Rav Reuven Leuchter in Chicago this Shabbos

UPDATED

Breaking new:

Rabbi Reuven Leuchter, one of the leading mussar personalities in Eretz Yisroel, will be delivering a drasha Shabbos morning at Mikor Hachaim and will be the guest speaker at Shalosh Seudos this Shabbos @ STMY(in conjunction with JET). He is the primary student of Rav Shlomo Wolbe z'tl  .

Watch my YouTube video for Chai Lifeline's Bike the Drive

Now, be a friend and link this, post the video on a blog, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or any other social media platform, please! I want this to go viral. The link is: http://youtu.be/E5BgKu07f1U

A serious question for my readers

Hi, how are you? I am sort of torn between, what I view as, two opportunities. Here is the situation as I see it. 

I started this blog over seven years ago and it has been a great platform for me to actually write, hammer out concepts that are key to my hashkafa, and share a little bit of the Torah that I come across. These are all really great things and I am humbled and grateful to all who visit this blog daily. The lack of comments use to get my goat, but I have realized that if on one is commenting that means that readers agree with what I am writing. 

However, I am now seven years older and my own blogging needs have slightly changed. I am considering moving over to Wordpress. That isn't the problem, though. I already have a blog (nothing posted) on Wordpress and even have a name for the blog, and it is sadly not as cool as Al Ha Derech or even Modern Uberdox.

I am trying to slowly write more "general audience" posts and need to decide if I should just move all of Modern Uberdox over to Wordpress and still continue to post, yet have a sprinkling of more general posts about the challenges of growth or...

...just keep this blog here and have a totally different blog all together. 

While I write for most selfish reasons  I also know that this blogs reader have been with me from the beginning (even with that terrible post about New Square Orange Juice vs Lakewood Orange Juice  [Spring of 2006]). So I am asking a favor. If you are the person in California, the reader in Patchouge (Long Island), or the lurker in Jersey City please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you would prefer. I was going to post a poll, but I would rather that you leave a comment, because your opinion matters and I value your perspective. 

Update on my prep for Bike The Drive

I biked in the evening last night for an hour and will be hitting the pavement again today, in preparation for Bike the Drive for Chai Lifeline on Sunday. So for I have raised $735, which is great. There's still time to sponsor me, if you can. Any amount you can give to Chai Lifeline would be so wonderful.

I think I finalized my playlist for Bike The Drive. As of now, I'll be listening to 2 shiurim from Rav Revuen Leuchter and probably two shiurim from Rav Moshe Weinberger.

The playlist will is:

Hafachta- The Diaspora Yeshiva Band

Tzadik- The Diaspora Yeshiva Band

Yerushalayim- Even Sh'siyah

Ashreinu- Even Sh'siyah

Malachim- Moshav Band

Hashem S'fatai- Moshav Band

Carlebach Medley-Piamenta

Anachnu Maaminim Medley- Piamenta

Mitzvah- Yossi Piamenta

Va-Yivan Uziyah- Yossi Piamenta

Nigun Nevo- Shlomo Katz

eliyahu hanavi- Shlomo Katz

Hashem Melech- Yosef Karduner

Lo Yaavod -Yaakov Shwekey

Wavin' Flags at Camp Simcha-Kids Battling Cancer

Opinion- Greg Gaffin

Cease Bad Religion

I Hate Alternative Rock- Bob Mould

All Those People Know- Bob Mould

Celebrated Summer- Hüsker Dü

Chartered Trips- Hüsker Dü

Rescue- Echo & The Bunnymen

Just Like Heaven- Goldfinger

Choose Any Memory- fIREHOSE

Imitation Of Life- R.E.M.

This Is a Call Foo Fighters

Bamboleo- Gipsy Kings

Another State Of Mind- Social Distortion

Don't Change -INXS

You can still sponsor me by going here until May 26th. Thanks!!

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Hi! I rarely ask things except for one time a year and this is it. I am raising money for Chai Lifeline and biking Lake Shore Drive (sort of like the West Side Highway to those in NYC) next Sunday, May 26th.
The idea, if you don't recall from the previous 5 times I have been involved in this event, is to raise as much money as possible for Chai Lifeline, an amazing organization that helps children and their families cope with serious pediatric illnesses.

If anything I have ever written since 2006 has been meaningful or resonated with you, than I am asking for your help.

I will be completely frank with you, I need your help. Not because I have previously raise THE MOST money from sponsors, but because I feel this is something I want to put my energy into. There is no minimum sponsor amount. If you $3.00 or even $500.00 you can use to sponsor me, it would be awesome. It's all tax deductible, too.

You might think that you really can't spare anything and I do understand that. I am currently not working (as in looking for employment) and I know first hand how difficult it is to even put gas in your car sometimes. I also know that this morning I gave tzedaka at shul, because when you give, you get back.
If you'd like to read more about why I am biking, in memory of my father a"h, then, I ask you to go to this site, www.tinyurl.com/bikethdrive.

Thanks,
Neil