Rabbi Yosef Ekstein of Dor Yeshorim Vowed that No Couple Would Know His Pain
He leaned back in his chair. “Santo Rabino [holy rabbi]!” he exclaimed. “You know, I helped to rescue him from that ghetto. In general, I helped to rescue Jews. I admit that I did it all for money. Today, everyone talks about Schindler’s List. I did the same thing as he did”
Rav Yechiel Michel Stern, the rav of Jerusalem’s Ezras Torah neighborhood and author of several famous seforim, tells Mishpacha about his miraculous recovery from a serious illness — in the merit of a chesed he did forty-two years ago
Legally blind, and living in the simplest of apartments, Naomi Adir is hardly your typical philanthropist. Yet over the decades she’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Torah education.
In the early twentieth century, more than 600 years after his passing in 5136/1376, an ancient sefer Torah was discovered, purported to be the handiwork of the Ran. Scholars pointed to it as a source of important halachic information, but suspicions arose that it might be a forgery
