May the learning be a merit le’iluy nishmas Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel Dovid Balk a’h.   This week Daf Yomi began Messeches Kiddushin. We

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In life, there are winners and losers. That is just the way it is. You learn at a very young age that you learn the

One thing my wife and I noticed while taking down the plaster ceiling of our boys’ room is that if you take down the ceiling