Chaim

[Jew on Shabbat @TMIJOS]

Today is the Fast Day of 17 Tammuz. There are 5 events that happened on this day that led to the fast:
1. Moses broke the Two Tablets in response to seeing the Jewish people worshipping the Golden Calf
2. A Torah scroll was burned
3. An idol was placed in the Holy Temple
4. The daily Temple sacrifice was stopped
5. The walls of Jerusalem were breached by our enemies

[Israel Heritage Foundation @IHF_Heritage]

On the yahrzeit of the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh, Rishon LeZion HaGaon HaRav David Yosef shlita urges every Jew to learn the sefer of Rabbi Chaim ben Moshe ibn Attar.

Rav David Yosef relates that his father, Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef zt”l, witnessed its power firsthand. He taught that learning in the Ohr HaChaim is a great segulah for health, bringing refuah sheleimah and strength to those in need.

When Maran suffered from an ailment in his eyes, he began learning a portion of the Ohr HaChaim each week, and merited to see open miracles of healing.

Rav David Yosef therefore urges us all to learn this holy sefer. Through the Torah of the Ohr HaChaim, we will be zocheh to miracles — in health, parnassah, and every blessing.

_Zechus HaOhr HaChaim yagen aleinu. Amen._

[Moshe Schwartz @YWNReporter]

BDE: YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaMekubal HaTzaddik Rav Rachamim Attiya zt"l, one of Yerushalayim's leading mekubalim and a senior figure at Yeshivas Nahar Shalom, who was niftar Tuesday at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center at the age of 95.

HaRav Attiya was held in the highest esteem by Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef zt"l, who often sent people to him for a pidyon nefesh. He leaves behind 13 children and hundreds of descendants, including his son, HaRav Avraham Attiya, and his daughter, the wife of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, Rishon L'Tzion and son of Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef zt"l.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Maybe the chess really is 5D and Hashem is using Trump in His game.

[Chaim @Whaim613]

@ConceptualJames @DanBurmawy I’m sorry but then you didn’t read the deal. It is not provisional or contingent, it directly takes the American boot off their neck.

[ינון מגל Yinon Magal @YinonMagal]

טוֹב לַחֲסוֹת בַּה' מִבְּטֹחַ בִּנְדִיבִים

חודש טוב

[Moshe Schwartz @YWNReporter]

🚨🚨 TEFILLOS IN BRISK: The Torah world is being urged to daven for HaGaon Rav Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik, Rosh Yeshivas Brisk, who was hospitalized today at Hadassah Ein Kerem following a deterioration in his condition.

The 76-year-old Rosh Yeshiva underwent a complex heart procedure last week performed by a specialist from abroad. Following complications, he was hospitalized Thursday morning.

Tehillim were recited in Yeshivas Brisk this evening, and a special atzeres tefillah has been scheduled for midnight.

The tzibbur is asked to daven for the refuah sheleimah of HaGaon Rav Avraham Yehoshua ben Ettil.

[Moshe Schwartz @YWNReporter]

WATCH: The time of a Rosh Yeshiva is precious. HaRav Chaim Mordechai Ausband, Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Shlomo, currently in the U.S. on behalf of Keren Olam HaTorah, arrived at a fundraising event in Lakewood only to find that it had not yet begun.

Rather than wait idly, the Rosh Yeshiva walked into nearby Bais Medrash and immediately immersed himself in learning.

A truly moving glimpse into the life of a gadol whose every moment is dedicated to Torah.

[Yossi Farro @FarroYossi]

Orthodox Jewish Billionaire Shlomo Rechnitz:

“Thank G-d I’ve been successful in business for many years, but it’s not because I’m that smart.

Whenever I think something will work, it doesn’t. And when I think something is terrible, it becomes a huge success.

So obviously it’s not because of me.

The Torah says there’s one thing you should test G-d on:

Tzedakah.

Give, and G-d promises endless blessings.”

[Israel Heritage Foundation @IHF_Heritage]

Tomorrow, 25 Sivan, is the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l

Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who passed away on 25 Sivan, 5770 / June 7, 2010, was one of the most influential rabbinic voices in modern Israel. He served as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi from 1983 to 1993, but his role in Jewish life stretched far beyond official titles. He was a _posek_ whose rulings guided thousands, a Kabbalist who carried the inner light of Torah, and a leader whose love for the Jewish people was felt in every word he spoke.

He was born in 1929 in the Old City of Jerusalem into a family steeped in mysticism and Torah. His father, Rabbi Salman Eliyahu, was a renowned Mekubal, and his mother was a niece of the Ben Ish Chai, the great 19th-century Sephardic sage. But his childhood was not easy. When Mordechai was just eleven years old, his father passed away. To help his impoverished family survive, the young boy took to the streets of Jerusalem selling cooked garbanzo beans and checking mezuzot for a small fee. Yet even in those years of hardship, he clung to his learning. He later entered the prestigious Porat Yosef Yeshiva, where he studied under Rabbi Ezra Atiyah and quickly became recognized as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation.

His sharp intellect and integrity brought him to the rabbinical courts at an age that stunned the establishment. At twenty-eight, he became the youngest _dayan_ in the history of the State of Israel. His legal clarity and compassion set a new standard, and in 1983, though he first declined, he accepted the position of Rishon LeZion, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, at the urging of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzira.

What made Rabbi Eliyahu unique was the way he lived at the intersection of halacha and Kabbalah. Like the Ben Ish Chai before him, he saw no division between the revealed and hidden dimensions of Torah. His books, including _Darkhei Taharah_ on the laws of family purity and his annotated edition of the _Kitzur Shulchan Aruch_, became foundational texts. But he was not only a writer for scholars. Through the organization Keren Moreshet, he built Torah study groups across the country. His weekly Monday night lecture was broadcast to hundreds of communities around the world, bringing complex ideas into homes with warmth and clarity.

The stories surrounding him are woven into the memory of his generation. In 1960, he was given the responsibility of overseeing the reburial of the Chida, Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai, in Jerusalem. Those present recalled that as Rabbi Eliyahu performed the burial, the bones of the great sage seemed to arrange themselves in the coffin. Fifty years later, Rabbi Eliyahu would be laid to rest on Har HaMenuchot, in a plot directly beside the Chida.

His love for the Land and People of Israel was uncompromising. A leading voice in religious Zionism, he grieved deeply over the 2005 disengagement from Gaza and spent his years calling for Jewish unity and the integrity of Eretz Yisrael. When he passed away at the age of 81, an estimated 100,000 people filled the streets of Jerusalem to accompany him to burial.

His legacy did not end that day. It lives on through his students, through his son Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed, and through the countless homes still shaped by his teachings. Today, on his Yahrzeit, 24 Sivan, that legacy is also carried in public service: his grandson, MK Avichai Eliyahu, serves as Israel’s Minister of Heritage.

May his memory be a blessing.
זכר צדיק לברכה

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

The Zohar, Judaism's most sacred mystical text, sat locked behind a wall of Aramaic for nearly 700 years. 🕯️ Most Jews never had access to its secrets.

Then came Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, known as the Baal HaSulam, "Master of the Ladder." Working in Jerusalem in the 1920s and 30s, he did something no one had dared before: he translated the entire Zohar into Hebrew and wrote a monumental commentary called the Sulam, the Ladder, making Kabbalah accessible to ordinary Jews for the first time in history.

He believed that the secrets of Kabbalah were not meant for a hidden elite. They were meant for everyone. His 16-volume masterwork, the Talmud Eser Sefirot, remains the most comprehensive systematic study of Kabbalistic thought ever written.

[תהיות @historyinpic9]

הרב עובדיה, 1969.

[Frum TikTok @FrumTikTok]

To all the Jew haters in the world:

Grok has some wise advice for you...

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“The jewish Teffilin Jacket”

For reaching in the wishing wells?

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Most people have no idea about the real history of Al-Aqsa Mosque, because they’ve only been fed the Islamic Palestinian propaganda version of events.

They believe that Al-Aqsa has always been Islam’s third holiest site, that it has belonged to Muslims since the dawn of time, and that Israel is the oppressor for merely existing near it.

None of that is true.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holiest site in Judaism for over a thousand years before Islam even appeared in history. It housed the First and Second Jewish Temples, the center of Jewish worship and pilgrimage.

When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, they built pagan shrines over it, but its Jewish identity never disappeared.

In the 7th century Islam emerges and expands through conquest, and begins hijacking Jewish and Christian sites, prophets, and narratives.

At first, Jerusalem had no major significance in Islam. Muhammad never set foot there. There was no mosque. There was no pilgrimage. There was no Islamic history tied to the city.

But that changed during the brutal power struggle between Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.

By the late 7th century, Islam was deeply divided. Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr controlled Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad Caliph, controlled the Levant.

But Abd al-Malik had a problem, he didn’t want the people of the Levant traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage, because that would give power to his rival.

Abd al-Malik declared the Temple Mount as Alaqsa mosque that was mentioned in the quran, and he made it an alternative place of pilgrimage.

He ordered the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to divert attention from Mecca.

And just like that, Islam manufactured a holy site for political gain.

The real Masjid Al-Aqsa referred to in the Quran was not in Jerusalem, it was between Mecca and Ta’if. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at the time. There was no Islamic presence there.

Yet, centuries later, after Islam had conquered the city, the Islamic narrative retroactively applied this Quranic verse to Jerusalem, again, for political convenience.

If Israel wanted to act like Islamic conquerors, it could have easily done to Al-Aqsa what Turkey did to the Hagia Sophia.

It could have converted the mosque into the Third Temple, banned Muslim prayer on the site, erased any trace of Islamic history, as Muslims did to Christian and Jewish sites throughout history.

But Israel didn’t do that. Israel allows Muslims to pray there freely. Israel protects Al-Aqsa, even as it is used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda and incite violence.

Yet, despite this, the world condemns Israel for merely existing in its own capital.

[Chaim @Whaim613]

Shavuos: The Saga of the Ger Tzedek of Vilna, Avraham ben Avraham https://t.co/33JLannHGW via @YouTube

[Chaim @Whaim613]

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[Today's Yahrtzeits @Yahrtzeits]

7 Sivan: Avraham ben Avraham, the Ger Tzedek (1749). Guided by the Vilna Gaon. Killed al Kiddush Hashem in Vilna for becoming a frum Jew.

[Today's Yahrtzeits @Yahrtzeits]

7 Sivan: Avraham ben Avraham, the Ger Tzedek (1749). Guided by the Vilna Gaon. Killed al Kiddush Hashem in Vilna for becoming a frum Jew.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

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*Maran HaRishon LeZion Rabbi David Yosef*

*Shavuot: The Secret of Hashem's Love for the Jewish People*

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*🕯️This Shiur is dedicated Leilui Nishmat:*
*Edmundo Jabra Safdie ben Mazal z"l - 10 Sivan 5776*