FROM 770...

2007-11-06T15:31:00.001-05:00

Vote Vote Vote

2007-04-23T02:05:00.000-04:00

Does anyone still come here?
I'll get right to the point.
I've been nominated in the Jewish Israeli Blog Awards in the below categories.

If you would be so kind as to take a moment and vote for me (Letters of Thought), I would appreciate it very much (Unless of course your own blog is in the run, in which case . . .)
L'chaim and Blog on!

Best Small Blog
Best Religious Blog
Best Jewish Culture Blog
Best Personal Blog
Best Photo Blog
Best Contribution

ipod istar absolut purim vodka

2007-01-03T00:51:00.000-05:00

Where are you ??

2006-10-16T16:44:00.000-04:00

If someone is bored and interested I think it would be interesting to put together a list of where everyone is this year
And for bonus whos your chavusa
For extra bonus where you really want to be

Tishrei with the Gaon . . .

2006-09-15T04:55:00.000-04:00

Looking for something interesting to do over Tishrei.
E-mail me for details . . .
mordechai7215@gmail.com

Kol hakodem zoche

Blog update

2006-07-23T15:56:00.000-04:00

just updated my blog yossi05.blogspot.com
also new photo album with all my latest pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/yossi05/

update

2006-06-22T18:17:00.000-04:00

just in case you care i updated my blog

Next year . . .

2006-06-07T09:39:00.000-04:00

Is there are anyone who doesn't yet have a chavrusa for smicha next year yet?

The Warsaw Shluchim

2006-05-26T10:01:00.000-04:00

Welcome To London

2006-05-25T13:47:00.000-04:00

To See The Photos of London Check My site out

2006-05-07T08:39:00.000-04:00

The New Warszawer Rosh Yeshiva . . .
Let the learning begin.
This and other news at Letters of Thought

Chief of staff takes over "The Lake"

2006-05-03T17:52:00.000-04:00

We have been notified by the lac Desert Daily News that Shliach HaTomim Mendel Plotke has been nominated to the position of "Chief of the lake" responsible for the safety of the lives of many children that will Iy"h be spending there summer at the Gan Yisroel Summer Camp located North of Montreal City.

Mazel Tov! Mazel Tov! Hatzlocho Rabbah!

ERETZ ISRAEL = ISRAEL ISRAEL ISRAEL!!!!!

2006-05-03T09:33:00.000-04:00

Israel photo Gallery! The Israeli Tour

What's new?

2006-04-27T18:34:00.000-04:00

There's a new Poll to take on the side-bar . . .

Matisyahu's Pesach

2006-04-12T18:08:00.000-04:00

Matisyahu's pesach.

special interview with chabad.org

New York

2006-04-11T17:40:00.000-04:00

Got back from NY Sunday night was hectic to see all the guys i haven't seen in sooo long being in galus in SA!

was really cool.
and of cours there really is no place like home.

would also be nice to get some pescah update (location, program etc.)

i updated my blog @ http://yossi05.blogspot.com

Have a great pesach.

Yossi.
Montreal.

MAZEL TOV MENDY WEISS ON YOUR 21st BIRTHDAY

2006-03-29T08:59:00.000-05:00

MAY YOU HAVE ALL THE REBBE'S BROCHOS..................................

What's new from Shluchim Blog

2006-03-22T19:11:00.000-05:00

I've put in a Chat Box -use the visitors online to see if there's another Bochur around . . .
What else should I do to make this blog better?

A non-Poland post from a almost post Poland Bochur

2006-03-22T16:09:00.000-05:00

The shluchim in S. Africa have pics of things they've done in the High School
Enjoy!
Here!

uh . . .

2006-03-20T04:45:00.000-05:00

Check out the new Poll . . .

Our Boys and The "Undercover Chief"

2006-03-18T17:06:00.000-05:00

2006-03-18T17:00:00.000-05:00

Chatzky in action

2006-03-18T16:44:00.001-05:00

Purim @ Tzahal

2006-03-18T16:37:00.000-05:00

2006-03-18T15:37:00.000-05:00

purim in sydney

2006-03-16T22:30:00.003-05:00

smashing purim 5766

purim in sydney

2006-03-16T22:30:00.002-05:00

purim in sydney

2006-03-16T22:30:00.001-05:00

purim in sydney

2006-03-16T22:30:00.000-05:00

Purim In Warsaw

2006-03-15T16:57:00.000-05:00

By night the Talmidei Hashluchim made a Purim party in Warsaw with
Krias Hamegillah, a buffet meal, and children's program followed by
dancing. The next day the Bohcurim went on Mivtzoiem to give out
Shaloch Manos from the shliach and to read the megillah. That night
there was a Seudah followed by a special farbrengin for Polish
students. Two bochurim (Zalmen Zarchi and Levin our "Rosh Yeshiva") also traveled to make a separate party in Gdansk(Danzig), a city by the Baltic sea.
More pics and info can be found here

Tzfat...

2006-03-12T07:16:00.000-05:00

Some do Pong, Some do Pool,
We don't Play...

We also do pool

2006-03-08T06:11:00.000-05:00

Don't forget to take the new poll on the side!

Pidyon Haben

2006-03-06T08:52:00.000-05:00

The Picures of the Pidyon Haben held here in Warsaw can be found at Letters of Thought

you got ping pong you've got pool we've got...

2006-03-04T14:55:00.000-05:00

...well not much.

but i did get to update my blog finally!

you got ping pong we got pool

2006-03-03T00:47:00.000-05:00

CHIEF RABBI METZGER POSES WITH MENDY AND CHAIM

2006-03-01T20:34:00.000-05:00

ISRAEL'S CHIEF RABBI IN BOCHRIM'S GROUP PICTURE

2006-03-01T20:33:00.000-05:00

New In Warsaw

2006-03-01T09:36:00.000-05:00

We've got Ping Pong!

2006-03-01T09:33:00.000-05:00

Dutch style

From the holy city of Tsfat

2006-02-28T12:44:00.000-05:00

Finally after 4 months we set up a phone until now we were unreachable but now you can contact us at 718-247-3266

We Got Net

2006-02-21T16:19:00.000-05:00

tsfas has net,
feel free to email etc.pictures are on there way ,and a article on the Chief Of Staff{aka Hashliach Hatommim Mendel Plotke

2006-02-20T05:49:00.000-05:00

nesanel chilling

Finally

2006-02-16T15:32:00.000-05:00

iy'h this montik we will have net 3months in whats goin on in S.A.you guys moved yet hehe

Note

2006-02-14T09:45:00.000-05:00

I've put a Cluster Map on the side-bar -now we can see where everyone is logging in from.

2006-02-14T09:37:00.000-05:00

As mentioned before:
Warsaw does New York -or at least Lightstone does New York . . .
Whatever

THE WINNER OF THE WARSAW RAFFLE

2006-02-07T06:12:00.001-05:00

The winner of the Raffle will be post on my site as soon as the raffle is done.

Bochurim Hashluchim go to Reddam Camp

2006-02-02T08:29:00.000-05:00

here we interacted with the students in ther pre-school camp. we had some relay races and cup stacking. youd be surprised at how much fun it is.

NEW YORK NEW YORK

2006-02-01T02:30:00.000-05:00

YESHIVA GEDOLA HEADQUARTERS OF LUBAVITCH OF SYDNEY NOW HAS A 718 NUMBER AND IT IS AS FOLLOWS:1-718-785-3970
THAT'S IT NO 0011 NO 614 JUST STRAIGHT AS THEY COME 1-718-785-3970

"the sydney kings would like to welcome the sydney jewish youth and the rebbes shluchim"

2006-01-30T17:36:00.001-05:00

"the sydney kings would like to welcome the sydney jewish youth and the rebbes shluchim"

2006-01-30T17:36:00.000-05:00

24 Teves in Haditich

2006-01-29T11:07:00.000-05:00

for those of you that dont know I (Zalmen Zarchi)(arrange the trip to Haditich Ukraine for the alter rebbe yertzait while we were there we took a big detour so if you wanna see check it out on my blog

The Ukrainian Trek

2006-01-29T03:11:00.000-05:00

For the definitive report about our trip to Ukraine:
Chaim van Halem Zalmen Zarchi and myself

2006-01-28T12:53:00.000-05:00

Chelm

grand shluchims meeting

2006-01-17T04:40:00.000-05:00

2006-01-10T07:33:00.000-05:00

yechi ,anybody got some good ideas for yud shvat mivtzas?

2006-01-09T09:39:00.000-05:00

Because those people that have time to post are the ones who don't do anything post worthy, and those who have done things that are worth letting the rest of us know about, have no time to post.

WHY DOESNT ANYONE UPDATE THIS SITE ANYMORE

2006-01-09T03:25:00.000-05:00

WHY DOESNT ANYONE UPDATE THIS SITE ANYMORE

post chanukah clipings

2006-01-09T03:24:00.000-05:00

report on my chanukah party
yea iam lighting the menorah
15ft in the air

my parade and lighting
yea iam lighting it again
only this time two and a half stories up

THE LITHUANIAN EXCURSION

2006-01-06T08:51:00.000-05:00

me and mordechai lightstone went to Lithuania for a week to read about it go to my blog at http://zalmenzarchi.blogspot.com mordy wrote the article!!

sorry

2005-12-25T23:11:00.000-05:00

kinglit.blogspot.com

sorry

2005-12-25T23:10:00.000-05:00

for some reason the picsdidnt load so go to my blog to see it
kinglit@blogspot.com

2005-12-25T23:09:00.000-05:00

channukah has finally arrived and praise he lord blessed be he we are making major kiddushin hashem I put a 5 and a half foot menorah in three different banks in different areas of Sydney one in bondi junction one in bondi beach and one in double bay
here is a pic of me transporting one of the menorahs to the bank

and last night we had a massive parade 104 menorahs that went to Martin Place where we lit a 30 Ft menorah the brochos were said by rabbi pinchas feldman and his son rabbi yossi feldman and the actual lighting was expertly performed by chaim litvin the menorah was put up the night before by a couple bochurim namely mendy weiss shmully davidof yanky bigs yanky levy mendel jaffe chaim litvin yitzi spalter shmulik and yitzchok the truck driver

during the parade we passed the world famous Oprah house with my trailer and 7 Ft menorah

and here is a pic of me two stories up on a plank of sagging wood on a scafold put together by 3 bochurim in a rush they say blind faith is a good thing and i believed them

With sorrow

2005-12-20T20:24:00.000-05:00

Budapest, Hungary.
Sorry I have no pictures to post, but I do have some news.
We have a voip new york # : 718-577-2950
Chanuka mivtzoim student visits are in their fourth night.
Keep up the blog!

NEWS FROM WARSAW

2005-12-19T11:14:00.000-05:00

On the day of the Rebbe's wedding the shluchim in Warsaw chose to farbreng in the original location of the historical wedding that took place in the city77 years ago. The temimim/shluchim in the yeshiva opened the event at the location of Rebbe's chuppah where they sang the 'Arba Bavos'. The tomim, Mordechai Shmuel Lightstone described the sequence of events at the Rebbe's wedding and the tomim Chezki Wolf followed up with inspirational thoughts. The crowd then headed for the location of kingly 'seudas mitzvah' (wedding meal) was held and they all said a merry 'lechayim' and celebrated with dancing and singing. From there they proceeded to the yeshiva hall where they held a farbrengen with members of the local Jewish community

ביום חתונתו של הרבי יצאו שלוחי חב"ד בוורשא לחגוג ולהתוועד במקום בו נערכה החתונה לפני 77 שנים. התמימים השלוחים בישיבה הפועלת בעיר, פתחו את האירוע המרגש במקום שהוצבה חופתו של הרבי ושם ניגנו את ניגון הד' בבות. הת' מרדכי שמואיל לייטסטון תיאר בפני הנוכחים את סדר חתונתו של הרבי ולאחריו סיים הת' חזקי וולף בדברי התעוררות

משם פנה הקהל למקום שבו נערכה סעודת המצוה ברח' פנסקה שבו הרימו הנוכחים כוסיות 'לחיים' ויצאו בריקוד סוער. לאחר הארועים באתרים ההיסטוריים חזר הקהל לישיבת חב"ד להתוועדות חגיגית שערכו עם בני הקהיל המקומית

Reading The Yoman

place of chupah

stam

place of chupah

Place Of Hall

Danicng by the Hall

dancing in zal

eating

satalite Photo Place of The Hall

Satalite photo Place Of Yeshivah

In Front Of Where The Yeshiva Was!

Singing The Alter Rebbes Nigun

Chesky Wolff Saying Lchaim And Dvar Malchus!

Daled BoVos!

Chesky Giving Lechaim out!

In Front Of Where The Hall Was

Dancing on the Spot where the hall was!

chanukah is coming all over the world but it comes in Australia first

2005-12-19T08:35:00.000-05:00

chanukah is coming all over the world but it comes in Australia first
Well chanukah is coming and it won't wait for anyone so I really gotta go because there a lot to do and less time to do it in so I will post some pics and go back to building the rest of the 104 menoahs for my parade and 3 5 ft ones to put in fornt of three of sydneys biggest banks{I know a guy who knows a guy to get that done} and I have lots to do for this chanukah at the bay party where I'm expecting 5000 people and I have to go pick up a menorah in a truck that I didn't rent yet so I really got to go

oh and by the way today I got pulled over for an alleged drunk driving charge but I passed the breathalizer test and the bloody copper let me go apparently there are some rioghts in the area I was going threw and I must have forgotten to take of my turban or something

here is the car I didn't get pulled over in

and here is the car I did get pulled over in

this is a bloody speed camera or red light camera that helps the pd give over 500 tickets per day
but you cant catch me I'm the ginger bread man
enjoy gut yomtov I'm gonna go farbreng
ttypl

2005-12-12T10:08:00.001-05:00

chanukah

Tuesday Dec 27 there will be b"eh a grand channukah party so mendy and I hung up a huge sign about 35 ft long we had to take down the marching to Bethlehem one to put ours up

and the cops came and asked what we were doing but said it was alright and we continued then this guy from a Jewish paper came and asked us some questions for the paper and took some pics of us for the paper

2005-12-12T10:08:00.000-05:00

mazel tov

I would like to take the time to wish Ben and Anna a mazel tov on their wedding in which I witnessed {legally} the whole thing I was an aid for the kidushin and ksubah

here is a pic of myself mendy damiond {a best man} the chosson Ben and another best man

Mondays Trip

2005-12-07T10:49:00.000-05:00

Before we get started a little humour:

Busted -the two cleaning ladies (the button breaker on the left, the mikva lady on the right) taking a smoking break on our front porch.

As I reported the other day we went on a trip to Majdanek/Lublin (Does not rhyme with Dublin). Note: those pictures with a star next to them were taken by Yankel Adler (see Yankel -I told you that you'd get credit)
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The Van

Our first stop was a small shtetl known Kazimrz (Pronounced Kazhim'sh, known by the Jews as Kuzmir (which sounds a lot like Kush Mir . . .)) It still is in many respects a shtetl -on the way there we saw a guy plowing his field with a horse!
Our first stop was the Beis Hak'varos (the Graveyard)

The entrance to the cemetery in Kazimrz the Grave stones were those broken by the Germans and redone as a memorial
Most of the Metzvos (Head Stones) were destroyed, but several could be found standing. Notice the intricately engraved on the stones.

Fallen Matzevos
After we left our tour guide, Thomas (who, though not Jewish, speaks Hebrew and Yiddish -as well as English), took us to the town square -where most of the shops had once been Jewish.

The town square
We took a group picture there:

We saw the old shul -it had been used as a theatre during Communist times, but was now being restored and then set off on our way . . .

Note: Some people are very disturbed by pictures etc. of Concentration camps. If viewing/reading will bring discomfort, please don't let it be on my account, I advise you to skip ahead until you see the next set of Bold letters.

Our first stop in the Lublin area was Majdanek (Pronounced Maydanek -If you haven't heard of it, it's time to do some basic Holocaust reading). Though it was once out in the country, it's now in the middle of the suburbs surrounded by house on two sides.

"Entrance to Hell." One feels himself slowly descending, only to realize that escape is almost impossible.

a view of part of the camp
Some Basic History:(taken from Wikipedia) Majdanek is the site of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp, roughly four kilometers away from the center of the Polish city Lublin. Unlike many other Nazi concentration and extermination camps, Majdanek is not hidden away in some remote forest or obscured from view by natural barriers, nor was it surrounded by a "security zone". It was established in October 1941, at Heinlich Himmler's orders, following his visit to Lublin in July 1941. Majdanek was an SS-run prisoner-of-war camp, under the command of Karl Otto Koch. In February 1943, it was turned into a concentration camp.
In October 1942, several female SS troopers arrived from the Ravensbruck camp in Germany, where they were trained. These women included Elsa Erich, Hermine Braunsteiner, Hildegard Lachert and Rosy Suess. Elisabeth Knoblich was one of the ruthless overseers in the camp. She was so brutal and sadistic that even her fellow Aufseherinnen feared her and nicknamed her "Halt Die Klappe" (Shut Your Mouth!). When the Soviets liberated Majdanek, they found unending evidence that pointed to the ruthless attitude of the female overseers.
The camp's name derives from a Lublin district called Majdan Tatarski, and was given it in 1941 by the locals, who were certainly aware of its existence. The original German name of the camp was "Konzentrationslager Lublin" (Concentration Camp Lublin).
At its peak operation, it held about 50,000 inmates. In the early months of 1942, plans were made and approved to expand Majdanek to contain as many as 250,000 inmates. Between April 1942 and July 1944, extermination took place in Majdanek using gas chambers and crematoria. Madjanek was one of two death camps that used Zyklon B in its gas chambers. However, carbon monoxide was also used.
According to the data from the official Majdanek State Museum (see external link below) about 300,000 inmates passed through the camp, with over 40% Jews and about 35% Poles. Other major nationalities included Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Austrians, French, Italians and Dutch. It is estimated that over 235,000 human lives were lost in Majdanek, including about 100,000 Jews. Majdanek was unique among the death camps in that the Jewish victims did not form an overwhelming majority.
Majdanek provided slave labor for munitions works and the Steyr-Daimler-Puch weapons factory.
The camp was liquidated in July 1944, but the crematoria were all that could be destroyed before the Red Army arrived, making Majdanek the best-preserved camp of the Holocaust. Although 1,000 inmates were evacuated on a death march, the Red Army found thousands of inmates, mainly POW, still in the camp and ample evidence of the mass murder that had occurred there.

The Hospital for the German Officers

The Lodgings for the SS men.
We then came to the Roll Call grounds, where people were brought when they first arrived, and divided . . .

The chambers, labeled as Baths (so as to calm the victims), at the time they were in use the place was full of roses as well -so as to further deceive those entering Majdanek.

Next were the shower rooms, after shaving off the hair of those about to be murdered (the hair was used to to defray the cost of buying zyklon b), they were herded into the showers so as to calm them (to allay their fears that they were to be killed) and to open the pores in the skin so that the gas can better enter the body.

the walls of the chambers, dyed blue by the Zyklon B. Zyklon B

As mentioned, Majdanek is one of the best preserved Concentration camps, however after the war the Poles were in acute need of housing, they therefor broke down three of the four "fields" -bunker units, as well the the dog kennels and other parts of the camp.

The foundations of a building, notice how today people now live right outside of the camp.

After the war there were over 80,000 shoes left from those murdered. 60,00 were stolen by the poles for their own use -the rest are now on display.

The double barbed wire electric gates.
We then entered the only remaining field, where the inmates lived.

A monument made by inmates on request of the officers so that if the Red Cross were to come the camp would look more hospitable. The artists hid a canister of ashes within the monument -so that it would also serve as a sign of the atrocities that the Germans had done.
We then went to the back of the camp to the most horrid place that I've ever been . .

The camp is full of crows -our guide said that they were the SS and Kapos, come back to spend their lives in their horrid camp. Though I don't know it to be true, it certainly is poetic justice.
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Approaching the "new" gas chamber/crematorium and mausoleum where 20 containers of human ashes left over by Germans were placed by the Russians as a testimony to the world. It says on it (in Polish) "Let our fate be a warning."

The "new" Gas chamber/Crematorium built during the second half of the war near the back of the camp.

the Gas Chambers A table used to dissect victims who might have swallowed valuables

The Bathtub that belonged to the head Officer, it was heated by the crematorium

Light entry the crematorium Some pictures need no caption

Though these roses are new, it is known that ash from the crematorium was used to fertilize the flowers.

We then went to the mausoleum, passing the mass graves, of 18,400 Jews killed in Majdanek on November 3. That day a total of 42,000 Jews were murdered in the Lublin area. The Germans later dug up the bodies and burned them so that the Russians would not be able to know the exact number of those murdered.
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We davened Mincha and sang Al Tira: Do not fear sudden terror, nor the destruction of the wicked when it comes. Contrive a scheme, but it will be foiled; conspire a plot, but it will not materialize, for G-d is with us. To your old age Ia am [with you]; to your hoary years I will sustain you; I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
Indeed, the righteous will extol Your Name; the upright will dwell in Your presence.

On to Lublin:

The Ohel of Reb Tzadok haCohen, Reb Leibele Eiger and his family, in the new Lublin Cemetery. Of the four original cemeteries, two were completely destroyed, and part of the new one was paved over for a road. We then went to the old Bais Hak'varos

Inside the Choze's Ohel The Maharshal's Ohel

Yeshivas Chachmie Lublin (Taken using Chaim van Helem's head as a tripod)

The Zal

The Mikvah

We then went to the old city -Jewish quarter

A ghetto house

taking a break in a "Jewish" restaurant

an old lady in the old town

The Town square (Jews were not allowed there)
We then returned to Yeshiva.

aiyekah

2005-11-28T01:09:00.000-05:00

where are you

kinus live around the world

2005-11-28T00:53:00.000-05:00

this morning at 10:00 am or last night 6:00 pm in new york the we the bochrim hashluchim watched the kinus live it was very nice here is a pic of the viewage

and here is a pic of the keynote speaker rabbi berel lazar

The rebbe's shluchim reaching across the globe

2005-11-27T22:24:00.000-05:00

I would like to take the time to share a story with everyone
this Friday on mivtzoim I met an Israeli man who asked me were he could buy kosher food for shabbos. After I told him what he wanted to know I invited him to the shabbos mvarchim farbrengehn that mendy and I were making in the chabad house. I also told him the times of davening and the shiur before mincha on a sicho given by habochur hashliach chaim litvin. Anyway he came to mincha shabbos and we farbrenged it turns out that this guy is a doctor who lived in Singapore for the past five years and he said that habochur hashliach cholom loube is the happiest man in Singapore always with a joke or a kind word and a vort on the parsha.
with this said I would like to congratulate all the shluchim of the world at large for all their hard work and chasidishkiet like we see from this weeks parsha toldos that starts aileh toldos yitzchok which is similar to a month ago parshas noach aileh toldos noach why there is it noach and here toldos the answer my friends is shlichus nairos lehair the ikur toldos are those of yitzchok following in his ways lighting the path for world jewry with happiness {yitzchok lashon tzachok laugh} and joy unlike noach wich is a loshon of resting. May we merit to bring moshiach speedily in our days!!Amen.

2005-11-22T19:57:00.000-05:00

snow

2005-11-22T19:45:00.000-05:00

we also do mivtzoyim

Life goes on in SA...

2005-11-21T03:22:00.000-05:00

Check out my blog for update at http://yossi05.blogspot.com/

krav maga

2005-11-17T08:38:00.000-05:00

This evening 9 bochurim hashluchim went to a krav maga course held in the south head shull the instructors were CSG {community security group} which is the Australian security for the shulls and they arranged the course

here is ezzy punching the instructor

and here is me doing the same

and here is mendy enjoying himself

after the course we had a farbrengen for shmuli davidoffs birthday mazeltov mazeltov

2005-11-16T15:57:00.000-05:00

Last night the Shluchim Warsaw decided to spend a little time strengthening the achud of the Kvutza . . . so we made a little get together . . . .

Big Z. at last nights "sholom zachor".

Hello from Africa

2005-11-15T08:02:00.000-05:00

Hey i just got my first chance to post from SA chek it out on my blog @ http://yossi05.blogspot.com

my number is 011.2772.238.9673

Yossi
South Africa

africans finally reach blog

2005-11-15T07:42:00.000-05:00

everyone must be wondering what happened to the africans well here it goes no internet topost any thing no phone line call anything and just acell phone to get called b/c out going calls are way to expensive so if you want to call us heres our num. 011 27 72 830 5294 everything else is pretty much going smooth learning started and we all got into things with a bang and foods pretty good just takes time to get used to it and its warm and sunny cant complain about that (well maybe b/c there is no airconditioning) and its all cool so give me or yossi or yanky a call and ill keep in post

the rest

2005-11-13T06:42:00.000-05:00

here is a pic of mendy speaking and the crowed for dudy

enjoy

south africa

2005-11-12T17:06:00.000-05:00

havent heard from south africa in awhile how do you have a phone number let u know

whats going on

2005-11-12T17:02:00.000-05:00

we just had our bruchim haboim to doublebay were mendy and i will be running the show for the next year or so here is a picture of me adressing the crowed at the affair

here iam learning with one of the balai batim

just a reminder

2005-11-10T08:28:00.000-05:00

last year as we all know there was alot of sleeping in zal if you disagree look at the pics they speak for me anyway this issue was farbrenged over and it was decided that bochurim sleep and waste time in yehivah because there is nothing else to do but now that we are all shluchim we should do more learning teaching and mivtzoim

here is someone wasting time there are many more like this

let us please spread yidishket and the rebbes inyonim and bring moshiach now

{please excuse any informalatis as it s right after the farbrengehn}

gut shabbos

bochurim hashluchim of sydney australia

2005-11-10T08:10:00.000-05:00

today the talmidim hashluchim had an amazing farbrengen with rabbi majesky who was one of the bochurim in the first kvutza of shluchim bechlal which was to australia and relayed many stories and yichidusin ect from those times and explained our responsibiliy as shluchim and our responsibility to bring moshiach
here are some pics from the farbrengen

this is the rabbi fargrenging

here is a pic of most of the bochurim by the farbrengen{i took it so iam not in the pic}

on the left is rabbi majesky in the middle standing is rabbi kaye our shoel umaishaiv slash mashgiach and on the right is harav yosef feldman our esteemed rosh yeshivah magid shiur menahel hagashmy ect.

2005-11-09T14:20:00.000-05:00

Al Pi bakashas rabbim I'm putting a copy of two of the aritcles I wrote on my own blog for the whole Shluchim Samech Vav crowd to enjoy.
-Mordechai

Me . . . Polish style
Proze (Prozhe as in the Zh of gezhe)

It was my Birthday yesterday -as I'm sure you all know and have already sent out you gifts- and we made a Farbrengen last night with R' Zalmen Stambler.
Among other things that were said I'll mention one:
We arrived Parshas Noach -where Hashem tells Noach "Tzei min hateiva" ("Go out of the ark"). That we did, we left yeshiva, as it were, to go on shlichus and become "involved" in the world -tzu tun mit nach a Yidden. If so, fregt zich the sha'alo, what more do I need tgo do? I went out, I went on a shlichus -Ich bin shoin gantz. That's why it's parshas Lech Lecha, we need to go deeper, to leave our habbits, to be ibergegeben tzum Rebben -an eved's whole goal is to give nachas to his master.

The Farbrengen is underway

The cake that Sholom Ber got me

We went to (Jewish) Cemetery yesterday, it's only a few minutes away from us, but it feels like it's years back in time.
The Germans left it (almost) untouched, Izhe explained, the two of the most probable reasons being that either they wanted to save it for their (in)famous "Museum . . ." or that they wanted to show the world that they weren't so bad -why hey, they left the world famous Warsaw Cemetery in tact.
The place is huge, there are around 250,000 people buried their -that's a quarter of a million! It's relatively new as cemeteries go, only about 200 years old, but in it rest many famous people.

list of names of Tzaddikim interred here including Reb. Chaim Brisker, the son of the Apter Rav and more.

mass grave memorial

The site of the mass graves from Ghetto sent chills down my spine. There were so many people dieing that there was no time for them to be buried properly, therefore they were put in a large mass grave, there are approx. 10,000 people there! Hashem yekum Damum

17 bones of people who died in the Ghetto found at some later date and brought to "kever Yisroel"

Farewell

2005-11-09T03:41:00.000-05:00

It's 3:41am and i still have to Finnish packing but being that i don't know when i will have my next opportunity to use the net i have to get this post out...

Tomorrow I'll be leaving from Montreal and heading to South Africa via New York/the Ohel to fulfill my shlichus (and part of the reason i came to this world).

I thank you all for keeping in touch (albeit a one way touch sometimes) and i say Good Bye and Good Luck to all.

I of-course plan on keeping the world updated throughout my travels and hopefully we will have sufficient bandwidth to do so.

to those of you i didn't have a chance tell you good bye personally, feel bad -it was on purpose! (lol).

Yossi!
Still in Montreal...
But the way out.

2005-11-07T16:29:00.000-05:00

Baruch Hashem, after tireless effort from my dear and beloved friend, Hatomim Hashliach Shneor Zalmen Hacohen Zarchi, we now have a VoIP phone. That's right, a call to Warsaw is now as easy as calling Tante Shprintza in Con Tziva.
(718) 301-6845

Learning Inyunie Geula and Moshiach

Farbunden tzum Rebben w/Wi-fi

2005-11-07T05:07:00.000-05:00

The only Shul left by the Germans Y'mach shemum, from front and interior, as well the inside of our Zal and Hatomim Hashliach Yudi Winterfeld learning with one of the locals.

learning . . .

. . . real hard . . .

. . . through osmosis

Hi!

2005-11-06T19:55:00.000-05:00

I want to thank you all for keaping us up to date with pictures Etc.
but it would be nice if you guys that didnt share any pictures with us, did.

and you guys in SA i would especially apriciate if ya'll could give me a shout out! (E-mail, phone call, or even phone number)

i finally figured it out .

2005-11-06T18:27:00.000-05:00

yoss i finally figured it all out.

2005-11-06T18:17:00.000-05:00

My colleague Zalman has given us many beautifully pictures of Warsaw, but I hope to add words as well. The time is late -so for now I'll suffice to merely make a shameless plug for my blog: www.mordechai7215.blogspot.com where I have a few articles already up. Until then,
Mordechai

Photos Of Warsaw Poland Apartment And View

2005-11-06T04:04:00.000-05:00

hey!

2005-11-06T04:00:00.000-05:00

hi from poland!!

mivtzoim newsletter

2005-11-03T18:41:00.000-05:00

the link is to a parsha newsletter i have made fr my mivtzoim rout here in syney feel free to take it and edit it if youd like
enjoy goodshabbos

Zaks Bar Mitzva. HK.

2005-11-03T00:50:00.000-05:00

at a recent Bar Mitzvah.

Notice Chinese guy on Guitar.

Keep the faith

-Getzy

Hong Kong, China

Chol Hamoed in Hong Kong

2005-11-02T07:28:00.000-05:00

b"h

photo from our Chol Hamoed Shesh besh Tournament and BBQ that we had for the community in Hong Kong.
Just learning how to post Photos so more on the way. I"yh

Keep the faith
-Getzy
Hong Kong, China

Anybody see this man?

2005-11-02T01:01:00.000-05:00

From 770...

2005-11-02T00:41:00.000-05:00

...To South Africa
most of the Shluchim going to south Africa will be"h be leaving tomorrow (wednesday) but being that i just got my wisdom teeth taken out the doctor told me i cant go till next week...
so I'll be going next week iy"h.
the guys ti Warsaw were supposed to go tomorrow but Zalmy H. never made it to the flight (some visa problem) so he is stil here.

Yossi!
Montreal QC.

Shluchim To Tsfat

2005-10-31T23:15:00.000-05:00

The shluchim to tsfas will a"h be leaving to tsfas on monday the 5th of heshvan

Leaving?

2005-10-31T03:03:00.000-05:00

Any info on when the temimim are leaving??

As for me probably wednsay but not 100% sure yet.

happy birthday chaim litvin

2005-10-29T06:17:00.000-04:00

id like to wish a happy birthday to habochor hashliach chaim litvin on hhis 20th birthday he should have a shnashatzlocho bgashmius u bruchnius if youd like to call him his number is 0401233606
mazel tov mazel tov