Yiddishe Mamme

There's a nice story in Chadrei Chadarim about a grocery store owner in Bnei Brak who was approached by a young boy last Friday with a note from his father asking the owner to give the boy some sweets so that the children in the family would have a joyous Shabbos. Furthermore, the father wrote that there were 13 children in the family and that they were in dire straits. In the merit of the act of charity that the owner would perfom, the father blessed him with good health, nachas and success. The store owner did not hesitate to fill a bag with sweets and to hand it to the elated boy. Shortly after, the man closed the store and was involved in a serious accident on his way home in which he emerged unscathed. When the police came and asked him for his driver's license, the man pulled out his wallet and found the note that the boy had delivered to him. The man understood what had transpired, took a cab back to his store and filled a bag of groceries for the needy family. When a ...

Beautiful watching these birds...it reminds me of our kids! Robins: 4 Eggs, 4 Weeks from Fred Margulies on Vimeo .

The Jewish world is deeply shocked about the death of the righteous rabbi "Baba Elazar" zt"l, he was a leader of our generation. He was murdered by one of the visitors who came to him for 'advice'. He supported and gave advice to thousands of people who came to him for advice and blessings. It is very urgent that we will make up our 'spriritual account' and repent from our misdeeds towards our fellow men. Especially during the days of mourning preceding the fast of the 9th of Av, the day of the destruction of both the Temples. The Temples were destroyed because of senseless hatred.

Mrs. Susan Rodrigues Pereira was renovating her house when she was surprised at the unique discovery in a wall at the entrance of her house. Two mezuzot, one large and one small, and a mezuzah case hidden and cemented inside the walls of the entrance of the house. These mezuzos were hidden in the wall during the Holocaust to avoid the Nazis noticing that it was a Jewish home. Susan is a Jewish woman of Portuguese descent. Recently, she made a research to the origin of her family. She is a descendent of an old Jewish Portuguese family who once came to the Netherlands as Marranos. Of course she knows what a mezuzah is. She investigated the story behind the mezuzos. She discovered that before the Holocaust many Jews lived in her street of which very few survived the war. Her investigation led her to a businessman Josef Tafelkruier who lived in her house before the Holocaust. The house next door lived the community Rabbi Benjamin Israel Ricardo. Susan continued her research and reached the...

The Torah introduces the Mitzvah of "Mipenei Seva Takum Ve'hadarta Penei Zaken," which is a law that requires us to; stand in the presence of, and give respect to, Torah scholars and elders. This means that when a Torah scholar or elder comes within four Amot (6-8 feet) of a fellow, the fellow must stand and remain standing until the scholar or elder leaves his four-Amot radius. The question arises, what constitutes an "elder" for purposes of this Halacha? At what age do we consider one an "elder" insofar as the obligation to stand in his presence and afford him honor is concerned? Maran (author of Shulchan Aruch) and most Poskim (authorities of Halacha) are of the opinion that a person becomes an "elder" at age seventy, while the Ben Ish Chai (Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, 1835-1909 ) cites the Arizal ( Egypt-Tzefat, 1534-1572 ) as claiming that the obligation applies already from the age of sixty. Strictly speaking, Halacha follows the v...

It is interesting to note the following in the family tree of Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William: Kate's mother is Carol Middleton, daughter of Ronald Goldsmith and Dorothy Harrison (both Jews) The parents of Dorothy Harrison are Robert Harrison and Elizabeth Temple (both Jews), the latter a descendant of the Myers family (traditional English Jews in the 19th century) Bottom line: Princess Kate is a Jew on her matrilineal side, and as a consequence, the future king of England will be a Jew according to Jewish Law and tradition.