The hungry and needy of Crown Heights were once again welcomed to partake in nutritious warms meals at the Ahavas Chessed soup kitchen today after a long hiatus. The Chessed center has been closed for a couple of months by the city, after a series of anonymous complaints that renovations were being carried out without a permit.
On Monday, the 3rd of Nissan, Rabbi Yitzchok Raitport, a major patron of Oholei Torah, was hosted by the Hanholas Hayeshiva.
Yossi Melamed, who from the early 1970s spent hundreds of hours photographing the Rebbe at 770, has fallen in his home, and is now in a coma.
Rabbi Chaim Miller, author of the Award-winning Kol Menachem Haggadah, shares some unique insights into the Haggadah in a fascinating class. To order your copy visit kolmenachem.com
The sky was bright and sunny at 6:00 PM as the more than 350 guests arrived at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on the tip of lower Manhattan for Congregation B’nai Avraham’s 23rd Anniversary dinner.
Although the tips in the video can be used with any recipe, we provide the following matzah ball recipe for your convenience:
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
The ‘Tzfati’ members of kvutzeh have lately taken to reenacting an increasing number of routine occurrences from the later years of the Rebbe’s life. In this photo, they mimic the drawing of ‘Mayim Shelanu’ for the baking of Matzah, which the Rebbe began to perform on the porch of 770 in the late ’80s, as can be seen in this video.
In this 25th installment of the series, Rebbetzin chana relates an episode which occurred during the lifetime of her husband, Reb Levik, how he arranged a clandestine chuppah for a Jewish couple under the ominous shadow of the secret police.
Mendel (ben R’ Levi Yitzchok) Raskin (London, UK) and Chaya Alperin (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at Empire Shtiebel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
I always knew my son’s school was special. Oholei Torah has always been at the forefront of educating our boys. However, I did not really appreciate how special the school’s role models are until our son became gravely ill.
Every year for the the past twenty years, the Rebbe’s birthday has been celebrated on Yud Aleph Nissan with a Mitzvah Tank parade around the city, and this year is no different. Sixty-two tanks – corresponding to the sixty two years of the Rebbe’s leadership – will be parading from Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, reaching all the way to Manhattan.
Dovid and Golda (nee Fehler) Orenstein (Crown Heights)
Due to public request, Nechama’s Closet has extended the deadline for GRAND PRIZE only until Wednesday March 28th. Those of you who forgot to purchase your tickets have one more chance to do so. Take advantage of this opportunity – Win $100,000.
Six people, including five children, died in a burning building in Rechovot, Israel last night. Two more have been reported injured in the blaze, which broke out at 10 PM.
Merkos Shlichus preparations for Pesach 5772 are currently in full gear. Following two days of non-stop interviews with Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and those who applied, the Merkos Shlichus vaad has been working non-stop to assign the applicants to their Seder locations. So far, over 550 student Rabbis have been volunteered to lead sedorim in over 190 cities all over the world.
Avigdor Omri Kessler (Los Angeles, CA) and Ariela Tzion (Valley Village, CA)
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