Video: Can We All Be Leaders?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we all be leaders?
Letter Shows Rebbe Encouraged Essays on Chassidus
In a beautiful revelation of Hashgacha Protis, the MyLife: Essay Contest was conceived and pitched on the very same day, 18 Teves, that the Rebbe wrote the letter urging essays be written in honor of Yud Shvat – exactly sixty years earlier!
8:00pm: Should Chinuch Include Being a Mentch?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 54, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should Chinuch Include Being a Mentch? Sibling Hatred; Healing from Emotional Neglect; Our Jobs; How Can a Good G-d Create Evil; Are You Crazy?
From Days Gone By: Previous Rebbe’s Funeral in the News
In honor of Yud Shvat, the Yahrtzeit of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, we present a news clipping from a local paper reporting on the historic Levaya that took place in front of 770, in which the Rayatz is (inaccurately) referred to as the former “chief rabbi of Russia and Poland.”
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during a Farbrengen in the early 1970s.
Rabbi Chaim and Esther Ciment, may they live and be well.
Who Was the First to Receive a Dollar from the Rebbe?
In honor of the 65th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s passing on the 10th of Shvat, 5710 (1950), and the Rebbe’s assumption of the Nesius a year later, we present a handful of short stories related by Rabbi Chaim Ciment of Boston, a devout Chossid of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and later the Rebbe.
Here’s My Story: The Shabbos Mevorchim Kiddush
Charles Roth served as the executive director of the National Jewish Post for 29 years and also worked as a broadcaster for ABC News. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in August of 2009.
Video: How to Get Rid of Your Fears
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 get rid of his/her fears?
Video: Basi Legani, 5735 (1975)
In accordance with the Rebbe’s instructions, Chassidim have always prepared themselves for Yud Shevat by learning the relevant Maamorim for each year’s Ois of Bosi Legani. With the approach of Yud Shevat 5775, JEM has made available the corresponding Maamar for this year – Bosi Legani 5735.
Here’s My Story: How Important Is It to You?
Mr. Bentzion Rader was a practicing chartered accountant in London, England for almost forty years. He enjoyed a personal relationship with the Rebbe from 1966, and was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home three times between 2007 and 2010.
Video: How Can We Bring the Redemption Closer?
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: How can we bring the redemption closer?
8:00pm: Challenging Our Chinuch System
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 52, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Challenging our Chinuch System; Nigleh vs. Chassidus in Cheder; Should We Openly Disagree with a Child’s Teacher; Advice for Beard Pickers; Livelihood vs. Home Life Balance, as well as the Essay Contest Launch.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Can Someone Be Chosen to Do Evil?
When G-d made His covenant with Abraham, He decreed: “Your children will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years. But the nation that enslaves them, I will punish.” How could G-d punish the Egyptians for something he decreed upon them to do? The answer can be found in Maimonides’ laws of prophecy.
Photo: Chabad.org.
Here’s My Story: The Recipe for a Warm Home
Mrs. Masha Lispkar has served as a Chabad emissary in Johannesburg since 1972. She was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in July of 2014.
Video: Why So Many Challenges?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’eira. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why are there so many challenges?
8:00pm: Unaffordable Housing in Crown Heights
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 51, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Mental Illness [Pt. 2], Is There Any Virtue to Madness? Unaffordable Housing in Crown Heights, Alternatives to Yelling [Pt. 2], Shabbos Peace With Young Children.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during davening in the early 1990s.
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