“Two Chabad of the Valley Rabbis are sitting next to each other at a wedding when one turns to the other and says…” No, that’s not the beginning of a joke, but of a true story that, in some ways, captures the reality of Chabad of the Valley’s coming of age and entering into a new era of growth and expansion.
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In the early years of the Rebbe’s Nesius, one of the conditions that the Rebbe gave in order for him to be mesader kiddushin was that the chosson begin letting his beard grow and refrain from shaving or trimming it. However, this could only encourage a bochur to grow his beard, how about one that was already married? And we see from the following story that the Rebbe placed emphasis on that group as well.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Shiva Asar B’Tammuz marks the beginning of the Three Weeks. But this day bore tragedy for Jews even before Yerushalayim’s walls were breached. In fact, there are famously five tragic events which befell the Jewish people on this day. It’s strange then, that so much emphasis is placed on the walls.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel is a popular teacher of Jewish philosophy, mysticism and Chassidism. He currently teaches at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Chovevei Torah, Machon Chana Women’s Institute for the Study of Judaism, and at the Beis Midrash L’Nashim in Brooklyn, NY, will lead a discussion on the topic of Yud-Beis Tammuz in Modern Times and it’s relevance to every one of us.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present photos of The Rebbe during the Machne Yisroel Development Fund yechidus.
