Upon hearing the details of the Rebbe’s campaign to sign up every Jew for a letter in a Sefer Torah at the Chabad Air stand at JFK Airport, Harav Herschel Shachter, a renowned Posek and Rav at YU, along with his Rebbetzin, purchased for their entire family in the Unity and Children’s Sefer Torah.
Shabbos at the BESHT: Rabbi Yosef Shmukler runs the smicha program in the kolel of Chabad of Upper West Side of Manhattan. He will be giving this weeks Shiur on Living with the Parsha.
As is well known during the saga of the Seforim, the Rebbe spoke about the importance of preparing for Yud Shevat especially during the thirty days from the tenth of Teves. Among the points he mentioned, was the instruction that a test should be given following every ten days. Therefore, I am posting a story that is relevant mainly to the students of our schools.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman talks about this weeks Hayom Yom on air quality, which is true in spiritual sense as much as it is in a physical sense.
This series on Crown Heights History has been compiled by @crownheightshistory, a born and raised Crown Heightser, and shows some of the ongoing research taking place.
Living on the rough-and-tumble South Side of Chicago, it had been decades since Jakob, a child of a Holocaust survivor, had been in contact with organized Jewish community life, which is mostly concentrated in the city’s northern sections. By now in his 80s, his health had taken a turn for the worse, and it appeared that his life was coming to an end.
We were given marching orders by our Moshe, our Rebbe. He told us that 770 is Beis Rabeinu Shebibovel, and we have the obligation of expanding the shul as much as is needed in order to accommodate all those who want to come to Beis Rabeinu. But where is the logic?
