The following speech is well over a half hour long and worth every minute. Rabbi Wallerstein addresses the 2013 Agudah Convention and it is one of those priceless gems amidst a sea of the same old “secular influences” and “evil…
Tag: speeches
Yeshiva dinner thoughts
After three phones calls from a former rebbe asking me to attend my yeshiva dinner, I decided to go. I was in New York for a wedding that weekend, and figured I should at least make an appearance and decide…
Rarely am I so captivated by a speech
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…
I hate when speeches are made at the end of davening
I rarely get to hear a rabbi that gives an interesting sermon, but at least you know that no matter what happens you are kind of locked into shul for musaf and all that prepubescent singing afterwards so your stuck…
Why don’t orthodox Jews clap?
Rafi G from Life in Israel recently wrote about it and its true, orthodox Jews rarely clap at events. I have been to countless events, simchas, celebrations and never have I heard a good hearty round of applause. I have…