Photo Gallery: Yud Tes Kislev All Around the World (2)

Pictures of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens from ULY and Bais Chaya Mushka in Crown Heights, the Chabad community in Sydney and Kiryat Gat, Beis Chana Seminary in Tzfat, and Yeshiva Ketana of Baltimore.

United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Crown Heights

After yeshiva on Thursday, 19 Kislev, 6th grade talmidim of ULY Crown Street were treated to a special Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen, arranged by Rabbi Yosef Shidler, the 6th grade’s ‘limudei chol’ teacher. The boys heard many powerful stories and wonderful divrie chizzuk connected with yud tes kislev and chanukah. Rabbi Yisrael Tevel also joined in for a surprise appearance, and spoke about a few special points in the Yud Tes Kislev story.

Beis Chaya Mushka, Crown Heights

After weeks of excitement and preparation, Beis Chaya Mushka Elementary celebrated Yud Tes Kislev with their annual Mother – Daughter Event. They began by viewing the Rabbeim Fair: at each classroom the children saw a 3D display of a story of one of the Rabbeim, from the Baal Shem Tov all the way to the Rebbe, helping them connect to each one.

After a delicious Mother –Daughter Lunch, each class presented a choir, dance, or play connected to Yud Tes Kislev, most of which the girls prepared on their own!

At the grand finale the girls sang the entire Perek of Katonti Baal Peh, and some girls also sang Perek Lamed Vov or Viyadata, which they learned as part of their Hachana for this special day.

The program ended with a beautiful slideshow of pictures of this year’s Bnos Chabad activities.

Yeshiva Centre, Sydney, Australia

A 19 Kislev farbrengen took place at the Yeshiva Centre in Sydney – Chabad of NSW HQ – with a full dinner for Men and Woman. The guest speaker was Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, senior Rabbi of Elwood shule in Melbourne, and senior Dayan of the Melbourne Beis Din.

After words of blessing by Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, The Rebbe’s Head Shliach to NSW, Australia, Rabbi Yossel Gutnick, enthralled the hundreds of participants with stories and inspirational words from the heart.

After the formal part of the farbrengen at tables groaning with Schnitzels and delicacies, following veiwing of a short video of the Rebbe and Bentching, Rabbi Gutnick continued to farbreng with Anash and the timimim until 3:00 AM!

It was a very special evening for all.

Photos by Mendel Moskovitz

Ohel Menachem Shul in Kiryat Gat, Israel

Beis Chana Seminary, Tzfat, Israel

This Yud Tes Kislev, Beit Chana Tzfat organized its first ever live broadcast. Baruch Hashem, it was a tremendously inspiring even and as far as we know the largest and most inclusive farbrengen ever held for Lubavitch women. Close to 1,000 users participated from literally every corner of the world, and close to 600 users watched the farbrengen through Beit Chana’s website, Beitchana.org.

Many of these were groups of Alumnae who got together to watch. In addition, over 50 Alumnae came in person to the farnbrengen, close to 50 called in using the dedicated phone line, and even more listened to the audio only broadcast. Our website received close to 1400 hits just during the course of the farbrengen! Of course, the amazing Chayus was generated by our wonderful student body of close to 100 students.

The energy in the farbrengen was tangible as in the room we were keenly aware of our sisters and mothers around the world sharing in our hiskashrus Lkavod Yud Tes Kislev. We have chosen to share a few of the hundreds of messages of thanks we have received from shluchos and alumnae from around the world who participated.

25 Countries: USA, Israel, France, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, Australia, Austria, Russia, Argentina, UK, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Luxenbuorg, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru and the Philippines. 18 States from within the USA: New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, Maryland, Wisconsin, Texas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Michigan, Tennesse, Alaska, Hawaii, Colorado, Conneticut and Minnesota.

Here are some letters we received from participants:

1) Hello! Thank you so much for the wonderful farbraingen! It is an amazing hashgocho protyth you came out with it this year, this way i was able to have a grate farbregen with a relative who was just hospitalized! Yashr Koiach! – R. Chassia

2) Thank You for the most uplifting, inspiring, amazing farbrengen ! Nothing like the farbrengens of Beit Chana! It warmed up the heart & the soul! Gut Yom Tov! – L

3) Hi, Please can you pass on to Rabbi Chitrik that I was on with the whole farbrengen and really enjoyed it! It was really inspiring to hear that the core values we learnt in seminary have not changed! Its my first year being on Shlichus and didn’t have a farbrengen to go to. Thanks and i hope we can do this again! – R. Cheruff

4) Thanks no word to thank you to be at such a chasidishe farbrenguen even being so far away, you can’t imagine the memories it brings me….16 years ago I was there in seminary, Rav Chitrik still with the same energy just turned really white!!!! Thank you so much again!

Yeshivas Lubavitch, Baltimore, Maryland

Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore hosted the annual community wide Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen Thursday night, with a full course dinner.

Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Head Shaliach of Maryland, gave a most memorable Farbrengen, recounting many personal stories and exceptional thoughts. also participating was the Koidenover Rebbe, who gave a 45 minutes sicha that was very inspirational. Cantor Avi Albrecht moved everyone with his spectacular vocals. Also in attendance were Rabbis Najar, Bukiet, Kaplan, Rosenbloom and Slavaticki, bochrim and shluchim of the Yeshiva, and many community members.

The farbrengen was well attended, and went on late into the morning hours.