Shabbos Hagadol Drasha
The minhag is to begin a Shabbos hagadol drasha with a dvar halacha. I will begin by saying what we all know – that the machla that is going around is sakanas nefashos and therefore if during yom tov/Shabbos any question comes up about helping a choleh – the din is to be machmir on sakanas nefashos. This is a kiyum of the mitzvah of “v’chai bahem” and it should be done b’simcha like every other...
The Inner Jew
We find ourselves in unusual circumstances. The most obvious expressions of our Yiddishkeit are out of reach. It is not an outside enemy that is preventing us from t’filla b’ tzibur, from learning Torah in a bais medrash that roars with rischa de’oyraysa, from the tahara of mikva, and from so many activities that require a gathering of Yidden. Hakodosh Boruch Hu sent a virus that forces us to...