A Frailichen Simchas Torah!

Painting by R. Zalman Klienman A”H

From the staff here at CrownHeights.info we would like to wish you all A Frailichen Simchas Torah and Gut Yom Tov. Met we merit to dance to the coming of Moshiach speedily in our day!

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The Last Night of Simchas Beis Hashueva

For the last night of the Simchas Beis Hashueva the crowd was entertained by Yossi Cohen along R. Yaakov Young and R. Meir Rivkin who had everyone dancing up until the very end.

At 1:30am the band wraped it all up the together the crowd made their way singing and dancing up Kingston to 770.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Sukkot in Lubavitch Crown Heights: A Time for Dancing and Singing

By Sharon Udasin – Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Sparkling confetti and children’s plastic glow-toys dazzled the air on Kingston Avenue Sunday night as black-clad men danced in jumbled circles till 6:30 a.m., during their weeklong celebrations that follow the Jewish holiday Sukkot.

Parshas Vezos Haberachah and Simchas Torah

The essence of Torah is not logic and understanding, it is higher then that, it is Hashem’s essence! Therefore even the words of Torah being said by a young child connects to the same level which the greatest Talmudic scholar connects to. And this is why we dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah with its mantle on and do not learn it- because the essence of Torah is above all reason and comprehension, the essence of Torah is Hashem’s essence!

The Rebbe says:

1. The Torah portion which we read on the day of Simchas Torah is Parshas Vezos Haberachah, the very last portion in the Torah.

2. The Rebbe now says that there must be a connection between Simchas Torah and the Parshah of Vezos Haberachah:

Sukkos Mivtzoim – 8th Grade Lubavitcher Yeshivah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The Chayolei Beis Dovid of the Lubavitcher Yeshivah (Crown Heights) 8th grade put together its very own Sukkah Mobile for Mivtzoim.

Each day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos a group of eighth graders armed with Lulav and Esrog went to shake up the whole New York, one Lulav shake at a time. In all, hundreds bentched Lulav, ate in the Sukkah and learnt more about yiddishkeit.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Picture of the Day! – Davening in the 1970’s!

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The Rebbe Entering Davening in the late 1970’s. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum.

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Satmar and Lubavitch at Special Sukkos Farbrengen

MONROE, NY [CHI] — A spirited and special Simcahs Beis Hashoeivah Farbengen took place in Monroe, NY at the Sukkah of Dr. Zev & Sima Chana Zelenko, on Chai Tishrei. Many Satmar Chasidim and locals from the Chabad community, including the Shliach to the area, Rabbi Pesach Burston, united together at this occasion.

More pictures and a video clip in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Sima Chana Zelenko and Yossi Greenfeld)