interesting facts and opinions

Rambam's opinion is that talmud tora should be free of charge. We poskin, however, to compensate a teacher "for keeping time open."
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Rabbeinu Yona in a cooment to Pirkey Avos said that Tora must come with Avoda.
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R. Gifter of Telz was seriously against talking to the dead concurrently with tefila at a cemetery.
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R. Moshe Feinstein ztz"l ruled that X-Mas stamps are OK to use and handle.
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Sara Shneuer, a seamstress from Krakow, founded the Beis Yakov girls' school system almost hundred years ago.
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I learned these on Iyar 2, 23 April, 2000