While the biography of the Rebbe Rashab is going through the final stages of being edited, I began doing research into the life of the Frierdiker Rebbe. The following is a detailed account of his historic visit to Eretz Yisroel, which took place 91 years ago. Being that he was there during the first two weeks of Av, I thought that as we are now in Av, it is an appropriate time to post it.
For thirty years (from 1980 to 2010), Mr. Freddy Ezekiel was a supplier of electronics to South America. He was interviewed in his Miami home in April of 2018.
The topics in this week’s 318th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Who Is Our Greatest Enemy? How Should We React to the Recent Chilul Hashem Caused by Someone Who Last Year Created an Enormous Kiddush Hashem? Is the Pandemic a Sign That Our Shlichus Has Ended? How Were the Tribes of Reuven and Gad Allowed to Settle Outside of Israel? Focus on One Tasks vs. Multitasking?
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Rabbi Mayer Plotkin is a businessman who directed many Chabad activities in Montreal. He was interviewed in January of 2010 and in April of 2011.
A lecture on the kosher status of lab grown meat took place at last year’s annual National Jewish Retreat in Washington, D.C. It was given by Rabbi Ari Sollish, a noted author and lecturer, and the founder and director of the Intown Jewish Academy in Atlanta, GA.
The topics in this week’s 317th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Should I Say to a Neighbor Pressuring Me to Put up a BLM Sign on My Front Lawn? What Are the Two Secrets to Growing Through Challenges? Chassidus Applied to the Three Weeks and Matos-Massei; What Can We Do When We Find Ourselves in Dire Straits? Should We Be Praying Also for Non-Jews During This Pandemic? Why Are There Such Brutal Punishments in the Torah? in Light of Pinchas’s Zealotry, How Do We Look at Antinomianism?
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
While everyone enjoys hearing something new, and in general I try not to recycle stories that have already been publicized, that is not entirely the correct perspective. During farbrengens, mashpi’im often retell the same story to emphasize the importance of the message. Certain concepts have to become part and parcel of our mindset and mashpiim repeat a thought in order that it be ingrained in our DNA.
Rabbi Zvi Hershcovich, a Chabad Shliach in NDG, Canada who also performs standup comedy as Cholentface, has been producing weekly Parsha and comedy videos in order to teach his community about the Torah portion. Pinchas 2020: “Help me find a missed connection!”
For most of his life, Rabbi Shmuel Blizinsky (1931-2020) served as the Chabad emissary to the kibbutzim of Israel. In recent years, he retired to Hollywood, Florida, where he continued his outreach work. He was interviewed in March of 2011.
The topics in this week’s 316th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Why Can’t We Talk Openly and Be Critical of the BLM Movement? What’s Your Opinion about the Distinction Made by Political Leaders in NY Between Public Protests and Religious Gatherings? What Can We Do About Skyrocketing Housing and Tuition Costs? Chassidus Applied to 12-13 Tammuz and Pinchas: Nothing Is Impossible; 17 Tammuz: Fighting to Uphold the “Walls” Surrounding and Protecting Judaism; Why Is No One Wearing Masks in 770? Can Mandatory Volunteerism Be Part of the Way to Help America Heal?
Author and historian, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, shares a unique story that took place on Yud Beis Tammuz forty years ago.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Watch as famed musician, Avi Piamenta, plays the niggun of יב-יג תמוז on the flute.
On the 12th of Tammuz in 1927, the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was released from soviet imprisonment after being arrested for his activities in spreading Judaism across the USSR.
Around thirty years ago, I was in a bungalow colony with my father a”h , and during a farbrengen around Yud Beis Tammuz one of the men asked, “Reb Meir, you lived in Russia, you were imprisoned because you were a chassidishe Lubavitcher Jew. You lived through the arrest of the Frierdiker Rebbe and his liberation on Yud Beis – Yud Gimmel Tammuz, so to you Yud Beis Tammuz is relevant. But what mesiras nefesh does an American born Jew like me have? What does Yud Beis Tammuz mean to us?” Thus began a farbrengen, a younger chossid turning to an elder chossid for guidance and inspiration.
