This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tuvia Bolton, A popular teacher, musician and storyteller, he is the Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva Ohr Tmimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel, will lead a discussion titled “Viktor Frankl And The Future Redemption: A talk on the human soul.”
by Mr. Elliot Lasky Click here for a PDF version of this edition of Here’s My Story, or visit the My Encounter Blog. Several months after I returned from a concert tour with the Rolling Stones, I met the Rebbe and — […]
Inclement weather lead to a portion of a facade coming off a house on President Street.
Binyomin and Chavie (nee Eckhaus) Adelman (Crown Heights)
Meir and Chaviva New (Crown Heights)
Sruly and Rishi Cohen (Crown Heights)
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.
