Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah

Lakewood Shopper A substitute doctor. A woman sent to the hospital against her better judgement. Was it all in vain? In his inimitable manner, Rabbi Nachman Seltzer shares an unusual chain of events. Liba Malka Koenigstein* was expecting a routine doctor’s visit in anticipation of welcoming a new baby into the family. She was quite surprised to find an unfamiliar face in the doctor’s chair. Dr. Green informed [...]

Yated Ne’eman Acclaimed author and speaker Rabbi Nachman Seltzer made his debut in Lakewood last week on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz with a powerful message about how each of us can make a lasting impact by reaching out to those in need. His words mirrored the message of the event sponsors, Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah and Better Than a Segulah. For over a decade, Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah and Better Than [...]

Binah Everything was so completely ordinary—until it wasn’t. The before and the after. Although there was also a nice amount of during as well—in between the before and the after. Sound confounding? That’s because it is. It is so confounding that those who know Miriam’s family are still trying to make sense of it—although they know they never will; not in this world. Self-described “ordinary” Miriam Shoenig Ribiat grew up in an [...]

Yated I had lost my mother nine months previously, and I felt her absence everywhere. I wanted to pick up the phone to share some news with her. I wanted the encouragement to diet (or the compliment that I didn’t need to!). I couldn’t imagine making Pesach without her standing in the kitchen alongside me. I needed her advice about a career change I was considering. I missed [...]

Illuminations of the Magid Mrs. Robin (Davina) Meyerson and her husband Charlie (Yoshiyah) are Orthodox Jews in Scottsdale, Arizona, who are members of the Rabbi Ariel Shoshan’s shul, Scottsdale Torah Center. They are deeply committed to Torah and mitzvos, but to their family members they are an island unto themselves. None of their relatives are observant and their lifestyles are dissimilar to that of the Meyersons. Mrs. Meyerson’s [...]

Yated The novi Yeshayah tells us in this week’s haftorah that we must feel comfort following all of the destruction we felt on Tishah B’av. Nachamu, nachamu, ami.  Rav Avrohom Kluger in his Sefer Nezer Yisroel tells the story of a rov who went to pay a shivah call to a family who just lost a child in a terrible auto accident. Besides the grieving parents, there were many older siblings sitting shivah at the home, and all week they had been [...]