Weekly JLI Video: The Paradigm of the Righteous
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Vayechi is titled: The Paradigm of the Righteous.
Video: How to Live a Great Life Despite Obstacles
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayechi. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one live a great life despite all obstacles?
8:00pm: What Connection Is There Between Asara B’Teves and Hei Teves?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 145, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Connection Is There Between Asara B’Teves and Hei Teves? Does Loving Every Jew Unconditionally Create a Laxity of Standards? How Can a Materialistic Person Change?
Weekly Story: Behind the Judge’s Decision
When the trial had concluded, the judge asked his clerk: “What do you think about the case?” The clerk replied, “It is a simple case of inheritance.” The judge looked at him and said, “You missed the entire point.”
Laws and Customs: Asara B’Teves
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Asara B’Teves for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Weekly Living Torah Sneak Peek
On this week’s Living Torah, a fascinating story from Rabbi Avraham Shalem, OBM, Rabbi of the Sephardic community in Mexico City, Mexico, is told.
Weekly Thought: Yehudah Goes Ahead. Why?
Why did Yaakov pick Yehudah to go ahead of him to Egypt? Are there still any “Yehudahs” who are sent ahead, these days? Who is suitable to be a “Yehudah” in our times? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Vayigash.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe opening his siddur to recite a bracha achrona after a farbrengen, circa mid-1970s.
The Sadigura Rebbe completes a Torah in Kfar Chabad.
Here’s My Story: Fighting for Israel
Mr. Gedalya Schreiber has served as the director general of the Religious Affairs Ministry and the director general of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Jerusalem, in July of 2011.
Video: The Secret to the Jewish People’s Kindness
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayigash. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why are Jews unconditionally kind?
Weekly JLI Video: When to Cry
Each week JLI releases a unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Vayigash is titled: When to Cry.
Video: Tour the Rebbe’s Library
In honor of Hey Teves, Join Rabbi Levi Kaplan for a tour of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s library, which includes a large number of Ph.D. theses sent to the Rebbe for his blessing and advice by people from all backgrounds and walks of life.
No Touring in London, and Other Stories
In honor of the Yahrtzeit yesterday of Rabbi Yosef Menachem Mendel Tenenbaum, longtime principal at United Lubavitcher Yeshivah, we present you with several stories he experienced with the Rebbe, compiled and written by Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski of Lubavitch Archives.
8:00pm: What Should We Make of the Recent UN Resolution?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 144, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Should We Make of the Recent UN Resolution? Lessons from Hei Teves – 30 Years; Is G-d Fearing the Sole Criteria for a Spouse? Why Are Chassidim Called Chassidim? What Can I Do About my Fear of Traveling to Israel? How Can a Closed Person Open Up More?
Living Torah Sneak Peek
In this week’s Living Torah, a fascinating story unfolds when acclaimed Israeli artist Baruch Nachshon visits the Rebbe.
Weekly Thought: Dream Higher
Do dreams really mean much in Judaisim? Is there any truth to one’s dreams? Could / should one be allowed to “dream about the future”? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Mikeitz.
Weekly Story: A Tale of Two Men
The chossid once again traveled to another city, but this time he was in for a surprise. The chossid whom the Rebbe sent him to, was an ordinary person, not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. How can this person help me, he thought?
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