Every cook can attest to the exciting feeling of opening up the crisp new pages of a brand new cookbook. All the new recipe ideas and wonderful pictures are entertaining to read, great to look at and exciting to try. This is the feeling that readers get when flipping through the pages of Bitayavon.
In this weekly Chassidus class, Rabbi Shmuel Braun of Jerusalem, Israel explores fundamental questions on the current Torah portion and upcoming Jewish holidays. This week, the class looks at the mystery and meaning of the cherubs which were on the ark in the Tabernacle.
The Rebbe says:
1. Regarding the building of the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) in this week’s Torah portion the Torah says, “You should make the beams for the Tabernacle of acacia wood (Atzay Shittim), standing upright”.
2. The Previous Rebbe explained that the Hebrew word for, “acacia”, which is, “Shittim”, also means, “turning away”. In other words, there is a middle path which is the path of logic and reason, and the turning away from the middle path is called, “Shittim”, from the word, “Shtoos – Senselessness”.
However, there are two types of ways to be senseless. One way is to turn away from the middle path of logic and be senseless in the opposite way of holiness, as the Talmud states, “A person only commits a transgression because a spirit of senselessness entered him”, and another way is to turn away from the middle path of logic and be senseless in a holy way, as the Talmud states, “The senselessness of this Sage has helped him”.
We were just informed by a Head Judge at one of the TVB offices that cell phone convictions in NY would carry 2 points starting later this month.
With the winter Shabbosim ending very early Jewish children are left with not much to do, enter Jewish Kids Radio. Providing amazing and meaningful content hundreds of kids from around the world have been tuning in to hear the Chassidishe stories, answer questions and win special prizes.
Today, the 30th of Shvat, marks 5 years to the cold blooded murder of Efraim Klein HYD, a resident of Crown Heights who had been a staple in the community and a figure known and liked by all, who was shot and killed. The investigation into his murder has long since gone cold.
We live just two short blocks from the old New York State National Guard Armory, in Brooklyn. One hardly sees any activity near the Armory. When you do see something, you say something, as suspicion inclines you to call the authorities.
This Marine survived a year and countless unseen bombs on the battlefields of Iraq — but was nearly blown to bits by an explosive parking spot in Crown Heights!
Mr. Simcha Lewis is sitting shiva for his father (Meir ben Yehuda) in Manchester, UK till Wednesday morning.
Address: 134 Albert Avenue, Prestwich
Phone: (US #) 646 434 6756 – please note they are 5 hours ahead
Email: simchalewis@gmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Students of 6th, 7th and 8th grade of Lubavitcher Yeshiva were joined this evening by their Chayolei Bais Dovid Mashpiim and their Mishmor Chavrusas for an evening of singing and dancing to kick-off the 60 days of Adar.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a unique photo of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson, circa winter 1934 in a suburb of Poland, with special thanks to the Levin family.
Chaim and Rochi (nee Rapoport) Benjaminson
660 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Yitzi and Chana (nee Kugel) Hershkop
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Dovid and Chani (nee Sheinberger) Okunov
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Avremi and Chany (nee Seldowitz) Lapine
474 Malbone St, 1st Floor [between New York and Clove Rd]
Alex and Yulia Dekhterman
770 Lefferts Avenue, Apt A5L [between Troy and Schnectady Ave]
Shmuel and Rivky (nee Bell) Kaufmann
436 Sterling St [between Brooklyn and New York]
Shmuel and Shterny Teichman
Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave]
Beis Rivkah elementary and high school held their annual production this past weekend. The following is a photo gallery of the amazing event.
Mrs. Dinie Greenberg emcees the International Conference of Shluchos 2011
Over 50 men and women gathered together at the Besht Center this past Motzei Shabbos for a lecture from Rabbi Shais Taub.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky addresses the International Conference of Shluchos 2011
As part of the Chayolei Tzivos Hashem program, students receive miles from their teachers for a variety of reasons, such as good behavior in class and davening nicely. With these miles the students then scan them at the school’s kiosk to be added to their account. These miles are put towards any item or items of their choice in an online auction by Chayolei Tzivos Hashem.
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