Community Corner

Rabbi Shaya Cohen, Founder and Director of Priority One, shared his wisdom and experience in chinuch and parenting in a virtual interview with Rabbi Yaniv Meirov, CEO of Chazaq on Tuesday evening, August 30. Rabbi Cohen has been working in the field of chinuch for over 40 years, and he has dealt with children at risk or children who went away from Judaism. He has an outreach yeshivah, a kollel, and a branch in Israel. His emphasis is on educating and training the educators.

On Tuesday evening, August 23, Shira Smiles, well-known speaker from Eretz Yisrael, delivered a live, powerful shiur at the Young Israel of Holliswood about the month of Elul and how to approach it properly. She noted that we are used to freedom to make our own choices. We don’t want to be told what to do. That was Adam’s struggle and challenge. Do we have the ability to listen and to give of ourselves to Hashem? The greatest person who ever lived was Moshe Rabbeinu and he was an anav.

On Monday evening, August 29, Rabbi Avraham Nissanian, well-known speaker and founder of Eshel Avraham, shared a virtual shiur on behalf of the organization. He began by wishing everyone a sweet and fruitful end of the year and a sweet new year.

On Sunday evening, August 14, Let’s Get Real With Coach Menachem featured a virtual shiur with Rabbi Dovid Kaplan, Senior Lecturer at Ohr Somayach and well-known author on how to bring your marriage to an even higher level. He noted that not every generalization applies to every marriage. It’s the most important relationship in your life, and every decision you make affects your spouse. Why did Hashem make men and women so different?

On Sunday, August 21, Rabbi Yaniv Meirov, CEO of Chazaq and rav of Congregation Charm Circle in KGH, shared an enlightening shiur on the power of sh’miras ha’lashon for a merit for a r’fuah sh’leimah for Netanel Shai ben Devorah. This was the Number 45 shiur of this weekly shiur on sh’miras ha’lashon, which was started last August by the grandfather of Netanel Shai, Tuvia Sablosky, as a z’chus for this baby who was born with his jaw locked tight so he cannot eat, etc. The Biala Rebbe advised the family to do these shiurim for a z’chus for a r’fuah sh’leimah.

On Sunday evening, July 31, Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz, well-known speaker and rav at Ohr Somayach in Yerushalayim, shared a beautiful virtual shiur on behalf of Let’s Get Real with Coach Menachem. He spoke about the age-old question of “tzadik v’ra lo” or “Why do righteous people suffer?”