Rabbi Shaanan Gelman

Parshat Bamidbar – 5780 Free For All  Rabbi Shaanan Gelman and Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky   Wow. 12 days ago, I began a silent meditation in the desert. We were totally isolated. No phone, no communication etc. We had no idea what was happening outside the facility. Walked out yesterday into a very different world. One that’s been changed forever. Mind blowing- to say the least. These words were tweeted by Jared Leto on March 17, 2020. The actor   needed to get away, to recharge, no doubt from his incredibly stressful life.   So on March 5, he socially isolated himself from his friends and loved ones and retreated to the desert. During his seclusion, the world he had desperately tried to flee   had completely changed, and was now the world he longed for. Retreats like this are a sign of privilege, the kind of of luxury and detoxification afforded to the rich and famous.   To us average folk, a desert may seem like a poor choice of locale to seek insp...

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The Steipler Gaon, Rav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky, was known as many things: a towering Torah personality, a dispenser of sage advice and a prolific author. However, he was not necessarily known as a warm and fuzzy personality; he had an austere demeanor, he spoke in brief and blunt sentences, and he did not stand out in his rapport with young children. Furthermore, as the consummate masmid , Rav Kanievsky z”l avoided public appearances and s’machot as much as possible so as not to detract from his intense Torah study. Imagine the shock to all those in attendance, at a Jerusalem bar mitzvah several decades ago, when the Steipler showed up to greet the bar mitzvah boy on his special day.   The murmurs could be heard around the crowd, who was this young man?   Why did he merit a personal visit and greeting all the way from B’nei B’rak?   When one of his close disciples asked him about his unusual behavior, the Steipler explained that years earlier he had an interac...

Rav Nachum Rabinovitch zt”l: A Tribute Emor 5780 Rabbi Shaanan Gelman [1] The Torah world lost a giant this past week by the name of Rav Nachum Rabinovich zt”l, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 92.  Rav Rabinovich was a renaissance man, a person of surpassing accomplishment in many different areas of Torah and general studies. Born in Montreal in 1928, he was among the first students of the legendary Rav Pinchas Hirschprung, the Chief Rabbi of Montreal, with whom he began studying at the age of 14. He graduated from McGill University and then began studying at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College, where he received his ordination at the age of 20, and earned a Master’s Degree in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. He then began an illustrious Rabbinic career, first in Congregation Agudas Achim in Dallas, and then, between 1952-1963, as a Rabbi in Charleston, where he successfully merged two shuls and founded a day school, both still in existence. In 1965, he moved to To...