In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: At a Farbrengen 10 Kislev, 5741 marking the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovber – the Mittler Rebbe, the Rebbe requests a Niggun that was sung by the Mittler Rebbe’s Kapelye.
Fathers and Sons got together all around Crown Heights this Motzai Shabbos to learn together.
In light of the recent tragedies the Avner Institute would like to present a moving letter that a young mother whose husband perished during the Yom Kippur war asking: How can she explain this tragedy to her children? What words of comfort can she give them? And the Rebbe’s response.
Courtesy of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin, chief librarian of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of Brooklyn.
Long regarded as one of America’s best-kept industry-oriented academic secrets, the 119-year-old Drexel University, alma mater of such technology legends as Internet founding father Paul Baran and barcode co-creator Norman Joseph Woodland, is slowly climbing the ladder of prestige once more.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the tragic and very untimely passing of Rabbi Levi Deitsch OBM, a Shliach to Tysons Corner, Virginia. He was 34 years old.
Levi moved out on Shlichus with his family in 2002 where he established a flourishing Chabad center, along with a Hebrew School and a Tzivos Hashem.
Many exciting things are happening at Cheder Chabad Girls. Chodesh Kislev began with a bang as we introduced our theme and “destination” for the month. As part of the Bnos Chabad Program every month we “fly” to another country. Cheshvan was England and now in Kislev we are off to Russia.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a unique a Photo of the Rebbe at a farbrengen in the mid-1970’s. With special thanks to the Crawford family.
For more than half a century, Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim have partnered with their respective lay leaders to form an unshakable bond for the benefit of world Jewry. Today, these partnerships are growing stronger than ever.
Leaving his office building at lunchtime; a young businessman would pass the stand of a little old Jewish lady who sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. He would always leave her a quarter but never take a pretzel. The two of them never spoke.
One day, after 3 years of this routine, the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his usual quarter; the pretzel lady spoke to him for the first time.
“Sir, you are a good customer and I appreciate your business, but I have to tell you that the price of pretzels has gone up to 50 cents!!!”
Leaving his office building at lunchtime; a young businessman would pass the stand of a little old Jewish lady who sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. He would always leave her a quarter but never take a pretzel. The two of them never spoke.
One day, after 3 years of this routine, the young man passed the old lady’s stand and left his usual quarter; the pretzel lady spoke to him for the first time.
“Sir, you are a good customer and I appreciate your business, but I have to tell you that the price of pretzels has gone up to 50 cents!!!”
Yechiel and Ita Cagen
680 Lefferts Ave[between Albany and Troy Avenue]
Asher and Rivka Putter
The Shul 483 Albany Ave [corner of Lefferts Avenue]
Dovid and Chana Vidrin
633 East New York Ave # 2RF. [between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Mordechai and Leah Kustiner
3022 West Birchwood Avenue, Chicago, IL
A unique farbrengen took place Monday night in the Upper West Side home of Mr. David and Lara Slager, the philanthropists underwriting the $5 million Machne Israel Early Childhood Initiative.
Danny Barouk (Bay Harbor Islands, FL) and Liba Levin (Chicago, IL / Surfside, FL)
Like Harley Davidson, Wii, and Clinique who often ply their wares in customized 18-wheelers that transform into mini-circus-like event centers, Chabad is planning one of its own to drive excitement, knowledge, and pride into the lives of Jewish children.
The Rebbe says:
1. This week’s Torah portion begins by saying, “And Yakov (Jacob) left Be’er Sheva and went to Charan”.
To be sure, this verse is actually repeating something we already knew from the end of last week’s Torah portion.
2. The Rebbe points out that the Torah must be teaching us something by telling us this twice:
In the Torah everything is exact. In fact, our Sages learn out many Halachas (laws) from one extra letter in the Torah. Therefore, if the Torah repeats this story twice, it must be teaching us something that we can implement into our daily life. Let us find out what the Torah is teaching us:
Rabbi Moshe New, director of the Montreal Torah Center, delivers the keynote address at the International Conference of Shluchim 2010.
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