Weekly Story: It Depends On Your Perspective
In response to those who reached out and asked for clarification on last week’s story, I decided this week to elaborate with a story that Rabbi Mangel told me related to what was written last week.
Here’s My Story: Do Not Abandon Ship
Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen (1927-2016) served as the chief rabbi of Haifa, Israel, for thirty-six years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter Project in February of 2006 and April of 2010.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Purim 40 Years Ago With R’ Meilech Zweibel
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.
8:00pm: Why Is There Ever a Mitzvah to Get Drunk?
The topics in this week’s 299th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Chassidus Applied to Purim: Why Is There Ever a Mitzvah to Get Drunk? How Could Mordecahi Put All the Jews in Danger by Not Bowing to Haman? Did Vashti Actually Grow a Physical Tail? What Ever Happened to Zeresh? Did the Rebbe Once Say at a Purim Farbrengen That Everyone Who Raises Their Hand Will Become Wealthy? How Can Yom Ha’Kippurim, the Holiest Day of the Year, Be Only Compared to Purim? How Do We Apply Ad D’Lo Yoda?
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Antidote to Corona Fears, Tanya Chapter 26
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.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Yud Adar 80 Years Since Tomchai Tmimim Established In The USA
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.
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Weekly Story: “America Iz Nisht Anderish!”
This Thursday, Tes Adar, is eighty years since the arrival of the Frierdiker Rebbe onto the shores of America, and when he made his epoch declaration that America is not different than Europe. Just as Judaism flourished in Europe, so too will Judaism flourish in America. I decided to share with you part of my weekly farbrengen in Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf’s Mesivta of Crown Heights.
Here’s My Story: Preaching with Conviction
Rabbi Chaim Ciment has served as the Rebbe’s emissary in Boston for the past sixty-six years and is presently the executive director of Yeshivas Achei Temimim, He was interviewed in June of 2007 and again in January of 2008.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – The Rashag’s Yartzeit
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.
8:00pm: What Attitude Should We Have to the Coronavirus?
The topics in this week’s 298th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Attitude Should We Have to the Coronavirus? How Is It Just for G-d to Command Us to Kill All Amalekite Men, Women and Children? Chassidus Applied to Tes Adar – 80 Years; Why Are Menashe and Ephraim Not Included in the Shoham Stones? What Does It Mean to Increase in Joy in Adar? How Do We Have Free Will If G-d Is Recreating the World Every Second in a Specific Way?
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Where did R Raichik read his Pan after Gimmel Tammuz? Holiness of 770
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.
Weekly Story: The Virtue of Kabbolas Ol
Being that I was preoccupied finishing the biography of the Rebbe Rashab, I didn’t have time to write a regular story this week, so I excerpted a chapter, thirty days before Beis Nissan. Also it is serving as a reply to an individual who asked me a question.
Here’s My Story: The Jewish Soul Lobby
Mr. Shlomo Nakdimon, a veteran Israeli political reporter, was close to Prime Minister Menachem Begin and served as his communications consultant. He was interviewed in Tel Aviv in August of 2009.
8:00pm: How Can People Frown on Marrying a Ger When It’s Prohibited to Discriminate Against Geirim?
The topics in this week’s 297th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Is Joy Inherent or Acquired? Why Can’t We Build the Third Temple by Ourselves? What Are the Standards for a Mechitzah According to the Rebbe? How Do We Explain the Laws of Slavery? Why Is Mixing Meat and Milk Prohibited When They Combine Chesed and Gevurah? How Can People Frown on Marrying a Ger When It’s Prohibited to Discriminate Against Geirim? How to Deal With Discrepancies Between Torah and Science? Why Not Study Different Religious Beliefs Before Determining What Is Truth?
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Listen to a Rebbe’s Advice or Else..
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.
Weekly Story: Honoring Your Host
Being that this past week was Chof-Beis Shevat, the yahrzeit of the Rebbetzin, I am posting a story that I heard by a farbrengen in honor of her yahrzeit. Although it is probably known to some of you, nevertheless it is worthwhile to repeat and hear it again. It can reinforce the messages that we have learned from it.
Here’s My Story: The 12-Year-Old Editor
Dr. Jacob Ackerman is an eye surgeon living in Queens, New York. He was interviewed in September of 2019.
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