MONTREAL, Canada [CHI] — Earlier today, Friday at around 12:00pm, a fire broke out in the top floor of a duplex condo housing a Lubavitcher family on Carlton Avenue in Montreal.
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NEW YORK, NY [JTA] — New York City police reportedly are preparing to increase security at Jewish sites because of Israel-Iran tensions.
The Associated Press reported Friday that NYPD intelligence analysts fear attacks on synagogues and other Jewish centers should Israel take military action to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Israeli officials have said that they believe that Iran is just months away from acquiring such a weapon.
CrownHeights.info is proud to present, Sholom Brochstat’s niggun on the Rebbe’s new kapital Tehillim.
The story is told of a mystic who once said to his friend the philosopher: “You know, I think I finally figured out what lies at the heart of our disparity.
“How do you mean?” asked the philosopher.
“Well,” continued the mystic, “While I am forever thinking about myself, you are constantly thinking about G-d.”
Though not too sure about the precise meaning of the mystic’s remarks, the philosopher could not help but feel somewhat flattered by what seemed like a generous compliment. Upon further reflection, however, it dawned on him that his good friend may not have been quite that generous after all.
It occurred to him that in the mind of the mystic G-d is, no doubt, the very essence of reality. The Divine truth a given, the mystic ponders his own subjective reality: “Do I exist? What significance, if any, is there to my existence? What possible legitimacy can a finite and transitory existence have within the all-transcending, all-pervading reality of G-d?”
I was asked by Mrs Shusterman to be one of several people from the community to be a judge for the Cheder Chabad student science fair. One can only imagine my enthusiasm at the prospect of doing this Thursday night less than two weeks before Pesach, but in retroscpect that is just what I feel.
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MEMPHIS, TN — Its only ingredients are water and flour, and it is referred to in the Bible as the “Bread of Affliction.”
But for the dozens of kids who came to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life on Thursday, matzoh wasn’t a hard sell.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
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BOCA RATON, FL — Next Wednesday, 100 recovering addicts will celebrate the holiday of freedom in Boca Raton, Florida. Like Jews everywhere, they’ll raise their glasses four times in the course of the evening.
“Everyone eats Matza. But what is it? How’s it made? Why won’t it rise? Being a first grader, we don’t know all these things like big people do, so we got to experience it for ourselves with our own Matza Bakery here in Yeshivah.
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