In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to the question – Why Learn Chassidus? The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
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A group of Bochurim learning in 770 have gotten together and created a program in honor of the upcoming 20th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz. The program sees to it that – somewhere in the world – Inyonei Geulah Umoshiach are being studied non-stop, 24 hours every weekday.
The students who are soon to graduate the Morristown Smicha Program, headed by Rabbi Chaim Schapiro and Rabbi Avraham Hirsh Levin, posed for a year-end group portrait today.
Yonatan and Rachel Millet (Jerusalem, Israel)
The Crown Heights-based Jewish Learning Institute has created a brand new game for Jewish families wanting to spend meaningful time together – and learn something new while they’re at it.
Shmuly and Chaya Yocheved (nee Edelman) Haskelevich (Crown Heights)
Adam (Aaron) Katz (Boston, MA) and Masha Gollub (Long Beach, CA)
The interior of the main building of 770 has been buzzing with activity over the past several days, as it undergoes its first serious facelift since 1978.
Leibel and Rena (nee Friedman) Berktin (Morristown, NJ)
Beri Weber, a rising star in the world of Jewish music, has just released this instrument-free hit single for the final days of Sefira, titled: Chabatzkapella! The song is a modern twist on the Niggun Talmidei HaTzemach Tzedek, popularly known today as the “Chabadsker Niggun,” with an accompanying video of Beri “behaving like a Lubavitcher.”
Yaakov Nechamia Brum (Flatbush, NY) and Chaya Mushka Volkov (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 8:30pm.
Shloimy and Miriam (nee Siegler) Lederman (Hollywood, FL)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chaya Bashe Shuchat, OBM, wife of Reb Kalman Shuchat, OBM, a Crown Heights resident for many years. She was 76 years old.
Jesse (Yehuda Leib) Kaufman (Jacksonville, FL/CH) and Chani Witkes (Crown Heights)
In terms of Jewish life, Florida is hotter than ever. And that applies to the student situation as well.
The following op-ed was written by a Lubavitcher mother, who shares her thoughts after a frustrating experience signing up her young child for his first year of school.
Rabbi Berel Shemtov, head Shliach of Michigan, won a small victory in a state appeals court last Thursday, when the judges overturned a lower court’s dismissal of his lawsuit against the Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, led by Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg. The lawsuit has been reinstated and can now go forward.
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