Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’eschanan. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the key to the success of the Jewish People?
Yossi and Chaya (nee Hirsch) Lebovic (Crown Heights)
After Shabbos, with the onset of the fast of Tisha B’av, the campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-Montreal gathered in the Shul to recite Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh.
Lieba Rudolph, a well-known writer and longtime member of the Chabad community in Pittsburgh, wrote the following inspiring story of Hashgacha Protis on her personal blog, Pondering Jew, describing a chance encounter she had with a relative of hers, celebrity actress Maya Rudolph, at a car wash in Los Angeles.
25 years after a famous encounter between the Rebbe and a ‘lost’ Jew who declared himself a missionary at Sunday dollars, this same Jew was ‘found’ by Lubavitcher Bochurim in Yeshiva Kayitz in Lugano, Switzerland.
Shalom and Devorah (nee Kashanian) Huber (Crown Heights)
Rachael Eisenson is eager to go back to school. The graduate school-student from Smithtown, N.Y., is just one class shy of getting her master’s degree in web and multimedia design.
The community is invited to participate in the Shloshim for Rabbi Yekutiel Rapp, OBM, which will take place Tuesday evening, July 28, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [corner Albany Ave.] from 7:30 to 9:00pm.
Chasidic recording artist Eli Marcus has released the first music video from his new album Dovid Hamelech. The video, set to the title track, takes a fresh and exciting look into a “day in the life” of the artist. Composed by legendary composer Yossi Green, the music video was directed by Chaim Hershkowitz and filmed by CJ Studios.
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, journalist Lucette Lagnado explores the growing market of modest swimwear, which caters mostly to Orthodox Jewish women.
A burglar climbed through the window of an apartment on President St. between Nostrand and Rogers Ave. on Wednesday, July 15th. Bizarrely, the criminal changed into new clothes he found in the room, and left his old change of clothes on the floor. Other than a phone charger, nothing else was stolen from the apartment.
Osher and Chayale (nee Grossbaum) Goldman (Melbourne, Australia)
After a very inspiring and lively Shabbos, the campers of CGI-Parksville headed to the shul for the reading of Eicha, which was preceded by a few words of wisdom about the meaning of Tisha B’Av from Rabbi A. Shemtov.
The sights and sounds of the night of Tisha B’av at the Western Wall, the only remnant of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after it was destroyed by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago.
At the Shipudei Beer Sheva Mediterranean style eatery, they are used to serving hummous, shwarma and falafel. These days, owner Yossi Bitton has thrown some spiritual food into the mix with a Tefillin box that he’s installed, offering patrons the chance to wrap Tefillin and say the Shema prayer.
When the flames rose to their highest, Moshiach was born. This is how the closing hours of Tisha B’Av are described. Ostensibly, the 9th of Av is the darkest day of the year. Chassidus however uncovers the soul of this day, revealing its enormous energy and how it contains the seeds to be the brightest day of the year. To better understand this powerful idea and tap into the final potent moments of Tisha B’Av, tune in this Sunday at 8-9pm EST to the live broadcast of MyLife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson. Discover how the paradox of the 9th of Av – and its aftermath – offers us the original and ultimate healing system; a 1947 year old time-tested system that teaches us how to grow through loss, build after destruction, and thrive despite any wound or trauma.
