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Baltimore, MD - Oct. 18, 2025: Family of Rav Moshe Hauer, ZTV'L, shiva update:Sunday 10/19Mrs. Batsheva Neuberger and Mrs. Chana Schneeweiss will be sitting shiva at 6707 Western Run Drive from 10am until 5:00pm. As Rebbetzin Hauer and the rest of the family will be returning from E"Y on Sunday afternoon, they respectfully request no visitors after 5:00pm on Sunday.Monday & Tuesday 10/20-10/21 Shiva will be until 10pm.
Minyanim: Shacharis 7:30 am (Mon/Tues/Wed)Mincha 6:00pm (Mon/Tues)Maariv 9:45pm (Mon/Tues)Shiva will end Wednesday morning after Shacharis. However, the family will continue accepting visitors until 10pm Wednesday night.To sign up to learn Mishnayos for Rabbi Hauer’s shloshim, please click here.
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Baltimore, MD – Oct. 16, 2025 - The email address Rabbihauermemories@gmail.com has been established to allow the community, near and far, to send memories, letters of tanchumin, and stories to be shared directly with the family of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ZTV”L.
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Baltimore, MD - Oct. 16, 2025 - On Shemini Atzeres night, my wife and I were blessed with a newborn son. Little did I realize that on that same night, my Rebbi – one of the most impactful people in my life – would be taken from us without warning. I am in complete shock and cannot find the words at this moment to eulogize him in any way. But in truth, I don’t know if I ever will. Rabbi Hauer’s influence on me runs much deeper than words. As I sit here at my desk at 1:00 am with my shirt torn, the few words of eulogy - which we read just this morning - written by Hashem Himself over the death of his most trusted servant, Moshe - will have to suffice: וימת משה עבד ה'.Moshe Rabbeinu’s life was summed up in those two words, Eved Hashem. ...
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Baltimore, MD - Oct. 5, 2025 - Mizmor L’Dovid – Help Finish His Sefer Torah
Dovid Steingroot saved for a Sefer Torah - now we can complete it his memory
Reb Dovid — oh, how we miss you.
Your warmth, your sincerity, your constant growth in Torah and avodas Hashem — they left an indelible mark on everyone who knew you. You were a true example of someone who lived with purpose, always striving to fulfill your mission in this world.
Hashem, in His infinite wisdom, decided your mission was complete. Though it’s hard to accept, we know you accomplished more in your years than many do in a lifetime.
One of your dreams was to fulfill the words, “וְעַתָּה כִּתְבוּ לָכֶם אֶת־הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת” — &ld...
Jerusalem, Israel - Oct. 19, 2025 - Israel Shiva Info: Rebbetzin Miriam Hauer (mother), Gittit Pollak, Leah Farber and Adina Erman (sisters) will be sitting shiva at Achad Haam 23 Apt. #2 in Yerushalayim through Thursday morning.
9am-2pm and 3:30-10:30pm.
Minyanim:
Shacharis 7am
Mincha/Maariv 5:45pm.
The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the residents of Gaza.
According to an official statement by the US State Department, "this planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts".
"The guarantors demand Hamas uphold its obligations under the ceasefire terms", the State Department wrote.
The statement added: "Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire".
"The United States and the other guarantors remain resolute in our commitment to ...
What a holy Jew I was privileged to know — and continue to feel connected to in Olam Haneshamos. Yehi zichro baruch
As the Yamim Noraim conclude, I find myself drawn to the quiet awareness of life’s fragility. This season, which awakens in us a sense of man’s feebleness and mortality, has carried a particular poignancy for me this year. In the stillness before bein hameitzarim, even before Tishah B’Av, the sense of mourning crept in early.
In Iyar, I was approached by Reb Dovid Steingroot, a member of my kollel for working bnei Torah. He said to me, almost matter-of-factly, “Rebbi, I don’t know how I’m going to tell you this.”
Although I braced myself for difficult news, I was wholly unprepared for what followed.
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Baltimore, MD - Oct. 18, 2025 - I knew Rabbi Hauer, ZTV'L, only through my work with the Living Kiddush Hashem Foundation. My first introduction to him came over ten years ago after I published my first sefer, Mekadshei Shemecha. I was young, uncertain how it would be received, and filled with self-doubt.
Somehow, Rabbi Hauer came across the sefer and took the time to call me personally. He shared how important this work was, and how deeply Klal Yisrael needs this focus. He followed up with a beautiful, heartfelt letter that I treasure to this day.
I believe the letter captures his life's mission.
Rabbi Hauer was passionate and unwavering in his mission to guide Klal Yisrael toward living as true mekadshei Hashem. His depth, vision, and love for every Jew were e...
Washington, D.C. - Oct. 18, 2025 - President Trump expressed his condolences upon learning of the sudden petira of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ZTV'L.
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 17, 2025 - This is more than just another event — it’s a critical moment to come together as a community. Senator Dalya Attar, along with Delegate Sandy Rosenberg and Delegate Sean Stinnett, will be hosting the Unity in the Community Resource Fair, with special guest State’s Attorney Ivan J. Bates.✅ Kid-Friendly✅ Free Kosher Food✅ Completely Free EventThis fair is a unique opportunity to connect with local agencies, community services, and neighbors while showing visible support for Senator Attar, who is heading into a tough and pivotal election. Her leadership has had a direct impact on our community — and a strong turnout at this event matters.Let’s make it clear: when our community shows up, we’re heard.Bring your fami...
“Mi yichyeh u’mi yamut, mi b’kitzo u’mi lo b’kitzo. Who will live and who will die? Who will die at the predestined time and who before that time?”
These words of the uNetaneh Tokef prayer – recited both this past week on Rosh Hashana and bez”h next week on Yom Kippur - remind us of our vulnerability and of the possibility that one may leave this world with unfinished business. Yet this Shabbat Shuva we will read about how Moshe lived 120 years to the day, indicating that G-d completes the years of the righteous (see Rashi to Devarim 31:1 and TB Sotah 13b), allowing them to realize their mission.
This is striking, as if there was anyone whose business may be considered unfinished it was Moshe. Moshe had arrived in E...
Rabbi Daniel Rose sent the following to the membership of Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion:
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 17, 2025 - As our loss begins to sink in, we are still reeling from disbelief. For so many of us, Rabbi Hauer was our most important teacher. For so many of us, Rabbi Hauer was like a father. For so many of us, Rabbi Hauer was our personal gadol, the greatest person with whom we have had the good fortune to create a relationship. And now, we are left to find the way forward. Aveilus proceeds in stages, and we, in our own way, are experiencing a kind of shiva this week. We need to talk, to reflect, to remember; we need to begin to grasp how we will absorb the lessons he taught us and how we will continue to grow with strength and with emunah. It often happens that when a fa...
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 17, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of Mrs. Blanche Delman, a’h, mother of Yaakov Delman.
Shiva is being observed at 6576 162nd St. Flushing, NY 11365 until Wednesday morning.
Yaakov Delma can be reached at 301-648-3016.
בלע המוות לנצח
He left This World as we began Bereishis.
Just as we finished V’Zos HaBerachah, the Torah’s final song, we turned the scroll and began again.
No pause. No breath between ending and beginning.
V’Zos HaBerachah closes with the death of Moshe and Bereishis opens with creation itself.
It feels divinely scripted. Because Rabbi Moshe Hauer’s life was one long Bereishis, a life of beginnings.
He lived with the wonder of first things. Every conversation, every idea, every individual — he approached as if it were brand new. There was no fatigue in him, no “I’ve seen this before.” He believed that Hashem renews the world every morning, and he tried to live that way, too. His legacy was youth; the kind that does ...
Two years ago, when numerous hostages were shockingly taken to Gaza on Shemini Atzeres/Simchas Torah, a great Mashpia, Rav Natali Reich, a Slonimer Chosid who famously taught in Yeshivas Ohr Sameach in Monsey, drew a fascinating parallel to the first report in the Torah of a Jewish captive being seized.
When the Canaanite king of Arad — who we are taught was really Amalek in the guise of Canaanites, observed that the pillar of cloud that had protected the nation left them after Aharon had died. Realizing how vulnerable they were now, he pounced on them.
Despite their efforts to harm us they only managed to take one captive, a female slave the Jews had snatched in a previous battle.
Viewing this as a stunning defeat the Jewish nation fiercely vowed that if G-d will deliver the enem...
