The End of Time is Now

 New shiur from Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Surfside Names of Yidden Still Missing

 

#PrayforSurfside 

Here is the most recently updated list for prayers and Tehillim for those still missing: [names received via Rabbi Yankie Denburg]

Chaim ben Sara

Malka bas Sara Rochel

Yisroel Tzvi Yosef ben Toiba

Tzvi Doniel ben Yehudis (Tzvi Ainsworth)

Ita bat Miriam (Itty Ainsworth)

Brad Cohen

Gary Cohen

Moshe Ben Toba 

Moshe Ben Shoshana

Arie Leib ben Ita

Ilan ben Kalman

Leib ben Shoshana

Sarah bat Ida

Naftulem bat Yafa (Nancy Kress Levin)

Efraim Ben Naftulem (Frankie Kleinman)

Jay ben Naftulem (Jay Kleinman)

Deborah bat Chaia (Deborah Berezdivin) 

Yehuda Arie ben Feiga Rivka

Nicole bat Andrea

Esther bat Linda

Lein ben Ilana

Leibl ben Feigue Rivka

Ruth bat Sarah

Devorah bat Clara

Myriam and Arnie Notkin

Miriam bat Sara 

Yaakov Reuvein Hacohen Ben Devorah

Mikael ben Hans

Gabriela bat Sara

Linda bas Clara (Linda March)

Ilan ben Ronit (Ilan Naybryf)

Chaya Gila bas Yehudis

Lois Marcus

Estelle Hedaya

Chaya Gila bas Yehudis 

Esther bat Leah 

Linda Ana Guara

Marcus Guara

Lucia Guara

Emma Guara 

Andreas Levine

Pinchas: The Lonely Road

Art Jeannette Woitzik

The two Parshiot before Pinchas - Chukat and Balak - are often read together [in Eretz Yisroel only]. The two parshiot afterwards - Matot and Maasei - are almost always read together. 

Pinchas, which is between these parshiot is always alone. Why?

This teaches us that when you are Kana'i [zealous] you should be prepared to spend your life alone. People do not have the courage to fight for what is right and even if they start out behind you, by the time you turn around they will be gone.

Source: Revach.net

Our Hearts are Breaking

The family of Tzvi and Itty Ainsworth, who were renting an apartment in the Miami building that collapsed, are praying for a miracle after over 48 hours without any sign of the couple.  Formerly living in Australia, Tzvi and Itty moved back to Florida four years ago.

159 people are still unaccounted for, many of them orthodox Jews.

Chatam Sofer Foresees 5781

Rabbi Glazerson translates from a Sefer written 190 years ago by the Chatam Sofer that this year 5781 is the Year of Moshiach. 

Here Comes Delta

 

“That's the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all.” [Queen Elizabeth in ''The Crown'']

So here we go again, this time with the Delta strain of Covid.  Just in time for the Three Weeks, the new improved version of Covid is causing havoc in places who naively thought they were done and dusted with it.

I don't know exactly what is going on elsewhere but here in Sydney we are fast approaching another possible Lockdown.  We've been Locked In right now... locked in to Sydney that is.  No-one can leave the city because we're all suspects for the disease.  Even though the actual confirmed cases are very very low, the number is way too high for comfort in a city who thought our Covid days were over.

The Delta strain is much more infectious, you can pick it up just by being in the vicinity of a carrier.  It spreads like wild-fire.  So everyone is very nervous..... and a lot of us have decided to self isolate again. 

And this is where I have to thank Rabbi Kessin for his shiur The Current Darkness and the Mabul which I listened to yesterday, and as always he  makes me feel better about what is happening, and I carry on with a much lighter load of panic. There is light at the end of this tunnel. 

The Current Darkness and The Mabul

 New shiur from Rabbi Mendel Kessin

"We are really in the time before the Moshiach"

Who is King Mashiach

 Rabbi Yuval Ovadia