“I noticed that every few minutes one of the younger chassidim would ask one of the elders if they can take over in helping carrying the heavy barrel of water. However, each time the elderly chassidim refused to relinquish their place.”
During the month of Elul, when it is customary for Jews to check their mezuzos and tefillin, we share a letter in which the Rebbe answers a person questioning the Rebbe’s emphasis in the mezuzah campaign, in which he explains that a mezuzah is like a helmet. A powerful lesson for all, especially for educators. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
After much work, JEM has announced the release of the fully restored video of the Farbrengen of Erev Rosh Hashanah, 5741 (1980).
What is the soul? Consider your reflection in the mirror. The current image of yourself is different than your fifteen-year-old self. Which one is the REAL you? You also feel and think very differently at the moment than you did when you were fifteen or five, and will likewise feel and think differently when you are eighty or ninety. So the human being is perpetually changing—physically, emotionally, intellectually—which begs the question, “Where is the real you?” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor gives a clear and logical way of explaining the soul.
Yeshiva Torah Ohr of North Miami Beach, under the leadership of Rabbi Emmanuel Storfer, continued learning Torah Thursday morning, despite the frantic preparations for the looming Hurricane Irma all around them. Later that afternoon, the Yeshiva departed for a Shabbaton to a more central and less Hurricane prone area of Florida.
Chai Elul marks the birthday of the two “Great Luminaries” of the Chassidic Movement: the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe. Courtesy of JEM, we present a beautiful playlist of videos connected to this day.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levy Djian, Shliach in Manhattan, will lead a discussion on the topic: A New Mindset for a New Year.
As it becomes more likely that Hurricane Irma will make landfall in Florida and other southeastern states over Shabbos, the Chabad on Campus centers in those areas are mobilizing their resources to meet the needs of Jewish students on their campuses.
On the very same parcel of land where the first Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim was founded, sat hundreds of Tomchei Tmimim students who arrived from Moscow learning and davening, along with Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, Yeshiva staff and administrators * A sight to behold once in 120 years.
Yechiel and Chana Devorah (nee Perl) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
When Hurricane Irma bashed the island of St. Martin around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Rabbi Moishe and Sara Chanowitz, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of S. Maarten/S. Martin, and their five children, were hunkering down in their partially built Chabad center, located on the Dutch side of the dual-nationality […]
Mrs. Rhoda Friedland, a mother of three who grew up in Crown Heights, and currently lives in Monsey, New York, recalls the arrival of Chabad Chassidim in the 1940’s. She was interviewed at her home by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in August of 2015.
Levi and Nechama (nee Cohen) Pewsner (Beitar, Israel)
This summer saw the sixth annual expedition of FJC’s rabbinical student enthusiasts on mobile synagogues, or “Mitzvah-mobiles” as they are called, across Russia. This year Jewish trailers visited over 30 cities in the heart of Russia, among them Tula, Lipetsk, Kursk, Orel, Briansk, Smolensk and many more.
The CTeen club at Chabad of the East Valley, Arizona, kicked off a new year of events by sending a meaningful message to the Jewish community.
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