When the Dollar Sign Becomes the New Hechsher
“It used to be that Kashrus was the ultimate boundary line. A Lubavitcher Chassid wouldn’t let a single morsel cross their lips without knowing exactly who stands behind the hechsher. Today? It seems the most powerful hechsher on the market is the dollar sign.”
Houston Mikveh Celebrated Rededication with Exquisite Event
The Houston Jewish community gathered for the rededication and ribbon-cutting ceremony of Mikveh Taharas Yisroel at Texas Chabad Regional Headquarters with a dessert reception honoring the 22 mikveh volunteers.
New Episode Features The Chossid Who Moved Boulders
Have You Ever Thought About Becoming a Sofer?
Record Participation in Moshiach Chidon Finals
The Man Who Never Took the Easy Way Out
25 Sivan marks the yartzeit of Rabbi Eliezer Zirkind. Besides being the Rebbe's personal sofer, Rabbi Zirkind was also known for his unblemished avodas Hashem between man and Hashem and between man and man.
Oholei Torah’s Top Talmidim Face Off in Pirkei Avos Chidon
MAZAL TOV
Shluchim Office Volunteers Work Round the Clock for Campaign
The Shluchim Office is busy with activity as volunteers and staff work around the clock on the Together For Shluchim campaign to raise $600,000 in just 36 hours to support Shluchim, Shluchos and their families worldwide.
Global Farbrengen to Mark 85 Years to Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s Rescue
A special online farbrengen will mark 85 years since the miraculous rescue of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin from Nazi Europe and their safe arrival in America, as well as the beginning of a new era and the revolution in Torah and Chassidus.
Crown Heights Storeowners Come Out in Support of Gluck
Alongside major registration drives, Crown Heights storeowners have hung Gluck For Assembly signs in their windows, including many non-Jewish-owned stores in the heart of Crown Heights.
Mivtza Trains a New Generation to Understand the Rebbe
Every week, hundreds of bochurim around the world are dedicating time to listen to the Rebbe’s Farbrengens, write their own hanochos, and prepare themselves in a meaningful way for Gimmel Tammuz.
Live: Project Chana Woman’s Power Hour
Join at 8:30 PM: Project Chana Woman’s Power Hour featuring Rabbi Yosef Braun on carrying on Shabbos, Mrs. Sara Rayzel Wagner on Taharas Hamishpacha, and Rabbi Nissan Zibell on Kashering 101.
Your Entire Torah Library – In One Place, Always
Whether you are a shliach preparing a farbrengen, a yungerman in kollel, a melamed building shiurim, or simply someone who takes their half-hour of learning seriously — Otzar HaChochmah meets you exactly where you are. This is your personal beis medrash.
Lost Rashbam Manuscript Uncovered in Moscow Archives
A rare manuscript of Rashbam’s commentary on the Torah, long considered lost after being used for the first printed edition in 1881, was recently uncovered in the archives of the Russian State Library in Moscow.
Featured
‘My Generals’: The Rebbe’s Revolutionary Approach to Special Children
For generations, children with special needs were viewed through the lens of their limitations. But the Rebbe fundamentally transformed the way we understand, speak about, and care for children with special needs, and revealed the unique spiritual depth hidden within these neshamos. An in-depth conversation with author and parent of a special child, Rabbi Eliyahu Wolf.
Los Angeles Rabbonim Farher Bochurim on Full Masechta
22 bochurim from Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad (YOEC) in Los Angeles were tested by the city’s rabbonim on the entire Maseches Bava Kamma Baal Peh.
Showering After Mikvah?
Ask the Rov: What is the source of the practice not to shower after mikvah? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Putting a Mezuzah on a Blocked Doorway?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including getting paid for research on Shabbos, mezuzah on a blocked doorway, and calculating maaser on investments.
Little Tyke: The Obligation of a Destructive Child
Get a Taste of the Rebbe’s Farbrengens This Week
Sephardim and Ashkenazim After Moshiach Comes?
Correct Placement of the Tefillin Shel Yad?
Ask the Rov: Where is the correct place for tefillin on the arm? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
The Chossid Who Wouldn’t Stop Shouting Tanya Through the Window
A chassidishe shochet in Nikolayev, R' Asher Grossman was a devoted chossid and a talented ba'al menagen. When his friend, R' Meir Shlomo Yanovsky, was quarantined with typhus, he came daily and shouted Tanya to him, hoping it would give him the strength to overcome his illness.
Stop Trying to ‘Become,’ Serve Hashem Now
In the newest episode of Conversations in Chassidus, Postville Mashpia Rabbi Gavriel Levin discusses his project of answering life's questions through the lens of Tanya, and Tanya's fundamental message of not trying to "become".