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🛒 Zellers is coming back to Toronto. The iconic Canadian discount retailer announced today that it will open a new 25,000-square-foot standalone store at 80 Orfus Rd., near Yorkdale, on June 18. For many Canadians, Zellers was a retail institution before its stores were sold off during the ill-fated Target Canada expansion. After years of smaller-scale revival attempts, this marks the chain's first major Ontario expansion, with additional locations expected to be announced later this year. The new store will feature apparel, home goods, toys, snacks, seasonal merchandise, and the return of the beloved Zeddy Bear mascot. -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
12:06 AMBeautiful rendition of Avraham Fried's Yesimcha, sung by Shmueli Unger tonight at a Brampton chuppah Accompanied by Toronto’s very own Reb Shmiely Zweibel -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
12:38 AMBeautiful. Israeli TV talking about Charedi tefillos and Rav Kolodetsky — who is in town btw -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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2:11 PM👀 Can Rats Read? 🎤 R’ Moshe Taub -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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5:17 PMToronto’s very own Reb Zalman Guttman last night -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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🎶 This Shabbos at Shaarei Shomayim! 🎶 A truly special Cantorial Shabbos awaits as Chazan Freund is joined by the acclaimed Zingers Choir, traveling in from New York City for an inspiring weekend of tefillah and chazzanus. 📍 Shaarei Shomayim Congregation 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto A heartfelt thank you to the Walerstein family for sponsoring this extraordinary Shabbos. ✨ It promises to be an unforgettable experience. ✨
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Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar after davening at the Boat Shul telling our very own Shaya Lexier that people in Russia love his music 🎶 😁 -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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Every bochur is a whole world. Yeshivas Kesser Yosef invites the community to scratch the surface and join the impact. June 7-9. https://causematch.com/yky26
8:13 PMYeshayahu Ahula: “Tishmor Hazak” 🎧 Listen on Spotify: (https://open.spotify.com/track/2adxIpvVwmSMUV3JrPYCNp?) 🎧Listen on Apple Music: (https://music.apple.com/ca/album/tishmor-hazak-single/6772884006) ▶️ Watch on YouTube: (https://youtu.be/NGPd-ZQpaVQ?)
9:01 PMHishtadlus and the Ner Ma'aravi Rav Meilech Biderman shlit"a relates a beautiful vort in the name of the Divrei Shmuel. The Medrash on the pasuk "B'ha'aloscha es haneiros" cites the verse, "Yir'u es Hashem kedoshav, ki ein machsor li'yerei'av." What is the connection between the two? The Divrei Shmuel explains that the Ner Ma'aravi served as testimony that the Shechinah dwelled among Klal Yisrael. Although all the lamps received the same amount of oil, the Ner Ma'aravi was lit first and remained burning the longest, even serving as the flame from which the Menorah would be lit the following day. This demonstrated that while oil had to be placed in each lamp, the oil itself was not the true source of its endurance. Hishtadlus is necessary, but the result comes from Hashem. A person who truly lives with this awareness will never resort to forbidden forms of hishtadlus, such as dishonesty or theft, because he knows they cannot help him one bit. If something is meant for him, it will reach him; if not, no improper effort will obtain it. This is the connection between the pesukim. The lesson of "B'ha'aloscha es haneiros" is that success comes from Hashem, not from the apparent cause. Therefore, "Yir'u es Hashem kedoshav"—those who fear Hashem know that "ki ein machsor li'yerei'av"—they will never lose out by doing what is right.
10:00 PM
Rav Yitzchok Kolodetsky is in town! Shabbos details to follow
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New Doors/Entranceway at Yeshivas Eitz Chaim -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
11:20 PMRav Yitzchok Kolodetsky at Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu today -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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11:30 PMRav Yitzchok Kolodetsky today at Kollel Toronto -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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1:32 AM
Schedule for Rav Yitzchok Kolodetzki’s visit
2:23 AMBreak-in prevention, Bathurst & Steeles -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
2:22 PMShlomo Simcha last night at the Embassy Grand together with Zemer Orchestra -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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📜 כ' סיון – A Forgotten Fast Day in Jewish History The following historical notes were brought to our attention by Emailim BaTorah. Today, כ' סיון, carries a remarkable and often overlooked place in Jewish history. 🔹 In 1171, thirty-one Jews were burned alive על קידוש השם in the city of Blois, France. In response, רבינו תם established כ' סיון as a communal fast day, declaring: "This fast is greater than צום גדליה, for it is like יום כיפור." 🔹 Following the devastating massacres of ת"ח–ת"ט (1648–49), the Va’ad Arba Aratzos reinstated כ' סיון as a day of fasting and mourning. The מגן אברהם (O.C. 580:9) writes that it became customary throughout Poland to fast on this day. 🔹 The משנה ברורה (580:16), citing the שערי תשובה and מגן אברהם, notes that this communal fast was observed by males from age 18 and females from age 15. 🔹 After the Holocaust, the Gedolim of Hungary designated כ' סיון as a day of fasting and remembrance for the six million קדושים murdered by the Nazis ימ"ש. Special סליחות were composed and printed in Budapest for the occasion. (The fast was observed by those under the age of 55.) However, efforts to establish a universal Holocaust fast day did not gain broad acceptance. In Eretz Yisroel, Rav Chizkiyahu Mishkovsky זצ"ל and other Gedolim sought to establish a period of communal mourning and a fast day during the war years. The חזון איש and the בריסקער רב opposed creating a new public fast day, arguing that our generation lacks the authority to institute new communal תעניות for כלל ישראל. Rav Moshe Feinstein זצ"ל (אגרות משה יו"ד ד:נז) explains that Hitler's decree was directed against the entire Jewish people and therefore falls under the broader tragedy of גלות and חורבן הבית, for which חז"ל already established national days of fasting and mourning. We are not empowered to add new enactments to those instituted by חז"ל. An interesting footnote: In many Eastern European communities, special memorial prayers continued to be recited on כ' סיון well into the 20th century, even after the actual fasting practice had largely faded. The date thus remained etched in the communal memory of generations of Jews. A little-known date on the calendar, כ' סיון has served for centuries as a day of remembrance for some of the greatest tragedies to befall the Jewish people.
3:36 PMThe Choir practicing for this week’s Cantorial Shabbos at Shaarei Shomayim -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
4:16 PM👀 Friday Rewind: Clinging to Our Principles 🎤 R’ Uren Reich -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
6:57 PMRabbi Yosef Dovid Rothbart conducting a Shaatnez Testing presentation for bochrim this afternoon at Zichron Shneur Photo credits R Zvi Harari -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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🚔 Enhanced Security Planned for Sunday's Walk with Israel Toronto Police say they will deploy a strong police presence and extensive security measures for Sunday's Walk with Israel, which is expected to draw thousands of participants. Road closures will be in effect from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. along Wilson Ave. and Bathurst St., and police say their goal is to ensure participants can attend safely while preventing the kind of hostile "gauntlet" situations that have occurred at some pro-Israel events elsewhere. Organizers say they have been working closely with police and security partners to prepare for the event. -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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Sun Morning at Kollel Toronto 9:10 – 9:40 am 515 Coldstream Ave Link to previous shiurim: https://linkly.link/2aYn6
3:16 AMThe Deputy Chief talking about tomorrow's Walk for Israel -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
4:23 AMNew release "Lo B'chayil" from Toronto’s Yeshayahu Ahula, featuring Ari Goldwag Lo B'chayil Ft. Yeshayahu https://24six.app/app/music/collection/19789 https://open.spotify.com/track/2h8nw8P3KaMzWGw9lBQNeo?si=4U_rJlpBTE-b_27YxI8gMA https://youtube.com/watch?v=cH1Y0xNglUY&feature=shared
1:53 PMEvery bochur is a whole world. Yeshivas Kesser Yosef invites the community to scratch the surface and join the impact. https://causematch.com/yky26
2:28 PMAlready one arrest... how many more to go? Bye bye, Gaza grandma -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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Zoom in: New sign affixed to the broken window of Mishkan Avraham -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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3:08 PMTorontonian WWII veteran and centenarian Jack Boeki joking around with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth today at the 82nd anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy Cemetery -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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5:12 PMAfter an uplifting Shabbos, Chazzan Freund and the Zingers choir singing Havdala at Shaarei Shomayim last night -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
5:50 PMAnd another one bites the dust Why are the two arrestees women 😐 🤔 ? -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
6:11 PM
We Stand Corrected!
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The 29th annual Ride for KCC is coming up soon on Sunday, June 21st! 🚴♂️ Cycle 26km, 50km, or 100km to help support hundreds of children with disabilities and their families in our community. Not a rider? There are still lots of ways to give back to the KCC kids! You can help by: • On route support for riders riders • Being stationed at a rest stop This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Car needed. Visit www.rideforkcc.com to sign or for more information
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BREAKING: Iran launches ballistic missile attack against Israel. -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
8:15 PM
🇺🇸🇮🇱 President Trump reportedly told journalist Barak Ravid that he plans to personally urge Prime Minister Netanyahu not to retaliate following Iran's latest missile attack. Among the reported quotes: 🗣️ "I am going to call Netanyahu right now and tell him not to strike back." 🗣️ "The Iranian strikes didn't hurt anybody. Hopefully Israel is not going to retaliate. If Bibi strikes them back it's just gonna keep going like the last 47 years, or the last 3000 years." 🗣️ "We are very close to a final deal with Iran. It is going to be a good deal. I don't want it to blow up because of what is happening now." 🗣️ "I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one." The comments suggest that Trump views the latest exchange as a closed chapter and is focused on preventing further escalation while preserving negotiations with Iran. -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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Although we love Rabbi Landau and agree that there is truth to what he is saying, we wonder how common this really is... After all, if someone is genuinely insecure and develops the twisted coping mechanism of putting other people down..., monetary success probably won't do much to change him... This clip also touches upon something we've often pondered: how can one tell if a person's outer manifestations of haughtiness actually stem from an inflated sense of self-worth/importance or from deep insecurity/low self-esteem... -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
10:31 PMRav Yitzchok Kolodetsky at Yeshiva Yesodei HaTorah today -- 🗞️ JOIN THE TORONTO SCOOP, TORONTO'S FASTEST GROWING WHATSAPP GROUP & STATUS: https://chat.whatsapp.com/IZ1SDTXA9aY5z0w4lT0vyY
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