Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Beshalach. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why did G-d tell the Jews to keep quiet and leave it all to him while the Egyptians were attacking them at the Red Sea, but told the Jews to go out and fight when the nation of Amalek attacked them in the desert?
Jules Lassner was an influential businessman and community leader in Bogotá, Colombia, and New York City, serving for many years as president of Cong. Orach Chaim on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A Marine Corps veteran who fought in World War II, he was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Manhattan in January of 1999.
Learn the main themes of the Maamar Basi LeGani that is being studied this year by Chabad Chassidim all over the world in an easy-to-understand class given by Rabbi Moishe New of the Montreal Torah Center.
In honor of Yud Shevat, join a live interactive class tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST with renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Tzvi Freeman entitled “How the Red Sea Got Real.”
Rabbi Moshe Klein, who was a volunteer for Hatzalah and helped attend to the Rebbe during the difficult years following his stroke in 1992, relates a story that transpired on the last Yud Shvat before Gimmel Tammuz, in 1994.
Tonight is Yud Shvat; on this day 66 years ago the Frierdiker Rebbe passed away, and exactly one year later the Rebbe assumed leadership of the Lubavitch movement. We present for out readers a collection of videos and learning material, specially produced and compiled for this auspicious day.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Beshalach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one live a divinely inspired life?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 99, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Yud Shvat; Advice to Single Women; Women & Micromanagement; Is There a Limit to Kindness? Boundaries with Friends; Bittul Torah; Ayin Hora.
As Chassidim around the world prepare for Yud Shevat, JEM’s Living Torah proves a great Hachana to this special day.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Bo. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: If the rabbis who sanctified the new Jewish Lunar month anyways knew the exact moment when the moon would be reborn, then why did the Torah also require the testimony of 2 witnesses who’d seen the new moon in order to seal the deal? Couldn’t their intellectual scientific mastery be enough?
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving Tzedakah as he walks into 770 for Shachris
Rabbi Samuel Levine is presently the head of Hillel Day School in Boca Raton, Florida, where he resides. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project at Chabad of Boca Raton in March of 2011.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Bo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: From where do we find the strength to serve G-d in exile?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 98, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How to Find a Healthy Mashpia; Women of the Wall; Tznius; Finding Your Life’s Purpose; Hebrew Names.
This week’s Living Torah from JEM is themed around the crime and its challenges within communities.
The captain of the boat sounded an alarm; They were spotted by a German Submarine. He announced we must lighten the load and therefor all passengers may keep only one valise or box, everything else must be thrown overboard. The people were scared for their life and obeyed this instruction and shortly afterwards there were hundreds, and indeed thousands of valises floating in the water. Then to everyone’s fright, the German submarine rose out of the water and everyone became petrified.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe seeing off a group of Talmidei Hashluchim, circa 1962.
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