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Rabbi Shalom Obrany, Bnei Brak
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Bnei Brak, Jewish studies on February 11th, 2010
Moishe Alexander extends help to Rabbi Shalom Obrany
On the road to Bnei Brak
Rabbi Moshe Shtemer/Eichler, Jerusalem, Israel
Posted by admin in Israel, Jewish, Jewish studies on February 11th, 2010
Moishe donates to Rabbi Moshe Shtemer/Eichler
Jerusalem, Israel
The name “Jerusalem” is a compound of two Semitic roots, “s-l-m” meaning wholeness, peace, harmony or completeness, and “y-r-h” meaning to show, direct, instruct, or teach. Jerusalem means “Teaching of Peace“, or “Whole or Complete Instruction“. A city called Rušalimum or Urušalimum appears in ancient Egyptian records as one of the first references to Jerusalem. These Egyptian forms are thought to derive from the local name attested in the Amarna letters, e.g: in EA 287 (where it takes several forms) Urusalim. The form Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) first appears in the book of Joshua. This form has the appearance of a portmanteau (blend) of yerusha (heritage) and the original name Shalem and is not a simple phonetic evolution of the form in the Amarna letters. Some believe there is a connection to Shalim, the beneficent deity known from Ugaritic myths as the personification of dusk. Another suggested etymology is Jerū-šālēm, the first part of which possibly means “settlement” or “fortress” (thence “The Abode of Shalim”).
Rabbi Yehuda L. Eckstein, Bnei Brak, Israel
Posted by admin in Bnei Brak, Jewish studies on February 11th, 2010
Rabbi Eckstein Receives Donation from Moishe Alexander
Bnei Brak Mayor Interview
Bnei Brak takes its name from the ancient Beneberak, which was not in the same location.
Bnei Brak was founded as an agricultural settlement in 1924 by Rabbi Yitzchok Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish chasidim. Due to a lack of land many of its founders turned to other occupations, and the village began to develop an urban character. Its first rabbi was Rabbi Arye Mordechai Rabinowicz, a descendant of the Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowicz, known as Yid HaKodosh, and formerly the rabbi of Kurów in Poland. He was succeeded as rabbi of Bnei Brak by Rabbi Yosef Kalisz, a scion of the Vurker dynasty.
The town was set up as a religious settlement from the outset, as is evident from this description of the pioneers:
Their souls were revived by the fact that they merited what their predecessors had not. What particularly revived their weary souls in the mornings and toward evening, when they would gather in the beis medrash situated in a special shack which was built immediately upon the arrival of the very first settlers, for tefilla betzibbur (communal prayer) three times a day, for the Daf Yomi shiur, and a Gemara shiur and an additional one in Mishnayos and the Shulchan Oruch.