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We brought Yitchak Fuchs’ “Boro Park” song here before.

Find the song background on Mishpacha here.

An excerpt from the article:

Reb Yitzchak wrote the song during his own personal “exile.” “I lived in Boro Park for six years. How could I not sing a song about it?” he asks. “I came to Boro Park during a rough time in my own life and I found so many brothers there so much Jewish warmth. They say that galus unites Jews — how true. I was amazed when I heard so much Yiddish rolling glibly off the tongues of youngsters not just old men. I sang about Boro Park as I viewed it — and as an Israeli filled with longing for Eretz Yisrael.

“At the beginning of the song a listener might think I’m encouraging other Jews to leave Eretz Yisrael for America chas v’shalom ” Fuchs continues. “But later you can hear that the call ‘Come to Boro Park’ is to Mashiach to come redeem all those waiting. Because really Boro Park could be anywhere: London Lakewood or even Yerushalayim or Bnei Brak. It’s just another place where our Jewish brothers are waiting. If only Hashem would send Mashiach already…”

Honorific inflation is one thing. Using this empty expression for the Meshech Chochma or Chafetz Chaim, fine. But living in the land of Israel under Jewish autonomy today this is yet another cognitive step away from the Temple.

Pesachim 113a:

אמר ליה רב לרב כהנא הפוך בנבילתא ולא תיפוך במילי פשוט נבילתא בשוקא ושקיל אגרא ולא תימא כהנא אנא וגברא רבא אנא וסניא בי מלתא…

Unless they mean we should be donating money, גדלהו משל אחיו…

(As for R’ Shalom Cohen himself, see here.)

Go to HebrewBooks, and search for the words “תורת הקרבנות” in the “author” box.

“Rav Avigdor Miller – His Life And His Revolution” by Rabbi Yaakov Y. Hamburger (p. 190):

Rabbi Miller encouraged his talmidim to learn mussar loudly and enthusiastically, as was the accepted practice in the European yeshivos. Once, when it was too quiet during mussar seder, he joked, “We’re now observing fifteen minutes of silence in honor of the late Reb Yisrael Salanter.”