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Video: Why do Jews Celebrate Passover?

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and TorahCafé.com are proud to announce the broadcast of their annual Passover Webcast: “How to Exodus in 2011.” This Webcast brings together some of the most captivating, comical and inspiring video ever produced by JLI and TorahCafé. It is truly a not-to-be-missed web event!

PSA: Carrots and Onions – Free for All

Beginning now, 7:00pm, a truck is unloading a number of skids with fresh Carrots and Onions and is being distributed for free for all those who want. The produce is being distributed on East New York Avenue between Kingston and Brooklyn. There is no need to be on any lists, just come and take.

4 Sunday Night Lechaims!

Avremi Rosenthal (Crown Heights) and Shayal (Chayale) Rabinowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]

Mendy Cohen (London, UK) and Simi Gutnick (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Levi Groner (Melbourne, Australia) and Chayale Weingarten (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
JCM, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]

Hershie Lazarus (Las Vegas, NV) and Chanie Shepherd (Oak Park, MI)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Did you say the ‘Nasi’ Today? (Yom Vov)

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]

Video: Season of Freedom 1: Preaching and Practicing

Education comes in many forms: First and foremost is to provide a living example. The best way to influence someone is by practicing what you preach. But in order to prevail upon a student to adopt a basic level of good behavior, the educator must show an example many times above the standard, because the student automatically assumes that he can’t be as great as his teacher, who is much older and wiser than he.