A moving song – Using the Hachona Niggun – heard to the backdrop of pictures of young Avrohom Dovid who was taken from us before his ninth birthday. Prepared for his Bar Mitzvah, with a Prayer that he join us once again.
New York City councilman James E. Davis, may he rest in peace, founded the non-profit organization, Love Yourself, Stop the Violence, dedicated to halting inner city gun crime and drug abuse. His brother, Geoffrey Davis, retells the original inspiration behind his brother’s life work.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Schochet will lead a discussion on the topic the Kabbalah of Economics.
Chazzan Yitzchak Meir Helfgot along with violinist Itzhak Perlman headlined a historic concert in the Cushman Wakefield Theater at the new Brooklyn Barclays Stadium with thousands in attendance.
Earlier this week a group of 8 or 9 thugs vandalized two of Beis Rivkas school buses, and were captured on surveillance video celebrating. Yesterday an alert Shomrim volunteer spotted them vandalizing cars and with the help of the police they were apprehended. Turns out they are all around 13 years old.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Ki Tisa and Purim, titled ‘Second is a Charm’.
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo of the Rebbe encouraging the singing before Mincha.
Ki Tisa: The afternoon of the day that the Torah was given, Moshe ascended Mount Sinai for forty days of solitude. He spent his time studying the newly received code with its Divine author. Waiting impatiently at the foot of the mountain was the Jewish nation, who mistakenly anticipated Moshe’s arrival on the thirty ninth day.
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