Torah and Stories with Rabbi Liff
Bein Hazmanim Musings for Parshas Reeh
Rabbi Liff shares personal bein hazmanim musings recorded while traveling with his family in Romania, tying the closing days of the summer break to the pasuk “Re’eh anochi nosein lifneichem hayom” and the theme of perspective — re’iyah — as Klal Yisrael moves toward Elul and teshuvah. Key stories and sources: A bein hazmanim story about Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztz”l at the beach in Netanya as a young man, and the shmirah lesson Rabbi Liff drew from it as a yeshiva bachur. Examples of gedolim — Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky, Reb Gifter, Rav Moshe Feinstein — getting exercise and reinvigoration in the summer months. A vort from Reb Shternbuch on why the pasuk uses the word “hayom,” with the story of Rebbetzin Chasiya Soro Ginzberg and Reb Chatzkel Abramsky in Siberia. A chassidishe vort from the Toras Chaim of Kosov on “mashcheihu l’beis medrash.” Parsha connection: Parshas Reeh opens with “Re’eh anochi nosein lifneichem hayom” — Rabbi Liff connects the lashon of re’iyah, seeing with depth and perspective, to using the final days of bein hazmanim well as Elul approaches.
