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אליהו משה בן אסתר ואברהם
Eliyahu Moshe ben Ester ve Avraham
Sebastian Zar
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Divrei Torah & Teachings

Seb's Teachings

May his memory be a blessing. These recordings preserve his Torah wisdom,
sharing insight and inspiration for generations to come.
All
Megilat Ruth
Bamidbar
Devarim
Pirkei Avot
Kadish
Chafetz Chaim
Other
📜 Megilat Ruth
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 2 (Naomi/Ruth) Chapter two
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 3 (Ruth/Boaz) Chapter two/three (giving tzedaka)
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 4 chapter 3 - weaknesses of that generation. Yetzer hara, doing mitzvot…...
ספר במדבר - Sefer Bamidbar
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Rav Druck - Must make yourself like a desert to learn torah
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Rav Druck – wisdom is given to those who already have Wisdom. Making an effort for a mitzvah is a mitzvah.
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Thoughts from Gemora, and Rashi - sharing someone else's pain. Only once you have done everything possible will you receive devine assistance
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Aaron and his emunah and his sufferings - the cloud and emunah of the Jewish people - you must push through
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Pesach sheni and korban - Having a second chance but as a commandment (must give people a second chance)
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Maan, Jews complaining. Being grateful for what we have and the blessings G-d has given us.
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Miriam's lashon hara on Moshe - Jخshua gets angry at the people who want to be prophets. Jealousy diminishes you.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies - Lashon Hara - Speaking negatively about Israel. We must give respect to Israel. Not to diminish the blessings that Hashem gives us.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies - Why didn't Hashem stop Moshe sending the spies. Over eagerness of the spies failed them. Don't be impulsive. Think.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies: the phrase "we were as grasshoppers". The way people view you is how you view yourself. Also being humble is a positivity shows self confidence
▶ Parshat Shlach
Spies and emuna - Embrace emuna where there is doubt. Spies didn't have emuna
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies. They gave a positive report and then said "But.." That word was enough to change destiny. The Power of just One Word is enormous.
▶ Parshat Korach
We are all holy. Korach wasn't minding his own business, he was just watching Mosheh. Don't be concerned with what someone else is doing
▶ Parshat Korach
He was a prophet. But he had self-interest, ego. You should have a good heart then you see everything good. Korach's heart only saw self-interest
▶ Parshat Chukat
Miriam dies flow of the water stops. People rebelled. Mosheh asks Hashem to give water. Jews were complaining. People suffer, then daven to Hashem. Opportunity to pray, you must pray for everything. We are like the rock that had water, and Mosheh spoke with the rock and water flew. We can also flow with prayer.
▶ Parshat Chukat
Rav Druck. Jews encountered Og and Amalek. Why did Mosheh fear Og. His merit was that he told Avraham that Lot was captured. We are talking about a Mitzvah and reward. Kavanah is important, not the act of the Mitzvah, but your intentions for doing the mitzvah, and that will be the reward. Act with intention, make decisions like they impact the world. Thoughts behind an action are important.
▶ Parshat Balak
Bilham asks if he should go and is told to go but not to bless or curse. Do not give reason to Hashem to open his wrath. Do not get angry.
▶ Parshat Balak
Donkey story. Life is like this the Donkey: you veer to right and left and get hurt, then our eyes is opened and we see why we encountered the hardships. Everything happens for a reason, all guided by G-d.
▶ Parshat Balak
Bilham talks to Hashem? Why? Bilham was a prophet of non-Jews. Hashem likes and cares for non-Jews. We are the leads and as leaders we must love everyone, and lead by example.
▶ Parshat Balak
Rav Druck says Bilham is a bad guy. I don't see him as bad, because he listened to everything G-d told him. Rav Druck says one of the traits of good Jews, is to have a good eye, meaning to judge favourably. This is a rule of life. Judge favourably everyone even non-Jews.
▶ Parshat Balak
Balak takes Bilham to different points to look at the Jews. Curses didn't happen. 1. If Hashem doesn't want something it won't happen. 2.If your intentions are not pure it's not going to work out. 3. Unless you are set up and prepared well it won't happen.
▶ Parshat Balak
Who has counted the dust of Yaakov. We should conceal and being modest with your mitzvot. Meaning, how are you doing the mitzvah, do not do it for your honor. What is the intention of doing the mitzvah.
▶ Parshat Balak
end of the Parsha the men are mixing with Moabite women. Pinchas stops the plague, he was a Zealot (he was fanatical). Is it good to be a zealot? Zealocy is ok if your intentions are holy. It's all about intentions.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Pinhas kills the couple. The actions of Pinchas: perform good deeds with sincerety. Being a defender of Hashem's ways. Pinchas acted on this. Acting for Hashem without shame.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Pinchas took vengeance for his G-d. He acted with Kiddush Hashem. He killed another Jew to save all the Jews. It was done for the greater good. When you sanctify Hashem it is kiddush Hashem you ae spreading Hashem's light.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Mosheh is told to hand down leadership to Joshua.Relationships do this to, older person hands down "the rule" to younger people. We observe and must pass through positivity and goodness.
▶ Parshat Mattot and Massei
Neders/vows. But continuing with Kadish. In this world, we do actions, and they cause ripples. A mitzvah causes ripples. Actions cause ripples throughout the world. Think about the positive ripples you leave when you pass away. This way a person can live forever. Connecting this to the Torah: Mosheh created a never ending ripple. He lives forever.
▶ Parshat Mattot and Massei
Also perek Alef of pirkei Avot - Connecting them together. "A lover of silver shall not be associated with silver". Meaning our need to learn Torah leads to learning more. The more you study the more you want to study. The more you learn the more you are lacking.
▶ Parshat Massei
Hashem causes something to happen so you take action. Like something happens so the Jews go on a journey. Parshat is all about journeys.
ספר דברים - Sefer Devarim
▶ Parshat Devarim
Day after Tisha B'Av.Talking about Judging Rightously. Judges are not greater than the people. We are all equal. Not looking down at people.
▶ Parshat Vaetkhanan
Mosheh pleads to Hashem to let him enter Israel. Hashem wants to reward us for our good deeds. Even Mosheh transgressed.
▶ Parshat Ekev
How do we serve G-d without Korbanot - Tefilah - Davening with Kavanah
▶ Parshat Ekev
and Pirkei Avot. You cannot understand which mitzvah is more important. Everybody is different.
▶ Haftora of Parshat Re'e
Violence will not succeed against you. But with words against you, you must condemn it. (meaning: this might succeed because you are being judged
▶ Parshat Shoftim
Rosh Chodesh Elul - Judges and Judgments. Cities of Refuge. It's about giving second chances, it benefits both parties.
▶ Parshat Shoftim
Selichot starting - Talking about Kings. A king rules through the words of Hashem, the Torah. Hashem is our King, this way we all will be kings.
▶ Parshat Shoftim
connecting Elul, Rosh Hashana, Repentance. In the Parshat it speaks of Shema Israel. It was called out before going to war. Kriyat Shema can help any person. Sincerely saying it can have ones sins cleared.
▶ Parsh Kititseh
7th Elul - do not reject an Edomite or an Egyption. Talking about brotherhood. Even in or after conflict brotherhood is above everything. Also Egypt hosted Jacob, the mitzvah of hospitality can not be forgotten . Remember family, your bloodline. Hashem made your siblings yours so you respect them.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
16th Elul - Suffering and salvation are together. Reward comes later.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
16th Elul - when we are suffering salvation has already started, we are being saved by G-d. Hashem is always saving us. Hashem's kindness is always around us.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
19 Elul - it says in the Parshat, Hashem will place you as a head and not as a tail. This appears also in the brachot of Rosh Hashana night. Hashem wants you to be the head. We must always shoot to be the head the top, otherwise we might end up to be the tail.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
first fruit of the year, take it and offer it to Hashem . Hashem gave us the land and the fruit so we thank him by giving him the first fruit. Rosh Hashana is the same thing, so the first 2 days of the year we give to Hashem and we are thanking him for our lives.
▶ Parshat Nitzavim
21 Elul - curses/punishments. Although you angered Hashem you are still standing.Hashem says if I wanted to destroy you I would have…
▶ Parshat Nitzavim
Torah is accessible and close. Anyone can access the Torah.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
Eve of Rosha Hashana - this is the Parsha between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur - Moshe speaks to Joshua (indirectly to us). "Hashem will be with you….""be strong and couragous" kind of saying don't worry, have faith.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
Erev Rosh Hashana - Hashem speaks to Mosheh and Joshua and says to Mosheh that his end is near. Hashem is angry and says he will conceal himself from Am Israel. This can be connected to Yom Kippur, this is our inspiration to repent. Hashem hasn't left us he is just concealed. We can find him through repentance.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
concept of is it better to be feared or is it better to be loved? It says love is a higher level of fear. We are naturally filled with the love of Hashem. The fear is the fear of punishment. But the love is so much more. Love allows the fear to be effective.
▶ Parshat Haazinu
A couple of days away from Yom Kippur -Haazinu is a song. Torah is like rain, it falls hard, it's an inconvenience. But if you follow the Torah as you should, it will become like the dew. No one complains about dew, it is gentle and sweet, but rain is harsh. Rain can also be looked as a nourishment. It is water.
📚 Pirkei Avot
▶ pirkei Avot
. Introduction. Learning from others and relationship with others.
▶ pirkei Avot
2nd chapter.
▶ pirkei Avot
3rd chapter
▶ Perek 4 of pirkei Avot
talking about honor
▶ pirkei Avot
perek 4 - If you sincerely serve G-d you will have success
🕯️ Kadish
▶ Kadish book
significance and meaning - All the amens what do they mean.
▶ Kadish book
significance and meaning - mourners Kadish. Doing good deeds when you are alive, you are rewarded in next world, because your good deeds stay forever
▶ Kadish
there are introductory prayers that some people say. One of them Moshe begs Hashem to be patient.
▶ Kadish
continued. The main line: Yehi shemi raba…. It is a prayer for the sanctification of Hashem. Kadish has a cosmic effect. You must stop your prayer to respond to Kadish. It has an impact on the world; it transcends the universe. We are praying for the entire Jewish people.
📖 Chafetz Chaim
▶ Chafetz Chaim
lesson of 13 Sivan - Connection to Rav Druck - do not follow the crowd. Connecting to Parshat Bamidbar
▶ Chafetz Chaim
First voice note. Chafetz Chaim's lesson of today connected to Parshat Chukat (Rav Druck). Do not talk about anyone and if you do DO NOT judge them about their past. Must spend time in studying Torah, we then fight yetsir hara, and Hashem judges us for the present and not the past. He doesn't judge the Lashon hara and yetsir hara of our past.
▶ Past misdeeds, chapter 33 Chafetz Chaim
We hold people to higher standards than we hold ourselves. Give people grace. Do not judge people's past misdeeds. Everyone makes mistakes; we must forgive everyone. Yetsir hara makes us say lashon hara. Don't judge people, let them leave your head so you don't judge them. Hashem forgives us we must forgive people.
Other Teachings
▶ Maan
About Emunah. Amen has the root as Emunah (Emunah's Yurtzait)
▶ Good deeds and chesed, everybody in the world is connected
I wanted to memoralize this thought…Doing good deeds and chesed should be to Jews and non Jews, everybody in the world is connected
▶ ChatGPT- a nice Jewish thought
Asked ChatGPT about a nice Jewish thought. It eventually gave Sinsum. When Hashem created there was light everything. He is every where. He withdrew a little of that light to create space to create free will and finite time. Linking it to Parshat Chukat. Miriam died there was empty space Moshe filled it with hitting the rock, then he was banned from Israel and another space is created. We must fill the empty spaces with Heshem's light.
▶ Preparations for Yamim Noraim
Nearly Yom Kippur.Looking at the Ne'ila. Gates of heaven are closing. Last opportunity to Speak with Hashem. So we are saying: What are we? What is our life? What is our salvation? We are asking G-d for answers to these and other questions. We are also begging for good things.
📜 Megilat Ruth
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 2 (Naomi/Ruth) Chapter two
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 3 (Ruth/Boaz) Chapter two/three (giving tzedaka)
▶ Megilat Ruth
part 4 chapter 3 - weaknesses of that generation. Yetzer hara, doing mitzvot…...
ספר במדבר - Sefer Bamidbar
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Rav Druck - Must make yourself like a desert to learn torah
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Rav Druck – wisdom is given to those who already have Wisdom. Making an effort for a mitzvah is a mitzvah.
▶ Parshat Bamidbar
Thoughts from Gemora, and Rashi - sharing someone else's pain. Only once you have done everything possible will you receive devine assistance
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Aaron and his emunah and his sufferings - the cloud and emunah of the Jewish people - you must push through
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Pesach sheni and korban - Having a second chance but as a commandment (must give people a second chance)
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Maan, Jews complaining. Being grateful for what we have and the blessings G-d has given us.
▶ Parshat Behalotchah
Miriam's lashon hara on Moshe - Jخshua gets angry at the people who want to be prophets. Jealousy diminishes you.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies - Lashon Hara - Speaking negatively about Israel. We must give respect to Israel. Not to diminish the blessings that Hashem gives us.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies - Why didn't Hashem stop Moshe sending the spies. Over eagerness of the spies failed them. Don't be impulsive. Think.
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies: the phrase "we were as grasshoppers". The way people view you is how you view yourself. Also being humble is a positivity shows self confidence
▶ Parshat Shlach
Spies and emuna - Embrace emuna where there is doubt. Spies didn't have emuna
▶ Parshat Shlach
The spies. They gave a positive report and then said "But.." That word was enough to change destiny. The Power of just One Word is enormous.
▶ Parshat Korach
We are all holy. Korach wasn't minding his own business, he was just watching Mosheh. Don't be concerned with what someone else is doing
▶ Parshat Korach
He was a prophet. But he had self-interest, ego. You should have a good heart then you see everything good. Korach's heart only saw self-interest
▶ Parshat Chukat
Miriam dies flow of the water stops. People rebelled. Mosheh asks Hashem to give water. Jews were complaining. People suffer, then daven to Hashem. Opportunity to pray, you must pray for everything. We are like the rock that had water, and Mosheh spoke with the rock and water flew. We can also flow with prayer.
▶ Parshat Chukat
Rav Druck. Jews encountered Og and Amalek. Why did Mosheh fear Og. His merit was that he told Avraham that Lot was captured. We are talking about a Mitzvah and reward. Kavanah is important, not the act of the Mitzvah, but your intentions for doing the mitzvah, and that will be the reward. Act with intention, make decisions like they impact the world. Thoughts behind an action are important.
▶ Parshat Balak
Bilham asks if he should go and is told to go but not to bless or curse. Do not give reason to Hashem to open his wrath. Do not get angry.
▶ Parshat Balak
Donkey story. Life is like this the Donkey: you veer to right and left and get hurt, then our eyes is opened and we see why we encountered the hardships. Everything happens for a reason, all guided by G-d.
▶ Parshat Balak
Bilham talks to Hashem? Why? Bilham was a prophet of non-Jews. Hashem likes and cares for non-Jews. We are the leads and as leaders we must love everyone, and lead by example.
▶ Parshat Balak
Rav Druck says Bilham is a bad guy. I don't see him as bad, because he listened to everything G-d told him. Rav Druck says one of the traits of good Jews, is to have a good eye, meaning to judge favourably. This is a rule of life. Judge favourably everyone even non-Jews.
▶ Parshat Balak
Balak takes Bilham to different points to look at the Jews. Curses didn't happen. 1. If Hashem doesn't want something it won't happen. 2.If your intentions are not pure it's not going to work out. 3. Unless you are set up and prepared well it won't happen.
▶ Parshat Balak
Who has counted the dust of Yaakov. We should conceal and being modest with your mitzvot. Meaning, how are you doing the mitzvah, do not do it for your honor. What is the intention of doing the mitzvah.
▶ Parshat Balak
end of the Parsha the men are mixing with Moabite women. Pinchas stops the plague, he was a Zealot (he was fanatical). Is it good to be a zealot? Zealocy is ok if your intentions are holy. It's all about intentions.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Pinhas kills the couple. The actions of Pinchas: perform good deeds with sincerety. Being a defender of Hashem's ways. Pinchas acted on this. Acting for Hashem without shame.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Pinchas took vengeance for his G-d. He acted with Kiddush Hashem. He killed another Jew to save all the Jews. It was done for the greater good. When you sanctify Hashem it is kiddush Hashem you ae spreading Hashem's light.
▶ Parshat Pinchas
Mosheh is told to hand down leadership to Joshua.Relationships do this to, older person hands down "the rule" to younger people. We observe and must pass through positivity and goodness.
▶ Parshat Mattot and Massei
Neders/vows. But continuing with Kadish. In this world, we do actions, and they cause ripples. A mitzvah causes ripples. Actions cause ripples throughout the world. Think about the positive ripples you leave when you pass away. This way a person can live forever. Connecting this to the Torah: Mosheh created a never ending ripple. He lives forever.
▶ Parshat Mattot and Massei
Also perek Alef of pirkei Avot - Connecting them together. "A lover of silver shall not be associated with silver". Meaning our need to learn Torah leads to learning more. The more you study the more you want to study. The more you learn the more you are lacking.
▶ Parshat Massei
Hashem causes something to happen so you take action. Like something happens so the Jews go on a journey. Parshat is all about journeys.
ספר דברים - Sefer Devarim
▶ Parshat Devarim
Day after Tisha B'Av.Talking about Judging Rightously. Judges are not greater than the people. We are all equal. Not looking down at people.
▶ Parshat Vaetkhanan
Mosheh pleads to Hashem to let him enter Israel. Hashem wants to reward us for our good deeds. Even Mosheh transgressed.
▶ Parshat Ekev
How do we serve G-d without Korbanot - Tefilah - Davening with Kavanah
▶ Parshat Ekev
and Pirkei Avot. You cannot understand which mitzvah is more important. Everybody is different.
▶ Haftora of Parshat Re'e
Violence will not succeed against you. But with words against you, you must condemn it. (meaning: this might succeed because you are being judged
▶ Parshat Shoftim
Rosh Chodesh Elul - Judges and Judgments. Cities of Refuge. It's about giving second chances, it benefits both parties.
▶ Parshat Shoftim
Selichot starting - Talking about Kings. A king rules through the words of Hashem, the Torah. Hashem is our King, this way we all will be kings.
▶ Parshat Shoftim
connecting Elul, Rosh Hashana, Repentance. In the Parshat it speaks of Shema Israel. It was called out before going to war. Kriyat Shema can help any person. Sincerely saying it can have ones sins cleared.
▶ Parsh Kititseh
7th Elul - do not reject an Edomite or an Egyption. Talking about brotherhood. Even in or after conflict brotherhood is above everything. Also Egypt hosted Jacob, the mitzvah of hospitality can not be forgotten . Remember family, your bloodline. Hashem made your siblings yours so you respect them.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
16th Elul - Suffering and salvation are together. Reward comes later.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
16th Elul - when we are suffering salvation has already started, we are being saved by G-d. Hashem is always saving us. Hashem's kindness is always around us.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
19 Elul - it says in the Parshat, Hashem will place you as a head and not as a tail. This appears also in the brachot of Rosh Hashana night. Hashem wants you to be the head. We must always shoot to be the head the top, otherwise we might end up to be the tail.
▶ Parshat Kitavo
first fruit of the year, take it and offer it to Hashem . Hashem gave us the land and the fruit so we thank him by giving him the first fruit. Rosh Hashana is the same thing, so the first 2 days of the year we give to Hashem and we are thanking him for our lives.
▶ Parshat Nitzavim
21 Elul - curses/punishments. Although you angered Hashem you are still standing.Hashem says if I wanted to destroy you I would have…
▶ Parshat Nitzavim
Torah is accessible and close. Anyone can access the Torah.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
Eve of Rosha Hashana - this is the Parsha between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur - Moshe speaks to Joshua (indirectly to us). "Hashem will be with you….""be strong and couragous" kind of saying don't worry, have faith.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
Erev Rosh Hashana - Hashem speaks to Mosheh and Joshua and says to Mosheh that his end is near. Hashem is angry and says he will conceal himself from Am Israel. This can be connected to Yom Kippur, this is our inspiration to repent. Hashem hasn't left us he is just concealed. We can find him through repentance.
▶ Parshat Vayelekh
concept of is it better to be feared or is it better to be loved? It says love is a higher level of fear. We are naturally filled with the love of Hashem. The fear is the fear of punishment. But the love is so much more. Love allows the fear to be effective.
▶ Parshat Haazinu
A couple of days away from Yom Kippur -Haazinu is a song. Torah is like rain, it falls hard, it's an inconvenience. But if you follow the Torah as you should, it will become like the dew. No one complains about dew, it is gentle and sweet, but rain is harsh. Rain can also be looked as a nourishment. It is water.
📚 Pirkei Avot
▶ pirkei Avot
. Introduction. Learning from others and relationship with others.
▶ pirkei Avot
2nd chapter.
▶ pirkei Avot
3rd chapter
▶ Perek 4 of pirkei Avot
talking about honor
▶ pirkei Avot
perek 4 - If you sincerely serve G-d you will have success
🕯️ Kadish
▶ Kadish book
significance and meaning - All the amens what do they mean.
▶ Kadish book
significance and meaning - mourners Kadish. Doing good deeds when you are alive, you are rewarded in next world, because your good deeds stay forever
▶ Kadish
there are introductory prayers that some people say. One of them Moshe begs Hashem to be patient.
▶ Kadish
continued. The main line: Yehi shemi raba…. It is a prayer for the sanctification of Hashem. Kadish has a cosmic effect. You must stop your prayer to respond to Kadish. It has an impact on the world; it transcends the universe. We are praying for the entire Jewish people.
📖 Chafetz Chaim
▶ Chafetz Chaim
lesson of 13 Sivan - Connection to Rav Druck - do not follow the crowd. Connecting to Parshat Bamidbar
▶ Chafetz Chaim
First voice note. Chafetz Chaim's lesson of today connected to Parshat Chukat (Rav Druck). Do not talk about anyone and if you do DO NOT judge them about their past. Must spend time in studying Torah, we then fight yetsir hara, and Hashem judges us for the present and not the past. He doesn't judge the Lashon hara and yetsir hara of our past.
▶ Past misdeeds, chapter 33 Chafetz Chaim
We hold people to higher standards than we hold ourselves. Give people grace. Do not judge people's past misdeeds. Everyone makes mistakes; we must forgive everyone. Yetsir hara makes us say lashon hara. Don't judge people, let them leave your head so you don't judge them. Hashem forgives us we must forgive people.
Other Teachings
▶ Maan
About Emunah. Amen has the root as Emunah (Emunah's Yurtzait)
▶ Good deeds and chesed, everybody in the world is connected
I wanted to memoralize this thought…Doing good deeds and chesed should be to Jews and non Jews, everybody in the world is connected
▶ ChatGPT- a nice Jewish thought
Asked ChatGPT about a nice Jewish thought. It eventually gave Sinsum. When Hashem created there was light everything. He is every where. He withdrew a little of that light to create space to create free will and finite time. Linking it to Parshat Chukat. Miriam died there was empty space Moshe filled it with hitting the rock, then he was banned from Israel and another space is created. We must fill the empty spaces with Heshem's light.
▶ Preparations for Yamim Noraim
Nearly Yom Kippur.Looking at the Ne'ila. Gates of heaven are closing. Last opportunity to Speak with Hashem. So we are saying: What are we? What is our life? What is our salvation? We are asking G-d for answers to these and other questions. We are also begging for good things.

תנצב״ה - May his soul be bound in the bond of eternal life

Seb's teachings continue to inspire and guide us