A fire, which broke out on the second night of Sukkos, forced the evacuation of an apartment building on East New York Avenue and displaced a family after an unattended candle on a porch caught fire and quickly spread.
Two young Israeli boys were riding their bikes along Manhattan’s East River Esplanade near Carl Schurz Park at 84th Street. They looked up, smiled, and called to their father in Hebrew: “Abba, look! A sukkah!” Inside, a young couple with daughters 2 and 4 years old were enjoying a late-afternoon Yom Tov snack as runners, bikers, families pushing strollers and pedestrians walking dogs enjoyed the esplanade outside. The sukkah offers an amazing view of the Triborough Bridge and Roosevelt Island.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah), including the laws of building a Sukkah and selecting the Daled Minim, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
“We were a bedraggled group,” said Fred Myers, a longtime congregant of Chabad of Wilmington, N.C. “But as the day went on, our energy grew.”
A group of Lubavitchers and mekurovim spent an uplifting Shabbos at the Tzion of the Rebbe Maharash in honor of his Yohrtzeit on the 13th of Tishrei. Rabbi Elyashiv Kaplun made Havdalah at the end of Shabbos.
Mendel Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Mushkie Loewenthal (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Yom Kippur was this past Wednesday, and this Shabbos, Yud-Gimmel Tishrei, is the 136th Yahrzeit of the Rebbe Maharash. I received the following phenomenal story of the Rebbe Maharash, from Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz who heard it from Rabbi Leibel Posner may he be well, who as a child heard it directly from Rabbi Laizer Weissman, the person who personally witnessed it. I verified the story with one of Rabbi Posner’s sons, who filled me in on some additional details.
Hundreds participated in a unique and insightful panel – hosted by Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim – on the Rebbes sichos from 1991 and 1992. It was lead by Rabbi Chaim Shaul Brook of Vaad Hanachos Blaha”k, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kaplan, Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky and Rabbi Pesach Schmerling.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe holding a Lulav and Esrog in 770.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Dr. Shimon Waronker, renowned educator and proud father of six, has transformed a failing, violent New York City public school, and opened three flourishing schools, will lead a discussion titled “Torah and parenting.”
The Rebbe’s letter this week is in answer to one asking why it is not the custom of Chabad Chassidim to decorate the Succah. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Yaakov ben Tzvi Zev Turk, brother of Rabbi Leibel Turk YBD”L. He will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights until Sunday, Erev Sukkos. He will be sitting Shiva at 580 Crown […]
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Parasha of Vayelech. This week he answers the question: How do you define faith? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
I was born in Siedlce, Poland, four years before World War Two broke out, at which time my family fled to Russia. Despite the difficulties of living on the run, my father spared no effort to educate me and my siblings in the ways of Judaism — in keeping with the education he, himself, had received at Chabad’s Tomchei Temimim yeshivah in Warsaw. After the war, we came to Israel, where I learned in the Chabad yeshivas in Tel Aviv and in Lod.
Hundreds arrived at the Marina Roscha Shul in the center of Moscow to do kapparos before Yom Kippur. The chickens were slaughtered right there by a crew of skilled Shochtim from the Moscow Shluchim, under the constant supervision of Mashgichim from the Chief Rabbinate of Russia which runs under the auspices of Rabbi Lazar.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Kapparos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
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