Baby Girl!
Tzviki and Chaya (nee Chaikin) Wolvovsky (Crown Heights)
8:00pm: Did the Rebbe Say Anything About July 4th?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 219, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can We Establish Policy Based on a Chassidishe Hergesh? Chassidus Applied to Shiva B’Asser B’Tammuz Nidche; Did the Rebbe Say Anything About July 4th? As Converts We Feel Isolated in Our Community. What Should We Do? What to Say to Parents Who Were Hurt by Their Child Telling Them That Not They, but the Rebbe Is His True Parent?
Over 400 Join in Celebrating 20 of Chabad of the Valley
“Two Chabad of the Valley Rabbis are sitting next to each other at a wedding when one turns to the other and says…” No, that’s not the beginning of a joke, but of a true story that, in some ways, captures the reality of Chabad of the Valley’s coming of age and entering into a new era of growth and expansion.
Weekly Story: I Want Him To….
In the early years of the Rebbe’s Nesius, one of the conditions that the Rebbe gave in order for him to be mesader kiddushin was that the chosson begin letting his beard grow and refrain from shaving or trimming it. However, this could only encourage a bochur to grow his beard, how about one that was already married? And we see from the following story that the Rebbe placed emphasis on that group as well.
Laws and Customs: 17 Tammuz and the 3 Weeks
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Why Such Focus on the Walls of Yerushalayim?
Shiva Asar B’Tammuz marks the beginning of the Three Weeks. But this day bore tragedy for Jews even before Yerushalayim’s walls were breached. In fact, there are famously five tragic events which befell the Jewish people on this day. It’s strange then, that so much emphasis is placed on the walls.
Shabbos at the Besht: Yud-Beis Tammuz in Modern Times
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel is a popular teacher of Jewish philosophy, mysticism and Chassidism. He currently teaches at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Chovevei Torah, Machon Chana Women’s Institute for the Study of Judaism, and at the Beis Midrash L’Nashim in Brooklyn, NY, will lead a discussion on the topic of Yud-Beis Tammuz in Modern Times and it’s relevance to every one of us.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present photos of The Rebbe during the Machne Yisroel Development Fund yechidus.
Weekly Letter: Why Jews have Remained Loyal to their Faith
As we enter the three weeks – a time of tragedies in Jewish history, we present a letter of the Rebbe in answer to a writer, whose search for the truth lead him to the Old Testament. He asks why it is that Jews have remained loyal to their faith in spite of the many persecutions and suffering. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Video: Did Adam Ever Eat an Apple?
Most people think that Adam and Eve ate an apple in the Garden of Eden, but that’s a big misconception. How did this misconception start? Rabbi Pinchas Taylor quickly explains the history.
Exciting New Edition of Tzemach Tzedek to Arrive in the U.S.
Anticipation is mounting among Chasidim and devotees of Torah scholarship, in anticipation of the arrival of the newly published, two-volume set, “Tzemach Tzedek—Shaalot u’Teshuvot Orach Chayim,” by the third Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, of blessed memory.
Here’s My Story: The Antidote to Burnout
I was born in 1947 in Hungary to parents who lost their entire families in the concentration camps. They married after the war and settled in Zomba (near Bonyhad), where my father operated a general store. However, because of problems with anti-Semites, we left there shortly following the Communist takeover, when my father was offered a position as a rabbi in Ujpest.
Instant Torah: Treasures in Dirt
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 Balak is titled: Treasures in Dirt.
New Engagement!
Yankel Sirota (Morristown, NJ) and Dina Raskin (London, England)
Baby Girl!
Levy and Bassy (nee Frankforter) Pekar (Pittsburgh, PA)
Oholei Torah Hosts Tzeischem L’sholom Event for Talmidei Ha’shluchim
As the Oholei Torah Bais Medrash year came to a close an annual Tzaischem L’Sholom and Mesibas Siyum was held for the Talmidei Hashluchim who will be going out on Shlichus in 5779. Many parents, family members and friends joined in their simcha.
Baby Boy!
Sruli and Leelee (nee Wasserman) Eidelman (Crown Heights)
