Weather: 88° Partly cloudy skies early with heavy thunderstorms developing this afternoon Chance of rain 80%. Localized flooding is possible.
Flood Watch From Thu 2:00 pm until Fri 6:00 am Forecasters are cautioning that storms could produce rainfall rates exceeding 2 inches per hour at times. While general accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are expected, localized amounts of 5 to 7 inches are possible, raising concerns for significant flash flooding.
There is a possible risk of severe weather today. Wind is the greatest threat.
- A van carrying bochurim from Camp Lehachyos Chaim traveling in Texas was involved in a crash after it was sideswiped by a passing RV camper towing a pickup truck. The RV cut across the highway in front of the van, causing it to flip over. Ten out of the thirteen bochurim on board were taken to local hospitals, with some airlifted to regional medical centers as a precaution. Baruch Hashem, all injured bochurim are expected to be discharged by tonight. The camp is based out of Lakewood.
-Bde: Petirah of Rebbetzin Leah Altusky a”h Almana of Harav Zev Altusky zt”l, of the lower east side Menahel of Yeshiva Chasam Sofer and Magid Shiur in HILI /HAFTR, for over 40 years.
The levaya will take place tomorrow Friday morning 10:00 am at the Lakewood Chapel, pff 7th street with Kevurah at the Wellwood Cemetery in Long Island.
- Trump increases the tariffs on Canada from 25% to 35%, effective at midnight.
-A Pidyon Shvuyim campaign launched for someone in jail more
- Torrential downpours swept through Queens on Thursday afternoon, transforming highways into rivers and leaving vehicles, including a semi-truck, stranded in the floodwaters. In response, Governor Hochul issued a state of emergency for New York City
- Giyus: Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita sent a letter to ne read at the meeting tonight of the vaad hayeshivos gathering of roshei yeshiva to strategies over the IDF draft targeting yeshiva bochurim. He calls on then to give chizuk to the bochurim as they fave this challenge and to uplift them for Their Torah learning.
-A few thousand Back seat child reminder devices were distributed today free of charge to local residents sponsored by an anonymous donor. Chaveirim set up distribution locations on Clifton ave and 7th street and Forest avenue
- Beginning Friday, August 1st, the tax on cigarettes, liquid nicotine, and container e-liquid will go up in the state of New Jersey.
The new tax for a pack of 20 cigarettes will be $3.00, an increase of 30 cents per pack, while the tax on liquid nicotine will increase by 20 cents per fluid milliliter.(OneJersey)
- Update from Philadelphia yeshiva
There will iyH be an Asifas Tehillim tonight in the Avreichim Building (Bais Moshe) on Clifton Ave. The Rosh Yeshiva R' Shalom Shlita will bezras Hashem give Divrei Hisorerus at 8:15 p.m. Tehillim following. Please spread the word.
Call in Number (945) 218-0089 Pin: 4469159#
additional minyanim will take place at the Philadelphia Community Kollel at 9:40 p.m. The Ezras Noshim will be open.
In Monsey at Kollel Zichron Shneur (Brisker Kollel),150 Remsen Ave, at 8:00pm.
In Chicago at Kollel Zichron Eliyahu at 9:45 PM followed by Maariv.
In Cleveland at the Berkeley Shul, 3630 Berkeley Road, after the 9:50 p.m. Maariv.
In Detroit at 7:45 PM in the Berlin Bais Medrash of Yeshiva Bais Yehudah. There will be an Ezras Noshim.
-New Jersey Acting Governor Tahesha Way has declared a State of Emergency for the entire state effective at 2:00pm due to the potential for flash flooding, severe thunderstorms, intense rainfall, and damaging wind gusts.
Rainfall totals of 1-3 inches are generally expected, with localized amounts of 5-7 inches possible.
- Tips on how to prepare for the fast of Tisha B'Av according to Rabbi Yechezkel Aschayek author of the sefer חיים בריאים כהלכה One should start preparation from the morning 2 days before by drinking 50 % more water of your daily intake. Drink 20 minutes before eating and after meals, don't drink until the food is digested in order not to dilute the acids that digest the food. The food should be chewed well before swallowing in order for the body to digest it and not have it sit in the stomach. One should increase protein starting 2 days before, such as eggs fish etc. By the seudas Hamafsekes/Shaloshshudis one should drink 20 minutes before and no need to drink afterwards.
- Giyus: Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein shlita in a sharp halachic ruling: "If it is impossible to manage with the army, there is a mitzvah for every person to leave eretz Yisroel, it is even permitted to be Mechalel Shabbos in order to escape from the country."
-Trump: I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World. Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!
- Kali Zom Easy Fast Pills selling at local stores for $11 a packet
- Change of schedule and routine is the from leading cause of forgetting children in cars During the summer, many families change their daily routines because of vacations or other reasons, and that disruption is a common factor in these tragic incidents, research has found. Force yourself to go to the back seat. Keep your backpack, lunch box, or briefcase there every day. consumer reports
- Lakewood Atzeres: A large crowd packed Bais Faiga hall last night for an Atzeres tefillah on the gezeiras giyus taking place in Eretz Yisroel against bnei Torah. Speakers detailed the current threat as real what was being warned for the last few years has now become a reality as yeshiva bochurim are declared as draft dodgers with a threat of jail time. There were video presentations by Rav Moshe Hilel Hirsch shlita and Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita explaining the need to raise money to help the Keren Hatzolah activities give chizuk and legal guidance to the bochurim and youngeleit.
- SmashHouse burger chain will be opening a location in the Lakewood Toms River area according to Feder status
- New police chief appointed in Toms River
Guy Maire was appointed chief of Toms River's police department at a Township Council meeting that was once again marred by angry outbursts from some council members, as well as members of the audience. Capt. Maire, 57, who has served 33 years on the Toms River police department, will replace Acting Chief Peter Sundack, who has been out on leave. APP
-Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center was named as the Best Regional Hospital in New Jersey, and also named to the national Honor Roll.
-New Jersey’s capital city Trenton continues to be served by a water system “on the brink of catastrophic failure,” the state’s Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner urging the city and mayor act faster to find a fix, and consider restructuring Trenton Water Works, which serves 200,000 people in the city and four surrounding towns, Ewing, Hamilton, Hopewell and Lawrence.
-Yapchik fleishig buffet open for shabbos takeout
- Belz chasidus will not interfere with avreichim who decide to enlist in the IDF through various programs geared for charedim if they choose to do so.
Tell Governor Murphy to stay out of town rather than come back to Jersey and make trouble. Knucklehead.
ReplyDeleteThere is no seudah mafseket this year. (Though that is only somewhat a litvish minhag, not universal.)
And doubtful you can "prepare" by extra drinking. (Though extra Scotch or Bourbon is not advisable.)
Which brings up the question of tzom pills on shabbat.
"mafseket" glaring slip
DeleteLitvish custom? Like the rest of Shulchan Aruch?
DeleteWho does seudah mafseket these days? (Yes, some few rebbes, but not their chasidim)
DeleteFor that matter, who fasts on a yartzeit? Who fasts on BeHaV? (I was at a levayah a few years ago, where the Rav said the nifteret would fast on BeHaV; this particular shul said the mi sheberach for BeHaV.)
Idk what you are talking about. I have never heard of someone not eating seudas hamafsekes(t). We dip an egg in ashes, and afaik camps also do it.
DeleteNo clue what Rebbes or chassidim do, neither do I particularly care.
Shulchan Aruch wasn't canceled.
Lakewood should get a new police chief as well cause greg meyer has been out of commission for months.
ReplyDeleteor maybe we don't need a police chief at all, seeing how well the department is running without one
DeleteWhy is there a need to raise money to help the Keren Hatzolah activities. The israeli bochrim and yungeleit should just sit and learn and the Torah will protect them.
ReplyDeleteHuh? What are you smoking?
DeleteIf I was living in EY now, I'd pick my family up and escape so they shouldn't have to join the IDF and become frei.
You would escape because you are not a Maamin and a Baal Bitachon who truly believes that learning Torah protects.
DeleteIsn't that what we are constantly being told? That we don't join the army because its actually the Bnei Torah who are protecting the soldiers and the rest of the nation?
Or maybe, just maybe, can it be that Torah only protects from the Arabs and muslims, but it doesn't protect us from Gali Baharav-Miara and the evil zionists? Nah. Either it protects us. Or it doesn't.
Profound spewing foolishness.
DeleteIf we're deserving it protects us against physical enemies like for example Haman.If will never protect us against spiritual enemies like for example the yevanim or their imitators like Gali B-M. For that the more dirty elbow grease we put out there the more we reap .
Video from Atzeres last night about the giyus: https://youtu.be/FSbFNniaby0
ReplyDeleteAlthough, not shown in this clip, other sites show a banner "שבכל דור ודור עומדים עלינו לכלותינו ו" I urge you to take a step back, and think rationally for a moment and decide for yourself whether that is an absolutely appalling thing to have hanging. Comparing yodden, who really have no education or understanding on yahadus and applying that statement reserved for our worst enemies. Think hard, using your own rational common sense, and decide if that is not vile.
ReplyDeleteYou are making excuses for the tzionim. Yes they really want to uproot the frum lifestyle. They say so themselves.
Delete...Comparing yodden, who really have no education or understanding on yahadus...
DeleteYou're 1,000% wrong.
Just over 100 years ago there was a vibrant Torah life in Russia. The Yevsektsiya - the 'Jewish' section of the communist party completly uprooted it. The Chofetz Chaim made it clear that they were considered Amalek. They were certainly part of the שבכל דור ודור עומדים עלינו לכלותינו. Please don't be ignorant, as the price is way too high. I'm afraid that you yourself can do better as far as understanding
The people who are pushing the most for a Haredi draft are Frum Jews - including Talmidie Chachamim - from the Daati Leumi camp. Please don't compare them to our worse enemies or claim that they want to uproot Judaism.
DeleteTheir plan is extremely dangerous and short-sighted.
DeleteA little hyperbole is not the issue here.
How do you know they want to draft bochrim to make them frei? Maybe the 40 year olds who are in miluim thought they woul be there a month or two. After 18 months, they want a break and other soldiers are neede?
DeleteThe people who are pushing the most for a Haredi draft are Frum Jews...
DeleteThe fact that they're teaming up with the those who hate Torah Judaism in order to force Torah Jews them into the army, which has a horible attrition rate for the hesder boys, makes it clear that their rabinical and frum bonifides are sorely lacking. It was also "rabbis" who pushed for Jews to be drafted into the Russian army.
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DeleteReally ? While not going to disagree for this issue necessarily,on a host of other larger issues they often were as bad as our worst foes.
6:31 -- 100 years ago, most cities in Lita were mechallel shabbat. The Chofetz Chaim would often cry about it. The shtetlach were somewhat different.
DeleteBy the way, the Chazon Ish famously met with top echelon of Yevyetsia when they visited Israel, hosted them in BB. After all, they all went to yeshiva together. (He advised them to stay in Israel for a few more days, some declined; they died in a helicopter crash a few days after returning to Moscow, Stalin intrigue).
The Chazon Ish never met with the top echelon of Yevyetsia. By the time the CI moved to Eretz Yisroel, Stalin had already disbanded and killed all the top top echelons of Yevyetsia. He allegedly met with a high ranking communist official who had once been his talmid. In the absence of the guys name being know the story is difficult to believe. The CI did have a relationship with a certain (American) anti frum Yiddish writer. There are extant letters between him and the CI even after the writer was no longer frum. But before he wrote his novels and the CI was probably unaware the guy was no longer frum.
DeleteThe Chazon Ish went to a yeshiva for exactly one week.
DeleteThe Chazon Ish remained anonymous while he was in Europe. Only some gedolim knew who he was. It's extremely unlikely that he had a talmid.
5:04,5:37
DeleteThe yevsekim weren't purged until at least beginning in '36
The CI went in '33
Either way helicopters didn't in practice exist yet.
Who invents these bubbe maasos
5:37
DeleteChaim Grade in Montreal doesn't rate in this dialogue.
If there is to be any basis to the previous,could be some surviving older yevsekim visited in the later '40s,& went back & were then eliminated
Stand corrected: CG ended up in the Bronx
DeleteCham grada was not anti-frum
DeleteHow did members of the communist party get permission to travel in the 30s? As Cohen said: who invents these baloney stories or bubbe maasos. Certainly not someone who is genuine or who's opinion matters
DeleteI assume the story is made up but the version I saw printed is that the former Chaver of the CI was part of an official Soviet diplomatic visit to the state of Israel who took a detour to visit the CI .He was almost convinced by the CI to stay in EY and do teshuva. He didn't and his connecting flight back to the USSR had a plane crash that he died in. The CI said that the plane crashed so that he should die while he still has thoughts of Teshuva in his heart.
DeleteGive me s break. If would not be draft 3/4 of bochurim would leave yeshiva and go to work including 9/10 of the sfardi. It is the draft that is keeping most Yidden to stay in Yeshiva rather than in the street selling drugs or going to work
ReplyDeleteOr going on to chu"l & becoming decent upstanding family men
DeleteThe man that is in jail is a tzaddik!! He works as a plumber and I've had him work in my house multiple times. He is so honest and kind and soft spoken. He would never hurt a fly!
ReplyDeleteSo sad and heartbreaking what his x-wife is doing to him! Please donate generously at https://www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-abrahams-release-and-justice
The Bais Havaad intentianly threw him under the bus forcing him to sign a contract that will make his life miserable.
ReplyDeleteBemokom shbaalei tshuva omdim etc.
They picked a vulnerable yid who doesn't have relatives and pium him threw 7 medurei gehenom.
Yom valiant yeoded vderech RESHOIM ye aves
Nkom Niklas dam avadeche.
The tumult makers are beyond contempt.
DeleteAn organized attack on a Beis Din in Klal Yisroel is pretty much unprecedented.
Happened rather regularly.
DeleteHmmm BDA,Rackman,Cleve Get
Oh,their backers got less strikeouts than this case
Cleve Gett no Beis Din was passelled.
DeleteAll teshuvos about the topic were about an individual pesak, not passeling the Beis Din.
They wrote teshuvos, explaining why they paskened the way they did.
DeleteSince when can you go on a touristic trip to Texas?
ReplyDeleteJust like Shulchan Aruch forbids it, it also forbids corporal punishment during three weeks.
Do they ignore that too?