Timely Tales: Bruised with Blessings
In this new weekly series, JLI presents a unique two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. This week’s video for Sukkos is titled: Bruised with Blessings.
Why a Calabria Esrog?
We present a fascinating article written by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches of Merlbourne, Australia, exploring all of the reasons why it is Minhag Chabad to use a “Yanove” Esrog from Calabria, Italy.
Video: The Message of Sukkos
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Yomtov of Sukkos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the message of Sukkos?
Laws and Customs: Sukkos
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah), including the laws of building a Sukkah and selecting the Daled Minim, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Video: Digging Deeper — A Short Film on Teshuva
Many people struggle with the concept of Teshuva. They feel it’s impractical and unattainable. Rabbi Mendy Shapiro, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman and Rabbi Shais Taub break it down into practical and relevant ideas to inspire us all to reconnect to Hashem through Teshuva.
Video: Erev Yom Kippur Blessings in English
JEM’s daily Rebbe video has been garnering lots of attention today as the Rebbe is heard speaking in English. Addressing an audience from the Machane Israel Development Fund, the Rebbe blesses all Jews around the world to be inscribed and sealed for a sweet new year.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe watching Hagbaah on a fast day, circa mid-1980s.
Here’s My Story: There Is No Point of No Return
Professor Reuven Feuerstein (1921-2014) was an Israeli developmental cognitive psychologist and founder of the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential based in Jerusalem. His world-renowned applied systems of structural cognitive modifiability have been implemented in over 80 countries across the globe. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in June of 2011.
Laws and Customs: Yom Kippur
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Kapparos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Video: Don’t Try to Change Who You Are
We’re all busy preparing for Yom Kippur during these Days of Teshuva. So, what does Teshuvah actually mean?
Weekly JLI Video: The Rooster-Boy
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Yom Kippur is titled: The Rooster-Boy.
Weekly Story: Why So much Suffering?
As today is Vov Tishrei, the Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana, we present our weekly story – one final chapter in the story of Malka, the orphaned girl who learned from the Rebbe that she wasn’t abandoned, and her incredible encounter with Rebbetzin Chana.
Video: The Quickest Way to Attain Forgiveness
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Yom Kippur. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the quickest way to attain forgiveness?
8:00pm: Is There Such a Thing as Modern Chabad?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 181, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do I Have to Forgive Someone Who Shows No Remorse? What is Healthy Fear of G-d? Is There Such a Thing as Modern Chabad? Why Don’t We Daven the Way Chassidus Expects of Us?
Weekly Story: Why Tehillim?
The Tzemach Tzedek’s fifth son, Harav Yisroel Noach (known as the Maharin), who later on became Rebbe in Niezhin, once asked his father, the Rebbe, “Why do we say tehillim [throughout the year], and not any other sefer? Aren’t there appropriate pesukim, of tefillos (prayers) and supplications in the other twenty-three kisvei kodesh, that relate to these situations? So why don’t we ever say those pesukim?
Videos: Worldwide Rally, Quest for Oiz #7
Tzivos Hashem presents this video of a cyber-rally for Jewish children all over the world in honor of Chodesh Elul, led by Rabbi Shimi Weinbaum, part of which was the airing of the 7th episode of ‘A Quest for Oiz.’
Here’s My Story: Engineering Yiddishkeit
Mr. Shabsi Turner is an architectural engineer who lives with his family in Chicago, Illinois. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, NY, in July of 2017.
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