A Bachur’s Memories of Gimmel Tammuz
Tacoma Shliach, Rabbi Zalmy Heber, shares his memories as a young Bochur in 770 on Gimmel Tammuz 24 years ago.
Here’s My Story: The Matter is in Your Hands
When I was four years old, all the Jews of my birthplace – Gura Humorului, Romania – were deported to Transnistria, where most perished at the hands of the fascists allied with the Nazis, including my own grandmother. My family and I survived and, in 1950, just before my Bar Mitzvah, we managed to leave Romania and immigrate to Israel.
Instant Torah: Unity in G-dly Division
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Korach is titled: Unity in G-dly Division.
Video: What is the Correct Way to do a Mitzvha?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Korach. This week he answers the question: What is the correct way to do a Mitzvha? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
8:00pm: Gimmel Tammuz: 24 Years Later
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 216, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Gimmel Tammuz: 24 Years Later; Why Don’t We Speak About the Details of Gimmel Tammuz as We Do About Yud Shevat, Beis Nissan, Chof Dalet Teves Etc.? Why Don’t We Appoint a New Rebbe? Did the Rebbe Take Responsibility for Shluchim? How Does the Rebbe Answer Us Today? What Is the Meaning of Going to the Ohel or Writing into the Igros? How Do We Understand the Different Statements the Rebbe Made About Moshiach, the Dor Ha’Shevii, the Leader of the Generation, and the Frierdiker Rebbe?
Weekly Story: Continuing The Conversation
At the end of this week’s parsha we find that the mitzva of tzitzis comes immediately after the story of a Jew who was chopping or gathering wood on Shabbos. One may ask, why do these two ideas appear consecutively?
Here’s My Story: A Great G-d in a Tiny Room
I grew up in 1950s Brooklyn in a very American home – that is, we knew we were Jews, but we led an American lifestyle. For me, this translated into sports participation. Indeed, I became so good at baseball, America’s favorite pastime that, while in college, I was scouted by the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Instant Torah: Striving for the Same Goal
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Shlach is titled: Striving for the Same Goal.
Video: Positivity Bias, A Counterview on Counterculture
JLI presents a unique two-minute video series titled Positivity Bias – A Counterview on Counterculture: The Rebbe and the hippies.
Video: Brightening Up Our Materialistic Life
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Naso. This week he answers the question: How do we brighten up our materialistic life? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
8:00pm: Is Our Yeshiva System Based on the Rebbe’s Guidelines?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 215, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Recite a Maamar Chassidus When Most People Don’t Understand? What Is the Difference Between a Sicha and a Maamar? Is Our Yeshiva System Based on the Rebbe’s Guidelines? If So, What Can We Do If It Isn’t Working for Many of Our Students? Why Did the Rebbe Not Intervene to Improve Our Yeshiva System? How Can One Be Despicable in the Name of Torah?
Weekly Story: What Does Mezuzah Represent
In those years, a yechidus before one’s Chassunah was for just a few minutes. Together to their pa”n (pidyon nefesh – request for brochos), the Chosson would give the Rebbe an invitation and the Rebbe would quite often ask him a few questions about the preparations to the chassunah.
Here’s My Story: The Power of One Blessing
My story starts in 1914, when my grandfather, Rabbi Gershon Katzman, came from White Russia to the US for medical treatment. But then World War I broke out, and he was stranded here. He became the rabbi of a small Orthodox community in San Francisco, while waiting to return home. But that was not to be. The Russian Revolution followed World War I, and it took him almost ten years to get his family out, including his daughter (my mother), my father (Rabbi Yaakov Karasick) and their children (my sisters and I).
Instant Torah: A Lesson from Miriam
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Behaalotecha is titled: Using Everything to it’s Fullest.
Video: How can we Prepare for Moshiach?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Naso. This week he answers the question: How can we Prepare for Moshiach? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
8:00pm: Are Special Children Deprived?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 214, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can Someone Consider Himself a Chassid and Not Be Careful with Halacha? Is Life in Our Hands or Hashem’s Hands? Are Special Children Deprived? Follow-Up: My Teenage Friends Are Drowning: What Can We Do? Why Is the Omer Counting Not from Malchus to Chesed? Chassidus Applied to Behaalotecho; 118th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Parents.
Weekly Story: The Worth Of A Sefer
Rav Yaakov Yosef desired to publicize the teachings of his Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov, so he wrote and published the sefer Toldos Yaakov Yosef (in the year 5540/1780). Since the entire purpose of publishing the sefer was to spread these teachings, he undertook the difficult task of personally traveling from town to town and selling it.
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