Happy Birthday to The Norensberg Foundation. This year, we turn seven. Over the past seven years, The Norensberg Foundation has accomplished a lot. From pesach food drives to helping families in need to book and CD sponsorships, we’ve kept busy. We hope, B’ezrat Hashem, to be able to be able to continue this good work for years to come.

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A. Romi Cohen was a precocious, active 10-year old when the Nazis invaded Poland. Soon afterward, they and their puppet regime took over his native Czechoslovakia, and for the next five years he was a hunted fugitive and a valiant fighter with the partisans. This memoir is a roller coaster of excitement and emotion, as young Romi is separated from his mother, risks his life to save his father and others, crosses borders, flees for his life with bullets flying all around him, races through Budapest desperately trying to save his father from Auschwitz, turns and fights, is inducted into the partisans, and participates in successful battles against the Nazis.

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Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L has created Praise My Soul both as a reader and as a manual for the study of the daily morning prayer. Almost every word of the Siddur text is explained in this volume to aid the reader in his daily prayer.

Sing, You Righteous is the second in a series of three books on Jewish ideology. The venerable Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L reaches out to the heart of every Jew. In this three part Jewish ideology series he covers the integral thoughts of Emunah and Bitachon that each and every one of us are to set our heights upon. His unique style brings the father-to-son relationship between us and G-d, right to our fingertips.

As Heard from Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

“And their outcry went up to G-d from the work.” (2:21)

The purpose for which Hashem had caused Egypt to burden Israel with such intolerable labor was to bring about this outcry. The outcry to Hashem is the great achievement of Mankind. Whether crying out in great happiness and gratitude to Hashem or crying out from distress. The purpose of Life is to gain Awareness of G-d and the outcry to Him is one of the most effective means of achieving this Awareness.

It was not a momentary outcry and not merely an outcry to nowhere, but it was a sustained outcry that continued and increased. And it was directed to G-d, the G-d of their fathers. This achievement of perfection of mind was so immensely important that it is here characterized as going up to G-d. To understand how weighty this achievement was we must look further in the Torah where Hashem gives two reasons for His decision to take action to redeem Israel.

1) “I shall uphold my covenant with them” (i.e., with Abraham, Yitzchak and Jacob)
2) “and also I heard the outcry of the sons of Israel…and I remembered My covenant” (6:4-5).

This great and sustained outcry was the justification for the fulfillment of the Covenant with the Fathers. The merit of this great and constant outcry should therefore be taken as an especial achievement for which the children of Israel gained especial favor in the eyes of Hashem, Who “desires the prayers of the righteous.” (Yevamot 64A)

Why does Hashem desire these prayers? Because these prayers are the Perfection of Awareness of Hashem, for which we are created. And therefore, Hashem desires the Perfection which the righteous gain. Thus the affliction in Egypt was the time of Israel’s chief greatness, for their cry to Hashem gained them such excellence that made them worthy of being redeemed to become Hashem’s people.

Quoted from “A Nation is Born” by Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L

Shabbat Shalom

Exalted People is the third book in Rav Miller’s ZT”L series on Jewish History. Israel’s history is the record of G-d’s conduct of His beloved nation, and it should be studied in that spirit. Under this pretense, the famous Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt’l gives us insight into the years of the history from the destruction of the Second Temple up until the sealing of the Talmud. His precise and accurate depiction of our heritage make this book an integral link to our illustrious past.

Career of Happiness, is the married person’s handy reference guide to happiness in the home. From basic good sense advice “when your wife says we need to talk! She means She needs to talk and you need to listen.” to more complex advice about staying calm and dealing with your parents and in-laws.

This book is a perfect gift for the groom, bride or the “happily” married couple.

Torah Nation is the second book in Rav Miller’s ZT”L series on Jewish History. The author’s intention is to show the reader how an important part of our history is often overlooked, that of our great Torah personalities and the ways in which our sages acted when confronted by the numerous enemies of our people. Its masterful design and great attention in the detailing of the happenings recognize that.

The description of the story of Chanukah is so in-depth that the reader feels as though he is a part of history. It is as if the author was present and an insider of the inner workings of the story. Names of people, their associates, what their real intents were and how the “writers of history” attempted to cover-up what really was transpiring are all brought to light.

The book takes you from the exile of Bavel through the destruction of the second sanctuary and into the Common Era. No detail of consequence is left out or overlooked. When one reads the details of what Titus did to our brothers and sisters, while utterly destroying Jerusalem, “The number of captives was 97,000. The number of those perished or killed during the siege was a million and one hundred thousand” (Paragraph 712), he will have a new outlook when the fast of Av approaches.

This book is intense and requires that the reader have a desire to understand what our great past was like and the vision to understand the potential that we have as a people when we follow on the path of truth and faithfulness.

Behold A People is the first book in Rav Millers history series. As is true of all the author’s works, he has painstakingly put together an extraordinarily detailed Torah history of our people beginning with Adam and continuing through the destruction of the first sanctuary.

The chronology of our forefathers and all the aspects of their lives as written in the Torah are brought out and set forth for public view. The author sets out with steel facts pulling no punches in describing how the word of Hashem was brought forth first through Adam and with precision all the way down the line in an unbroken chain of events that leave no doubt as to the truthfulness of the Torah.

The author goes on at great length to describe the kings of Israel. How did the people come to have kings over them? How did one become king? What were their accomplishments? What were their failures? What were the jobs of the prophets? It is a succinct record yet manages to include all of the details. This book is filled with the history of a great era for our people, of what was and what could have been and how it all unfolded.

Awake My Glory is the quintessential book of discovery into the mysteries of the universe; from debunking the evolutionists, the false religions and delving into all manner of science, archeology and physics and transforming everyday occurrences into miracles.

The miracle of rain, snow, sunshine, apples, oranges, fleas, seeds, color vision, fossils, time lines, space dust and many more are all broken down to show how obvious it is that there is a Creator in the world Who creates an infinite amount of miracles everyday for man’s benefit.

This book is a detailed read and one that will open a world of discovery and allow the reader a chance at gaining an understanding of the world around him.