Los Angeles, CA — When I first arrived at the homeless shelter, I was scared. I didn’t know what to expect, and I had to admit to myself that I had never really been out of my element. But I was open to the new experience — and completely unaware of how the day would turn out.
This weeks living torah video titled ‘The Land of Israel Belongs to the Jews’ (Volume 36, Episode 143).
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
New York, NY — Every Sunday for the past 13 years, I have been visiting the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Cambria Heights, Queens.
One Thursday, recently, I was in the Chabad Lubavitch Mitzvah Tank on Broadway near 38th Street in Manhattan. It is a very warm and friendly place, where Jews from all over come to talk, pray, connect with their yiddishkeit and meet friends.
An Israeli woman came in and asked the rabbi in the Mitzvah Tank if he had any Shabbat candles. The rabbi thought for a moment and said, “I just gave out the last set of candles.”
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