On Yom Kippur morning, New York News blog The Gothamist published several photos and videos captured by an anti-Kaporos activist that purportedly show chickens – which were slaughtered for Kaporos the night before – being tossed into a garbage truck.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah), including the laws of building a Sukkah and selecting the Daled Minim, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
“We were there, we saw with our eyes, and we trembled in awe. But what about our children in fact the entire generation who did not have the zechus to see. As my last will and testimony, I ask of you to gather the Jewish people. Everybody, man woman and child once every seven years. They should gather on Succos in the Beis Hamikdosh, and the king of the Bnei yisroel should read from the Torah, as a messenger from G-d. To everyone at the gathering it will be like Hashem himself was talking to them, instilling an awe for Hashem for the rest of their lives.”
A man who attempted to pass fake currency in a Crown Heights grocery store after midnight was apprehended by store employees and was arrested.
Bentzi Sasson is a survivor of Yeneh Machla and ahead of Yom Kippur he penned an eye opening and emotional essay on going through the holiday while battling this terrible illness, and the virtues of never judging anyone.
Avi and Chayaleh (nee Gopin) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yossy Goldman has served as an emissary of the Rebbe in South Africa since 1976, first in Johannesburg and, more recently, as the senior rabbi at the Sydenham Shul. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in Brooklyn in October of 2014.
Shaya and Chaya (nee Kirshenberg) Denburg (Coral Springs, FL)
Yitzi and Perry (nee Lefkowitz) Klein (Crown Heights)
Jews perform the traditional custom of Kaparos early in the morning on Erev Yom Kippur in Beijing, China.
Guests and residents of Crown Heights fulfilled the ancient custom of Kapores in the ‘morning watch’.
Shraga Dovid and Zeldy (nee Gurary) Homnick (Crown Heights)
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday through Friday, September 23-25, for Yom Kippur and – L’havdil – a Muslim holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Rare video from 1966 shows the Rebbe giving a special Brocha after Mincha in 770. “א חתימה און א גמר חתימה טובה לשנה טובה ומתוקה”.
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