In honor of Lag B’Omer, the The Hilulo of the Rashbi, Rabbi Michoel Seligson has provided an overview on the date, minhagim, joy and parades relating to this joyous day.
A Lag Ba’omer bonfire and celebration took place for the 38th year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. There, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei have held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Originally released a few years ago, DJ Farbreng has added his unique sound to this upmix to help connect to Heilige Reb Shimon on this special day of Lag B’omer.
Following an unthinkable tragedy, little Raphael Chaim Meir is fighting for his life. Today, in the merit of all Jewish children, we are commencing the writing of a Torah, which will serve to safeguard the children, just as the children have committed to safeguard the Torah.
With the start of the new Rambam cycle those who are learning three chapters a day will be learning Hilchos Deot this week. Those learning one chapter a day will get there in the middle of Iyar. As you know the first two Halachos of the fourth Perek discuss healthy living.
The Rebbe encouraged Jewish people to visit the Ohel on Lag B’Omer, saying that on that special day and the Rashbi could be found there.
You’ve seen it before: His radio buzzes, he picks it up and hears the call for help, and poof! He’s out running as if he has a cape on his shoulders ready to go save another life. But there’s much more to this scene that what meets the eye.
Brendon Koussevitzky (Coral Springs, FL) to Jamie Barishman (Long Island, NY)
This afternoon, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of its coveted annual awards – and did not include the deeply objectionable New York Times series on the Orthodox Jewish community and their yeshivas.
Following a devastating illness, Reb Akiva Wagner returned his soul to its Creator. He passed away the day after his 55th birthday.
Levi and Dena Blecher from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
The Levaya for Rabbi Akiva Wagner OBM, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Chabad Yeshiva in Toronto, Canada, passed by 770 Monday afternoon, where a large crowd of Anash waited to bade farewell.
Amidst a resplendent display of British pomp and national pride, King Charles III ascended to the throne of England on Shabbat, and Jewish communities throughout the Commonwealth celebrated the coronation with special prayers for his welfare during Shabbat services, followed by expressions of goodwill for the new king.
Nervously fretting over her special day, a Kallah is still worrying if every detail will be right for her wedding. Right now, a Chosson is looking at the cost and wondering “How will we afford it?” Have you helped KSCVK make a wedding yet? There is just one week left to buy your tickets for the KSCVK auction.
Yitzchak and Shaindy (nee Rosenfeld) Heisler from Seattle, WA had a baby girl!
Last Thursday, over 1,600 bochurim from across the globe took the first Moshiach Chidon test. The test covered the first booklet in the new curriculum provided by the Moshiach Chidon.
Dovid Goldstein was 7 years old in 1981 when a bearded man entered his father’s store in McAllen, Texas, and changed his life forever. A “prodigy” of McAllen’s Temple Emanuel Sunday School, the boy was a world away from Chassidic Brooklyn, N.Y., where the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson—led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
