Artscroll: Darash Moshe I by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

HaGaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l, Rosh Yeshivah of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem and the acknowledged halachic decisor of his era, found messages of inspiration, of consolation, and of the beauty of Judaism in the weekly Torah portions. Here, a selection of those thoughts are presented in English. For nearly half a century in the United States, no voice was more revered, beloved, and respected than that of HaGaon Harav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l, Rosh Yeshivah of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem and the acknowledged halachic decisor of his era. His frequent talks at all sorts of occasions, communal and private, revealed a different side of his personality. He was warm and caring. In the Torah portions of the week he saw appropriate insights and messages for every setting. For the parents of a bar mitzvah boy, he found a message of responsibility to continue imbuing their young man with joys of Torah study and mitzvah performance. For the newly bereaved he found consolation and inspiration to continue. For those groping for a goal in life, he found the beauty of Judaism. In the Hebrew Darash Moshe, many of these talks have been collected. They span seventy years of his illustrious career as a rabbi and rosh yeshivah, even as far back as his years of spiritual leadership in Luban, White Russia, where he quietly but firmly defied Stalin’s commissars to keep the flickering light of Judaism from burning out. This work presents selections from Darash Moshe. It is impossible to do more than scratch the surface of his greatness, but just as our era was privileged to glimpse this epitome of Torah greatness, so a new generation of readers will find in this work many rays of thebrilliance that gladdened and quickened countless hearts and ignited countless minds.