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Tzfas Mayor Visits Chabad HQ
The Mayor of Tzfas, Mr. Ilon Shochat, visited Crown Heights on Monday and was given a guided tour of Chabad World HQ. Accompanying the Mayor was Rabbi Motti Dayan, a Lubavitcher member of the Tzfas city council, and Rabbi Mendi Kotlarsky, director of Merkos Suite 302.
Rashi’s E-mail: How to Stop Crying
About six months ago, Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz’s aunt Mrs. Shaindy Lieberman, Shlucha to Fort Lauderdale, FL, passed away at the age of 59. It happened a few days before the Yahrtzeit of Rashi’s grandmother and namesake, Mrs. Rashi Gansbourg, who also passed away at the young age of 37.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe during Megillah reading on Purim.
Shabbos at the Besht: Real Purim Torah
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Ari Chitrik will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘Real Purim Torah.’
Video: A Word on the Parsha with Rabbi Minkowicz
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tzav. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one create a real relationship with G-d?
Not Peasant Years: Kabbala Of Self-Sacrifice
Back In the day when modern travel was still a dream, people would depend on a horse drawn carriage as their means of transportation. Such travel consisted of a horse, a coachman and, of course, a passenger – often an important dignitary or nobleman. Yet each of these components had their own divergent perception of the journey.
Reb Yoel Kahn: A Commitment Beyond Understanding
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘A Commitment Beyond Understanding‘.
Picture of the Day: Lucky Winner Picks Up $5,000 Check
Last week, we announced that Levi Schneider of Crown Heights was the lucky winner of the Camp Emunah Split-the-Pot raffle, whose proceeds went to benefit the camp’s scholarship fund. Levi, who was out of the country when he purchased his winning ticket, stopped by this morning at the Camp Emunah Office and claimed his prize of $5,054.59.
Letter and Spirit: Wiping Out Amalek
In honor of Purim, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he responds to a law professor who asked “How can a humane, civilized person today accept the Biblical commandment to wipe out the entire nation of Amalek?” A second letter is presented as well, in which the Rebbe derives a lesson from Queen Esther. The letters are from the archives of Rabbi Nissan Mindel, OBM, personal secretary to the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe, and were made available by his son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro.
Baby Boy!
Shmuel and Sara (nee Kabacznik) Vishedsky (Crown Heights)
Silver Dollars from the Rabbeim Used for Machtzis Hashekel
On Taanis Esther one of the customs of the day is to give Machtzis Hashekel before Mincha. In 770 there were many choices, including coins the Rebbe used and coins that the Frierdiker Rebbe had given for this very purpose.
From Days Gone By: Wiping Away a Tear
The Rebbe wipes away a tear at his mother’s funeral, Tishrei, 1964.
Please Say Tehillim For…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yisroel Menachem Nochum ben Esther, who is undergoing a difficult medical procedure.
Video: Purim with the Rebbe, 5732 (1972)
Jewish.tv and JEM present an hour-and-half-long excerpt from a 1972 recording of the Rebbe’s Purim farbrengen. The Rebbe tackles the enigmatic essence of the Purim story, and explains the real miracle we are celebrating. Drawing life lessons from how in those dark times, a generation of assimilating Jews were found worthy in G-d’s eyes.
Winners of Hadar Hatorah Purim Raffle Announced
The 16 lucky winners of the annual Purim raffle, the proceeds of which benefit the NCFJE’s Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah in Crown Heights, have been announced.
New Engagement!
Avi Mogilevsky (Toronto, Canada) and Mushky (bas R’ Eli) Rosen (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
