An incredible early Maamar “L’Havin Inyan Torah U’Tefila” from the Alter Rebbe, has been published for the very first time. This Maamar was transcribed from manuscript, and made available to the public.
Famed Crown Heights resident and Sofer, Reb Dovid Mendelbaum, retells a story how Reb Asher Zeilingold once delivered chicken from Mermelstein’s to the Rebbe’s apartment and left it by the door, and the Rebbe wouldn’t eat it.
In the summer of 1991, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of righteous memory, seeking his blessing for their upcoming marriage. The Rebbe gives Sheldon a blessing “for your entire family,” followed by two additional dollar bills to each to be given to charity on the day of their wedding.
Singer/Songwriter Duvy Burston, 18, of Orange County, NY released his third single this week. “To the Dust” is a powerful yet sensitive song which explores the challenge of struggling with negative thoughts and feelings.
Author and Historian, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, has published a new book compiling the Rebbes’ advice for all of life’s important matters from health to wealth and beyond. The book features thirty chapters covering many topics and includes over a thousand excerpts from Igros Kodesh.
As many people transferred to a work-from-home model during the last year due to COVID restrictions, many, especially those with young children, began to look for homes outside the big cities. The city of Tracy, a little more than an hour east of San Francisco is a beneficiary of that population migration, and Rabbi Levi and Faigy Meijers are making plans to establish a Jewish community for the city’s growing number of Jewish families.
My wife, Esti, and I co-direct the Chabad Jewish Student Centre in Vancouver, Canada. As you can imagine, we serve a lot of food. So our freezer, which is filled with lots of kosher meat, chicken and other kosher items, is very important to us. Last week, it suddenly stopped working, and that’s how the story started.
In Crown Heights, we know how to enjoy life, constantly pumping with energy and Chayus as we build our community. But what happens when the unthinkable occurs? Here, CrownHeights.info will take a deep dive into everything you wanted to know about the cost of dying in Crown Heights and were too afraid to ask.
A world-class Talmudist with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Talmud and its commentaries, Rabbi Shalom Povarsky—a beloved teacher, known for his warmth, charm and loving smile— passed away on Shabbat, Dec. 26, after a brief battle with the coronavirus. He was 85 years old.
Shneor Orel, a young Chabad singer from Miami is releasing a beautiful cover of the world renown hit song K’shealev Boche. Shneor, 23 years old, is now working on his debut album of original music!
This Sunday evening January 10th, from 7:00pm – 8:30pm anash are invited to a virtual yahrzeit siyum held for, Rav Pinchos Hirschprung zt”l (Horav Harashi and Gaavid Montreal) and for the esteemed askan R’ Shlomo (Sam) Drazin z”l.
At 10:30pm on the eve of 24 Teves 5573 (1812), the Alter Rebbe, founder of the Chabad movement, passed away, in a small town in Eastern Europe. At that exact moment one hundred and fifty years later, in Brooklyn, New York, his successor the Rebbe, held a unique farbrengen. Rabbi Leibel Shapiro recalls that special commemoration.
In commemoration of the 70 years milestone since the Rebbe’s first Maamar, Basi Legani 5711, the foundational Maamar of Dor Hashvi’i, Vaad Or Vechom Hahiskashrus is launching a unique global project of the study of the Maamar.
To commemorate 70 years since the Rebbe’s Frabrengen on Yud Shevat 5711, the Vaad Hatmimim has launched a new program to help Bochurim experience and learn a full Farbrengen with the Rebbe, and to relive it.
An incredible Maamar from the Alter Rebbe – along with a Biur from the Mittler Rebbe – has been published for the very first time. This Maamar was transcribed from manuscript, and made available to the public.
In honor of the 91st Anniversary of the visit of the Frierdiker Rebbe to Baltimore, where he said a Maamar on the occasion of the Alter Rebbe’s Yarzheit, we are happy to present the exact Maamar in Hebrew accompanied with an English translation.
Rabbi Shmuel and Shterni Freedman, married in 2019, have moved to Bahía Blanca, Argentina to become the shluchim for this small Jewish community.
