Mivtza Matza is one of the first peulos that the Rebbe encouraged his chassidim to reach out to Jews who for whatever reason didn’t have shmura matza for the seder. As a child, I remember delivering shmura matza to many of our neighbors in Oak Park, Michigan. This year we have a predicament, we cannot meet many of our associates, so how are we to fulfill the Rebbe’s request and guidance.
The topics in this week’s 303rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Chassidus applied to Yud Alef Nissan. What does Shabbos HaGadol mean today? Yud Gimmel Nissan: Lessons from the Tzemech Tzedek about an epidemic. How is this night different? Lessons from Pesach. How can we be making Pesach and fulfilling our other obligations when we should be helping others in this time of need? What is the significance of reading the nasi? Increasing in Torah study in honor of Yud Alef Nissan. What is the significance of corona meaning crown? Is there something we can do to repair the sefira of kesser on a spiritual level to help stop the virus? How to deal with the challenge of being at home with my kids? How about those of us who have no family? What is the bare minimum of people needed to do a Seder? Which Parsha will we read after the quarantine is over? Seder related questions
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.
In a touching remake, Abie Rotenberg and Baruch Levine sing a song based on the original Abie Rotenberg classic “The Place Where I Belong”. In the original song, the Torah was not in Shul, today we find ourselves the one out of shul, and longing for “The Place Where We Belong”.
As we prepare for Yud Aleph Nissan, 118 years since the Rebbe’s neshoma was sent to illuminate this world, and prepare it for the coming of Moshiach Yzidkeinu, may it be speedily in our days, I am posting a story that I received a month ago.
Since 1965, Rabbi Shlomo Cunin has served as the director of Chabad of the West Coast, which today comprises over 220 Chabad houses. He was interviewed in January and August of 2013.
In honor of the 6th of Nissan, the Yartzeit of Reb Chaim Serebryanski, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin shares some History, Lifestyle and Personality of this iconic figure.
The topics in this week’s 302nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Are the Spiritual Dynamics of a Virus Epidemic?
On Friday I received a whattsapp with a powerful message of the Rebbe Rashab which is extremely appropriate for our times. At the same time I would like to reiterate my appreciation for your feedback on these stories as well as the virtual farbrengen on Thursday evening, which was graciously hosted by Merkos302.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
LIVE NOW: Singer Yaakov Shwekey is hosting a live concert online for the wider Jewish community. The concert is for a Refuah Sheleima Stanley Chira Shalom ben Shahana, and for all those in need.
The Bar Mitzvah celebration of Menachem Levi Pfeffer, like countless others was cancelled. A Bar Mitzvah Celebration with friends and family in a beautiful hall never came to fruition. So the family put together a movie in honor of all those that got them to this wonderful day.
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.
As today, (Friday), Beis Nissan is the centennial (100) year of the histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab, as well as the day the Frierdiker Rebbe became Rebbe, I am posting the chapter on his histalkus from my upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab. Presently, it is over 580 pages (and will be bezras Hashem approximately 625 pages).
Rabbi Yossy Goldman has served as a Chabad emissary in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1976. He is the senior rabbi at the city’s Sydenham Shul and president of the South African Rabbinical Association. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter Project in October of 2014.
Pop artist Yitzchok Moully has done it again, creating a masterpiece of art that resonates with the times. Join today, Thursday, as he makes this collaborative work VIA Facebook and Instagram Live.
An excerpt from a Shiur given by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg on Shaar Yichud V’Emunah tackles the question “Why Am I Stuck At Home During This Virus Outbreak?”
