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 – Kabbalah Of Self Sacrifice

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL

A presumptuous group of people decided that there was no longer a need for G-d’s involvement with planet earth. They proceeded to appoint a representative whose mission it was to ask G-d to kindly turn over the reins and step aside.

After thanking G-d for having created this marvelous world, the representative proceeded to petition the Almighty that He honor the will of the people and consider retirement.

G-d was surprisingly amicable; but for one stipulation. G-d would need to be assured of man’s ability to run things for himself. By way of assurance, the spokesman offered to match G-d in whatever He should decide to do.

Upon accepting the proposition, G-d said that he would begin by creating a human being. The man indicated that he was prepared do the same. G-d took some dirt and started to form a man. Confidently, the man grabbed a handful of dirt and started to do the same. “One minute!” cried G-d. “You can’t do that; you’re using my sand! How about you begin by making your own!

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A Unique Online Photo Contest

Yaldei hashluchim around the world are preparing a unique gift in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday on Yud Aleph Nissan.

MyShliach’s Online Photo Contest will draw together hundreds of pictures of children doing the Rebbe’s shlichus all around the world.

Why did they have to Daven in the Hallways?

A reader sent in the following pictures from 770, they were taken at 11:00pm last night, Wednesday, when he went to Daven Maariv. He said he was quite surprised when he saw everyone Davening in the hallways, and even more surprised when he found out why.

Released Time Distributes 900 pounds of Matzos

BROOKLYN — Wednesday, Jewish public school students were given a taste of the upcoming Passover holiday. This was accomplished by learning hands-on the ins and outs of the holiday with their devoted instructors and by each child receiving a pound of hand baked Shmurah Matzos enough for his or her family.

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Gimmel)

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]

Boston Teens See Jewish Communal Life Up Close

Members of Chabad of the North Shore’s Jew Crew travelled from their native Boston to spend a weekend in the Jewish community in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Crown Heights.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Ask some typical suburban teenagers how they spent their weekend, and you’ll likely get a range of answers along the lines of shopping at the mall, hanging out at the beach, or maybe catching a movie.

Chabad Youth Zone Ends Winter with Snow-Tubing and Teddy Bears

GOSHEN, NY — Chabad’s Kids In Action Youth Zone recently had a fabulous afternoon snow tubing and sipping hot cocoa at Tuxedo Ridge. Afterward the twenty-five youngsters decorated teddy bears for children in local hospitals.

Toronto Wins in Sydney

SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — A week ago, a Project called ‘Shluchie Adoneinu’ was launched in Cheder Chabad Sydney by Mendy Bryski. The entire school was split into small groups; each group of students had to research a different country’s Shluchim.

Obituary: Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, Trained Under Communism Dedicated Himself to Community

By Dovid Zaklikowski
Rabbi Lipa Schapiro and his young family spent six years as resettled refugees in Paris, although they originally planned to stay in the French capital for only six weeks.

Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, a senior member of the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical committee who mastered the study of Jewish law at the height of Soviet religious persecutions, passed away March 14 at the age of 97.

Suspect Sought in Graffiti Incidents

CALGARY [CTV] — A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for an 18-year-old man wanted in connection to anti Semitic graffiti incidents in Calgary.

The identity of the man cannot be revealed because he was 17-years-old at the time the crimes were committed.

A Moving Letter From an IDF Widow

Yom Kippur, 1973. Israel was suddenly attacked in the most devastating way. In the dramatic battle with Egyptian forces, many lives were lost. Following the war the Rebbe sent letters of encouragement to the wounded and to the families of the departed. A young mother whose husband perished in the war wrote to the Rebbe, asking: How can she explain this tragedy to her children? What words of comfort can she give them?

The Avner Institute would like to present this moving letter, courtesy of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin, chief librarian of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of Brooklyn. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org