In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he deals with the question of whether one should keep two days of Yomtov while in Eretz Yisroel if one resides in Chutz L’Aretz and owns a home or property in Eretz Yisroel. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe – during a children’s rally in the early 1970’s.
It is forbidden on a holiday to do any act in preparation for the following day, even if the following day is Shabbat. However, the sages created a halachic device, called an eruv tavshilin, which allows one to cook food on a holiday day for use on a Shabbat that immediately follows it.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sefiras Ha’omer for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community. Plus: Laws and customs of Eruv Tavshilin.
Mr. Lukas Van Der Walde currently lives in Spokane Washington, where he was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in June of 2014.
Nine people were injured in a 3-alarm fire that engulfed three buildings on St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday, Wednesday. One 14-year-old boy jumped from a window 3 stories high to escape the flames.
Crown Heights videographer Avraham Edery participated in the annual Mitzvah Tank Parade this past Yud Aleph Nissan. He brought along his video camera, and produced this short film of the event, titled “My birthday gift to the Rebbe.”
A 12-year-old Israeli girl on a Pesach trip with her family was killed Wednesday when their tour boat caught fire in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s southwestern coast. More than 100 people, including many foreign tourists, were rescued from the boat.
Police are scouring hotels, parks and reserves throughout Sydney as the search intensifies for a young Jewish mother, Jessica Bialek, who vanished from her home over 24 hours ago. Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for the sake of Chana Bas Sarah.
A 22-year-old Israeli man was beaten to death on the streets of Berlin, Germany, shortly before the onset of Pesach. The man was beaten so badly he was rendered unidentifiable by local police, save for the Israeli passport in his pocket.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday through Saturday, April 9-11 for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Over 4,000 participated in the first ever Chabad’s Passover at Marlins Park at the Miami Marlins vs. Atlanta Braves game in Miami. In an unprecedented Kiddush Hashem visitors enjoyed Kosher L’Pesach food and drink, a concert by The Maccabeats and on field ceremonies including the first pitch thrown by Shliach Rabbi Yakov Fellig of Chabad of the Grove.
Following the instruction of The Rebbe, members of the Chabad community in Montreal took part in Kinusei Torah which are taking place on every day of Chol Hamoed
A second victim has passed away as result of injuries he sustained at the Levaya of Rav Shmuel Halevy Wosner, OBM on Motzai Shabbos in Bnei Brak. The victim was identified as 18-year-old Yitzhak Sama’at OBM.
Marking Chai Nissan, the birthday of R. Levi Yitzchok the Rebbes father, a children’s rally was held in downstairs 770.
Chabad centers hosted more than 40,000 guests at Pesach seders in hundreds of cities around the globe. In North America alone, community seders took place in more than 1,000 locations; across Russia, there were nearly 500 seders in more than 200 communities; and seders were held on dozens campuses worldwide.
Six years ago, Rabbi Moshe Greenwald decided to open a synagogue and Jewish community center at 7th and Broadway, in the heart of a rapidly changing downtown Los Angeles. The feedback wasn’t entirely uplifting.
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