Reading the note, the Rebbe took issue with Reuven’s self-absorption and his total preoccupation with himself, which seemed to leave him oblivious to the world around him. The Rebbe asked: “Don’t you have anything else to think about besides Reuven?”
There’s a running joke that in Lubavitch, Yeshiva only functions properly from Cheshvan until Kislev. It’s funny, but unfortunately, there’s enough truth to it that we should be concerned.
In a unique initiative aimed at strengthening Jewish communal life and expanding assistance to those in need, Chabad of Monticello is set to benefit from a donation of equity in a technology startup, helping support plans for a new Shul and community kitchen in Sullivan County.
A new free website, LikuteiTorah.com, opens the Chassidishe Parsha to every learner: all 412 maamarim of the Alter Rebbe’s Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah, in the original Hebrew with an English translation and an explanation of every section.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Pegisha is underway. Almost 2,000 participants from more than 160 universities across six countries are in Crown Heights this weekend for Pegisha, hosted by Chabad on Campus International.
Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, a squad commander in the Ari Battalion (775), Search and Rescue Brigade, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon, a combat soldier in the battalion, fell in combat during the shooting attack on Friday morning at the Judea Junction.
Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
The response to last week’s article about our custom of saying Tehillim, and when it should be said, was much more than I anticipated. Many people emailed me or spoke to me personally asking me for details and when should they say their personal Tehillim. So this week, I am following up with an article about the history of learning the daily portion of the Parsha.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman shows how Hashem has given us the “roadmap” to life. It may be counter intuitive, but it works.
The cafe on the center’s ground floor looks like any other stop along the trail. Everything on the menu, however, is kosher, down to the chalav Yisrael dairy and pat Yisrael baked goods.
The officer kept encouraging him. And right there on the sidewalk, in the middle of an ordinary day, he put on tefillin.
Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
The IDF reported on Friday morning that five Israelis were injured, two critically, in a shooting attack near Judea Junction near Hebron.
Menachem and Rivka (nee Kamnitzer) Rotenberg from East Flatbush had a baby boy! Sholom Zachor: 663 Lenox Rd
Less than 24 hours after a woman followed him along a Manhattan sidewalk and stabbed him in the back, Chabad rabbinical student Yosef was back in Midtown dropping in on Jewish merchants and craftsmen in the Diamond District to help them don tefillin.
As we learn now about Avraham, father of the Jewish people, who began to teach and spread the idea of monotheism, we are sharing an essential letter of the Rebbe where he explains to a scientist the essence of Jewish monotheism, with a clarification of the concept of unity.
