New Engagement!
Levi Mockin (Montreal, Canada) and Rochel Leah (bas Schneur) Minsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Mendy Jaffe (Saint Paul, MN) and Gili Antian (Brooklyn, NY)
Baby Boy!
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya (nee Bogart) Elisha (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Yosef Katsev (Morristown, NJ) and Leah Karasik (Crown Heights)
8:00pm: Do We Need to Be Politically Correct?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 140, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do We Need to Be Politically Correct and Avoid Controversial Issues? Should We Take Dreams Seriously? What Defines a Mashpia? How Can We Disagree Civilly? Why is Prayer the Primary Service in Our Times? How Are Today’s Religious Hostilities Preparing Us for Moshiach?
Tonight: Begin Saying ‘Tal Umotor’
In Maariv tonight, the 5th of Kislev, we begin saying Vesein Tal Umotor Livrocho in Shmoneh Esrei. A guide including some of the Halochos regarding this change, and if one had forgotten to make it, was compiled by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia.
Baby Boy!
Shmaya and Chani (nee Rabkin) Futerfas (Crown Heights)
Robber Who Shot Victims Sentenced to Life
A brutal Crown Heights mugger who robbed and shot at one Jewish man, shot a teenaged girl three times at pointblank range when she said she didn’t have any money, and attempted to rob a third woman – all in the vicinity of Kingston Avenue and Maple Street in February of 2015 – was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison for the crimes.
New Engagement!
Yonah Elimelech Zilberstrom (Jerusalem, Israel) and Esther Malka Katan (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Beis Din Ruling: Manhattan Menorah Is World’s Largest
A years-long dispute between two Chabad organizations over whose public Menorah claims the distinction as the world’s largest has ended up in front of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch, which issued a definitive ruling yesterday.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Becoming a Man
This week’s Living Torah program begins with a Sicha about a question that the Previous Rebbe asked by his own Bar-Mitzvah. And ending with a touching story about the Rebbe’s lesson to a young Bar-Mitzvah boy, the program is themed all around Bar-Mitzvahs. In this clip, a beautiful collage showing boys of Bar Mitzvah age visiting the Rebbe before their special day.
Video: Dramatic Rescue in Kfar Chabad Flooding
Police and firefighters rushed to Kfar Chabad this morning after cars were trapped on roads subject to massive floods. In a dramatic scene caught on video, 8 persons were extricated from the flooding, four of them children.
Weekly Thought: A Blessing Through Lies?
When we reflect on the story of and the way Yaakov received the blessings from his father Yitzchok, the unsettling question and big elephant in the room is, how did Yaakov receive the blessings by lying? It almost seems that the Torah is directing us that there are times in which it is ok to lie, and that there are circumstances’ in which one is even encouraged to be (what seems to be) a little dishonest. What lessons can we learn from this in our day to day life? What messages is there in us to help enhance our connection to Hashem and our Avodah as Chassidim? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Toldos.
Shabbos at the Besht: Rosh Chodesh Kislev – 40 Years
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic: Rosh Chodesh Kislev – 40 Years, What does it mean for us today?
Music Video: Jerusalem Forgotten
By the rivers of Malibu; there we sat (and) also wept; when we remembered Zion. Not the exact quote of King David, but the perfect modern-day premise for this music film, produced by filmmaker and comedian Mendy Pellin.
Weekly Story: A Day to Recall, a Day to Remember
The fourth Hakafah began. As before, the Rebbe turned around to look at the Sifrei Torah and those carrying them. The singing began, and the Rebbe swung his arms in rhythm to the melody. Suddenly, the Rebbe stopped. His face became a sickly white. A moment later, he turned from his shtender to Rabbi Groner and asked that his chair be brought to him.
