Rabbi Nochum Kaplan continues his discussion of effective praise. The litmus test of a compliment and successful praise is whether or not it encourages and stimulates the recipient in a positive way. It should spurn continued effort and dedication and lead to continued growth and development, he maintains. The best form of praise gets children to think about their behavior and determine what’s right and understand how to do it.
Usually when you visit a school you walk down a quiet hallway and peer in the little windows in the classroom doors. You see one teacher talking to a bunch of students. Every 50 minutes or so a chime goes off and the students fill the hallway and march off to their next class, which is probably unrelated to the one they just left.
Beth Menachem Chabad of Newton, Mass. celebrated the completion of a new Sefer Torah, which was donated by one of the founding members of the Shul, Mr. Melvin Weiner and family.
The Special Military Edition of Kol Menachem’s new Lifestyle Torah has arrived today in New York; the Chumash will be distributed to US soldiers across the world by the Aleph Institute, directed by Rabbi Aaron Lipskar.
Yoni and Rivky (nee Friedman) Katz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Chaim Miller, author of the Award-winning Kol Menachem Haggadah, shares some unique insights into the Haggadah in a fascinating class.
The Chasidic discourses from the year 5672 to 5676 (1912–1915) are renowned to Chasidim as ‘Hemshech Ayin Beis — The 5672 Series.’ The Rebbe Rashab invested extraordinary effort into this series, and it contains amazing concepts even compared to those of his legendary ‘Hemshech Samech Vov — The 5666 Series.’
Yosef Bergovoy (Chicago, IL) and Rivkah Winderman (Los Angeles, CA)
Mendel Krasnjanski (Melbourne, Australia) and Musha (bas Zalman) Karp (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Motzai Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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Sholom Aleichem. Some raw thoughts on the Toulouse massacre…
I thought to not start this column with “Sholom Aleichem” because the Jewish People are in an international state of mourning and to mourners one doesn’t extend this greeting. Nazi-like cruelty has been visited upon our people. It is disturbing to read how the murderer perpetrated his evil in cold blood and with an extra effort to make sure his victim didn’t live. One wants to ignore this. It is just too much to bear. But is our discomfort reason enough to make the pain of our brothers and sisters into a mere statistic?
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a collection of Photos of the Rebbe addressing a woman’s convention in 1991.
Shmuly Berman (Stamford, CT) and Rivky Deren (Stamford, CT)
Zushe and Chaya (nee Aizenman) Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
Levi and Shterni (nee Ceitlin) Edelkopf (Crown Heights)
