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Baby Girl!
Ahron and Chaya Blasberg (Aruba)
Baby Boy!
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe encouraging singing during a Farbrengen in the 1960’s.
Shabbos at the Besht: Pursuing your G-dly Purpose
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch DuBrow, a Life Coach and Life Skills Educator, will lead a discussion on the topic of Pursuing your G-dly Purpose: Discovering your mission in life and how to fulfill it.
Weekly Letter: Reconciling Freedom of Choice
Entering the month of Elul and in preparation for Rosh Hashanah – when we are inscribed for a good and sweet year – we present a letter in which the Rebbe answers the question: How can Kesivo va’chasimo tova be reconciled with the idea of freedom of choice and action – as this inscription implies predestination? The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Seminary ‘Un-accepts’ Student Just Weeks before Schools Start
With just two weeks to the beginning of the academic year, a Seminary in Israel rescinded its acceptance of a young girl in a jarring email and based on vague accusations against her from “more than one very reliable source.”
Parasha: What is the Secret to our Business Success?
How much one yearns to achieve riches, to possess valuables and plenty resources of wealth! But along with this strong goal, one needs to invest the mind and intelligence, much time and fortune into the business. Yet, unfortunately there is a very big chance that despite all investments, everything might go down the drain.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Dvorah Leah (nee Schneerson) Jacobson (Crown Heights)
Video: Positivity Bias – Senior Treasures
JLI presents its newest video in the new two-minute video series, Positivity Bias. Titled: Senior Treasures, When they urged the Rebbe to retire.
Here’s My Story: Why Miracles Happen
As a young man growing up in Ukraine during the 1920s, I got to know the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, whom I came to revere. When the war broke out and I was drafted into the Russian Army, he assured me that I would survive and return safe and sound, which I did. In 1942, I was in the terrible Battle of Stalingrad, where I saw thousands of soldiers dying around me, but time and again, I survived due to incidents I can only describe as miracles.
Video: Does G-d want us to Eat Meat?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Re’eh. This week he answers the question: Does G-d want us to Eat Meat? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Brocha (nee Serebryanski) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
Shmueli Ungar Releases “Mach A Bracha” Music Video
It’s to get blessed! Shmueli Ungar’s “Mach A Bracha” is now a major music video production. A video celebrates the story of making a bracha. Every day, from when we wake up, till we go to bed, we have the opportunity to make blessings.
Laws and Customs: Elul
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Picture of the Day: Inner Perspectives at Almaty
Inner Perspectives, the first work in English on the teachings of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, is placed on his resting place in Almaty, Kazahkstan.
