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Duck, duck, duck … poop!
A mere month ago I conducted what I call a Preemptive Rodential Offensive, denuding my orange tree of 700-plus oranges to avert our annual summer rat invasion. A rat accompli, the only fauna I'd now have to deal with was our visiting grand dog, Winston.
That was until my husband remarked a week later, "Do you hear quacking?"
We've lived in our house for decades and have never had a single duck in our pool, but suddenly a mallard pair, whom we dubbed Quick and Quack (a nod to NPR), decided to make our pool their personal lake.
Winston, of course, went nuts when he saw them but they were (literally) unflappable. "Have at it, big boy," they seemed to say with barely disguised ennui.
At first we were totally charmed by them. Ducks! How fun! But by day three we couldn't help but notice that our pool area and pool were sporting alarming amounts of duck excrement giving new meaning to the term "poop deck." With regret, I called a local wildlife agency for advice about their relocation.
I quickly discovered that wildlife agencies see ducks differently than pool-owners. My wildlife person surmised that they had created a nest somewhere in our backyard. "What luck!" she said. "Baby ducks are so cute! "
I nervously inquired about the gestation for duck eggs and she said 29 days. I thought I could probably live with 29 days of ducks until she added, "and then another 10 weeks until they can fly." Definitely, she says, have to keep the dog out of the backyard once the baby ducks are born. And btw, we'll need to put a wood plank at the shallow end of the pool so the baby ducks can get out.
I said, what if the toddler grandchildren want to come and swim? And she said, "Oh, they'll just LOVE the baby ducks!" One got the impression she was seriously focused on the innate adorableness of infant avians and not on 1) we have a duckling-eating dog 2) we have gardeners with loud mowers incompatible with baby ducks and 3) we (sort of) have a life.
At first the wildlife lady had an ally in Olof, who was totally into the whole miracle of birth thing. That was until he heard that a typical clutch is 12-13 ducklings. Even he had to admit that 15 ducks pooping in our pool for 10 weeks was going to be a biohazard from which we were not likely to recover. It was also mentioned that once you make them feel at home, they come back every year in perpetuity.
When the pool guy showed up a week later he nearly collapsed on the pool deck weeping when he saw the pool. Ducks, he maintained, are harder to get rid of than herpes.
"Can you actually get rid of herpes?" I said.
"No!" he practically sobbed. "And you can't get rid of ducks either!"
He'd had two other clients with "duck issues" where they'd tried everything under the sun (other than a .22). Makes the pool very hard to clean not to mention extremely unappetizing to swim in. He said we'd look back on the rats as good news.


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I just watched a film biography on Yves Saint Laurent--L'Amour Fou. Dior died in 1958 maybe
the heirs licensed the name? Thirty years had passed
in 1984. However you are right the death of these
brands is licensing out their name.
While watching the film I remembered buying the cheapest plastic piece of luggage with a YSL monogram on it...it was absurd. It cancels out
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I think that Berluti isn't an Italian but a French shoemaker.
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That gave me a chuckle.
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March 20, 2014
There are 183 validated gang members living in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County community, but researchers believe that may be a dramatic under representation of the true number.
That was just one of the findings of a local gang assessment presented to the public Thursday night.
The research was an effort by the Gang Reduction Through Active Community Engagement (GRACE) Program, which is a multi-agency, anti-gang organization.
"There are gangs. They are here and they are growing in numbers," said Maryfrances Porter, president and founder of Partnerships for Strategic Impact and one of the researchers. "That's really important for us to know and acknowledge so that we don't have any problems that get away from us."
A team of researchers interviewed nearly 150 people from a variety of backgrounds to compile the data. Porter shared the results with the community on Thursday.
She says more serious gang members have gotten quieter in the last five years. They're still there, but there's just less activity on the streets and drawing attention with signs, tattoos or colors.
Jails and prisons can be recruiting grounds, but it's young men that are most sought after. The assessment found that kids, most commonly boys between the ages of 11 and 15, are more likely to join gangs if they fall into one of these four categories:
-have friends or family already in a gang
-are rebellious and looking for trouble (guns, money, women)
-are looking to fill a void (acceptance, protection, family)
-they have traits a gang wants (fighter, large, strong)
Porter says there are a number of neighborhood sets and national gangs with presence in the area, but the most common are Bloods.
The research found most local gang activity takes place on the north side of the urban ring and up Route 29 in Albemarle County. In Charlottesville, most arrests are in the center or south of the city, including the area around Prospect Avenue and South First Street.
The most common and serious local gang issues include assaults, intimidation, stealing, fighting and drug-related activities.
The assessment was the first piece in a strategic plan to learn more about gangs and address the issue in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County area.
"This does two things. It lets us totally know that the scope of the problem is and where resources need to be targeted for prevention, and then it also lets us benchmark our progress over time," said Porter.
Some people who attended the presentation suggested ways to help combat the problem.
"We need programs for our kids. If they feel there are gangs in Charlottesville, then we need something to deter them, and the best way to do that is to keep our children involved," said Charlottesville resident Deirdre Gilmore.
Gilmore said she'd like to see community centers extend their operating hours and allow neighborhoods to help organize programs for the youth, rather than having the city choose what programs they get.
"I think it's a good thing that we're talking about it. Now we need to be about it," said Gilmore.


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File this one under, "Can't make this stuff up."
Remember the Pittsburgh Steelers magical playoff run leading up to Super Bowl XL? I'm sure we all remember it like it was yesterday. Everybody also remembers exactly where and what we were doing when Jerome Bettis fumbled against the Colts, nearly blowing our shot at an epic upset and his chance to go out on top. In the days that followed, a story even surfaced of a man suffering a heart attack as the result of that play.
What I'm trying to say here is Steeler Nation takes their football seriously. Continue reading »
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I've watched every minute of every Super Bowl from the opening kick-off through the trophy presentation since the New York Giants crushed the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI way back in 1987. Except for last year. Oh, I watched the entire game, from the embarrassing power outage all the way until the blatant pass interference that ended the San Francisco 49ers comeback bid. Immediately after that ridiculous non-call, I turned on my PS3 and set to blowing stuff up because I'd rather have a colonic with a rusty drainpipe than watch the Baltimore Ravens hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
Between the Brothers Harbaugh meeting in a battle of epic assholes to the endless stories about what a gift to humanity
Stabby McStabberson Ray Lewis has been since the pesky little murder he aided and abetted ten years ago, they couldn't have picked a worse Super Bowl for fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This year's match-up won't be the Worst Super Bowl Ever but it'll be damn close. Continue reading »
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This past weekend was a bittersweet affair for fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. On Saturday, we had the pleasure of watching the well-rested Kansas City Chiefs piss away a 28 point led like fat schlub Andy Reid pisses away his time outs. Even if KC had managed to win, they wouldn't have had any players left after losing approximately 29 different players over the course of the game. Gee, it sure was a smart move to bench all your starters that final week of the season, wasn't it you walrus-faced assclown? When are idiot NFL head coaches going to learn taking a week off NEVER HELPS?
I do have to admit, Andy Reid schadenfreude is the best schadenfreude. Continue reading »
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Week 17 Recap: Fresh Out Of Miracles
The picture above is of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop. Or, as he'll be forever known in the Steel City, the Most Hated Man In Pittsburgh. You have ONE JOB, assclown. Although I suppose there is some poetry to the season ending because of a spectacular special teams FAIL.
On a side note, only the Pittsburgh Steelers could get screwed over by the referees in a game they weren't even playing. Even worse, they got jobbed TWICE. That's some superior trolling by Roger Goodell. Bring back the replacement refs!
As you may have noticed, I have yet to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-7 victory over the Cleveland Browns. That's because it was the epitome of a forgettable game. Yeah, the Black and Gold had to win to keep their slim playoff chances alive but there was little doubt they'd do that. Beyond the easy W, there was little of note beyond some personal statistical goals and perhaps the chance to see Steeler legends (Troy Polamalu, Bret Keisel) play their final game at Heinz Field. Continue reading »
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Week 16 Recap: Die Another Day
Talk about living a charmed life. In my preview for yesterday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers, I ended by wondering what would happen if the Steelers' slim playoff hopes were already extinguished by kickoff. Well, not only did every single domino fall their way in the early games, the New England Patriots did them a solid by hammering the Baltimore Ravens later in the afternoon. Yes, ladies and gentleman, the Black and Gold are still mathematically alive for the AFC Playoffs.
It's a Christmas Miracle.
Of course, it would've all been moot had the Steelers not taken care of business by defeating the Packers. Their 38-31 victory was a wild affair featuring a little bit of everything: good offense, good defense, weather porn, special teams trickeration, a heart-stopping finish, and crooked referees doing their best to screw Pittsburgh over. It was the football version of a WWE wrestling match. And in the end, the good guys won. Continue reading »
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The Baltimore Ravens must be the luckiest team in NFL history.
They should've been one and done in last year's playoffs only for Rahim Moore's epic blunder to set them on course for a Super Bowl run. They defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in a pivotal division match-up on Thanksgiving night thanks to five field goals by Justin Tucker. Last night, in an equally crucial Monday Night game, they somehow beat the Detroit Lions without scoring a single touchdown. Six more Tucker field goals was all the offense "elite" Joe Flacco and company could muster.
Maybe they should've given Tucker the $120 million dollar contract. Continue reading »
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Week 14 Recap: Close But No
Cigar Playoffs
As the first half came to an end in yesterday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Miami Dolphins, the Fins attempted an insane 52 yard field goal on the snow covered field into the notorious open end of the stadium. Predictably, the kick fell about ten yards short where Troy Polamalu caught it on the fly. Troy being Troy, he immediately took off running in an attempt to recreate Auburn-Alabama. After one of several laterals was miraculously caught by Ike Taylor, he decided not to tempt fate and fell on the ball rather than attempt a lateral of his own. It was one of the greatest meaningless plays I've ever seen.
Until the final play of the game.
After a failed fourth down conversion handed Miami a first down on the Steelers 9, the Dolphins milked the clock, ultimately settling for a field goal with a minute left. Three plays later, the Steelers were reduced to a desperate game of hook and lateral that ended when Antonio Brown some how broke free down the sideline and ran untouched for what looked to be a miraculous go-ahead touchdown. Unfortunately, AB's pinky toe just nipped the sideline on his way to the end zone, thus preserving Miami's 34-28 victory. Continue reading »
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All things considered, Sunday was a pretty good day for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their playoff hopes may have sustained serious damage after losing to the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving but yesterday's results show there are still signs of life. It's not going to be easy and the margin for error is certainly razor thin. Although considering how the season started, even being in position to be playing meaningful games in December is quite a feat. Continue reading »
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Sorry for being short but I actually had another of my trademark 1000 word monstrosities analyzing every potentiality playoff team in the queue when my computer decided to eat it. So you'll have to settle for the Cliff's Notes version of my opus.
The AFC is a trash heap. The playoff picture is both clear and an absolute mess. Clear in that the division leaders are all pretty well settled. We also know one Wild Card will come from the loser of the Kansas City-Denver battle for AFC South supremacy. One of those teams will finish with 11 or 12 wins, barring some sort of epic collapse.
Nobody else is even above .500. Two teams, the Jets and Dolphins, currently sit at 5-5. Behind them, there are six teams that are 4-6, including our Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes, thanks to Da Bears downing the Ravens and the Browns being the Browns, all three of the also-rans in the AFC North are knotted up at 4 wins each. As I pretty much cautioned all season, the level of mediocrity is such that the Steelers had little trouble bringing themselves back into the pack. Continue reading »
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Giovani Bernard With TD Of The Year (But Bengals Still Lose)
I was going to write "But the Bungles still lose" except when you're 2-5 and staring up at the entire division, you really shouldn't throw stones. Such is life for fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
If you were busy yesterday taking your kids trick or treating or attending one of those adult Halloween bashes where you get to live out your childhood fantasy of being Batman while every woman is wearing a costume with the word "Sexy" attached (Sexy Nurse, Sexy Plumber, Sexy Maid, Sexy Butcher), you probably missed NFL Network's Thursday Night Football. By the way, a dirty little secret of this season is the TNF games have actually been pretty damn good. They stumbled into a much better slate than ESPN got stuck with on Monday nights. It's just hard to get used to watching NFL on days other than Sunday and Monday. Continue reading »


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Description:In this exchange program, students enroll directly at the Université de Strasbourg and take classes with local and other international students. Université de Strasbourg offers a broad-range of study and research opportunities, as well as an active campus life. Université de Strasbourg has ties to the two other major universities in Strasbourg to supplement these opportunities. Northwestern students have the option of studying abroad for a semester or academic year. Students pay Northwestern tuition and are responsible for travel and all other expenses (including room and board).
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Cosy, comfortable villa Villa Dalia. Outside the resort Fuengirola, in a sunny position, 1.4 km from the sea, 1.4 km from the beach. Private: garden with lawn, swimming pool kidney shaped (01.01.-31.12.). Pergola, terrace, garden furniture, barbecue. Shop, restaurant 200 m, bus stop 1 km, railway station 700 m. Golf course 5 km. Nearby attractions: Zoo Fuengirola 3 km, Aquapark 3 km, Malaga 20 km, Marbella 30 km. Groups of teenagers on request only.
5-room villa on 2 levels, spacious and bright, comfortable furnishings: living/dining room with 1 double sofabed and TV. Exit to the patio, to the swimming pool. 2 rooms, each room with 2 beds. Kitchen (dishwasher, 4 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave). Bath/WC. Upper floor: 1 room with 1 double bed. Exit to the terrace. 1 room with 2 beds. Bath/bidet/WC. Terrace furniture, barbecue, deck chairs, covered balcony. Panoramic view.
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FORT LAUDERDALE — — What do you get for the man who has virtually everything? How about having the city name a street after him.
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4H-Silicon Carbide PN Diode for Harsh Environment Temperature Sensing Applications
Nuo Zhang [advisor: Albert Pisano]
A Comprehensive Surface Mount Technology Solution for Integrated Circuits onto Flexible Screen Printed Electrical Interconnects
Meriem Ben Salah Ep Akin [advisor: Ana Claudia Arias]
A More Powerful Two-Sample Test in High Dimensions using Random Projection
Miles Lopes [advisor: Martin Wainwright]
A Perceptually Based Model of Visual Adaptation
Armin Samii [advisor: James O'Brien]
A quantitative Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem without neutrality
Miklos Racz [advisor: Elchanan Mossel]
Access Point Selection for Multi-Rate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Shicong Yang [advisor: Avideh Zakhor]
Adaptive Stream Processing using Dynamic Batch Sizing
Tathagata Das [advisor: Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica]
Analysis of Multilayer Neural Networks for Object Recognition
Pulkit Agrawal [advisor: Jitendra Malik]
Analyzing Data-Dependent Timing and Timing Repeatability with GameTime
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Formal Modeling and Verification of CloudProxy
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High Voltage Level-Shifter Circuit Design for Efficiently High Voltage Transducer Driving
Hao-Yen Tang [advisor: Bernhard Boser]
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Towards a Minimal Architecture for a Printable, Modular, and Robust Sensing Skin
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Troubleshooting Blackbox SDN Control Software With Minimal Causal Sequences
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Automatic Functional Datapath Optimization
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Probabilistically Modeling Semantic Change
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Brian Wang [advisor: David Allstot]
A Robust Compressed Sensing IC for Bio-Signals
Jun Kwang Oh [advisor: David Allstot]
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Jialiang Zhang [advisor: Ruzena Bajcsy and Lee Fleming]
Analytics for NetApp E-Series AutoSupport Data Using Big Data Technologies
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Xinping Zhang [advisor: David Allstot]
Health Solutions Assessment
Kevin Johnson [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui and Donald Wroblewski]
Improving User Experiences in Indoor Navigation Using Augmented Reality
Nahush Bhanage [advisor: Björn Hartmann and Donald Wroblewski]
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Andrew Zhong [advisor: Björn Hartmann and Donald Wroblewski]
Leveraging Smartphone Hardware Capabilities for Alternative Authentication
Isaac Long [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui and Donald Wroblewski]
New Mobility Solutions for a Changing Automotive Landscape: Development of a Shared Transportation Web Application
Gregory Quan [advisor: Ruzena Bajcsy]
Next Generation Financial Guidance Tool
Feng Hai [advisor: Lee Fleming and David Allstot]
Ocular Cellscope
Christopher Echanique [advisor: Daniel A. Fletcher and Björn Hartmann]
Real-time Image Processing on Low Cost Embedded Computers
Sunil Shah [advisor: Raja Sengupta and Ruzena Bajcsy]
Structural Health Monitoring For Unmanned Aerial Systems
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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System Design for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
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Viability of Tensegrity Robots in Space Exploration
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WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the 2009 NBA playoff season in full swing, Sharing Miracles, a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients, will feature NBA Hall-of-Famer and diabetes patient Dominique Wilkins. Sharing Miracles now airs every Sunday morning on nearly 300 television stations.
A nine-time NBA all-star who spent the majority of his career with the Atlanta Hawks, Wilkins retired as the ninth-leading scorer in NBA history, topping the league in 1986 with an average of 30.3 points per game. Nicknamed "The Human Highlight Film," Wilkins is still remembered for his slam-dunk skill, winning two NBA Slam-Dunk contests. In a fitting end to a spectacular career, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Speaking about his career in this month's episode, he gives credit for his accomplishments to his fans and his fellow players: "The thing that stands out most for me is the excitement the game brought to me. I wanted to give that back to the fans. They really helped to elevate my game, and when I played against great players, it did nothing but fuel me to be a better player."
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2 cups torn spinach leaves
4 large fresh mushrooms, sliced
2 teaspoons grated onion
1 teaspoon salt
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2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
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1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
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By Shlomo Engel
This article originally appeared in Yated Neeman, Monsey NY. and is reprinted here with their permission
It is doubtful whether, among the thousands of bnei Torah in the world today, there are several hundred that have heard of Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus zt"l, one of the greatest gaonim and tzadikim of his time in Lithuania and Russia, and author of the mussar classic Divrei Emmes. Although very famous and active on the Jewish scene in the latter part of the nineteenth century, in our times he has been all but forgotten by non-historians. The following article is the first comprehensive biography of this man. In it, we attempt, based on all the resources available to us at present, to present an account of the life history and achievements of this gadol, if only to perpetuate his memory in our times.
He was born in 5579 - 1819 in Vilna. His father, Rav Tzvi Lapidus, was a wealthy man, famous in Vilna as a talmid chacham and a tzaddik. His parents were known as the foremost machnisei orach of Vilna. Rav Alexander Moshe would often say that his extraordinary arichus yomim was due to the zechus of his great father.
In his youth, Alexander Moshe showed amazing mental capabilities, and it was obvious to all that knew him that he was destined to be one of the gedolei hador. He was an outstanding illuy and masmid, and it was not long before his fame spread as the "Vilna illuy". Rav Abbele, the famed av bais din of Vilna, cherished this young boy very much for his advanced greatness in Torah although he was only ten years old. Even at this young age, he once wrote a kushya to the gadol hador, Rav Akiva Eiger. His childhood friend at that time in Vilna was Rav Shlomo HaKohen, who later became the famous dayan of Vilna and author of the Cheshek Shlomo. At the age of nine he learned with a friend Rav Shlomo Lubatcher, later a dayan in Vilna.
At the age of twelve he was engaged to, and at thirteen married, Yenta, the only daughter of Reb Shimon Shushitzky, one of the wealthiest men of Yanova, a suburb of Kovna. She bore him three daughters. His father-in-law took upon himself to support this young gaon in order to facilitate his continued uninterrupted learning.
When he was fourteen years old he traveled to Salant to learn under Rav Tzvi Hirsh Braude, the rav of Salant. Rav Tzvi Hirsh was one of the greatest gaonim in the generation of Rav Akiva Eiger, and his famous yeshiva attracted the finest of talmidim. Many young men flocked to his yeshiva, among them many future rabbanim and gedolim, including Rav Yisrael Salanter and Rav Elya Levinson of Carting.
At the time that Rav Alexander Moshe was learning in Salant, Rav Yisrael Salanter was a maggid shiur teaching talmidim Seder Nezikin. Rav Alexander Moshe later recalled his rebbe asking him to go to the siyum that Rav Yisrael made upon completing Seder Nezikin, and to repeat to him the "hadran" Rav Yisrael had said there. Their acquaintance in the Yeshiva of Salant was the beginning of a lifetime friendship between these two gedolim, as we shall see.
Throughout his life, he held a number of positions of rav, starting at the tender age of seventeen, when he was invited to become the rav of Yanova, his wife's hometown. Later, he became the rav of a town (Ferstadt?) across the river from Horodna. Finally, in 5626 - 1866 he was nominated rav of the city of Rassein, a position he held for forty years until his petirah. On his matzeivah is noted that he served in the Rabbanus for seventy years.
His second wife was Gruna, the daughter of Rav Yaakov Bendetman, who was the rav of Boisk and author of the sefer Zichron Ya'akov. She bore her husband a son, Shmuel, of Baku, and three daughters. Unfortunately, she passed away at the untimely age of thirty-six.
In an obituary to this illustrious rebbetzin that appeared in Halevanon (Paris 1870 - Vol. 7 No. 27), we can learn some of her greatness. She was a great tzadekes, famous for her chessed and her histapkus, never complaining about the poor financial state of her home. She was also a highly intelligent woman, fluent in Tanach and in Lashon Hakodesh, as well as in German and general literature. Consequently, she would sometimes get into discussions with irreligious maskilim in areas of emunah, and successfully debated them.
To demonstrate her advancement in Tanach, the writer of the obituary brings an original vort on Chumash from this great rebbetzin. The passuk says in Tehillim in describing the makkah of tz'farde'a, "Sharatz artzom tz'fard'im b'chadrei malcheyhem (Their land sprouted forth frogs in the rooms of their kings)." Why does the passuk say "their kings" in the plural sense; Mitzrayim had only one king? She answered as follows: The Midrash says that during makkas b'choros even pictures or statues of b'chorim who were long dead fell to the ground and were destroyed. The reason for this was to show that the makkah was not a natural phenomena but a punishment sent from Hashem. In the same way, there were kings of Mitzrayim who had died long ago and were mummified. These mummies were kept in special sealed rooms, which are referred to here as "the rooms of their kings". During the makkah of tz'farde'a, not only did the frogs enter the rooms of the live people, they also filled the sealed rooms of the dead mummies.
After the petirah of his second wife, Rav Alexander Moshe married Mina, the daughter of Rav Chaim Yehudah Leib Tiktinsky, rav of Mir.
From the time of his youth, Rav Alexander Moshe was famous as a genius in Torah. He was a gadol in Shas and poskim and a great mechadesh. His chiddushim were outstanding, both in their pilpul and their yashrus. He was also one of the foremost poskim of his generation. Shailos were sent to him from all corners of the Jewish world, thus writing throughout his life countless teshuvos in all areas of Torah. He was very quick-thinking and answered every shailah immediately. At the time of his petirah it was reported that a collection of teshuvos was ready to be printed, but for unknown reasons this never materialized. The only teshuvos that have come down to us are those that were printed in others' seforim, as well as those that appeared in the many Torah journals of the time: Hatvunah, Yagdil Torah, Torah Mitzion, K'vod Halevanon, etc. In more recent times, a number of his teshuvos was collected and published by Rav Pinchos Lipschutz (editor of Yated Ne'eman) in a sefer entitled Ikvei Brachah (Yerushalayim 1984). I have been informed that, to date, some extensive work is being done to collect all accessible teshuvos, drashos and ma'amarim of Rav Alexander Moshe to be published in an upcoming sefer.
From that small amount of teshuvos we can get some idea of his amazing gadlus baTorah: his broad knowledge, his sharpness and his originality. We see depth and precision in his unique style of writing. He wrote in a concise - perhaps shorthand - form, testifying to a unique ability to capture broad ideas into few words. This was a talent he was known for: When studying under Rav Tzvi Hirsh Braude, his rebbe would give him the task of recording the essences of his long pilpulim. Although there were a number of very great talmidim studying under him, it was only Rav Alexander Moshe whom he trusted to summarize his conclusions and yesodos in synopsis.
A talmid recalls that for this reason, Rav Alexander Moshe was very careful when choosing a chavrusa to find only one who was able to understand his concise remarks, since he appreciated very much when his talmidim understood his allusions.
He had an outstanding ability to grasp large amounts of Torah in very little time. He confided to a talmid that when he was thirteen years old he learned the entire Masechta Yoma with Tosafos and Maharsha on Yom Kippur for his first time, and knew it very well.
When visiting Vilna one time, one of the dayanim of Vilna came to visit him with a large kuntras that he had completed, and requested of him to go through the work. He left the kuntras on the table and left the house. After walking a few hundred steps he realized that he had left his handkerchief in that house, and returned to retrieve it. Upon entering his room, Rav Alexander Moshe told him that he may have his kuntras back. The dayan did not understand: "Didn't I ask the Rav to look at it?" "Indeed you did," replied Rav Alexander Moshe, "and I have done that already." The dayan looked at the kuntras, and to his astonishment even found comments in the margins he had added.
.Aside for his collection of teshuvos that was never published, he left over many other seforim in manuscript form on Shas, Tanach and Drush, as well as kuntreisim addressing various issues of his times, all of which have been lost. What is left, in an organized form, are some of his chiddushim that were published in his lifetime by Rav Yitzchok Maltzan in the sefer Avnei Zikaron (Warsaw 1896), and his classic mussar sefer Divrei Emmes.
The latter was written at the age of eighty as a tzava'ah to his children, and was first published anonymously in Vilna in 5670 - 1910. Subsequently (when it was reprinted for the fourth time in 1966), it was publicized that its author was non other than the gaon Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus. It is a first-rate mussar classic, powerfully compelling man never to forget the burning truth about his existence in this world, to make a cheshbon hanefesh and to serve his Master. When the sefer first appeared it was quickly grabbed up by all lovers of Torah and mussar. A number of gedolim of the time said clearly that it is worthy to be considered alongside the sifrei mussar of the Rishonim. Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz told the publisher that he was very nispa'el from the sefer It has since has been reprinted a number of times and has become a classic in all yeshivos where mussar is studied. When it was reprinted for the fourth time in Eretz Yisrael (1966), it received very warm letters of haskamah from Rav Avraham Yoffen and the Steipler z"l.
Rav Alexander Moshe himself was a personification of mussar ideals. In all his dealings, in his personal life and when acting on behalf of the Klal, he was an example of fairness and justice, never getting bought by glory or money. He was described everywhere as an ish emmes, always in search of the emmes, always voicing the truth wherever it had to be heard.
When he met his wife as a kallah, he told her, "People say that I know how to learn, but they are exaggerating. I know much less than they think. People say that I am a yerei Shamayim, but this is also exaggerated. People that say that I am an anav are obviously not aware what a haughty person I am." His kallah heard these words and exclaimed, "It is inconceivable that there is not one good quality that you have." He replied, "Indeed, there is one good thing that can be said about me - I am a man of emmes. You should therefore know that everything I just told you is absolutely true!"
This unwavering commitment to emmes was evident in his personal policies regarding s'micha and hamlatzos, as a talmid recalls: It was known that he only gave semicha to someone who stayed with him for some years and got familiar with and was very well versed in hora'ah, and even then only if that person had semicha from another great rav. He was also very careful not to write a letter of recommendation for someone that he did not know personally, as he did not want to write false praises about the unworthy. He did not approve of those rabbanim who would exaggerate and embellish the ma'alos of an individual in recommending them. He would never recommend a candidate for rabbanus in any city. Only when asked about someone that he knew well and felt was fit for the post would he recommend him, and actively support his candidacy for the rabbanus. In his eyes, anything less than that would compromise k'vod haTorah and could also result in chillul Hashem.
At the end of his tzava'ah (Divrei Emmes) he writes the following: "I ask and command the eulogizers not to overstate my praises. They should not say praises and titles that I did not have . Only this may they say about me: the three midos with which Yisrael are distinguished - rachmanim, beishanim and gomlei chasadim - have clung to me from my first day of awareness. To take pity on every man in every way possible - even when I was yet a small child, five or six years old, and my mother gave me food for cheder, and I saw a poor child who did not have what to eat and I gave him my portion secretly, and I remained hungry until I came home. When I ate supper at home and a poor man came, if there was no one at home I gave him my portion of meat and hot food and I ate only the bread.
"All my life I was strong to do chessed to people, to close and far people, monetarily and physically, even with tremendous bothers. I did not even consider my honor in this; I ignored my own desires before those of another. I know certainly that in the mitzvah of tzdakah and gemilus chassadim I fulfilled my obligation, according to my level. Even in times when I was in financial straits, I made sure to economize in my own family expenses so that I may be able to perform tz'dakah and chessed . I rejoiced when I gave tz'dakah and when the hungry ate at my table. I received guests b'seiver panim yafos, and I praised and thanked Hashem that I merited to do this which many people do not have the opportunity to do. When I did not have the means to help the one in need according to his needs, I tried to help him with whatever I could, so as not to turn down a poor man, and I appeased him with nice words and consolance. I also tried to encourage others to give tzdakah .
"I know that the Beis Din shel Ma'alah will ask me why I transgressed the words of Chazal: "He who is spending (for mitzvos) shall not spend more than a fourth (of his estate)", and I will answer them an answer that they will accept.
"I was always happy with my lot and did not desire more . There were many occasions that I afflicted myself with fasting and no one knew about it, and all the day of my fast I was involved only in Torah and Avodah. . All my life I tried to honor every man in every possible way, especially yir'ei Hashem and lomdei Torah .
"When I would hear people discussing news or idle talk, in which there is a great pleasure, and there are many who get entrapped in this . I would, in order not to get entrapped in this, think to myself, 'Should I, for the pleasure of hearing news, be m'vateil Torah!?" I would stop myself and go to learn. I testify for myself that from my first day of awareness not one day passed me by that I did not spend much time studying Torah, day and night. I was a masmid, and I dedicated my Shabbosos and Yomim Tovim to Torah and Avodas Hashem. When my thoughts led me to be haughty about my Torah or ma'asaim tovim, or when I was given honor, I controlled myself with ideas that break and humble the heart, like remembering the day of death, etc. I ran away from glory, from jealousy and from hate like one runs away from a lion, because I knew the truth, that they are very dangerous to man. They take him out of this world and bring him to gehinnom, r"l.
"I tried very much to judge everyone favorably, however possible. I constantly did various stratagems to merit others [in doing mitzvos], in every way I was able. I loved shalom and pursued shalom. My witnesses are in Heaven [to testify] that when I would see people fighting with each other, and I was unable to make peace among them, I was in great distress. I also was distressed over the pain of the poor and ill. It pained me much when I saw breaches in our nation in a number of areas, where the breached was more than the standing, and the gedolei Yisrael did not have the ability to repair those breaches, for their words were not heard .
"I have related to you, my descendants, my conduct in these areas. I saw fit to engrave them with a pen of iron and lead so that they should last many days, [in order that] perhaps some man may see [them] and will do as I did, and that will be a z'chus for my n'shamah. . These words may be said about me in my hesped, but [the maspidim] should not exaggerate, and perhaps some man will be aroused to repentance and to bettering his deeds through this hesped ."
He had strong ties to the ba'alei mussar as well. As a younger friend of R' Yisrael Salanter, he was influenced strongly by the Mussar movement which R' Yisrael founded. When opponents of the movement criticized it, he signed together with R' Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aruch Hashulchan, on the famous proclamation entitled "L'ma'an Ha'emmes" in defense of the proponents of mussar.
He helped the Alter of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, found the yeshiva Knesses Yisroel of Slabodka. In fact, Rav Alexander Moshe is credited as the one who "discovered" the Alter of Slabodka. When the Alter was yet a young man, he would go periodically to his surrounding cities to give drashos to the people in mussar and yiras shamayim. One time, he came for this purpose to his birthplace Rassein. The Rav came to hear his drasha, and recognized the great potential of the young speaker. He immediately contacted Rav Simcha Zisel, the Alter of Kelm, and asked him to devote himself to direct the young man to the ways of mussar which Rav Yisroel Salanter had taught. The Alter of Kelm was a foremost mechanech, and after a number of years of learning under him, Rav Nosson Tzvi became one of the greatest proponents and teachers of mussar in the world.
Although he was a man of great stature and prestige, it was never beneath his dignity to help his fellow Jew in whatever manner. While he was rav in Yanova, there was a rich man in the community who had lost all his wealth. Terribly ashamed about his sad turnabout, he revealed his true financial state to no one. He was also too proud to accept any donations from anyone, and he found himself approaching Pesach without a clue how he would manage. The first night of Pesach, this man came home, and out of desperation began davening to Hashem. At that moment, the door opened, and a man entered heavily wrapped in his thick coat. He put something on the table and ran out. The poor man opened the package and found matzah, wine and meat sufficient for that night and the following day. The second night the man waited for the same thing to happen, and it did, only this time he was prepared. He grabbed his mysterious benefactor and did not let him leave until he revealed his identity. It was the Rav. He had somehow found out about the man's situation, and, not wanting to shame him, found an unconventional way to help him.
Besides for being a gadol in Torah and mussar, R' Alexander Moshe was also one of the leaders of his generation. He was a foremost askan, constantly playing an active role in the affairs of K'lal Yisrael in Lithuania and Russia. He very often participated actively in various movements that sprang up from time to time that sought to benefit the Tzibbur. He was also often invited to participate with other gedolim at meetings of Rabbanim and to meet different government officials in St. Petersburg on behalf of Jewish causes.
When Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky became a rav in Vilna at a very young age, he was met by much opposition by influential baalebatim of Vilna who considered him unfit for the position due to his age. Rav Alexander Moshe, together with Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, traveled especially to Vilna and while there visited R' Chaim Ozer, as is customary to act toward a mara d'asra. Subsequently, all the opposition dissipated.
He was known as a great lover of Eretz Yisroel, and wrote articles in which he expressed his feelings about settling the land of Eretz Yisroel. He writes in one article his hope "to make a group of farmers that will be well-based (financially) in Eretz Yisroel, in the land that is tied to us through thousands of memories, that was designated to us by Hashem through his holy nevi'im, and which the mitzvah of settling it is very great ." At the same time, he expressed his firm belief that only Torah-observant Jews be allowed to settle there. He also disapproved of the notion that the newfound accessibility of Eretz Yisrael to the Jewish people was to be considered Aschalta D'G'ulah.
One of the great achievements which Rav Alexander Moshe will be remembered for is his role in the founding of the Kollel movement, starting with the Kollel prushim of Kovna. Rav Yaakov Lipschutz, the secretary of the Kovna Rov Rav Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, in his classical history of Lithuanian/Russian Jewry, relates the chain of events that led to the founding of this kollel. In 5637 (1877), Rav Leizer Yaakov Chvas of Yanishok, a noted askan in those times, approached Rav Yaakov Lipschutz equipped with a letter of encouragement from Rav Alexander Moshe, and asked him to present his project to Rav Yitzchak Elchanan to gain his support for it. What was this project?
Rav Leizer Yaakov had connections to a very wealthy bachur, Ovadiah Lachman of Berlin, and he traveled to Berlin to try to influence Mr. Lachman to support Torah causes. He made this journey on foot, and after two months in Berlin succeeded in getting a pledge of 1,000 rubles annually from Mr. Lachman for chizuk haTorah. With this pledge he traveled to Rav Yisrael Salanter in Memel and related to him what he had accomplished in Berlin. After considering the matter, Rav Yisrael decided to utilize these funds to found a kollel, an institution of learning for a selected group of young men of high caliber who would dedicate their years to grow in Torah and yirah, in order to become gedolim and rabbanim of their generation, and would be supported by these funds.
From there Rav Leizer Yaakov traveled to his friend Rav Alexander Moshe in Rassein in order to found this institution there. Rav Alexander Moshe, however, felt that this institution, if it was to have any success, must be under the auspices of the gadol hador Rav Yitzchak Elchanan and therefore had to function in Kovna. Hence Rav Leizer Yaakov's appearance in Kovna.
When the idea was presented to Rav Yitzchak Elchanan, he was skeptical about accepting this responsibility considering the countless other Klal obligations he already had. It was suggested that perhaps his son Rav Tzvi Hirsh Rabinowitz should assist his father in shouldering this heavy task. Thus was founded the illustrious Kollel Prushim of Kovna, with Rav Tzvi Hirsh doing all the "ground work", securing the financial support, selecting the avreichim, etc. to the last detail. The Kollel became a very great success, where some of the best minds of Lithuanian Jewry dedicated years of their life to perfect themselves in Torah and mussar. In time it produced some of the greatest rabbanim and gedolim.
To draw support for the Kollel, Rav Tzvi Hirsh published a small sefer entitled Etz Pri. It contained drashos of Rav Yitzchak Elchanan, Rav Yisrael Salanter, Rav Alexander Moshe, and the Chofetz Chayim, extolling the virtues of kollelim and chizuk haTorah. This sefer has been reprinted in our times to encourage chizuk haTorah.
In his own city of Rassein, Rav Alexander Moshe founded a kollel that functioned under his auspices. He would give mussar shmuessen in that kollel in the way of his mentor and friend, Rav Yisrael Salanter. A talmid of his from that period, Rav Gedalyah Silverstone (later a Rav in Washington, DC) records a mussar thought that he heard from his rebbe there: The Gemara says in Berachos "A person should always annoy (yargiz) his yetzer hatov over his yetzer hara." What does it mean to annoy (yargiz)? He explained: When the yetzer hara comes to persuade you to transgress an aveirah, do not plead with him mercifully to leave you in peace. He does not know mercy and will take no pity on you. The only way to overcome the yetzer hara is to annoy him angrily, and say "Rasha! Get away from me! You' re trying to steal my neshamah and to destroy me for eternity!" This is the meaning of "yargiz."
In this kollel he succeeded in teaching many great talmidim. Numbered among his outstanding talmidim are Rav Chanoch Henoch Eigush of Vilna (author of Marcheshes), Rav Chayim Fishel Epstein (later a rav in St. Louis, MO), RAV Mendel Perevaznik, and Rav Meir Stalivitz (Rav of Chaslovich and later of Zichron Moshe neighborhood in Yerushalayim.)
He was lovingly devoted to his talmidim. He was devoted to their every need, both physically and spiritually. In general, he was man of charismatic persona and people were very captivated by him and attracted to him, but even more so were his talmidim attracted to him for the love and devotion he showed towards them.
Another area of tzorchei tzibbur which Rav Alexander Moshe's involvement in has been recorded by Rav Yaakov Lipschutz is the founding of the first Chareidi newspaper, Halevanon. He recalls the seeds for this idea being planted at a Seudah Shlishis in the home of one of Kovna's wealthy elite. The "guest of honor" at this seudah was Alexander Cederbaum, editor of "Hameilitz", a virulently anti-religious periodical featuring articles by maskilim ridiculing Halachah, Torah and Jewish values. Rav Alexander Moshe, who happened to be in Kovna at the time, utilized the opportunity to challenge Cederbaum publicly. Together with Rav Yehudah Lipschutz, he challenged Cederbaum in the presence of all the guests for four hours, until it was clear to all those present that Cederbaum and his ilk had only one intention: to introduce reforms in Judaism amongst Russian Jewry.
It was after that meeting that Rav Alexander Moshe suggested founding a periodical that would serve as a forum to counter the maskilim such as Cederbaum and their influence over Russian Jewry. However, this was no easy feat. A newspaper needs editors, writers, and above all, money. Rav Alexander Moshe presented the course of action: "The wealthy buy their clothing custom-made from a tailor with materials of their choice; the poor must buy old clothing. We are poor - we do not have the means to found our own periodical, but we can join an existing one and turn its face around. The Halevanon of Paris is published by Mr. Yechiel Brill, who is a Torah-oriented individual. If he will agree to our plans then we have an existing periodical that we can restructure to suit our needs."
Thus began the first Chareidi newspaper. It initially opposed by many Chareidi Jews but as it continued people began to understand why it was necessary and got behind it. Not only did Rav Yaakov Lipschutz write there but Rav Alexander Moshe himself would often write articles in it about current issues. Besides for being a gaon in Torah, he was also very knowledgeable in other areas; he was familiar with many sciences, especially astronomy, was articulate in Hebrew and also very familiar with the cultural winds of the time. Thus he was capable of responding to and challenging the rhetoric of the maskilim who ridiculed and criticized Chareidi Jewry with their "enlightened" ideas.
Numerous times, Rav Alexander Moshe went all out to fight these elements in articles he published in the periodicals of the time, such as Hamagid, Halevanon and others. With his sharp pen, he demonstrated a remarkably intelligent understanding of the issues, as well as a firm and unrelenting conviction to defend the Emmes. Whenever the honor of the Torah was at stake he did not sit at the sidelines. He stood up and used his many talents and his knowledge to fight for the Emmes, and to publicly declare the emmes fearlessly.
In one instance, Rav Alexander Moshe published a comprehensive refutation of a theory espoused by Chaim Zev Slonimsky, a famous maskil of those times, concerning the miracle of Chanukah. Slonimsky later confessed to being amazed at this gadol's worldliness and knowledge of sciences. Indeed, although he was an active opponent of the Haskalah, he was admired and respected by the maskilim for his broad scope of knowledge, for his talents, for his patience and understanding and for his exemplary middos and character. He was a man of shalom, accepted by all factions of the Jewish nation. They all revered him and respected hin highly.
Another talent he was known for was his skill in darshanus. He was a gifted orator, who brought many Jews closer to Hashem with his drashos that were based on fundamentals of Torah and philosophical thought. Rav Ezra Altshuler related, that at the time of the famous machlokes in the yeshiva of Volozhin there were many great rabbanim that were summoned to settle the case. One of these rabbanim was Rav Alexander Moshe. When he came to the Yeshiva, he was asked to say a shiur in the bais hamedrash, and the talmidim were very impressed. He was also requested to give a drasha, and the listeners were amazed by the sophistication of thought - to the point that they became oblivious to their physical surroundings!
In the last few years of his life, Rav Alexander Moshe experienced severe weakness and blindness and was not active. Rav Yosef Kessler, in his preface to the sefer Tiferes Ziv, recalls that as a youngster learning in the Yeshiva in Rassein, he would often assist the frail Rav Alexander Moshe in getting from his house to the Shul, in which the Yeshiva was located.
Rav Alexander Moshe would say often that he davens to Hashem that he should have merit to live until the year 5666, in order to see with his eyes the g' ula hash'laima. Many mekubalim had predicted that that year would be the year of the Geula, but unfortunately, Klal Yisrael was not zocheh to the geula at that time. In the language of Kabbalah, the P'kidah L'tovah turned into a P'kidah L'ra'ah, and that year turned out a great catastrophe for the Jews throughout Russia. Notwithstanding, this great gaon and tzaddik was niftar on the tenth day of Adar 5666 (1906) at the age of eighty-seven.
Yehi zichro baruch.
Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus, Divrei Emmes, Vilna 1910
Moshe Markowitz, L'Koros Ha'ir Rassein v'Rabbaneha, Warsaw 1913, p. 14 -20
Rav Yaakov Lipschutz, Zichron Yaakov, Kovna 1927-30, Vol. 2 Ch. 36 & 37, vol. 3 Ch. 49
Rav Menachem Mendel Pinchos Perevoznik. Aivel Moshe (appendix to T'shuvos M' nachem), Jerusalem 1907
Halevanon (of Paris, 1870), Vol. 7, p. 207-08
Rav Yosef Kessler, Intro. To Tiferes Ziv (by RAV Zev W. Turbowitz, New York 1939
Rav Meir Stalivitz, MiBeis Meir, Yerushalayim 1937, Preface to Vol. 2
Rav Eliyahu Meir Kleiman, Divrei Emmes, Jerusalem 1966, Introduction for Fourth Printing
Rav Yisrael Shurin, Olomeinu, Dec. 1981, Mador Ivri
Rav Yehuda of Yanishok, Introduction to Zichron Yaakov by RAV Yaakov Bendetman, Vilna 1874