Rav Yaakov Yosef desired to publicize the teachings of his Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov, so he wrote and published the sefer Toldos Yaakov Yosef (in the year 5540/1780). Since the entire purpose of publishing the sefer was to spread these teachings, he undertook the difficult task of personally traveling from town to town and selling it.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avrohom Eliyohu Wudowsky received his Smicha and Dayonus at Yeshivah in Morristown, the Rabbinical College of America, and from Rabbi Dovid Schochat Of Toronto, will lead a discussion on the topic of Chodosh and Yoshon: Where and when does it apply? What is the Chabad Minhag?
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe clapping to a Niggun in 770.
When the Diskin family was contemplating a move from the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to Munich in the late 1980s, there was no Chabad presence in Germany, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and they were instructed by the Rebbe’s secretary to get their parents’ permission before considering the move. Thirty years later, Rabbi Yisroel and Chana Diskin speak fluent German, provide for the many needs of the diverse Jewish community of Munich and oversee 19 Chabad centers around the country. The Diskins have also been open with the community about the personal and practical challenges they have encountered during the last 13 years with their youngest son, Zalman, a young man with autism and hearing impairments.
When a woman wrote to the Rebbe about critics of the Lubavitch, he responded with what we should answer those critics – of sacrificing one’s own Torah learning and advancement to help bring another Jew closer to Yiddishkeit. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
This Sunday, Devorah Bejamin of KSCVK will be running a $200,000 “Say Yes” campaign to raise critical funds for the many chassanim and kallahs of Crown Heights — enabling more couples to make their weddings a reality.
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Nasso is titled: Using Everything to it’s Fullest.
In a video produced for JLI’s upcoming course titled “What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe”, world-renowned mentalist Marc Salem challenges the norms by asking “how predictable are you?”
After earning a Ph. D. in biological sciences and studying medicine at Oxford, Dr. David Weiss was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Bacteriology at the University of California in Berkley. When he took up this post in 1957, he moved with his family to the San Francisco area. While there, he befriended Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, who was the Rebbe’s emissary to California, and believes that it was Rabbi Cunin who brought him to the Rebbe’s attention.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Naso. This week he answers the question: What is the Value of Time? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Police have arrested Abraham Samotin, a 26 year old Jewish man from Crown Heights, for luring and committing a heinous assault against a 5-year-old girl – the very same day he was released from jail after an arrest for felony burglary.
James Vincent, the man who was arrested in connection with the brutal and hate-fueled attack on Menachem Moskowitz nearly a month ago, was indicted today on a litany of charges including strangulation and assault as a hate crime. He faces up to 25 years in prison.
A construction worker suffered injuries after falling into a hole at a construction site on Carroll Street.
Aaron Feinblum (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Devora Feiglin (Melbourne, Australia)
Anash in Montreal partook in a Kinus Torah on Isru Chag Shavuos, inline with the instruction from the Rebbe to hold such gatherings. Rabbi Ayeh Leib Kaplan delivered a discourse on the topic of Kiddushin.
A man was arrested after going on an anti-Semitic tirade, threatening to “kill all the Jews”, spitting and throwing rocks at Jewish women and children on Carroll Street in Crown Heights.
Operation Survival’s releases children’s safety video, “Inner Voice, Better Choice”, starring popular Jewish singer Eli Marcus, and students from local boys’ and girls’ schools.
