The moment the train pulled into the station, all of a sudden dozens and dozens of people rushed onto the platform. The villager was astonished and impressed as how these people knew the exact time they should arrive and didn’t waste their time waiting for the train to come.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe giving Tzedakah on Erev Yom Kippur, 1968.
We present an excerpt from the writings of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel explaining the deeper significance of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Nemes works in the administration of Tzivos Hashem youth group at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with Rebbe project in Brooklyn, in July of 2012.
A Chossid takes a sip of the Kos Shel Brocho he just received from the Rebbe, as other Chassidim line up for theirs, on Motzei Yomtov, circa mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Torah Café, a project of the Jewish Learning Institute, has compiled a series of ten video lectures and presentations on the subjects of repentance, forgiveness and prayer. Each video corresponds to one of the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayelech. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Is G-d ever hidden from us?
As we approach the new year, we pray and wish each other to be inscribed and sealed for a sweet new year with revealed goodness for all. Here JEM presents a beautiful playlist with videos of the Rebbe related to Rosh Hashana.
Chabad.org writer Menachem Posner tells of the fixation that Chicago architects had with doors back in the 1920s when his house was built, and why this benefits his Sofer every year before Rosh Hashana.
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.
The Maggid had 120 outstanding talmidim. However, there were other great talmidei chachomim who came to the Maggid, but for reasons known to him, they weren’t accepted as his students. Some of them returned home; however, others refused to be denied. If they wouldn’t be accepted as a talmid, they would serve as a shammas. They would clean the beis hamidrash and take care of errands. They would learn from the great Maggid through serving him.
Watch this fascinating and inspiring Shiur on Rosh Hashana by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe receiving a Pan from Reb Mendel Futerfas on Erev Rosh Hashana, 1968.
Rabbi Moshe Tendler is a Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and a Professor of biology as well as a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn in May of 2010.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Nitzavim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do we know that we will repent and be blessed?
Rabbi Moshe Klein, a renowned Crown Heights Sofer, always carries a pair of Tefilin with him wherever he travels, hoping to find a Jewish man who will agree to put them on and say a prayer.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 133, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Prayer Fatigue: I Hate Davening; Should Secrets Be Kept From Our Spouses? Can We Have Yechidus with the Rebbe Today? What is the Role of a Parent in the Life of Their Married Children?
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