As is known, beginning from Simchas Torah 5716 and continuing through Simchas Torah 5724, the Rebbe taught ten nigunnim. (On Simchas Torah 5724, the Rebbe taught two niggunim). What is less known is that four other niggunim were taught by the Rebbe at various times throughout the year. This week’s story is about the niggun Asader L’seudasa, which the Rebbe taught on Shabbos Parshas Balak 5717.
The events that I am about to relate took place in 1958, when I was just twenty-four years old. I was enrolled in rabbinic studies at Yeshiva University, whose Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik strongly encouraged his students to serve in the armed forces. He felt that the United States had been very good to the Jewish people, and that we had an obligation to do our part in serving the country.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe distributing dollars in 770.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Bentzion Elisha, an award winning photographer and author of the book, “18 Frames of Being,” a compilation of short stories, will lead a discussion titled “Personal Redemption Via Soul Stories” A retelling and analysis of several Chasidic stories, to hold unto, as we foray into the new year.
Yossi and Becky (nee Labovitch) Miller (Spring Valley, NY)
Yossi Moshel (Melbourne, Australia) and Shterna Raskin (Bentleigh, Australia)
Itche (Yisroel Yitzchak) and Nechomie (nee Paris) Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
When newly ordained Rabbi Mendel Sasonkin moved to northeastern Ohio in 1989, he knew just a smattering of English. But with a broad smile and an open heart, he was ready and willing to serve the Jewish communities in Canton and Akron, cities south of Cleveland.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Parasha of Bereishis. This week he answers the question: What is the Best Way to go to Israel? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Among the thousands of guests that celebrated the high holidays in Crown Heights, many participated in the learning programs organized by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim. With the conclusion of this uplifting month, many took part in tests on the material they learned.
The Heber Family will be completing a new Sefer Torah in honor of the first yartzeit of Mrs. Rochel Heber, Rochel Leah bas R’ Yisroel Shimon.
Yossi and Leah Cohen (West Henrietta, NY)
Two Lubavitchers were violently assaulted on Monday night, Smichas Torah, as they were making their way back to Crown Heights following Tahalucha. by CrownHeights.info A group of Lubavitchers walking back to Crown Heights on Simchas Torah eve were accosted by […]
A burglar was apprehended by police Emergency Services after a Jewish woman observed him breaking into an apartment through a fire escape.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Mendy Sasonkin OBM, Shliach in Akron, Ohio, on Simchas Torah morning. He was 54 years old.
24-year-old Eliyahu Moscowitz was shot and killed on Monday, Shmini Atzeres at night, as he was walking in the Rogers Park section of Chicago.
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