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Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Matos-Massei 5785

Выпуск: Brooklyn Torah Gazette — Matos-Massei 5785. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Mattos-Masei 5785 Kol Simcha Torah Gazette For parsha mattos-masei 5785 Volume 9 Issue 43 (Whole #458) 1 Menachem Av 5785/ July 26, 2025 Printed L’illuy nishmas Nechama bas R’ Noach, a”h For a free subscription, please forward your request to keren18@juno.com Past emails can be found on the website ShabbosStories.com under Brooklyn Torah Gazette The Unknown Story of Judah Touro By Rabbi Menachem Levine Streets, synagogues, and hospitals bear his name, but very few know his story—or that he rediscovered his Judaism at age 70. Kol Tuv Reprinted from the Parshas Pinchas 5785 email of Bitachon Weekly 9|P ag e Kol Simcha Torah Gazette for Parshas Mattos-Masei 5785 Thoughts that Count for Our Parsha He must not break his word; he must do all that he expressed verbally (Num. Commenting on the small apartment he lived in, he observed, "I have saved a fortune by strict economy, while others had spent one by their liberal expenditures." He was confident New Orleans would grow and invested in properties that he bought for cash, on which he built buildings and then collected rent. In fact, there is a fascinating poem by America’s great orator, Daniel Webster, at the dedication ceremonies in 1843, thanking Touro and Amos Lawrence for their funding of this monument: One of Judah Touro's few Jewish donations from his early years was $20,000 (approximately $1 million in today's currency) given to the Jewish Hospital in New York City, now known as Mount Sinai Hospital. He ends the letter by saying, "Saturday, on which the fire occurred, being my Sabbath, has prevented me from sending this until this morning." A Battle of Wills A few years later, in 1853, Touro fell ill and asked his two friends, Rezin Shephard, who had saved his life during the War of 1812, and Gershom Kursheedt, who had reconnected him to his Judaism, to come to his bedside to discuss his will. In fact, after Touro's death, Kursheedt wrote to Rabbi Leeser, "If you knew how I had to work to get that will made… you would pity me … [There were] arguments, changes, and counter-changes in the sums for institutions, till my heart sickened." In the final

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Brooklyn Torah Gazette

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20 июля 2025 г.

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14

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary