According to the Jewish calendar, a second month of Adar is added in a leap-year. While Purim is usually celebrated in Adar, during a leap-year it is postponed until the second Adar, and we mark Purim Katan – “the small Purim” in the first month.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a collection of unique photos of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha in the late 1960s.
Rabbi Avrohom Tanzer is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva College of South Africa, and the founding rabbi and spiritual leader of the Glenhazel Area Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Johannesberg in August of 2014.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Should we have compassion for sinners?
The greatest empires have been wiped off the map of history. How have the Jews survived? Mark Twain ponders this question in his essay Concerning the Jews. Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson answers by finding the one common denominator that has existed for over 3300 years of Jewish history.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 103, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Female Judges in the Essay Contest; Self-Esteem; Lying; Criticizing Children Constructively; Reward and Punishment; Pleasure from Other’s Misfortunes.
The month of Adar is characterized with the spirit of joy, as the Talmud relates that “when Adar comes we increase in happiness.” Rabbi Yitzchak Shochet, Rabbi of London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, shares insight into how happiness is ultimately a choice, and when one chooses to be happy, all obstacles and challenges can be overcome.
We’re all familiar with the story of when the Ba’al Shem Tov asked Moshiach when he would come. Moshiach replied that the Geulah would be ushered in when the wellsprings of Chassidus were spread to the wider world.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Terumah. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah dedicate so much content towards the building of the Tabernacle in the desert? It was a temporary structure that we will never again need physically, so why so much mention?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe entering a Farbrengen, circa mid-1960s.
Rabbi Mendel Lipskar is the Executive Director of Chabad of South Africa. He also serves as the rabbi of the Shul at Hyde Pak in Johannesburg. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August of 2014.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. (Josh) Gordon, who passed away on Monday at the age of 66, speaks of the Rebbe’s directive to him and and his wife as they first set out on their Shlichus to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA, in a video filmed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Terumah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we find strength to overcome the challenges of exile?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 102, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Spouse vs. Parents; Growing through a Tough Childhood; Giving up on Children? Process of Writing and Publishing Sichos.
The parents were beyond themselves and everyone was at a lost – what can be done to stop the bleeding and save the child? Amongst the assembled was Reb Zusha. He told the distraught parents, “Make the meal larger than you were planning and invite the entire community to participate.”
Much has been said over the past few months in relation to Shnas Hakhel. With all the Shturem however, many of us fail to grasp how passionate the Rebbe was in promoting and living it throughout the course of the year.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a collection of photos of the Rebbe leading a Farbrengen. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
