Gown Gemach to Cater to the Plus-Sized

Mazal Tov!! She is engaged! Everyone is so excited! The Chosson and Kallah buy their respective Kapota and gown. The jewelry, the music, and the flowers are taken care of. But then comes the headache – if the mother or the sisters are plus-sized, where are they supposed to look for the beautiful gowns that will reflect their joy in this simcha?

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Weekly Living Torah: A Mikvah for Whom?

Rabbi Moishe Engel was among the Shluchim in Long Beach, California, who dreamed of opening a kosher store or starting a Hebrew school to help boost the community’s Jewish infrastructure. They were astonished when a call arrived from the Rebbe’s office with a blessing for a new Mikvah.

Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within

The laws of Tzara’at—the biblical skin disease that affected gossipers and slanderers in ancient times, rendering them ritually impure – contain an intriguing anomaly. On the one hand the well-versed sage, not necessarily a Kohan (priest), is empowered to analyze the skin condition to determine whether or not it is Tzara’at. On the other hand, only a Kohen can actually render a person impure. That is to say, regardless of the expert’s opinion, one is not ritually impure until a Kohen utters the words, “You are impure.”

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov - Jax, FL

8 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Zalmen and Chashi (nee Vischetsky) Shaikevitz
585 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and Kingston Aves.]

Shmueli and Sora (nee Margolis) Milecki
1232 Sterling Pl. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]

Baruch and Chaya (nee Pelman) Rozmarin
717 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]

Akiva and Rivky (nee Feldman) Nussbaum
1401 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]

Reuvy and Moussia (nee Lipskier) Kaminetzky
1454 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]

Eliyahu and Mushky (nee Avtzon) Eidelman
541 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]

Shmuly and Rochi Silberstein
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Levi and Chaish (nee New) Mentz
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