At the height of communist repression in Zhytomyr, one courageous grandmother circumcised her grandson Felix in secret while his parents were at work. This week in Tomsk, Siberia, the son of that same child— Yevgeny —entered the covenant of Abraham and received the Jewish name “Chaim”.
In the 10th episode of Conversations In Chassidus, Rabbi Manis Friedman shares how Tanya’s core idea answers life’s many questions, how Chassidus is different from therapy, and many more fascinating points.
This year’s deployment reached roughly 250 locations across six continents, from Kathmandu, which hosts the world’s largest Seder, to Pacific islands where a public Seder may be the only Jewish gathering for hundreds of miles.
