In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to someone who had several complaints against G-d. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
About 539 years ago, Jewish printer Abraham ben Garton ben Isaac produced a version of Rashi’s commentary on the Torah using moveable type. Two pages from this rare book are now on display at the Chabad-Lubavitch Library in Crown Heights.
A fascinating story of Hashgacha Protis occurred to Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, and his family while they were visiting Moscow this week, which he shared with CrownHeights.info and our readers.
Israel literally had no choice other than to launch its invasion of Gaza on Thursday night, Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune said in an interview on CNBC’s Closing Bell less then an hour after the escalation was announced.
For Summer of 5774, Camp Emunah, AKA B’nos Yaakov Yehudah, launched a special tznius campaign called “Dressed to Greet Moshiach” in memory of a Camp Emunah alumna, Shlucha Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM.
Oholei Torah has released a list of 160 bochurim who will be going on ‘Shlichus’ to 39 Yeshivos and communities around the globe.
There is a famous adage that says: “All is fair in love and war.” Well maybe so but not for the Jew, it appears. Then again, nothing about the Jew is normal, so why should the rules of war be any different? Israel apparently, is meant to protect itself and attain security by a different set of rules than the rest of the world.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tzvi Rimler, Maggid Shiur emeritus for Yagdil Torah, will lead a discussion on the topic – Kaddish: Its true rank in sacredness, & why it got misplaced.
The Rebbe Speaks to Major General Yosef Ben Chanan, Commander of the IDF Armored Corp, on 21 Iyar, 5748 (May 8, 1988).
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at Kos Shel Brocha in the mid 1980s.
