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  • Vayishlach 2012 – Reuven Did What?

    Vayishlach 2012 – Reuven Did What?

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Reuven did what? Nu, before we begin Parshas Vayishlach, let’s quickly chazir (review) some of last week’s highlights. Yankif met his bashert, one of them, at the well. He kissed her, cried, fell in love, worked for seven years to get her, got married, discovered in the morning that he chapped the [...]

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    | November 29, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Chizuk #5 – The Power of Community

    Chizuk #5 – The Power of Community

    As we begin our new week almost two weeks since Sandy paid us an unwelcome visit, I can see a crack of light in the tunnel of murky deluge that enveloped us.  More homes have had power restored, gasoline has begun to flow in more liberal quantities, the weather has gotten warmer, and we are now slowly [...]

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    | November 11, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Noiach 2012 – Everything They Forgot to Teach You in Yeshiva

    Noiach 2012 – Everything They Forgot to Teach You in Yeshiva

    This week’s parsha review from the Oisvorfer is being sent a shtikel earlier because it’s longer than usual, contains a boatload (pun intended) of new information about Noiach and his life pre and post Mabul, is informative, humorous, a shtikel sarcastic, and is worth reading over and over. You will be amazed, educated and somewhat [...]

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    | October 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Hoishana Rabba 2012 – Execution Delayed

    Hoishana Rabba 2012 – Execution Delayed

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Execution Delayed: We’re in the home stretch of Yomim Toivim (Holidays) and by the time we return to our regular schedules this coming Wednesday (Tuesday for those living and most  spending Succois in Israel), many of you will have, during the holy month of Tishray, which contains four Jewish holidays, consumed an [...]

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    | October 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Succois 2012 – The Succah Economy

    Succois 2012 – The Succah Economy

    Word has reached the Oisvorfer that our chaverim Bonnie and Heshie Schertz get a Mazel Tov. While we were marking the heylige Shabbis here in the United States, over in Yerusholayim, Sam Schertz, their son, became engaged to Dani, daughter of Michelle & Eli Salig.  Grada we know Sam his entire life and share in [...]

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    | September 30, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Yom Kippur 2012 – Of Money and Forgiveness

    Yom Kippur 2012 – Of Money and Forgiveness

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Of Money and Forgiveness: Though the Oisvorfer provided his many followers with a form of Mechila (forgiveness) Release  in 2011,  it’s back for 2012: hey, didn’t you piss off new people this past year? Didn’t you speak loshoin horo (ill) of and about those you can’t stand, those who can’t stand you, [...]

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    | September 24, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Devorim 2012 – Double Talk

    Devorim 2012 – Double Talk

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Double talk: Have you ever wondered why Sefer Devorim, which we begin reading this coming Shabbis, is called Deuteronomy? Nu, we’re about to find out. Parshas Devorim which we always read on the Shabbis just before Tisha Be’Av -though this year we’ll be reading it on Tisha Be’av mamish- can easily put [...]

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    | July 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
  • Pinchas 2012 – The Tzelofchod Five

    Pinchas 2012 – The Tzelofchod Five

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The Tzelofchod Five: Nu, I have givaldige news: The Oisvorfer looked through the entire heylige Parsha of Pinchas, which we will read this coming shabbis, and though it’s mamish hard to believe, not many Yiddin die this week, in fact, only one. There is, however, plenty of other action and zicher you [...]

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    | July 12, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Chaya Soro 2011 – First Shidduch

    Chaya Soro 2011 – First Shidduch

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: She was how old? What a difference a week makes. Just last shabbis, Avrohom Oveenu was 99 years old, childless and recovering from surgery.  And wasn’t it just last week (17:17) when Avrohom uttered:  “Will there be born [a child] to one a hundred-years-old?!” A few  Malochim  predicted he would yet be a [...]

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    | November 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Lech Lecha 2011

    Lech Lecha 2011

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: OMG it’s already November which taka reminds me that it’s almost that time of year when we start seeing advertisements for various Pesach programs. Ober (but) how can we think about Pesach when we need to plan winter vacation first? Oy vey; life in golus is mamish shver (difficult). Nu, one of [...]

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    | November 4, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Matos – Harry Potter and the Medrish

    Matos – Harry Potter and the Medrish

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Long before Harry Potter…………. Not much in the humor department in this week’s parsha, ober (but) does that mean we shouldn’t learn toirah and the heylige parsha? We are, after all in, the month of Tamuz and in case some of you forgot to fast, this past Tuesday was Shiva- Osor B’tamuz [...]

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    | July 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Bolok – X Marks the Spot

    Bolok – X Marks the Spot

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: X marks the spot! Parshas Bolok, which we will hear this Shabbis stars two anti-semitten kings who disliked each other, but united for a common cause.  They both hated the yiddin; what else is new, and is named after a sheygitz, a goy mamish!  In the co-starring role, we find an ass [...]

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    | July 7, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Koirach – The Family Feud

    Koirach – The Family Feud

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The Family feud……the magic staff and more…. Two women play a prominent role in this week’s parsha of Koirach as you will hear this coming shabbis, if you make it to shul. Or will you? Though the heylige toirah doesn’t mention the women by name, nor their roles, the medrish and the [...]

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    | June 23, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Metzora – Emissions & More

    Metzora – Emissions & More

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyetts: This week’s toirah is coming a bit early as the Oisvorfer is off to a Boro Park simcha  by one of his chasiddim. By the time you finished reading last week’s toirah, you were mammish an expert on the woman’s uterus and mistama you did your own b’dika over the weekend searching [...]

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    | April 7, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Mishpotim

    Mishpotim

    Raboyseyee: Ershtens (first of all), the Ruv apologizes profusely for being tardy with the Toirah this week and understands how you have now become accustomed to reading these gevaldige, heylige and gehoybene thoughts each week late on Thursday nights.  Ober – but- the Ruv was away in Vail going up and down the mountain, much [...]

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    | January 28, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Yisroy

    Yisroy

    Yisroy: ver veyst (who knows)   Mazel tov!   We’re getting married! Not you and your pilegesh, you Azuz Punim chazir (wisenheimer pig) that you are. No- we’re getting married to the RBSO and it all happens in this week’s Parsha. Yisroy is avada, as mistama  (likely) you don’t know, one of several Parshiot named [...]

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    | January 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Beshalach – Shabbos Shira!

    Beshalach – Shabbos Shira!

    Raboyseyee:

    Nu, this week’s mailbag brought the following comment from a choshovo reader.

    Dear Oisvorfer Ruv:

    Since stumbling onto your Toirah some weeks back, I have become a chosid mamish- I love your toriah- it’s so real- it’s palpable- I can mamish feel and touch it. I have a question for you. I was wondering if you, like many Rebbes who immigrated to these great shores in the 1950’s, named yourself after the town that either you or your family came from. Can you please tell me where Oisvorf was? Was it on the Polish side or closer to the Hungarian side? I ask because my own family, no longer alive, came from a town in Hungry that sounded very much like Oisvorf and I was wondering if you or your family came from the same place.

    Be well and may the almighty give you many years of health so that you can enlighten the masses.

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    | January 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
  • Bo

    Bo

    Raboyseyee: Appropriately named, this week’s heylige Toirah is dedicated to our fellow oisvorf Bo and his eishes chayil Mrs. Bo who are spending shabbis in Crown Heights at the ofruf of their future Eydim (son-in-law). Avada we wish them a hearty mazel tov on the upcoming chasunah this coming Sunday of their beautiful, elegant and [...]

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    | January 7, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Vo’eiro

    Vo’eiro

    My how time flies, even as a slave. Nu, it’s but one shabbis later and it’s year 210 since the shibud (slavery) began (according to most). Late December is takeh the season for pardons and commutations and the RBSO has decided to commute the sentence of the Yiddin (Jews). Originally set for 400 years, Moishe has been selected to be their spokesman and to get his people out of Mitzrayim – now!

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    | December 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
  • Shemois

    Shemois

    Raboyseyee: Nu- one sefer down, four to go until Simchas Toirah and we start again. Sefer Bereishis covered 2,000 years in 50 chapters. Sefer Shemois covers less than 200 years in 40 chapters. The majority of Sefer Shemois covers just a few years, the first 16 chapters deal with slavery and freedom, let’s begin. Zicher [...]

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    | December 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
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  • Koirach 2013 – Death Served Three Ways And The Magic Staff

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Death served three ways and the magic staff Many years back, while still valgering in yeshiva, the Rebbe tried convincing the Oisvorfer and a few dozen others that he had a magic shteken (staff) if you chap, which nebech he did, ober in reality, magical shtekins appear  only in the heylige Toirah: [...]

  • Behaloishcho -2013

    As we approach Parshas Behaloischo, the Oisvorfer begins with a special shout-out to his  chaver Borcuh Singer whom  he met way back in 1975 and with whom  he has enjoyed uninterrupted friendship since. Boruch will be celebrating the 47th anniversary of his own bar mitzvah this shabbis; mazel tov!  All new for 2013 Raboyseyee and [...]

  • Nossi 2013

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Down but not out- Unfortunately the Oisvorfer spent most this givaldige Yom Tov in bed, is suffering from very severe sciatica pains right down to the bottom of his left leg, mistama due to a slipped or what they call herniated disc in his lower back: oy vey!  And if anyone out [...]

  • Bamidbar2013 – Yom HaMeyuchas

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes Yom  HaMeyuchas (Pedigree Day): Before we say hello to Parshas and Sefer Bamidbar (Book of Numbers), let’s pause for a moment and wish each other a good Yom Tov. This week, the heylige Oisvorfer will give only a shtikel parsha roundup,  instead he will teach his fellow Oisvorf talmidim all about a [...]

  • Behar-Bichukoisi 2013

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Rabbinic Loopholes: Is it efsher meyglich (at all possible) that one can borrow funds from a chaver, mishpocho member or anyone else and halachically not be obligated to repay the loan? Avada we all know that  the minhag ho’oilom is not to repay such loans ober is it kosher? Seemingly there is [...]

  • Emor 2013 – Matza Time Again

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Matza time again- Following two consecutive  double headers, welcome to  Emor, a single parsha we’ll learn this week. Ober  settle in: it’s a biggie and chock full of mitzvois, mamish. In fact, just so that you can sit at the shabbis tish and say something intelligent, you should know that Emor has [...]

  • Achrei Mois Kedoishim – The End of Sifira

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The end of Sifira- Anchuldikts and please pardon the lateness of this week’s Toirah ober the Oisvorfer is just back from yet another Simcha here in the Yimay Hasfira when we recall how Rebbe Akiva’s special talmidim all forgot about the special mitzvah we will read about in Parshas Kedoishim this coming [...]

  • Tazria – Metzoira 2013

    Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: We’re just about done with korbonois and it’s time for some straight talk about sex and childbearing. Vey iz mir: Just kidding: the parsha is not about sex at all; only what happens after sex.  Welcome to Parshas Tazria, the front half of a springtime doubleheader wherein we learn all about menstruation, [...]

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Chukas 2013 – Snake Bitten!

Chukas 2013 – Snake Bitten!

Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Snake bitten! As you make your way through Parsha Chukas, aptly named for the Chok (a law given by the RBSO seemingly without rhyme or reason, at least none that we humans can chap), you may well come to the conclusion that it’s sad, depressing and that you’d be better off talking [...]

Shelach 2013 – Female Spies?

Shelach 2013 – Female Spies?

Earlier this morning while the rest of the shul was making believe they were saying the extra-long  Monday and Thursday version of tachanun, which as an aside, most people don’t say anyway, the heylige Oisvorfer was busy looking at the super-sized Chumish known as the Mikro’ois Gedoilois. This one includes a few interesting commentators including [...]

Shmini 2013

Shmini 2013

Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The eighth day… Nu, the Oisvorfer has returned from Florida considerably heavier than when he left. In fact, he can barely get his chair close enough to the keyboard to type. Accordingly, this year’s Toirah on Parshas Shimini is a repeat of 2012. Though many of us aren’t auditors, accountants, or even [...]

Pesach 2013 – Supplement

Pesach 2013 – Supplement

A gittin Moied:   Time to buy airline stocks? Shoin:  though we’re only six days into the program here in mostly sunny Ft Lauderdale and though we have another 7 full meals and countless trips to the tea room to go before we undo the Chometz sale and eat pizza that miraculously appears an hour [...]

Pesach 2013 – The Rabbi and the Goy

Pesach 2013 – The Rabbi and the Goy

Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The Rabbi and the Goy: Ershtens: this edition of the highly popular Michiras Chometz to the goy Toirah, is dedicated to the complete and speedy recovery of our neighbor and friend Tzivya bas Yehudis. May she taka heal and recover fully and quickly: We are with you. Shoin: back by popular demand [...]

Tzav 2013

Tzav 2013

  Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes:   Time to sell your chometz Shoin: the Yiddin have seemingly begun their exodus to Israel, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and some even to California, ober the Oisvorfer finds himself on a last minute one day business trip, San Diego bound. At 11pm last night, when the call was made to get [...]

Vayikra 2013 – Women and Korbonois

Vayikra 2013 – Women and Korbonois

Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: Women and korbonois (sacrifices) Nu, believe it or not, last shabbis, as we were concluding Vayakhel and Pikudai, we said goodbye and aviderzeyn to Sefer Shemois, and together, for those who have been following the Oisvorfer from the beginning, we have completed Shemois for a third time. And by now, many  know [...]

Vayakhel Pikudei- 2013

Vayakhel Pikudei- 2013

We begin this week’s heylige Toirah with a shout-out to our nephew Jared Bader who will become a bar mitzvah this coming shabbis and on behalf of the Oisvorfer, his eishes chayil and the entire mishpocho, we wish a big and hearty mazel tov to Jared on this occasion. Mazel tov to the happy and [...]

Ki Sisa 2013 – The Chelbino

Ki Sisa 2013 – The Chelbino

Raboyseyee and Raboyseyettes: The chelbino Nu, givaldige news for those of you with mild or even severe ADD. This week’s heylige parsha of Ki Sisa contains a little bit of everything for everyone, many topics mamish –it’s loaded. From a census counting of the Yiddin, to spices, incense, shabbis observance and, the eygel incident (golden [...]

Purim 2013

Purim 2013

Raboyseyettes and Raboyseyee: Back by popular demand and updated Did you read or hear the Megillah last year? The year before? Avada you did because it’s what we do. Moreover who doesn’t enjoy a feel good story with a happy ending, if you chap?  Has the story changed since last year or ever in the [...]