CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Opening the Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen in Beis Shmuel Chabad was a special Hascholas Safer Torah which members of the Shul took part in filling in the first letters of a new torah that will soon be dedicated to the Shul.
Rabbi Moshe New, Shliach to Montreal Canada, Farbrengen with the crowd.
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BARRINGTON, RI — What is being called by its sponsors a “grand family Hanukkah celebration” will take place on Sunday, Dec. 9, in front of Town Hall from 3:30 to 5 p.m. “This is the first time in history in Barrington that this is going to be taking place,” said Rabbi Moshe Laufer, director of the Chabad of Barrington, which is coordinating the event. “There has been a lot of strong interest from the Jewish community at large about this,” he said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn, [CHI] — Thursday night Friendship Circle farbrengen in honor of Yud Tes Kislev at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel (Sruli) Lerner (Brooklyn NY) and Miriam Stock (Trumbull, CT/Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Wednesday night, Bochurim from the Chovevei Torah Zal sat down to Farbreng with Rabbi Yossi Paltiel a Mashpia in the yeshiva in honor of Yud Tes Kislev.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shaul (ben R Yossi) Goldman (Crown Heights) and Esther Baila Hecht (S Francisco, CA) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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TSFAS, Israel [CHI] — The young Shliach Hatomim Nachman Oberlander the son of the Head Shliach in Hungary, Harav Boruch Oberlander, began this week putting on Teffilin as is customary two months before his Bar Mitzvah. For this special occasion his father and brother went to Eretz Yisroel and joined in the event of his Hanochas Teffilin.
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Spotting an extraordinary teacup, a middle age couple who shared a deep appreciation for fine antiques and pottery, asked the proprietor of a local antique shop if they might have a closer look: “We’ve never seen a cup quite as beautiful,” they told the lady while she handed them the delicate article.
“I've not always been a teacup, you know,” whispered the antique as they took her into their hands. “There was a time when I was just a lump of clay.” “Oh, please tell us more,” urged the awestruck couple.
"As I said, I was once just a lump of red clay when my master took me and rolled me and repeatedly pounded and patted me. 'Don’t do that,' I yelled. 'I don’t like it!' But he only smiled and gently repeated, 'Not yet, not yet.'
Then, wham! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun around and around. 'Stop it! I’m so dizzy, I’m going to be sick!' I screamed. But the master only nodded and muttered quietly, 'Not yet'.
He spun, poked and prodded and shaped me to suit himself and then put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. 'Help! Get me out of here!'
Spotting an extraordinary teacup, a middle age couple who shared a deep appreciation for fine antiques and pottery, asked the proprietor of a local antique shop if they might have a closer look: “We’ve never seen a cup quite as beautiful,” they told the lady while she handed them the delicate article.
“I’ve not always been a teacup, you know,” whispered the antique as they took her into their hands. “There was a time when I was just a lump of clay.” “Oh, please tell us more,” urged the awestruck couple.
“As I said, I was once just a lump of red clay when my master took me and rolled me and repeatedly pounded and patted me. ‘Don’t do that,’ I yelled. ‘I don’t like it!’ But he only smiled and gently repeated, ‘Not yet, not yet.’
Then, wham! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun around and around. ‘Stop it! I’m so dizzy, I’m going to be sick!’ I screamed. But the master only nodded and muttered quietly, ‘Not yet’.
He spun, poked and prodded and shaped me to suit himself and then put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. ‘Help! Get me out of here!’
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — On a recent chilly evening, more than 150 people gathered inside a fancy hotel ballroom to witness an uncommon 3,318-year-old tradition.
As all eyes watched, the white-bearded rabbi in the black robe and yarmulke bent over an animal hide parchment scroll. He dipped his turkey quill into black ink, lifted his unhelpful spectacles to his brow, and pressed the pen to parchment.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Miriam (nee Newman) Rapoport (Long Beach, CA) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia -– Headway is being made on the construction of a new Synagogue and Jewish Community Center in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia. Information on Jewish life in the region reached tens of thousands of readers through an interview with Chief Rabbi of Novosibirsk Zalman Zaklas, published this week in the local issue of the popular Russian newspaper “Arguments and Facts”.
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All Anash and Bochurim are invited to a central farbrengen in honor of Yud Tes Kislev, Rosh Hashana L’Chassidus in the Kollel.
A special video presentation of the Rebbe will begin at 8:45 PM and the Farbrengen will begin at 9:15 PM and will be attended by Rabonim, Roshei Yeshivos Mashpiim and Shluchim from around the world.
Amongst those featured will be Rabbi Chaim Shaul Bruk, Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, Rabbi Moshe Walberg and Rabbi Zev Katz.
There will also be a farbrengen at 9:00 PM in the shul Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave], with HaRav HaChossid Yosef Weinberg fundraiser for The Frierdiker Rebbe and The Rebbe.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Chassidic Kabbalah” (Volume 42, Episode 168).
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy Junik (Antwerp, Belgium) and Rochele Gluwcowsky (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
MONTREAL, Canada — Some would call the way 10 Jewish men and women in Montreal push off their work days in order to learn a Jewish text for 45 minutes downright stubborn. But while these professionals admit that they’re nothing if not persistent, they contend that their daily study of the Tanya, the bedrock text of Chabad Chasidic thought, is a necessity in a harried world.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Asher Mendel and Racheli (nee Lewis) Yemini (Shluchim to Los Angeles, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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