Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Rav Miller's Torah Rx: Good Sleep & Fresh Air

Once again, in last week's Toras Avigdor booklet, Rav Avigdor Miller זצ"ל shared fundamental, immensely valuable guidance for healthy and successful living, physically, and spiritually. In case you missed it, here is a synopsis:

Feeling down? Open a window, go outside. Fresh air is medicine that will change your attitude and make you happy (p. 9).

Feeling nervous? Make sure you get enough sleep. That's the first medicine for you (back cover).

How much time, grief, money, pain, etc., could be spared and avoided, and how much more successful people could be, if they would only follow such sage advice, time-tested wisdom. 

Rav Miller lived into his nineties, with minimal medical intervention. He must have known something about proper, healthy living.

Live the Rav Miller high life way, you won't regret it.

ישמע חכם ויוסף לקח

Related prior post 

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Losers Visit Ohel of Chabad-Lubavitch, Winner Stays Away From Tomb - NYC Election Report

 One of the things that the Chabad-Lubavitch faith does is promote visiting the grave of their late leader, in Queens, New York City. They expend great effort trying to get both Jews and non-Jews to visit it, promoting it as an act that will bring success. They endeavor and toil to bring prominent personalities, including politicians, to it, as part of the Chabad-Lubavitch propaganda campaign, promoting the crypt of their late leader as the Jewish place to visit (as part of their longstanding effort to promote themselves as the leaders of the Jewish people, and their late Rebbe as the leader of the Jews), and the site to kowtow to Jewish voters. Should some politician visit it and later have some political success, such as being elected, or otherwise, Chabadskers refer to it in way of explanation. Of course, they don't similarly publicize when such visitors lose.

With that in mind, let us look at what happened recently in NYC, where a radical anti-Israel candidate just won election to the mayoralty. 

Andrew Cuomo, the candidate backed by many Orthodox Jews and Hasidim, visited the crypt of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe before the election. So did his Republican opponent Curtis Sliwa. As did the current Mayor, Eric Adams, who has visited there multiple times. What was the result? They all went down to defeat, in a big way.

On the other hand, the election winner, Zohran Mamdani, did not visit the Chabad-Lubavitch tomb, yet emerged with a stunning, historic victory.

Takeaway: Losers visit the Chabad-Lubavitch crypt. Don't be fooled by the Chabadsker fraud campaign.

May G-d lead us in the path of truth and save us from scam artists, even those who pose as religious and holy.

Friday, November 7, 2025

Remembering our great leader Rav Elazar Menachem Man Schach זצ"ל on his 24th Yahrzeit

 Today, ט"ז חשון, the sixteenth of Cheshvan, is the yahrzeit of one of the great leaders of Klal Yisrael in recent times, רבינו הגדול רב אלעזר מנחם מן שך זצללה"ה.

He was a great מרביץ תורה, a great spiritual leader of the Jewish people. 

In addition to so many decades in his long life (reportedly over a century) of spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit, in his old age, when he was weak and infirm, he stepped up to lead a very important battle against a dangerous, deceptive, power-hungry, PR-crazed messianic sect from Brooklyn, NY, USA, and their false Messiah, משיח שקר. He was (and still is) viciously hated and attacked by them for that, but as a great leader, Rav Schach did what needed to be done, במסירות נפש, with great dedication and self-sacrifice.

Here are some selected pieces to remember this great man.

Rabbi Pini Dunner's fond portrayal. (article)

Good general visual overview (video)

General Israeli perspective. (video)

Rav Schach speaking in Yiddish to a yeshiva (video)

A famous public address in the streets of Bnei Brak (video)

Remembered by a former Israeli chief Rabbi (video)

May we follow in the great ways of Rav Schach, and thereby merit genuine redemption speedily in our days, and the downfall of all frauds and imposters.

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