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8:00pm: What should I say to a neighbor pressuring me to put up a BLM sign on my front lawn?

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?

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Baby Girl!

Uriel and Mushky (nee Dubov) Hillel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya (nee Gordon) Drizin from Los Angeles, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shmuel Helman (Brazil) to Stella Washingston (Alpharetta, GA)
New Engagement!

Doniel Preston (Edgware, UK) to Chayale Russel (Edgware, UK)
New Engagement!

Dovi Borochov (Crown Heights) to Mirel Vogel (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Binyomin Beilin (Boston, MA) Rivkah Bracha Ross (Waterbury, CT)
Baby Girl!

Menachem and Sari (Nee Gottlib) Forer from Crown Heights/Hillside had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Dovi Zaetz (Crown Heights) to Hanni Ladayov (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Smith (N. Miami Beach, FL) to Chana Singer (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
Baby Girl!

Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
Baby Boy!

Menachem and Rivka (nee Kamnitzer) Rotenberg from East Flatbush had a baby boy! Sholom Zachor: 663 Lenox Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Kamman (Toronto, Canada) Miriam Prus (Doylestown, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Shmuel Rosenblatt (Brooklyn, NY) to Devora Twersky (Chicago, IL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Dovid Lifchitz (Boise, Idaho) to Mussie Moscowitz (Bucktown, IL)
New Engagement!

Yossi Kalman (Riverdale, NY) to Roizy Krausz (Lakewood, NJ) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Oct. 20th, 7:30pm at Rubashkin’s 1349 President Street
New Engagement!

Shlomo Zeilig Kupfer (Boro Park, Brooklyn) to Moussia Cooper (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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.

Weekly Story: The Relevance of a Known Story

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.

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Weekly Comedy and Parsha Video

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!”

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8:00pm: 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?

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?

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Weekly Story: Yud Beis Tammuz Today

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.

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8:00pm: Can You Share Your Personal Experience of Gimmel Tammuz?

The topics in this week’s 315th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Fighting for What You Believe In: Lessons From 12-13 Tammuz; Are Your Commitments Superimposed or Engraved in You? How Can We Know If We Have Made a Successful Connection With the Rebbe? Can You Share Your Personal Experience of Gimmel Tammuz? What’s Your Opinion on the Tearing Down of Statues? How Should We React to Fireworks in the Streets? Should I Move? Why Do So Many People Not Get It? What Can I Do to Find a Shidduch During Quarantine?

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