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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.)
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.”
Dedicated in loving memory of my Savta, Mrs. Minnie Staum, Shprintza bas Avraham Yitzchak, whose yahrzeit is 17 Cheshvan. May her memory be for a blessing.
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.
Shortly before Rosh HaShanah, I read an article entitled, “His Best Friend Was a 250-Pound Warthog – one day it decided to kill him.”
