While the modern legal system has prisons at the core of its establishment, the Torah never features prison as a form of punishment, even as a deterrent. This, because the idea of locking someone up is antithetical to the nature of humanity. According to the Torah, a person was put on this earth for a purpose. Withholding one’s ability to achieve that purpose is the most inhumane treatment they can possibly suffer.
One young chossid, who owned a pair of strong, young horses, heard about Reb Hillel’s predicament. Approaching Reb Hillel, he confidently offered to help. “I can get you to Lubavitch before Shabbos. However, you must agree to two things.
The Talmud states: “Never were there more joyous days for the Jewish People than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur,” listing five or six joyous events that occurred on 15 Av throughout history. But what is it about the energy of the 15th of Av that attracts so much joy?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe under the Chupah, listening to the reading of the Kesubah and wishing the chosson and kallah mazel tov, circa mid 1950s.
A former member of the Knesset, Rabbi Avraham Leizerson has served for the past 16 years as chairman of Chinuch Atzmai, Israel’s independent religious education system. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in February of 2012.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’eschanan. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one find comfort in the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh?
Where were these dignitaries in the war, when Jewish families were being annihilated? 220 boys in an orphanage are on strike. They refuse to acknowledge the benefactors and dignitaries on stage, until a survivor like themselves comes on stage and can’t even speak through his tears.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 127, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can Women Understand Chassidus Like Men? Are We Supposed to Love Criminals? Is Lashon Hara Really Like Murder? What Do We Learn from a Tisha B’Av Nidche? What Feasible Measures Can Parents Take to Prevent Child Abuse?
Watch this fascinating and inspiring Shiur on Tisha B’av by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
One night Napoleon was travelling in his coach, when he heard cries and lamentations that pull at ones heart. Feeling sorry for the terrible misfortune that this family or group suffered, Napoleon thought that perhaps he, the powerful Emperor could help alleviate some of their suffering. So he ordered his driver to stop driving and he got out of the coach.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe greeting someone at a Farbrengen, circa mid-1970s. Photo courtesy of the Algemeiner Journal.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Shabbos Chazon and Tishah B’Av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Rabbi Dovid Shochet has served the Jewish community of Toronto since 1957 and is presently the president of the Toronto Rabbinical Council. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in June of 2012.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Devarim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be the greatest optimist?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 126, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Is It Possible, G-d Forbid, That This Generation Won’t Bring Moshiach? Can a Dirah B’tachtonim Be Created at the Office? Why is Childbirth So Difficult? How Can One Move Past Fear of What Others Think? What is the Significance of Shabbas Chazon?
Torah Café, a project of the Jewish Learning Institute, has compiled a series of nine video lectures on the two Holy Temples, their destruction, and the third one which will soon be rebuilt. Each video corresponds to one of the nine days of mourning between Rosh Chodesh Av and Tisha B’Av.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the Nine Days for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
