The Rebbe and Ronald Reagan’s Historic Talk
A new letter from the Rebbe to President Ronald Reagan sheds light on the Rebbe’s approach to education – not just for Jews, but for all humankind.
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Laws and Customs: Hoshanah Rabbah, Shmini Atzeres and Simchas Torah
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Hoshanah Rabbah, Shmini Atzeres and Simchas Torah for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Laws and Customs: Sukkos and Eruv Tavshilin
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah) and Eruv Tavshilin for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
[Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added]
Rabbi Shmuel Lew’s Yom Kippur at the North Pole
The Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa, Canada, directed by Dr. Yosef and Devora Caytak, recently hosted a Shabbaton for over two hundred people, with Rabbi Shmuel Lew of London, UK as a guest speaker. He told a fascinating and amusing story of a Yom Kippur he spent at the North Pole.
by Neshi Rodin
The Yom Kippur War: Forty Years Later
40 years ago, residents of Kfar Chabad were shocked to see their neighbors – while still in their tallis and kittel – riding hastily in buses. News began to trickle through the village that a war had just broken out, and all reserves were being called to duty. The war has been etched into the collective Jewish history as the Yom Kippur War.
Laws and Customs: Yom Kippur
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Kaporos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Laws and Customs: Rosh Hashana and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Rosh Hashana and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
[Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added]
A Jewish Thought on Labor Day
It’s Labor Day once again, which brings up some very important questions: Where is the best Labor Day sale? Where did I put my dark hats?
Laws and Customs: Week of Selichos
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the week of Selichos, Erev Rosh Hashana, and Eruv Tavshilin, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Singleness or Harmony? The Kabbala of Jewish Unity
“Unity, unity,” what a beautiful idea. Its virtues issue forth from the mouths of politicians and clergymen. Its praises roll from of lips of leaders, activists and ordinary folk of all ilk and class. The word conjures up images of an idyllic state of existence – a world in which there is no strife nor struggle – where humanity is bound by a single objective with a single mind and a single heart.
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov - Jax., FL
Here’s My Story: Turning the Wheels
With the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Henry Ford Motor Company realized that the new state would need a huge number of vehicles for the military and the government, and it announced plans to build a car assembly plant in Israel.
by Ephraim Ilin
Video: If You Could Change One Thing in the World..
Michael Medved, a popular radio host, author and political commentator, answers what it would be if there was one thing in the world he could change.
A lecture at the 2013 National Jewish Retreat in Alexandria, VA.
Letter: Our Experience at the National Jewish Retreat
We grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. surrounded by Orthodox Jews, but we were never part of that community. We were all Jews but somehow it seemed that we each lived in our own little world. When Rabbi Yanky Majesky asked us to join him and his wife, Chanshy, to the National Jewish Retreat we did not know what to expect.
by David & Harriet Moldau - Heritage
Video: Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thoughts on this week’s Parsha, Ki Tavo, titled ‘Save the Best for First!’
Weekly Living Torah Video: On the Offensive
When fighting a spiritual war, it is insufficient to simply ward off enemy attacks. One must go out and capture ground, constantly growing in Jewish observance. On a broader scale, this means bringing the light of Torah even to those that threaten it, until they too proclaim, “Hear, Israel! G-d is or L-rd, G-d is one.” 18 Tishrei, 5717 – September 23, 1956.
Happiness Vs. Pleasure: The Secret of Contentment
“Do not all men desire happiness?” This rhetorical question was posed by Socrates to his students. The response was unanimous: “There is no one who does not!”
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov - Jax., FL.
Milestone: Video Lessons on Over Half of Rambam
For the first time in history, a majority of the books of Rambam’s Mishneh Torah were recorded as video classes and made accessible to the global Jewish community.
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