Music played loudly while the men danced. On the women’s side of the mechitzah, we tried to speak over the sounds. I leaned over the table to hear what my co-worker’s wife was saying. “Well, because we are both Belz, it just made sense,” Zeldy said with a smile, then continued picking at the chicken on her plate.
In this 36th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes her mixed feelings of joy and sorrow when she and Reb Levik celebrated their own version of the Rebbe’s wedding from far away in Yekatrinoslav, unable to attend in Warsaw.
Elie Wiesel, one of the most passionate Jewish voices of our time, enjoyed an enduring correspondence and personal relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An avid student, a sought after teacher, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel is the author of numerous related books, among them the bestselling Night, the first in a trilogy about his life in the concentration camps. Recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Wiesel, a professor at Boston University, spoke with Baila Olidort.
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This Shabbos, 3 Tammuz (June 23), marks eighteen years since the Rebbe’s histalkus. We present here an inspiring article written specially for the Avner Institute by an individual who merited a special relationship with the Rebbe — Benzion Rader, who is the author of Challenge, an inside account of Chabad of Great Britain and the Holy Land, which was published in the early 1970s under the Rebbe’s guidance.
One of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in Yerushalayim, Katamon fell victim to a rampant epidemic of abortions toward the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Those who resided in the overly crowded red houses on Rechov Bar Yochai were particularly affected, with many left feeling helpless and without any other options.
At a memorial session at the Israeli Knesset honoring the Lubavitcher Rebbe shortly after his death, Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recalled a conversation he had once had with him in which Rabbi Lau spoke of his active involvement in kiruv rechokim, bringing back to Judaism lost Jews who had strayed far away. “The Rebbe immediately corrected me: ‘We cannot label anyone as being ‘far.” Who are we to determine who is far and who is near? They are all close to Hashem.”
In this 35th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana remarks how her loneliness in New York is only interrupted by her son, the Rebbe’s daily visits.
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The author of a popular new series of English translations of classical Torah works tells the story of his own journey back to Yiddishkeit. His life is now devoted to helping make that process easier and more accessible for others.
In this 34th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes the tremendous respect her son, the Rebbe, shows toward her, and what his daily visits mean to her.
The following article is an editorial transcript of stories from the alumni Farbrengen with Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg, which celebrated Hadar Hatorah Yeshivah’s historic milestone – its 50th anniversary – on Shabbos Parshas Naso, 5772.
Reb Yisroel Jacobson was born in Zurowitz, White Russia in 1895 * He arrived in the town of Lubavitch to study at age 10 * He traveled to America in 1925, and served as the Frierdiker Rebbe’s trusted Askan until the latter’s arrival in 1940 * He passed away on the 17th of Sivan, 1975 in New York.
In this 33rd installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana recalls a few episodes from her son, the Rebbe’s youth.
Scholars for generations have tried to decipher the seemingly simplistic words of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the 12th-century commentator known as Rashi whose glosses on the Five Books of Moses have become standard fare for any student of the Torah. But a new English volume attempts to reveal some of the principles behind the commentary, drawing on several talks delivered by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, whose elucidations of Rashi’s writings have been called by modern-day scholars as “revolutionary.”
In this 32nd installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how opponents of her husband Reb Levik unsuccessfully tried to diminish his position as Rov of Yekatrinoslav.
Reb Michoel Dworkin was born shortly before the Tzemach Tzedek’s passing in 1866, in a small town in white Russia * Originally followers of the Mahari”l of Kopust and his son, the Dworkin family returned to Lubavitch and became followers of the Rebbe Rashab in 1900 * Reb Michoel was a successful businessman before the advent of communism, and was a ‘Ben Bayis’ of the Rebbe Rashab and the Previous Rebbe * He passed away on Erev Shavuos, 1949 in New York.
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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of three Chassidim engaged in a lively discussion. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
Ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuot the Beis Din of Crown Heights released a six page guide which holds the answer to many questions and instruction as to many customs related to the holiday.
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