The topics in this week’s special episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Yud Shevat 5710-5780 – 1950-2020, Basi L’Gani: I Have Come Into My Garden. How do we actualize the calling of our seventh generation?
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 we continue in our preparation to Yud Shevat, Shnas Hashivi’im, I would like share what I said this week in a farbrengen for mesivta bochurim. It is also a response to some of the feedback I received concerning last weeks’ story.
Rabbi Sholom Nemtzov resides in Five Towns, New York, where he manages Aniyay Ircho, a charity organization. He was interviewed in April of 2012.
The topics in this week’s 293rd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: How to Address the Recent Suicides? Is It Okay for a Tzaddik to Say an Untruth? The Power of Presenting Chassidus in Written or Artistic Form; How to Prepare for the Approaching 70th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Leadership? Was the Rebbe’s Statement That We Are the Last Generation of Galus and the First Generation of Geulah Just a Bracha and a Wish? Why Did G-d Harden Pharoah’s Heart and Then Punish Him?
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.
Last week (the 20th of Teves) was the yahrzeit of the Rambam. I am sharing an incident of his life which I heard in a farbrengen, this past Shabbos.
Mr. Yaakov Peri served as head of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet (also known as Shabak) from 1988 to 1994, and as member of the Knesset from 2013 to 2018. He was interviewed in his Tel Aviv home in April of 2010.
The topics in this week’s 292nd episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Announcing the 6th Annual MyLife Essay Contest; Chassidus Applied to 24 Teves and Vaeira; How to Prepare for the Approaching 70th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Leadership? How Long Is the 7th Generation? What Was Moshe’s Birth Name Given by His Parents, and Why Is That Name Not the One We Use? Is There Anything Wrong With Secular Studies? Why Is Studying Science Not Like Studying Torah, Since They Both Come From G-d?
In continuation with the theme of preparing for Yud Shevat , shnas hasiviim (the 70th year of the Rebbe’s nesius), I chose the following story which is based on a possuk of this week’s parsha and I heard from my father, Reb Meir a”h. A chossid has to recognize that as much as we know and understand, whatever the Rebbe tells us is Emes liamito.
In 1981, Ilya Dvorkin took up what seemed like a crazy idea – photography expeditions to the Jewish communities of the USSR, to conserve this vast cultural wealth.
Rabbi Efraim Schmukler has served as rabbi of the Maimonides Geriatric Center in Montreal, Canada, for over thirty years. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in October of 2015. This story has previously been published in the book My Story.
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 the nineteenth installment here on CrownHeights.info.
As we are in the month of preparation for Yud Shevat shnas hashiviim, one of the points of hiskashrus is following and fullfiling the directives and guidance of the Rebbe and all of the Rebeiim. At the conclusion of a yechidus, the Rebbe Maharash would tell his son the [Rebbe] Rashab a story that was connected to the concept discussed in that yechidus. The following is one of the stories he related, connected to the concept of obedience.
The topics in this week’s 290th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Why Doesn’t Judaism Focus on Self-Defense, Bearing Weapons and Other Methods of Protecting Ourselves? What Is Chabad’s Position on Daf Yomi and the Siyum Hashas? Isn’t It About Time That We Create Powerful Programs to Teach People About Moshiach? Should a Parent Let Her Child Eat OU-D? What Is the Significance of Wearing a Black Hat? If Birth Is “G-d Saying You Matter,” What Does Death Mean? How Is One Supposed to Spend a Fast Day According to Chassidus?
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 the Eighteenth installment here on CrownHeights.info.
In honor of the chassunah of Mendel & Mussia Zirkind, I am posting a story that my father, Reb Meir a”h would say by the chassunah or sheva brochos of his children and grandchildren. May they be blessed with an everlasting edifice with chassidishe children.
