Photos: Hundreds Mark Yud Tes Kislev in Beitar Illit
Hundreds of residents of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Beitar Illit, Israel, turned out Tuesday night for a Yud Tes Kislev celebration, hosted by the local Chabad Shul.
Hundreds of residents of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Beitar Illit, Israel, turned out Tuesday night for a Yud Tes Kislev celebration, hosted by the local Chabad Shul.
Nearly 500 Bais Rivkah High School girls spent a fun, inspiring, and uplifting Shabbos together at the Raleigh Hotel in upstate New York.
This past Sunday, the Friendship Circles Menorah Building workshop at the Home Depot was filled to capacity with over 150 in attendance.
In the spirit of Hakhel, two Empire Boulevard Shuls got together and hosted a special Farbrengen in honor of Yud Tes Kislev.
Throughout all the divisions of Oholei Torah Yud Tes Kislev was marked with Farbrengens and Kinusei Hakhal in honor of the auspicious day.
This past Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Vayishlach, the Rockland County Community once again celebrated Yud Tes Kislev with a gala Melava Malka, organized by Heichal Menachem of Monsey. The Melava Malka was attended by prominent Rabbonim and drew a diverse crowd of close to one thousand people, representing the entire spectrum of Yidden, all in their yearning and appreciation in this turbulent era, forAvodas Hashem as it is illuminated via Chassidus.
Marking Yud Tes Kislev, the Kehilah of Empire Shteibel hosted a Farbrengen with Rabbi Mordechai Gurary in honor of the auspicious day.
In a sight yet to be seen in Moscow, some 2,000 people gathered to partake in a grand Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen, marking the day the Alter Rebbe was freed from Czarist prison.
Chabad Lubavitch of Baltimore organized a special Maleveh Malkah last night, Motzaei Shabbos, to celebrate the 34th Siyum HaRambam, the yahrzeit of the Maggid of Mezrtich and the Chag Hageulah of 19 of Kislev. The crowd, numbering around 300, gathered in Cheder Chabad for the event, to hear words of Torah and inspiration from both local and guest Rabbonim.
Last night, Motzei Shabbos, Reb Yoel Kahan, the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s head ‘Chozer,’ paid a visit to the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, with whom he discussed deep concepts in Torah and Chassidus.
Over a thousand Jews of all stripes gathered together in Borough Park to celebrate Yud Tes Kislev, the Yahrtzeit of the Mezritcher Maggid and Yom Hageulah of the Alter Rebbe.
It was one of those rare scenarios for which words cannot do justice. On Sunday, Yud Kislev, if you entered the Bnos Chomesh Academy building here is what you would have seen: A large bouquet of purple and gold balloons gracing the building’s entrance, a sumptuous breakfast buffet of gourmet coffee, pastries and elegant fruit platters, a high grade copier furiously printing 120 copies of Tanya – the Bnos Chomesh Edition, fathers sitting with their daughters in every corner of the school learning b’chavrusa, and a display of gifts for the fathers.
Earlier this week, the Jewish community of Ivanovo, Russia, now on the rebound after years of stagnant activity, celebrated the opening of a new synagogue and Jewish community center.
Close to 800 friends, supporters, admirers and well-wishers attended the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education’s 75th Diamond Jubilee Awards Dinner at the elegant ballroom of Pier 60, in Chelsea Piers in Manhattan.
In keeping with the Rebbe’s directives, the Lubavitch community of Montreal joined together on Yud Kislev, the Chag Hage’ulah of the Mitteler Rebbe, for a grand Hakhel gathering at the Chabad Center in Cote S. Luc, directed by Rabbi M. M. Raskin.
In honor of the Chag Hageulah of the Mitteler Rebbe, whose very life was Chassidus, a Father and Son Chassidus program was held in the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva for the 7th and 8th grades.
Hundreds of ‘Kvutzeh’ students, teachers and members of Anash gathered for a special Hakhel and birthday Farbrengen in the Crown Heights Kollel. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was among those who Farbrenged; he revealed some of the Rebbe’s feelings about the phenomenon of Kvutzeh, and delivered a scathing admonition of the Hanhala of Tomchei Temimim-770.