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The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Yisro

The Rebbe says:

1. In this week’s Torah portion the Jewish people stand at Har Sinai (Mount Sinai) amidst thunder and lightning and receive the Ten Commandments from Hashem (G-d).

The Ten Commandments begin by saying, “Va’ye’da’ber Elokim Es Kol Hadvarim Ha’e’lah Lay’more – G-d spoke all these words, to say (“Lay’more”)”.

2. The Rebbe now questions this:

The word “Lay’more – To say” is used everywhere else in the Torah when Hashem tells Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) something in private and then instructs Moshe to repeat it over to the public. Here however, when the whole Jewish nation was standing at Har Sinai and hearing the Ten Commandments just like Moshe Rabbeinu, why does the Torah say, “G-d spoke all these words, to say (“Lay’more”)”?

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Stephanie Rancier – The Batt

COLLEGE STATION, TX — The freedom that college offers is exhilarating. Despite the occasional laundry mishaps, such as when that pesky red sock made a load of whites look like Barbie’s spring wardrobe. College is not for the faint of heart: sometimes that hint of homesickness is far from unfamiliar. When a little cough turns into a debilitating flu, it is cause for even the most independent students to cry for mommy.

Excerpt from the New JEM Video on the Rebbetzin

So little is known about the personality of this great lady who shared the Rebbe’s … all » life. Now through first-person interviews with those who encountered the Rebbetzin, learn about the unparalleled humility and unique personality of The Rebbetzin.

New Shluchim to California

Ann Bell – Palisades Post

Chabad Rabbi Shloime Zacks

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — Rabbi Shloime Zacks and his wife Moriel have joined the staff at the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Pacific Palisades. They will head two important departments: Adult Education and Community Outreach.

In Remote Halifax, A Jewish Community Comes Into Its Own

R. C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, Canada — Nova Scotia’s most populated city with a Jewish community 1800 strong is far, far away from major centers of Jewish life. It’s an eighteen-hour drive from Halifax to Toronto. Twelve from Montreal. There’s no kosher butcher shop, not enough young children for a Jewish day school, and it’ll take an eleven-hour drive to Boston, for a slice of kosher pizza.

JLI Launches New Groundbreaking Course in 260 Cities Worldwide

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is launching a new course, entitled “Beyond Belief: Reflections on Jewish Faith, Reason, and Experience”, scheduled to begin in 10 days in over 260 cities across the globe.

Chabad In Poland

Shmuel Ben Eliezer – Jewish Press

Rabbi Shalom B. Stambler

WARSAW, Poland — It is often said that in places you would least expect, there is certain to be a Beit Chabad. Even in the remotest regions on earth, people are likely to find the two symbols of civilization, Coke and Chabad.

The one place that had no Chabad presence for 60 years, however, was the once flourishing home to millions of Jews – Poland. (Interestingly, it was from Warsaw that the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe escaped the Shoah and came to America.)

It was thought that there were no more Jews in Poland after the Shoah and the persecution of the Communists. When the Rebbe was asked to send a shliach to Poland in 1989, he declined, supposedly saying that a Jewish community should not be reestablished where so much suffering occurred.

International Conference Draws Chabad Women in Leadership To Study

by R.C. Berman – Lubavitch.com

Perusing the instructions a Chabad leader leaves behind before she attends the annual Shluchos Convention in New York is exhausting. It takes lists, sticky notes by the dozens and several people to cover for one woman at the helm when she takes a weekend off from her work as school principal, Hebrew school director, adult education teacher, mikvah coordinator, women’s group leader, and more, all wrapped into the title of Chabad Shlucha.