This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 122, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: When Is/Isn’t Humor Appropriate? Can Non-Jews Study Torah? Should I Always Trust My Mashpia’s Advice?
In 1952, at the suggestion of his uncle Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Isaac Hodakov, chief aide of the Rebbe, 17-year-old Immanuel Schochet traveled from Toronto to the Lubavitch school in Brooklyn, New York. Initially, while attending the school, located in Crown Heights, close to Lubavitch World Headquarters, known as “770”, he found Chassidic life foreign. Although he enjoyed the gatherings presided by the Rebbe, he had little understanding of a Rebbe’s role and felt out of place whenever the crowd sang melodies for lengthy periods. In addition, he found the study of Chassidic texts bewildering.
Thousands spent Shabbos Gimmel Tammuz at the Ohel, davening and farbrenging throughout, while after Shabbos thousands more continued making their way to daven at the Rebbes Ohel.
A suspect was wounded after being shot by police officers in Crown Heights early Sunday morning. Police were responding to calls for shots fired and upon arriving on scene observed a man with a gun in his hand.
In 1974, Nicaragua, under the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, was trying to recover from a devastating earthquake. Sensing a business opportunity, Massachusetts lawyer Jeffrey Kimball approached Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United States, Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa (Debayle’s brother-in-law), offering the country his assistance.
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, Bais Rivkah Day Camp joined together for a Hakhel concert with Jewish children’s entertainer Rabbi Chaim Fogelman, after which each camper took upon herself a good resolution and wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Braving the sweltering summer heat, ten of thousands of people from all walks of life made their way to the Ohel of the Rebbe in Queens, NY to mark Gimmel Tammuz.
In a candid, no holds barred Farbrengen, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Dean of the Meaningful Life Center, directly tackled the meaning of Gimmel Tammuz and what the Rebbe wants us to do today. He spoke before a packed room of Anash community members of Toronto, Canada.
Reb Aizik Homiler passed by the army base and noticed an officer standing guard outside, braving the biting frost, making sure no unauthorized person enters without permission, until his feet had become frostbitten.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yitzchok Wineberg, head Shliach to British Colombia and Executive director of Chabad in Vancouver, will lead a discussion on the topic: Gimbal Tammuz – Hidden and Revealed.
Shabbos will mark twenty two years since the passing of our dear Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. For the benefit of our readers, we have put together Minhogei Yom Hilulah and Mishnayos in the Extended Article.
In honor of the forthcoming gimmel Tammuz on Shabbos, Lubavitch Archives presents to you a correspondence between the Rebbe and George HW Bush, in 1989.
For many, the anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing elicits mixed emotions. In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, JEM presents an excerpt of a Sicha in which the Rebbe teaches that the way to mark a Rebbe’s passing. Namely, this is in the spirit which the Rebbe served God during his lifetime.
As the sun set Thursday night lines to get into the Ohel began lengthening as thousands of men, women and children began making their way to the Ohel to mark Gimmel Tammuz.
This week we present a letter from the Rebbe about what caused our current exile, and what is the only way it can be ended. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
After a full day of fun and learning, the campers of Gan Yisroel-NY gathered in the shul for a very exciting night activity.
Mendy Cohen (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Zippel (Salt Lake City, UT)
