A special mitzvah, which can be fulfilled only once a year, is to recite a brachah upon seeing a fruit tree in bloom. A group of Beis Rivkah students went out to make the blessing on an apple and cherry tree! Plus: Locations of fruit trees in Crown Heights.
Just in time for passers-by to recite the customary blessing for trees before the month of Nissan ends, the iconic tree in the front yard of 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad World Headquarters – has bloomed with beautiful white flowers, signalling an end to a particularly harsh winter for the residents of the city.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1970.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Brocho, circa mid 1980s.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe Davening Shachris on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1962.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe drawing mayim shelanu to be used to bake Matzos the Rebbe would distribute.
A full page ad was featured in today’s print edition of the New York Times inviting every Jew, no matter where on earth he or she may be, to join the Rebbe’s Shluchim for the Pesach Seder.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the annual ‘Machne Yisroel Yechidus,’ in the late 1980s.
Rabbi Yochanan Gordon, Shliach to Australia’s Tasmanian Island, puts on Tefilin with a Catholic priest whom he discovered is actually Jewish.
A group of Bochurim dig with shovels to prepare for the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of 770 in 1988. Can you identify anyone in the picture?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe walking up to 770 in the mid 1970s.
A group of students of the newly established Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in 770 pose for a group photo prior to their departure on Merkos Shlichus, circa late 1940s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Rabbi Mendel Stein, development director of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Oak Park, Michigan, smiles with Randy Gillary as they display the newly installed heart defibrillator he donated to the institution.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe standing outside 770 seeing off a group of visitors, circa early 1960s.
Former Boston Red Sox All-Star pitcher Bruce Hurst signed autographs and hung out with children at Chabad of Mesa, Arizona’s “Purim in the Stadium.” He also addressed the crowd of over 100 people at the program, which included concession food and a “half-time” show by the Chai Tones.
In a neighborhood with more cars than parking spots, the difficulty of finding a place to leave one’s vehicle can be really frustrating to many Crown Heights motorists.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during a Farbrengen in 1969.
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