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8:00pm: Did the Rebbe Say Anything About July 4th?

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 219, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can We Establish Policy Based on a Chassidishe Hergesh? Chassidus Applied to Shiva B’Asser B’Tammuz Nidche; Did the Rebbe Say Anything About July 4th? As Converts We Feel Isolated in Our Community. What Should We Do? What to Say to Parents Who Were Hurt by Their Child Telling Them That Not They, but the Rebbe Is His True Parent?

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New Engagement!

Avremel Rapoport(Clarks Summit, PA) to Faigy Liberow (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
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Weekly Story: I Want Him To….

In the early years of the Rebbe’s Nesius, one of the conditions that the Rebbe gave in order for him to be mesader kiddushin was that the chosson begin letting his beard grow and refrain from shaving or trimming it. However, this could only encourage a bochur to grow his beard, how about one that was already married? And we see from the following story that the Rebbe placed emphasis on that group as well.

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Shiva Asar B'Tammuz marks the beginning of the Three Weeks. But this day bore tragedy for Jews even before Yerushalayim's walls were breached. In fact, there are famously five tragic events which befell the Jewish people on this day. It’s strange then, that so much emphasis is placed on the walls.

Why Such Focus on the Walls of Yerushalayim?

Shiva Asar B’Tammuz marks the beginning of the Three Weeks. But this day bore tragedy for Jews even before Yerushalayim’s walls were breached. In fact, there are famously five tragic events which befell the Jewish people on this day. It’s strange then, that so much emphasis is placed on the walls.

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Here’s My Story: The Antidote to Burnout

I was born in 1947 in Hungary to parents who lost their entire families in the concentration camps. They married after the war and settled in Zomba (near Bonyhad), where my father operated a general store. However, because of problems with anti-Semites, we left there shortly following the Communist takeover, when my father was offered a position as a rabbi in Ujpest.

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8:00pm: Should Children Ever Be Separated from Their Parents?

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 218, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chassidus Applied to 12-13 Gimmel Tammuz; Should We Use Ziy”a on the Rebbe? Thoughts About the Immigration Debate; Should Children Ever Be Separated from Their Parents? How to Trust and Become a Tougher Person? Is It Acceptable to Read Quality Secular Books, or Must We Resign Ourselves to Jewish Books of Poor Literary Quality? Why at Times Do We Beautify Mitzvot and at Other Times Insist on Keeping Them Simple?

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8:00pm: Does It Make Sense to Spend Shabbos at the Ohel?

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 217, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Does It Make Sense to Spend Shabbos at the Ohel? What Takes Precedence: Supporting Local Mosdos or Shluchim? How Do I Improve My Relationship with My Mother? Is It Okay to Marry Before Fully Dealing with My Own Self-Esteem and Dependency Issues? How Can I Control the Unspoken Urge? Is Energy Physical or Spiritual?

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Weekly Story: Renewable Energy

Reb Menachem Mendel Dubravsky was known as an illuy (Torah genius,) and shortly after his marriage he was asked to become Rov in a certain town. Before Pesach (of that year or a subsequent year), he received a letter from the office of Tomchei Tmimim. The letter stated that the Yeshiva is looking for a Gemara (Talmud) melamed (teacher) for one of its younger grades.

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