As promised, I am posting a story for the Ushpizin of Friday night, Shemini Atzeres and Motzei Shabbos Simchas Torah. The story of the Frierdiker Rebbe was written by my father, Reb Meir a”h. As always your feedback is most welcomed.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Saturday through Monday, October 7-9, 2023 for Shemini Atzereth, Simchas Torah, & Columbus Day. Parking meters remain in effect.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman tells an inspiring story of an Israeli man who found the unique direction the Rebbe’s Sichos a magnetic draw back to his Judaism.
A tragic hit and run has taken the life of Raphael Benlolo OBM, a Chabad chosid from Netanya who was struck by a vehicle and killed in his home town.
Two remarkable Torahs from R’ Shlomo Zalman from Kapust on Sukkos has been published from manuscript for the first time.
In the heated sukkah, protected from the cold that is already prevailing in Siberia, the rabbis Chabad in Siberia gathered for a local Kinus Hashluchim held in the city of Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberian region of Russia.
The wedding was to take place the same night as the Rebbe’s Farbrengen. The Rebbe came up with a simple solution.
Perhaps nowhere in Ukraine was Sukkot more widely celebrated this year than in Kharkov, the country’s second-largest city. There, in the eastern part of the country, close to the border with Russia, that Yisroel Moskovitz became a bar mitzvah during Chol Hamoed, the intermediate days of Sukkot.
On the question of women participating in hakofos on Simchas Torah – the Rebbe clarifies in this letter, some points (which he had made during a personal meeting with the correspondent) which need to be considered so that the actual practice should conform to halachah.
In response to the many requests from guests and students returning to yeshiva and schools right after YomTov, we will be open on Isru Chag from 2:00pm – 6:00pm.
Over a hundreds men, woman, and children congregated in Bastille Square in Paris for a Simchas Bais Hashoeva event complete with music, stuntman, and dancing.
With a full four days of Chol HaMoed Sukkos, and the temperature unseasonably hot reaching an average of 35 Celsius, CBDChabad Sydney was undeterred in taking their annual Sukkah Mobile Pilgrimage across the City of Sydney and the surrounding suburbs every day of Chol HaMoed.
Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch Southwest Florida who teaches weekly insights of The Rebbe on the Parsha as well as a Mamar of the Rebbe on YouTube, has taken on a new initiative in honor of his Birthday. The Hachlata, to teach The Rebbe and The Rebbe’s Father teachings on the Zohar every week.
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.4 billion after no players matched all six numbers and hit it rich Wednesday night.
Wednesday night, the second to last night of Chol Hamoed Sukkos 5784 in Crown Heights was an active night for Simchas Bais Hashoeva, and unfortunately not for all good reasons.
Rabbi Yosef Posner has served as a Chabad emissary in Skokie, Illinois, since 1981. He is currently the president of the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc). He was interviewed in November 2022.
Hundreds of Chabad residents of Remsen Village poured out to the streets Wednesday evening as they celebrated Simchas Bais Hashoeva with singing, dancing, music, and activities.
