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8:00pm: How Do We Determine the Validity of a Torah Teacher?

This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 200, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chassidus Applied to Chof Beis Shevat: 30th Yahrzeit of the Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka; How Do We Determine the Validity of a Torah Teacher? Why Did G-d Create the World for His Pleasure at Our Expense? How Can We Get Men to Be More Refined? Why Don’t We Daven the Way Chassidus Expects of Us? Does the Inanimate World “Feel” Things?

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Menachem Farkash (Issaquah, WA) to Maya Rozenson (Jerusalem, EY) L’Chaim: Sunday, Sept. 14th, 8:00pm at The JCM Downstairs
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Yosef Aharon Karpilovsky (Toronto, CA) to Chayale Silberstein (London, UK)
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Zevi Granat (Edgware, UK) to Sophie Dubin (Baltimore, MD)
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Mordechai Lubecki (Paris, France) to Iscah Sarah Andrea (Jalisco, Mexico)
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Yariv and Malkie (nee Kershner) Sharabi from Parkland, FL had a baby girl!
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Ari and Chava (nee Notik) Rendler from Riverwoods, IL on the birth of a baby girl.
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Eli Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) to Risa Drizin (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at The Arches
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Levi Its’hak Ben Soussan (Courbevoie, France) to Sterna Sarah Gagueche (Brunoy, France)
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Shea Shmotkin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Jacobs (London, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 585 Albany Ave
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Ariel Benchimoun (Levallois, France) to Rivka Bouzna (Sarcelles, France)
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Moshe Leib and Chaya Mushka (nee Friedman) Yaras from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
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Yossi Futerfas (Crown Heights) to Mussy Goldstein (Crown Heights)
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Mendel Shemtov (Crown Heights) to Mushka Palace (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at 1345 President Street
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Moshe Maiman (Mequon, WI) to Hinda Teich (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The Garden House 1386 S. Johns Pl
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Sholem Ber and Deena Wolberg from Glencoe, IL had a baby girl.
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Menachem Rubenfeld (S. Diego, CA) to Chani Geisinsky (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
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Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Since this upcoming Wednesday is Chof-Beis (the 22nd) of Shevat, the Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, I chose to relate the following vignette/snippet of her life, with the hope that we will learn from it. As the Rebbe continuously said after her petirah, Vihachai yieten el libo - and the living shall take to heart.

Something Jewish: Describe A Person Properly

Since this upcoming Wednesday is Chof-Beis (the 22nd) of Shevat, the Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, I chose to relate the following vignette/snippet of her life, with the hope that we will learn from it. As the Rebbe continuously said after her petirah, Vihachai yieten el libo – and the living shall take to heart.

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Contentious “FISA Abuse” Memo Released

President Donald Trump ordered the release of a controversial memo, compiled by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. The memo details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in targeting a U.S. citizen and volunteer for the Trump presidential campaign, based on information contain in the infamous and widely debunked dossier. Full Memo in the extended article.

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Weekly Letter: Matan Torah and Other Religions

In this weeks letter the Rebbe shares some interesting insights into the question of the validity of the Revelation at Sinai, and as it relates to other religions. As well as the doing of mitzvos (na’asse) before the study (nishma) which then, significantly, brings to new insights and better understanding of the Torah and mitzovs. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.

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