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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: Tag-MehirTzedek on January 09, 2013, 12:02:51 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNKICOm3jA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORsFcvRYiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMd3HogvBqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTNK9bnOx_g
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I love Rabbi Shalom Arush, the spiritual leader of Chut Shel Chessed Breslev Yeshiva in Jerusalem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_arush
Arush was one of 9 children born to his parents in the town of Beni Mellal, Morocco. His was a family of pious Jews who valued Torah scholars and visited the graves of tzaddikim. He learned in the local Jewish Alliance school and studied Hebrew in the evenings.[2] His eldest brother married and immigrated to Israel before the rest of the family;[2] Arush and his parents and other siblings moved to Israel when he was 13.[3]
The family settled in Petah Tikva, where his parents enrolled Arush in a mamlachti-dati (state-religious) school; he later attended a secular high school. In 1970 he joined the Israel Defense Force as an airborne combat medic, where he took part in many dangerous missions, including missions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. During that time, five of his closest friends were killed in a helicopter crash while carrying out an army mission. This event was one of the catalysts for his personal teshuva.[2]
Following his army service, Arush studied economics and accounting at Tel Aviv University.
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The Chut Shel Chessed Institutions includes a yeshiva, a kollel for married men, a boarding school for teenage boys, and a Talmud Torah for younger boys.[6] The organization specializes in nurturing youth at risk, and has graduated students who have gone on to become noted writers, actors and musicians.[5] Among Arush's celebrity students is Shuli Rand, star of the film "Ushpizin".[4]
In 1998 Arush opened a branch of Chut Shel Chesed in Ashdod, Israel, and appointed his student Rabbi Lazer Brody, another combat soldier-turned-baal teshuva, to head the rabbinical program. In 2006 this branch merged with the Jerusalem yeshiva and Brody became the mashpia (spiritual guide) for Arush's students and the translator of Arush's books into English.[4][7]
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I was watching one of the videos you posted and noticed the Hebrew written on the Aaron above the curtain. It said 'HaKeter V'HaKavod Le'Chai Olamim'. This is a stanza in a song we sing (at the Chabad minyan) on Shabbat. This particular line means 'The Crown and The Glory, To the One Who Lives Forever'... I found this video on this prayer..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G9L3Efn42A
See also : http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/476131/jewish/LChai-Olamim.htm
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Rabbi Lazer Brody and Rabbi Shlomo Katz doing a Carlebach tune...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF2DFsgqNSs