Through a story, I would like to address h a question that is frequently asked: “What is the difference between Chassidus and Kabbalah? Are they similar to each other, the former being merely an explanation of the latter? And if they are distinct, which one is greater?”
After three years of providing a quality summer experience in the American Southwest, CTeen has announced a brand new program: an immersive trip through Poland and Israel.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch passed away in the Jewish year 5626 (1866). Now, 150 years later, large portions of one of his most widely learned works, Derech Mitzvotecha, have been made available online in English for the very first time.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Berel Levin, chief librarian of Aguch, will lead a discussion on the topic – Yud Tes Kislev: the Chidush of the Alter Rebbe.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe officiating at a wedding, circa 1960.
A city leader in Boca Raton, FL, received anti-Semitic verbal abuse on social media and via email after supporting plans for a new Chabad synagogue and Jewish museum, Florida’s WPTV reported.
“Webster dictionary defines the Hebrew word “mitzvah” as “a meritorious or charitable act.” Wednesday morning, Rabbi Yisroel Hahn was doing just that,” reported KHQ News of Spokane, WA.
A Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into six IDF soldiers Friday afternoon as they stood on the side of the road near the entrance of the Palestinian village of Beit Umar, which is located off of Route 60 in between Gush Etzion and the West Bank city of Hebron. Earlier on Friday, two IDF soldiers were wounded in a vehicular-ramming attack near the West Bank settlement of Kfar Adumim.
As thousands of well-wishers from around Israel and the world danced and sang outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, hundreds more inside could be seen crying bittersweet tears as they witnessed the marriage of Ariel Biegel and Sarah Techiya Litman, the young woman whose father and brother were murdered by terrorists less than two weeks ago.
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