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His donning tefillin at all took immense effort — and here he wished to don a second pair

Thessaloniki Jewry’s wealth made the city a major center of Sephardic Jewry in the Ottoman Empire

As Moshe completed the thought, Rav Olshin grew excited. “This is in the back of the Gemara?” he exclaimed. “Can you show it to me?”

“I just sat down and I pashut cried. I said Tehillim, and I said, ‘Ribbono shel Olam, just help me out.’ As I closed my Tehillim, the phone rings…”

From the moment he assumed office in 1921, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohein Kook leveraged every tool at his disposal to champion aliyah

In memory of Rabbi Berel Wein