A Shliach weighing whether to make one more fundraising call. A businessman deciding how much to hold back for a rainy day. A parent deciding how much to worry. The question underneath all of it is the same one: where does making a natural vessel end, and where does real bitachon begin?
The Ohel Daily Bus has released its schedule for the upcoming week, including expanded service before and during Rosh Hashanah and throughout the following week.
As we reach the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, CrownHeights.info presents a series of photos, memoirs, and documents from that fateful day.
As Rosh Hashana approaches, a beautiful space for תשליך is again prepared at the corner of Montgomery Street and Albany Avenue.
As we are now beginning the new year, 5787, which is a LEAP YEAR – we share a letter where the Rebbe explains to a group of Yeshivah students what the Jewish leap year is, the special lesson it teaches us and gives some practical guidelines.
Mazal Tov to Levi Lubecki, son of Chmouel Lubecki, and Ora Gueoula Attal, daughter of Mendy Attal, on the occasion of their wedding in La Verrière, Paris.
With great sadness, we regret to inform you of the passing of Rabbi Avrohom Lipskier OBM, a beloved Chabad educator, longtime Rosh Yeshiva, and pioneering figure in the world of kiruv and Baalei Teshuvah. He passed away on Thursday, the 28th of Elul, 5786.
Mrs. Chana Gurary lives in Montreal, where she raised her twelve children. In 1978, she had an instrumental role in building a new mikveh in the city, and went on to actively promote the mitzvah of Family Purity for nearly forty years afterwards. She was interviewed in January 2011.
A recent letter issued by Chabad Rabonim in Eretz Yisroel raised a halachic concern about a common way of blowing shofar, particularly an additional sound sometimes heard at the end of shevarim. According to the letter, when the sound is produced improperly, it may affect whether the listener fulfills the mitzvah at all.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Recorded live with the incredible pianist Yaron Vershavsky, this rendition captures the raw emotion and beauty of these sacred words — Our Father, Our King.
As we approach the Yamim Noraim, I hope this melody inspires you and helps bring deeper meaning to these powerful words.
When Rabbi Mendy and Rivka Minkowitz shared a flyer for their Shabbat program at Chabad-Lubavitch at Elon University in North Carolina on their Instagram story, they were unprepared for the antisemitic hate and threats that would follow.
Apple has officially entered the foldable smartphone market with the introduction of the iPhone Duo, a dramatically redesigned iPhone that opens into the largest display ever offered on an iPhone while retaining a compact, pocketable form when closed.
The feverish preparations and extensive community work are, as in every year, receiving official state recognition. Once again, a special greeting letter was sent from the Kremlin by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the office of the Chief Rabbi, the Gaon Rabbi Berel Lazar shlit”a.
The maamarim and sichos from that year were recently published in four volumes of Toras Menachem – Hisvaaduyos: Volumes 82, 83, 84, and 85. They are available through Kehot branches in Eretz Yisrael and around the world, as well as through Jewish bookstores in Chabad communities and shlichus locations worldwide.
Shmully and Dina Hecht from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
In advance of the yomim tovim, the Beth Din of Crown Heights has issued a stern alert to residents: Do not invite Shachar Luz to your seudos, allow him to join your minyanim, or even engage in social activity with him.
