“The discomfort you felt seeing any images in Mishpacha isn’t a fraction of the extraordinary pain and bewilderment a huge chunk of Klal Yisrael is going through”
I was very happy to see the inspirational words of mori v’rabi Rav Moshe Wolfson shlita featured in last week’s Mishpacha. I think it’s important to mention that since Simchas Torah, Tehillim b’tzibbur is said in Beis Medrash Emunas Yisroel (where Rav Wolfson is mara d’asra) every evening for one half hour.
Rav Wolfson said that it is a chov kadosh for every member of the shul to come whenever possible. Saying Tehillim at this crucial time, he said, is a fulfillment of V’ahavta lerei’acha kamocha and Lo saamod al dam rei’echa. Rav Wolfson also quoted the teaching that tov me’at b’kavanah meiharbeh shelo b’kavanah and exhorted us to say the Tehillim slowly and with great feeling.
May we see yeshuos b’karov.
Rabbi Shimon Finkelman
The coverage of the media’s bias against Israel was presented very well. What is the source for Yishmael’s ability to be defended by the media? The answer can be found in this week’s parshah.
Hagar has run out of water in the desert. She puts Yishmael down “tachas achad hasichim,” which simply translates to “beneath one of the bushes.” This action of Hagar was a protection for Yishmael to be covered by the sichim — in today’s terms, we might think of that as the media, those that have the public’s ear and who shield Yishmael’s children.
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