Rivkah bas Avraham

Rav Shach was an enigma. The venerated Ponevezh rosh yeshivah wasn’t shy about sharing his daas Torah with an often-resistant public, yet was so humble that he couldn’t understand why throngs would approach him for brachos or want to give him honor.

Hair “Porosity” If hair hasn’t been subjected to the ravages of chemical processing or violent heat styling, it’ll most likely be undamaged — or low porosity. The hair cuticle, consisting of overlapping scales, has a coat of lipid on top. Yet if hair has been dealt with ruthlessly, that lipid layer is stripped and the cuticle beneath is broken and craggy, rendering it technically “porous.” When hair is still close to the scalp, fresh from the follicle, it’ll be low porosity.

Le Chaos The scenes out of France in recent days might be even more apocalyptic than the 2020 George Floyd riots in the US. The historic Limoges town hall collapsing amid a roaring inferno, masked hoodlums dousing a woman in flames on a Paris street, and a helpless storeowner pleading political clemency from looters are all sights that call to mind previous maelstroms in French history.