The Power Of Ashrei

We now return to Ashrei after the last few segments, where we discussed the crucially important words of “Baruch Atah Hashem,” especially as they relate to the ending of all the brachos in Shemoneh Esrei.

Unfortunately, yesterday I attended the l’vayah of a Gadol, HaRav Yechiel Yitzchak Perr zt”l, Rosh Yeshivah of the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway. Through the various hespeidim, there emerged a picture of a brilliant “m’chadeish” of Torah, who gave up what could have been a lifetime of producing brilliant s’farim of original and creative Torah thoughts, in order to produce thousands of talmidim instead.