We are pleased to present our seventh online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller. To receive this class to your inbox subscribe here: www.torahinten.com
The Rebbe says:
1. This week’s Torah portion discusses how the Land of Israel should be divided up between all the Twelve Tribes,.
2. The Rebbe now asks the first of two questions regarding this:
We find two contradictory instructions regarding the division of the Land of Israel. On one hand the Torah tells us that the land shall be split up logically, as the verse states, “To the many you shall increase its inheritance and to the few shall you decrease its inheritance”. However on the other hand we find that the Torah tells us to split the land according to a lottery which is above logic and reason, as the verse states, “This is the land which you shall divide by inheritance as a lottery”.
It all started with a weekly shiur.
This informal shiur, led by Rabbi Chaim Miller, began at the start of the year 5770 and kept on going, as more and more people showed up each week. The shiur brought together young women from in and out of Crown Heights, with varying occupations, educations, backgrounds and interests.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, members of the city’s hard-hit Jewish community are pointing to the grand-opening of a ritual bath as evidence of the region’s continuing rebirth.
Adam Epstein, 27, of Houston and Mechel Gancz, 22, of Airmont were standing outside David Panitz’s house in Montebello on Friday morning, holding a box of freshly baked rugelach.
The South Florida Reception Center, a state prison in Miami, will soon offer kosher food to its inmates.
Following a directive from Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to the state’s Department of Corrections, inmates will soon be able to sign onto a kosher food plan supervised by the Bal Harbour-based Aleph Institute.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rivkah Hecht OBM at age 91. She was the senior Shlucha to New Haven, CT for over 50 years and wife of Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Hecht OBM.
After years without a mikvah, Chabad of Seine-et-Marne, the French department #77 located in the Île-de-France region, close to the international EuroDisney amusement park, has inaugurated an elegant state-of-the-art ritual bath.
Bochurim in Yeshivas Kayitz Minnesota enjoyed a packed first week, which started off with a hands on lesson in Shechita in which they shechted a lamb, which they barbecued and ate later that day, a trip to Wells Minnesota for a swim, a visit to Mall of America, the largest mall in the world where they put on Teffilin with tens of shoppers, and a go-cart course at 45mph!
First of all congratulations and a hearty Mazal Tov to the newly elected Vaad of Crown Heights, you were voted in by an election that was held with the participation of an overwhelming majority of the residents of the Rebbe’s Shchuna, and we all pray for you and for your success on behalf of the residents of Crown Heights.
Marking our nations day of independence, Macy’s set off a spectacular 26 minute show of fireworks over the Hudson River. Photographer Chaim Perl captured the event with a set of amazing photos.
In a letter Rabbi Shea Hecht emailed to CrownHeights.info, he thanks all the residents in Crown Heights who supported him. He goes on, saying, he respect the communities decision and wishes the new Vaad Hatzlocha.
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