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4000 at Ohel on Shabbos!

Over 4000 people spent Shabbos at the Ohel and Farbrengens were held in every corner. Shluchim, Rabbonim, Temimim and Anash from all over the world came to be in the Daled Amos of the Rebbe on Shabbos ushering in Gimmel Tamuz.

Everything worked out accordingly, the arrangement of sleeping quarters, the Seudos Shabbos, all went about smoothly thanks to the diligent efforts of the staff at the Ohel headed by Rabbi Abba Refson.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos By: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

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New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

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New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

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A delegation of Shluchim make a presentation the President Ronald Reagan.
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.
President Ronald Reagan offers his condolences to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, upon the loss of his wife Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, of righteous memory:

Nancy and I send our heartfelt condolences as you mourn the loss of your wife. Although there are no words to ease the deep sorrow you feel, we wanted you to know that we are keeping you and your family in our prayers.

3 Tammuz Special: President Ronald Reagan Consoles the Rebbe

A delegation of Shluchim make a presentation the President Ronald Reagan.

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.

President Ronald Reagan offers his condolences to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, upon the loss of his wife Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, of righteous memory:

Nancy and I send our heartfelt condolences as you mourn the loss of your wife. Although there are no words to ease the deep sorrow you feel, we wanted you to know that we are keeping you and your family in our prayers.

Chabad News

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzchok (ben R. Menachem Mendel) Kirsh (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas R. Yehuda OBM) Keller (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Sunday at Oholei Torah, 667 Eartern Pkwy, in the woman’s section. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].

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Photo Gallery: Erev Shabbos at the Ohel

Thousands of chassidim and Temimim from all over the world spent Shabbos at the Ohel preparing for Gimmel Tamuz. The site was packed with Temimim, chassidim, shluchim and rabbis from all over the world who came o be in the Daled Amos of the Rebbe on Gimmel Tamuz.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos be Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

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Mazal Tov! – 4 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Levi Harel (Migdal HaEmek, Israel) and Batsheva Banayan (Panamá City, Panamá).
IYH at Aliyah, 527 East New York Ave, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

Lazer Rodal (Milan, Italy) and Malka Goldberg (Toronto, Ontario) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Yitzchok Kirsh (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Keller (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Oholei Torah, 667 Eartern Pkwy, in the woman’s section. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave].

Dovid Leib Shmerling (Melbourne, Australia) and Nechama Rochel Lezak (Los Angeles, CA) .
IYH at Agudah Shul, 456 Crown St. [bet Kingston and Brooklyn].

To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info

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Click here for the Rebbe's letter of Minhogim to be observed on a Yortziat

The “Pan Kloli” will be read at around 12:00pm on Sunday at the Ohel.

The Rebbes house on President Street will be open for Shacharis at 9:30am and for Mincha at 3:15pm.

Mikvah Meir on Kingston & Montgomery will have around the clock hours starting Motzoai Shabbos through Sunday until 8:00pm. The price is $3.00 per person.

Starting 7:00am there will be both the Ohel bus and charter buses leaving to the Ohel through out the day from the front of 770.

The Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen will take place on Sunday night at Bais Rivkah Campus Chomesh and at 770.

Minhogim, Gimmel Tamuz Info and Schedules

Click here for the Rebbe’s letter of Minhogim to be observed on a Yortziat

The “Pan Kloli” will be read at around 12:00pm on Sunday at the Ohel.

The Rebbes house on President Street will be open for Shacharis at 9:30am and for Mincha at 3:15pm.

Mikvah Meir on Kingston & Montgomery will have around the clock hours starting Motzoai Shabbos through Sunday until 8:00pm. The price is $3.00 per person.

Starting 7:00am there will be both the Ohel bus and charter buses leaving to the Ohel through out the day from the front of 770.

The Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen will take place on Sunday night at Bais Rivkah Campus Chomesh and at 770.

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By Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks/Chabad.org

Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks with Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the United Kingdom Rabbi Nachman Sudak (Photo: John R. Rifkin).
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.
I remember the one occasion that I spent Rosh Hashanah together with the Rebbe in 770 Eastern Parkway, Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. And still then they were talking about an event that happened some years before, I think 1955.

3 Tammuz Special: The Chabad Approach to Life

By Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks/Chabad.org

Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks with Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the United Kingdom Rabbi Nachman Sudak (Photo: John R. Rifkin).

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.

I remember the one occasion that I spent Rosh Hashanah together with the Rebbe in 770 Eastern Parkway, Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. And still then they were talking about an event that happened some years before, I think 1955.

Chabad News

Mazal Tov! – New Engagment!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Greisman (Jerusalem, Israel) and Rochel Leah Friedman (Overland Park, KS) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday night at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [between New York and Nostrand Ave].

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By Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu/Chabad.org

The Rebbe greets Rabbi Eliyahu when he arrives at what was to be their last meeting, in 1992 (Photo: Chaim Baruch Halberstam/Jewish Educational Media)
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.
When you sat in the Rebbe's presence, it was as if there was no one and nothing else in this world. He had a humble abode, a simple chair, a simple office. The entire day and night he studied Torah and was active in communal service, I do not know when he ate and slept...

3 Tammuz Special: Former Chief Rabbi: The Rebbe Was the Teacher and Leader for All Jews

By Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu/Chabad.org

The Rebbe greets Rabbi Eliyahu when he arrives at what was to be their last meeting, in 1992 (Photo: Chaim Baruch Halberstam/Jewish Educational Media)

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz Chabad.org updated TheRebbe.org site with fascinating new accounts and correspondence of the Rebbe with Presidents of the United States, Physicians, Rabbis, Philanthropists and Jewish Leaders. Click here to read the fascinating accounts and correspondence.

When you sat in the Rebbe’s presence, it was as if there was no one and nothing else in this world. He had a humble abode, a simple chair, a simple office. The entire day and night he studied Torah and was active in communal service, I do not know when he ate and slept…

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Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
One evening during World War II, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman, Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, found himself fretting over the administration’s request of some $2 billion towards unspecified scientific research.

He proceeded to call the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, demanding answers: “Do you really expect me to sanction this enormous appropriation without any idea as to where it is going?”

After a long pause Stimson hesitantly asked, “Can you keep a secret?” McKellar assured him that he could, Stimson then whispered, “We are about to split the atom.”

McKellar erupted. “Are you crazy? This is a war; we have men out there; we need guns, planes, ammunition! And you There guys are fiddling around with atoms! Only months later did McKellar, along with the rest of the world, discover the true nature of this elusive program.

The Weekly Sedra – Chukas – Mortal Minds Don’t Always Think Alike. . .

Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL

One evening during World War II, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman, Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, found himself fretting over the administration’s request of some $2 billion towards unspecified scientific research.

He proceeded to call the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, demanding answers: “Do you really expect me to sanction this enormous appropriation without any idea as to where it is going?”

After a long pause Stimson hesitantly asked, “Can you keep a secret?” McKellar assured him that he could, Stimson then whispered, “We are about to split the atom.”

McKellar erupted. “Are you crazy? This is a war; we have men out there; we need guns, planes, ammunition! And you There guys are fiddling around with atoms! Only months later did McKellar, along with the rest of the world, discover the true nature of this elusive program.

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Campers Learn Jewish Tradition

Michael Miller – PJ Star

Bridegroom Joshua Eckhart, 10, of Washington parties hard after his mock wedding to bride Samantha Savage, 9, of Peoria during a Jewish day camp Thursday at Peoria Academy. Campers learned what traditions are involved in Jewish wedding and reception.

PEORIA, IL — The groom was 10, the bride was 9 and the rabbi wore shorts.

A few dozen young people took part Thursday in a mock Jewish wedding at Camp Gan Izzy, a Jewish day camp run by Lubavitch Chabad of Peoria at Peoria Academy.

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The Rebbe says:

1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) sets down the statute of the Red Heifer (the Parah Adumah). The Red Heifer is a young cow that is sacrificed and whose ashes are used for the ritual purification of people who came into contact with a corpse.

2. The Rebbe now discusses the different types of Mitzvos (commandments):

There are three different types of Mitzvos (with regards to how we understand them):

The first type are Chukim/Statutes.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Chukas

The Rebbe says:

1. In this week’s Torah portion Hashem (G-d) sets down the statute of the Red Heifer (the Parah Adumah). The Red Heifer is a young cow that is sacrificed and whose ashes are used for the ritual purification of people who came into contact with a corpse.

2. The Rebbe now discusses the different types of Mitzvos (commandments):

There are three different types of Mitzvos (with regards to how we understand them):

The first type are Chukim/Statutes.

Something Jewish

Photo Gallery: The Quiet Before the ‘Storm’

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — The thousands of guests that have arrived in Crown Heights for Gimmel Tamuz are taking advantage of the “quiet before the storm” and are visiting the Ohel before Sunday when there are fewer people than the masses that will be arriving on Sunday.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos By: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

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