QUEENS, NY — A wild accident left a trucker critically injured and five firefighters hurt Thursday when a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer smashed into a fire engine in Queens, police said.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Mr. Mauricio Macri, the Mayor of Buenos Aires City, visited with the children of the acclaimed Ieladeinu child care services, at the Perla Rohr home earlier this week.
The Rebbe says:
1. The Rebbe begins talking about his father-in-law, the Previous Rebbe, who’s day of passing we commemorate on Yud Shvat:
The Previous Rebbe writes in his diary that when he was a baby of eight days old and was receiving his Bris Mila (circumcision) he began to cry. His grandfather the Rebbe Maharash then said to him, “Why are you crying? When you grow up you will be a…(the Previous Rebbe left a blank spot here) and will say Chassidus in a clear fashion”.
Chassidim have told me that the missing word from the Previous Rebbe’s diary is “Rebbe”; the Rebbe Maharash said, “When you grow up you will be a Rebbe and will say Chassidus in a clear fashion”. This of course sheds light on why the Previous Rebbe left a blank spot (he did not feel it would be becoming to write that).
NEW YORK, NY — The release this week of a series of letters penned by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, has shed new light on the Rebbe’s focus on the special qualities of each and every individual.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CH] — The Rofe Cholim Chayim Society, Crown Heights Chapter, invites you to a lavish Melava Malka, this Motzoei Shabbos, Parshas Beshalach, January 19th 2008 at 7:30 PM, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 E New York Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
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Yud Shvat (the Tenth of Shvat) is the Previous Rebbe’s yahrzeit, the anniversary of his passing. On the day of a tzaddik’s passing, “all his effort… for which he toiled throughout his life… becomes revealed and radiates downward… at the time of his passing.”Accordingly, Yud Shvat is an appropriate day to focus on the message of the Previous Rebbe’s life, for every year, these same spiritual qualities are revealed on this anniversary.
This revelation affects all of “his children, the work of his hands,” those who “will walk in his paths for eternity.” This is particularly true in regard to the yahrzeit of a nasi, a leader of the Jewish people. For a nasi is connected to every member of his generation; as Rashi states, “The nasi is the entire people.”
Continued in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last night the mispalelim of the Empire Shtibel gathered for a Yud Shvat Farbrengen with Rabbi Yisroel Gordon.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Wednesday afternoon the community celebrated a Siyum and Hachnasas Sefer Torah, in honor of Rebbitzin Cherna Ushpol and HaRav HaChossid Yitzchok Dovber Ushpol OBM. The Sefer Torah was led in a traditional procession, with an escort from the CPU division 71st Precinct to 770, where hakafos was held.
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Efraim Katz (Brooklyn, NY) and Sarale Fellig (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [bet New York and Nostrand Ave].
Binymin Eliron (Jerusalem) and Leeor Hoffinger (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
This weeks Parsha Shiur by Rabbi YY Jacobson from Wednesday, Tes Shevat now available for online playback.
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Picture Description: the Rebbe Davening at the Ohel in the winter of 1964. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — Jerusalem’s Meorot Chabad becomes first Chabad School in Israel for niche demographic.
It’s almost an official tradition among many Jewish high-school graduates throughout the worldwide Diaspora: going to Israel for studies almost immediately after high school.
JACKSONVILLE, FL — Jacksonville’s Jewish community has received some manna from heaven, thanks to the new Epicurean Delight kosher bakery and delicatessen.
SURFSIDE, FL — An unlikely band of boosters helped the Million Mitzvahs campaign reach its goal.
AEPi sorority sisters, students at Hebrew Academy Day School and bar mitzvah guests all took on an extra mitzvah, act of goodness or observance prescribed in the Torah to push the mitzvah counter to one million.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Binymin Eliron (Jerusalem, Israel) and Leeor Hoffinger (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tomorrow, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — L.A.’s Frum Jewish Community Comes Together for Special Sefer Torah.
Over 1,000 Yidden—men, women and children of all ages—converged on a single house in the Beverly-La Brea area of Los Angeles this past Sunday, January 13, 2008, for a very special siyum and hachnosas sefer Torah.
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