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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Anyone who attended Camp Torah Vodaas or Camp Dora Golding when Rabbi Yitzy Erps was the night...
If my memory serves me correctly – which it generally doesn’t these days – it was about 25 years ago that I typed and emailed a d’var Torah for the first time. This was back in the days when AOL and the ubiquitous “You got mail” ruled the email world.
For the last number of years, I have uploaded a brief video d’var Torah on the weekly parshah to TorahAnytime.com. The videos are entitled “Instant Inspiration.”
Say the words “finding teachers” to any yeshivah principal and chances are he’ll roll his eyes and perhaps even snort. He may likely also break into a sweat and his heart will begin racing. I think it’s safe to say that finding qualified and competent teachers is the bane of every yeshivah principal’s existence.
One morning two summers ago, in our bungalow in Camp Dora Golding, my wife made a rather interesting discovery when she went to wake up our (then) six-year-old twins. There were a couple of empty Snapple bottles with a bunch of dead fireflies on the bottom. When she asked the twins to explain, they replied that they made themselves natural night lights.
Recently, I came across a word I was unfamiliar with: defenestrate. I had to look up the definition to find out that defenestrate means to toss out of a window. I’m not really sure why throwing something/someone out of the window needs its own word. Just say it was thrown out of the window. But then there are many strange things about the English language.
Rabbi Avrohom Yachnes is an insightful, veteran rebbi, with a wealth of stories to boot, which he shares in his inimitable manner. (He is also the author of A Treasure for Life: Commentary and Insights into Sefer Orchos Tzadikim.)
