This weeks living torah clip is from volume 34, episode 136, titled: A good Russian fire.
Also available with French, Hebrew and Russian subtitles in the Extended Article.
Westmount, Canada — She’s a Jewish U.S. naval reserve officer, she keeps kosher and Shabbat, and she has completed two tours of duty in Iraq.
In the 1940s and 50s, before the proliferation of Jewish day schools, most Jewish children went to public schools. Many of them in the New York area will recall those Wednesday afternoons when they along with their Jewish classmates, were excused from class for an hour of Jewish education and recreational activity.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Over the last two days of Yom Tov more then 5 cars had been broken into, CrownHeights.info received a few reports that there were three break-ins within our immediate neighborhood and a few further out.
One car was hit on Union St between Kingston and Albany while another was broken into on Clove Road between Malbone and Montgomery. These particular incidents the perpetrator used a flat head screwdriver to break the windows and in both incidents the contents of the glove box were emptied and rummaged through, yet nothing was taken. In one of the cars there was GPS device in the glove box and the perpetrator handled it, yet did not take it.
More in the Extended Article.
The Rebbe says:
1. The previous Torah portion (Parshas Tzav) told us about how the Jewish people inaugurated the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) for seven days. This weeks Torah portion starts off with telling us that “On the eighth day” Aaron the Kohen Gadol (the High Priest) and his sons the Kohanim (the Priests) were anointed to their positions (Leviticus, Chapter 9, Verse 1).
2. The Rebbe now asks a question which is asked by one of the commentaries called the “Kli Yakar”(Rabbi Shlomo Efraim of Luntchitz):
Question: The seven days of inaugurating the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) are one thing and the day of anointing Aaron and his sons is another, so why does the Torah call the day of their anointing the eighth day??
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