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Mishmor Banquet in Crown Heights!

After six months of learning every Thursday night, Bochur and child studying a Sicha one on one, followed by a game. The sixth, seventh and eighth graders of Lubavitcher Yeshiva along with their Bochur Chavrusos from Chovevei Torah and Oholei Torah Zals celebrated their completion of a year of learning.

Ascent in Safed Doubles Size

by Rivka Chaya Berman – Lubavitch.com

Ascent, a center for Jewish edu-tourism in Safed, offering mystical Jewish experiences since the early 1980s, signed a mortgage on the nearby Tel Aviv Hotel in time for the Passover tourism rush. Spring break and Passover visitors to this picturesque northern city looking for a spiritual experience, who are on a budget but not willing to bunk up with strangers hostel-style, now have 40 more rooms to book.

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]