CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Thursday night Yagdil Torah had a beautiful turnout for the first ever Yagdil Torah Power Point presentation shiur. Rabbi Yehudah Benchemhoun provided powerful and useful information about the halachos of Daled Minim. This is the first in a series of three shiurim. the next two will take place on כ’ אלול and כז’ אלול September 9th and 16th, at the Kollel, 1483 Union St at 8:15pm.
Kehot is pleased to announce the release of the Kitzur Shulchon Oruj, Vol. 2, in Spanish edition. With this second volume we have completed the Kitzur Shulchan Oruch in Spanish. This is a master piece that includes all the halachos in Hebrew and Spanish with explanatory tables and detailed illustrations to ensure great understanding by the person who studies from it.
CrownHeights.info presents this weeks Living Torah excerpt, “Sweet Year”
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CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendel and Racheli (nee Cohen) Laine (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
FOREST HILLS, NY — It’s high noon for the high holidays.
Fearing jihadists will attack synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of badass rabbis has developed a program to turn your average shul-goer into a lean, mean fighting machine.
Temimim learning this year in Chovevei Torah Mesivta and Zal sat down for a Seudah and Farbrenged in honor of the ‘yom hisyasdus’ [the day of the founding] of Tomchei Temimim.
BS”D. 13th of Elul, Chodesh of Rachamim, 5769.
To Anash residing in Crown Heights - Kan Tziva Hashem es Habrocho - and to Anash worldwide who cherish the Rebbe's Shcchuna. Hashem bless you all.
As a follow up to my letter of Rosh Chodesh Elul, I am pleased to notify Anash in Crown Heights and worldwide that, with Hashem's help, we have successfully reached an agreement for a Din Torah to deal with all the topics related to the disagreements in our shechuna over the past years. Since Torah was given to bring peace in the world we are assured that through a Din Torah peace will reign in our shechuna.
As it seems from a letter that was distributed to homes in Crown Heights this week, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba has taken the first step to ending the madness and infighting in the Crown Heights Beis Din. The following is a translation of the letter.
BS”D. 13th of Elul, Chodesh of Rachamim, 5769.
To Anash residing in Crown Heights – Kan Tziva Hashem es Habrocho – and to Anash worldwide who cherish the Rebbe’s Shcchuna. Hashem bless you all.
As a follow up to my letter of Rosh Chodesh Elul, I am pleased to notify Anash in Crown Heights and worldwide that, with Hashem’s help, we have successfully reached an agreement for a Din Torah to deal with all the topics related to the disagreements in our shechuna over the past years. Since Torah was given to bring peace in the world we are assured that through a Din Torah peace will reign in our shechuna.
Israeli prosecutors crack down saying a kidney ring preyed upon the poor. CNN’s Drew Griffin reports.
Citing media accounts that prohibit seating of an impartial jury, U.S. District Court Judge Linda R. Reade ruled Tuesday that a trial for four former Agriprocessors supervisors will be moved to Sioux Falls, S.D.
PASADENA, CA — It has been a long and smoky week in Southern California as firefighters valiantly battle the area’s largest-ever fire and residents race to safety. With 58,000 hectares of land charred, fire officials are now declaring 38 percent containment.
“But that’s still almost 70 percent that remains unchecked,” worries Rabbi Chaim Hanoka.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy Matusof (Toulouse, France) and Shayna Altein (Winnipeg, Canada) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
CroqwnHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Levi and Itta (nee Gurary) Raskin on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Strolling in the park one day, a woman stumbled upon a precious stone. Before she could place the gleaming object into in her bag, she was approached by a vagabond seeking alms. Nothing the woman was willing to give him seemed to satisfy the needy stranger.
The kind woman finally turned to the poor man in dismay: “What do you want?” What will make you happy? The beggar pointed to the diamond in her hand: “That’s what I want.”
With little hesitation or ado the woman placed the diamond into his hand: “Here,” she said “It’s all yours.” After a generous exchange of farewells, they were both on their way.
Sometime later, the beggar shows up at the woman’s door. “What can I do for you,” asked the woman, as she answered the door?
I have come to return the diamond said the man: “It’s not what I want.”
“What then do you want’” asked the perplexed woman.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Music and dancing filled the streets around 7th and Broadway this afternoon as members and friends of the Jewish Community Center – Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles celebrated the completion of the synagogue’s first Sefer Torah.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This afternoon three banks were robbed, two of which were in Crown Heights. The first robbery took place at 2:50pm on Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, and the robber fled in a livery cab to another bank which he robbed as well, followed by another robbery.
In the Jewish calendar, the month of Elul takes up its own, unique place. It is the end and completion of the Jewish calendar year and at the same time also the introduction and gateway to the approaching New Year beginning with Rosh Hashanah. In its capacity as the former, Elul serves as a time of “Tikkun” and “Teshuvah”, a time of correcting and completing the faulty and deficient. As the latter it serves as a time of preparing and readying man to enter the New Year in proper manner and fashion.
The Rebbe says:
1. Before the festival of Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) and the festival of Shavuos (the giving of the Torah) we read the “Tochachah” (the consequences or curses enumerated in the Torah for rejecting G-d’s word). The “Tochachah” before the festival of Shavuos is found in Parshas Bechukosai, and the “Tochachah” before the festival of Rosh Hashanah is found in Parshas Ki Savo (this week’s Torah portion).
2. The Rebbe explains the reason for reading the “Tochahah”:
Our Sages tell us that the “Tochachah” is actually not a punishment; it is a purification and cleansing process. In other words, hearing the Torah enumerating the harsh consequences for disobeying G-d’s word is a sobering experience where we shake off all our “dirt”.
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