mistakenly regarded it as his own. Or maybe Rabbi Rosental thought it’s so well known he need not give explicit credit. Or he regarded the Brisker Rav as Rabo Muvhak, so it’s obviously from him (doubtful).

Still, I must include one insult, at least: Maybe someone can enlighten R’ Shreiber as to the translation of the word שקוצקעראיי. It “means” שקוץ!