'Modern Uberdox' Tag

• The taste of “Niskatnu HaDoros”

  January 21, 2010

  “Niskatnu HaDoros”, the

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• Sundays Salanter Selection

  January 10, 2010

  Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin of SalantIt is forbidden to worry, except about worrying. From

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• Kalever Rebbe coming to Chicago

  January 8, 2010

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• Availing myself during aveilus

  January 6, 2010

  Rav Hirsch brings down the idea that the root of aveilus is the Hebrew word aval, which means “but”.

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• If You Were God (link)

  December 31, 2009

  Kiruv.com (aka Project Inspire) just posted part of

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• Some great shiurim from R Efraim Twerski and other Chicagoland Gems

  December 30, 2009

  Here’s a new website that I recently found out about called AvodasHashem.com. It includes shiurim from Rabbi Efraim Twerksi, R Moshe Schechter, Dr. Julian Unger, and other true gems within the Chicago area.I have been listening to R Twerksi’s shiurim on Netivos Shalom and have been loving them.

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• Im not serious all the time

  December 24, 2009

  My son asked me a few years ago where Eliyahu HaNavi got his clothes.

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• Spoons, sugar, Chelm, and me

  December 23, 2009

  Last night my son and I were talking and he mentioned a book he saw in his school library about the “Wise Men of Chelm”.

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• Mussar La Breslov

  December 21, 2009

  I am always happy when I read something that makes me feel good about myself and what my potential is.

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• Why most Jews light Chanuka Candles

  December 16, 2009

  From Rav Yosef Stern’s Sfas Emes sefer, Days of Joy: There’s a halacha in germara Shabbos 21b that describes how certain oils and wick are “not acceptable for Shabbos candelabra, but are permitted for the Chanuka Menorah.

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• Soul Movements

  December 14, 2009

  Please check out BeyondBT.com for my recent post regarding the sefer Da Es Atzmecha and the movements of the soul.

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• TorahLab Chanukah links

  December 11, 2009

  The TorahLab website has some very good links for Chanukah.

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• Q and A with Modya from madrega.com

  December 9, 2009

  I recently emailed a few questions to Modya Silver, the founder of madrega.com , “The online community for the Soul-full Jew”.

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• The value of life and the day the Yetzer Hara will be slaughtered

  December 8, 2009

  “Life is very dear to those who discover its value, and very cheap to those who squander it.”- from the sefer GESHER HACHAIM (The Bridge of Life) I posted this quote about three weeks ago on Facebook.

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• Links to articles about R Hutner zt”l on his 29th Yahtzeit

  December 7, 2009

  Matzav has reposted an older article from the Yated about the life and impact of Rav Yitzchok Hutner zt”l on of several Slabdoka talmidim who change the yeshiva landscape in America.Jewish Action also had a great article a number of year ago, here. Rabbi Hillel Goldberg writes in his book

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