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I tried to get to the synagogue by 6:30 AM, daven, learn Gemara, and go to work

One of these Jews stopped me, handed me, an eleven-year-old child, a box of matches and said, “Nu, light it or I will hit you!”

I do not know of another father whose son feels more indebted to him than I do to my father, of blessed memory, for the knowledge that he gave me.

Using the excuse of Jewish disloyalty, the czar’s government cleared the border area of Jews. Thousands of Jewish families from Lithuania and Latvia were forced to move into central Russia.

I know about my grandfather only from stories. They said that he used to spend all day in the synagogue, wearing his tallis gadol and tefillin.

After Rav Naftali's death, his oldest son, Rav Aharon Zelig Tziyuni, became Rav of Lyutzin

I was nine when I was taken away from my mother and drafted to be a soldier. My mother was a widow; I was her only child. My father passed away before I was born and I was named after him.

My great-great grandfather from my father's side, Rav David Tziyuni, lived two hundred years ago. During his last years he was the rabbi of Lyutzin, then part of Czarist Russia.

My parents were my first and only teachers, and they taught me Torah.

Along comes Rabbi Binsky and his idea of founding a kehilla for Russian Jews.

But for every religious Jew, for whom learning Torah is the most important thing, finding a good chavrusa can be just as hard as finding a shidduch.

Program of the Israeli Radio Station "Kol Chai" about Rav Yitzchok Zilber zt"l

Rav Yitzchok Zilber, Rav Ben Tzion Zilber

Rav Asher Kushnir

What unites us is the common passion to learn Torah

Rabbi Moshe Muterperel never imagined that he would be spending time in prison

While Bnei-Brak may be called the "religious capital of Israel"

Лекции рава Ашера Кушнира в Северной Америке
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