Laws and Customs: Tishah B’Av
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Tishah B’Av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
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This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 173, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chassidus Applied to Tisha B’Av; What Should We Make of the Recent Strife in Israel? When is it Okay to Deem a Task Impossible? How Does Inspiring Others Not Compromise My Own Personal Avodah? What Can We Do About the Declining Standards at Weddings? How to Improve One’s Memory.
Weekly Story: Seeing the Positive
“Seeing their guns and bayonets, we realized we are doomed, and thought that if we make one move they will shoot us on the spot. After all, that was Stalin’s guideline, shoot any person that tries to leave the USSR. Being that they didn’t shoot, we thought they will interrogate us in Russian, and we will respond in a very broken Russian that we are Polish citizens and maybe they will let us go.”
Video: Rabbi Benny Jew-Splains Kosher
In this hilarious video, Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, director of Chabad of Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, shares the basics of the Kosher diet.
Video: 40 Years Since Begin’s Visit
This week marks forty years since Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s historic visit to the Rebbe. Four decades have passed since the meeting, but the truth and wisdom found in the words of the Rebbe are as pertinent now as they have ever been.
Here’s My Story: The Rebbe’s Generals
Mr. David Mayer lives with his family in Los Angeles, California, where he worked as an executive in the toy industry for over three decades. He was interviewed in the My Encounter studio in January of 2016.
Chabad.org Broadcasts Daily Siyumim for 9 Days
Chabad.org is once again proud to partner with the NCFJE, which has been broadcasting live siyumim on the radio for over thirty years, to bring you live broadcasts of daily siyumim for the nine days.
Weekly JLI Video: A Child and a Suit
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Shabbos Chazon is titled: A Child and a Suit.
Video: Success Through Failure
When we’re working on something and it doesn’t work out, sometimes we not only think to ourselves, “I failed this time,” we think, “I’m a failure.” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor reminds us that we sometimes tend to see successful people in their final state. We forget that the most accomplished people in history, also had their own share of failures and bumps along the way.
Video: How to Catch an Anti-Semite
How to catch an anti-Semite? Who would have thought this would be a question we would need to ask in modern-day America? Yet, in this fascinating and highly entertaining talk by Rabbi David Nesenoff, given at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat, we learn that Anti-Semitism does still exist, even in unlikely places.
Video: Why Is It Important to Meditate?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Devarim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why is it important to meditate?
8:00pm: What Is the Significance of the Nine Days Today?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 172, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What is the Significance of the Nine Days Today? Is Machlokes an Inevitable Part of Golus? Am I Too Sensitive? Having Children at an Advanced Age; Can a Person Control His Ratzon or Does It Control Him?
Laws and Customs: The Nine Days
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the Nine Days for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Weekly Story: Now It Counts Big Time
The king replied, “Being that you don’t want to choose, I will choose for you,” and he instructed a servant to fill up a bag with precious gems. The man gratefully accepted it and then was escorted home.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe saying Lchaim at a Farbrengen, circa 1977.
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