Weekly JLI Video: The Gift of Giving
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Terumah is titled: The Gift of Giving.
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Here’s My Story: The Rice Diet
Beginning at 19 years old, when he was the youngest synagogue minister to ever serve in the United Kingdom, Rabbi Dov Lent held various rabbinical and teaching positions for twenty years. In 1987, with the Rebbe’s blessing, he opened a dairy company, which is still running today. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in March of 2015.
From Days Gone By: Kfar Chabad, 1950s
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present this photo taken in Kfar Chabad, circa mid 1950s. Can you identify those in the photo, or where it was taken?
Video: Leaving Our Comfort Zone
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Terumah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why is it important to go out of our comfort zone?
8:00pm: What Defines Normalcy?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 152, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines Normalcy? What Can Be Learned from the Unusually Warm Weather This February? Was Moshe Rabbeinu Focused More on His Community Than on His Family? Is Tanya Directed More to Men Than to Women?
Weekly Living Torah Video: The King’s Choice
In this week’s Living Torah program, JEM presents a clip with a recording of when both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic chief rabbis of Israel visited the Rebbe in 1986. During a fascinating conversation, the Rebbe brings up the topic of free choice and its application to those in power.
Reb Binyomin Klein in his early days as the Rebbe's secretary, circa mid 1960s.
Weekly Story: If the Rebbe Said So, It Is So
While Reb Simcha was walking, he suddenly turned around and went back into Rabbi Klein’s office. “Reb Binyomin, if you had not submitted the letter to the Rebbe, can I have it back. I have to write something else,” he said.
Weekly Thought: Fulfilling the Mitzvah of Azov Ta’azov
Does one’s donkey need to actually collapse for me to become obligated to assist? What’s the application of this Mitzva on a day to day basis? Does one need to suffer an mishap for me to become obligated to assist? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Mishpatim.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during the recital of a Maamar, circa early 1960s.
Weekly JLI Video: A Fiery Coin
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Mishpatim-Shekalim is titled: A Fiery Coin.
Video: Why Is Happiness Important?
This Shabbos we bless and welcome the month of Adar, during which we must increase in happiness. Why is happiness important? Find out in this fascinating and inspiring Shiur by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
Here’s My Story: A Lantern in a Quaqmire
Rabbi Betzalel Kinn was a teacher from the mid-1950s until 1977. He also ran a Chabad center in Thanet, England, from 1964 until 1974. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Manchester, England, in March of 2015.
The interior of the Eldridge Street Synagogue
Life Sketches: Tefillin in the Eldridge St. Shul
Lubavitch.com features stories about day-to-day Shlichus from Chabad emissaries around the world in a series titled Life Sketches. In this story, Rabbi Yossie Denburg, Shliach to Coral Springs, Florida, relates the story of an encounter he experienced at the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Chassidus Applied: How to Write a Winning Essay
Mrs. Nechama Dina Hendel is a young Shlucha and mother of six living in Jerusalem Israel. She is a teacher at Mayanot Seminary, as well as co-director of Chabad of Baka. Last year she wrote the winning essay of MyLife: Essay Contest and won the $10,000. With the third season of the MyLife: Essay Contest in full swing, and the deadline for submissions just one week away, she offers words of encouragement and some tips for writing a winning essay.
Video: Are Humility and Arrogance Mutually Exclusive?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Mishpatim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Humility and arrogance, are they mutually exclusive?
Video: Balanced Parenting: Love and Limits
What happens when you push away your child with your left hand and pull him close with the right hand? He turns around. Dr. David Pelcovitz, Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University, interweaves his talk at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat with stories that bring his points firmly home.
8:00pm: How Can a Serious Person Work on Simcha?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 151, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can a Serious Person Work on Simcha? Is Peer Pressure a Legitimate Motivator to Leading a Frum Life? What is Intimacy? I’m Terrified of Open Conversations with G-d! The Sheitel and its Astronomical Price!
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