Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Emor. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you inspire others to overcome challenges?
Is the secret to fulfilling relationships and powerful intimacy found in a 4,000 year-old tradition? Join an unforgettable lecture by Rabbi Yossi Jacobson on how to remain sane and spirited through the roller-coaster of married life, courtesy of Torah Cafe.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 115, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What do we learn from R’ Yisroel Aryeh Leib, the Rebbe’s brother? How Can I Stop My Past From Creeping into My Present? Can a Perfect Life Be Meaningful? How to Respond to Missionaries?
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Kedoshim. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why is the Torah so severe when it comes to someone having weights or scales that are not perfectly balanced? Aren’t there more grave sins than off-balance scales?
Related the Rebbe Maharash: “In general, it is recommended to go to sleep lying on one’s left side and wake up on the right side. While most people can simply turn over in bed, it is extremely painful for me to do so. Instead, I wash negel vasser, get up, walk to the other side of the bed, and lie down again.”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe davening Maariv, circa early 1960s.
Dr. Yaakov Hanoka (1936-2011) was a specialist in solar energy who held 57 patents in the field. He was the founder of Evergreen Solar Inc. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, New York, in March of 2008.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Kedoshim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is G-d’s desire?
Like all parents, the Landbergs were very excited when their first son was born. Their joy was short lived when though, when their child was blinded by a nurse’s malpractice. Frightened by the prospects of their child being blinded for life, on the advice of their Doctor they petitioned the Rebbe for a blessing. Just one week later, they received an excited call from the Doctor.
Today, Bais Iyar, marks the 182nd birthday of the Rebbe Maharash, who was born in the town of Lubavitch in 1834, the youngest son of the Temach Tzedek. In honor of this day, we present to our readers the first chapter of the long awaited biography of the Rebbe Maharash by the noted Chabad author, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 114, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Criteria Should We Look for in a Presidential Candidate? Why Worry About the Election if G-d is Running the Show? How Can I Defeat My Snooze Button? How is Judaism’s Notion of a Leader Different to Other Religions’?
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Acharei Mos. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why would the High Priest remove his dazzling clothes and put on simple, white clothing for his holiest moment of Divine service on Yom Kippur?
25 years ago today, on 28 Nissan, 5751 (1991), the Rebbe delivered an impassioned talk about Moshiach.
On his first Shabbos mevorchim in 770, the bochur was sitting in his place before 8:00 in the morning and studying a maamar. At 8:00, a member of the hanhalah came over to him and said, now is time for saying Tehillim. While this bothered him, he dutifully listened to what he was told to do.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during yechidus, circa 1970s.
Mrs. Chana Sharfstein is a noted author, educator and tour guide. During March of 2014 her daughter, Zlata Ester, passed away at the age of 53. Mrs. Sharfstein published Zlata’s Story, a book describing the experiences of a mother raising an autistic daughter. She was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in April of 2014.
Legendary Mashpia Reb Mendel Futerfas sits with several students at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel. Can you identify anyone else in the photo, or what year it was taken?
