The following notice was sent by Rabbi Sholom Ber Baumgarten regarding a special Hakkafos for children which will take Monday evening place in 770:
This past Wednesday, Velvel Freedman – a graduate of Chabad Yeshivos – was an honored speaker at Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals after obtaining the highest score on the bar exam in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Rosh Hashanah you hear the shofar. Yom Kippur you fast. Sukkos you eat in the sukkah and take the lulav-esrog. Simchas Torah you have no mitzvah. Simchas Torah, the joy of the torah, the joy of this learning that takes a lifetime, Simchas Torah has no learning. At night, we take the Torah but don’t read the Torah; we don’t even unfurl it. Simchas Torah we dance.
Each day of Chol Hamo’ed, under the auspices of the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, hundreds of Bochurim would take to the streets all over New York City, armed with mobile Sukkahs and sets of Arba Minim, looking for Jews who are willing to perform the Mitzvos of Yomtov.
Marking the final night of dancing at Simchas Beis Hashueva in Crown Heights, thousands danced till 1:00am when the music ended and the throngs of people made their way up Kingston Avenue to 770 where Tehillim and Mishna Torah was recited throughout the night.
R’ Yisroel Rubin will be sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Mrs. Necha Rubin, OBM, at 1535 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning (Shachris at 8:00am).
He will then continue his Shiva along with his brother, R’ Yitzchok Rubin, and sister, Mrs. Rochel Mendelsohn, at 4672 Bouchette Ave. in Montreal, Canada.
A brother of the deceased, R’ Berel Neumark will be sitting Shiva at 402 E. Penn St. in Long Beach, Long Island.
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Mrs. Edis Rivkah Fuss will be sitting Shiva after the passing of her mother, Sarah, OBM, at 1636 President St. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.] from Tuesday evening, Oct. 9th, until Monday morning, Oct. 15th.
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Hoshana Raba in Moscow’s Marina Roscha Chabad Synagogue with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Photographer Levi Hertzel captured the festive atmosphere around Crown Heights on Friday, Erev Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
Kesser Torah College and the Yeshiva Centre of Sydney, led by Meir Moss and Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, respectively, are at peace for the first time in more than eight years.
Mendel and Chaya Mushka (nee Nemes) Ceitlin (New Orleans, LA)
A short compilation of the jubilant atmosphere at the Simchas Beis Hashoeva in the Hendon neighborhood of London, which took place on Wednesday evening.
An Ivy League educated 28 year old Jewish woman plunged to her death on Thursday in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Stephanie Becker, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Co-Chair of the Chabad affiliated Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Programs New York Gala this year, fell from the 30th floor and left no note behind, according to authorities.
Avremi and Shayal (Nee Rabinowitz) Rosenthal
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Levi and Chavi (nee Mangel) Simpson
651 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Efraim and Adina (nee Rivas) Gotbeter
379 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Berry and Raizy (nee Kahanov) Tzfasman
1473 Carroll St. [between Albany & Troy Ave.]
What was it like to spend Sukkos with the Rebbe – under his personal guidance and attention? British businessman Zalmon Jaffe merited an unusually close friendship with the Rebbe and not only spent many holidays over the years in the Rebbe’s holy neighborhood, accompanied by wife Roselyn, but recorded the bustling events in a diary My Encounters with the Rebbe, which was published annually and widely enjoyed among the Rebbe’s Chassidim. CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present the following collection of short stories and anecdotes, which were made available by Zalman’s grandchildren.
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