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8:00pm: Why Does an Esrog Cost $100 When Its Cousin, the Lemon, Can Be Found in the Supermarket for Fifty Cents? How Do We Justify Price Gouging?

The topics in this week’s 372nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: A Rebbe Never Leaves: What Can We Learn From Yud Gimmel Tishrei About Life After Gimmel Tammuz? What Is the Spiritual Significance of a Sukkah? Why Is Chabad Custom Not to Decorate the Sukkah? Why Do We Shake the Lulav? Why Does an Esrog Cost $100 When Its Cousin, the Lemon, Can Be Found in the Supermarket for Fifty Cents? How Do We Justify Price Gouging? Why Do We Use an Esrog From Italy Instead of From Israel? What Is Simchos Beis Hashoeiva and Why Did the Rebbe Reinstitute This Celebration? How Can We Control Our Diets During This Holiday Season?

20 Years Later, Part 5: A Hatzalah Volunteer Writes His Memories Of That Fateful Day

As we reach the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, CrownHeights.info presents a series of photos, memoirs, and documents from that fateful day.

Weekly Story: Days of Closeness

As we are entering our seventh year of posting a weekly story, I am no longer going to try to find stories that most people did not hear, but I am going to also post some of the classics, that are oft repeated during a chassidishe farbrengen. This way it will be accessible to the English speaking crowd as well.

8:00pm: How Do We Deal With Holiday Related OCD?

The topics in this week’s 370th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Can We Learn From the Heavy Rains That Fell as We Prepare For Rosh Hashana? What Are Some Things the Rebbe Did Erev Rosh Hashana to Prepare for a New Year? Why Does a King Need to Be Coronated Every Year? What Is the Reason for the Different Shofar Sounds? How to Break an Addiction as a New Year Resolution? How Do We Deal With Holiday Related OCD?

Weekly Story: May We Be Connected To The Head

As I conclude the sixth year of writing the Weekly Story, I thank all of you who have (commented, when comments were permissible), emailed me or encouraged me to continue writing it. I originally committed to writing it for a year, some fifty articles and now it is almost 300. One of the best type of stories are those that I have received from readers about their personal interactions with the Rebbe. This week’s story is another one of those stories.