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Maimonides’ Seminal Work Receives New Translation

Maimonides’ Sefer Hamitzvos, the seminal work of Jewish law that details each of Judaism’s 613 commandments, just received a scholarly but easily readable complete English translation from its Judeo-Arabic original. The two-volume set completes a decade-long project by Sichos-in-English, a Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.

5 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Shmuly and Chani Rosenzweig (Crown Heights)
365 Crown St, [between Brooklyn and New York Avenues]

Sharon and Michal (nee Rezonzew) Weiss (Crown Heights)
35 Balfour Pl, [between Empire and Lefferts Avenues]

Noach and Rochel Merenfeld (Crown Heights)
1516 Union St, Apt #3c [between Albany and Troy Avenues]

Shloime and Chayale (nee Friedman) Coleman (Los Angeles, CA)

Moshe and Taliah (nee Parks) Langer (S. Francisco, CA)

The Elusive Pursuit Of Spirituality

The Torah attributes Nadav and Avihus’ tragic fall from grace to the fact that they took a foreign fire and incense and brought them into the Sanctuary before G-d: “And Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his censer, and put fire in them, and put incense on each, and brought before G-d a strange fire, which He had not commanded them. And a fire went out from before G-d and consumed them, and they died before G-d,” (Lev. 10:1-2).

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL

The KGB’s Failure in Ukraine

Chernigov, Ukraine – March 8, 1939. The dreaded knock on the door was heard in the home of the beloved rav of Chernigov, Rav Mendel Schneerson. As noted in the archives of the KGB: Citizen Mendel Levkovitch Schneerson, address: Chernigov, Chekova St., 7; arrested. His crime: A passion and mesiras nefesh in tending his flock, in his mission to bring a Jewish tomorrow to the Jews of Chernigov, against the odds of the Soviet propaganda machine. The official records call it ‘anti-Soviet propaganda’.