As a Rebbi, I’ve had the privilege of working with wonderful students and their supportive families. However, there’s a common misunderstanding I’ve noticed among many parents: the difference between simply saying “thank you” and really appreciating what Rebbis do.
While visiting a Holocaust museum, L’man Achai Teen Division’s Head Counselor Sholom Yaffe spoke about protecting ourselves from a spiritual Holocaust by living Jewishly. Astonishingly, the owner of the museum cafe overheard this and decided to break up with a non-Jewish girl he was dating.
Seeking to keep contact with people he met on mivtzoim, R’ Eytan Waxman began a weekly mini dvar Torah which he shared in French and English. As the initiative gained interest, he harnessed generative AI to translate them into 22 languages, each reviewed by a native speaker for accuracy.
Mashpiim and chassidim from around the world, students of the legendary mashpia Reb Yoel Kahn, united in honor of his 3rd yahrtzeit to reminisce about this great mashpia and be inspired by his ways.
Less than 48 hours before Tisha B’Av, a stone fell from the ‘Machkameh’ wall into the Kosel plaza, without injuries BH. Engineers confirmed that there is no danger and, if Moshiach doesn’t come, tefilos will be held at the plaza.
Summer camps for Jewish children throughout Russia were run in dozens of cities, directed by local shluchim, and joined by hundreds of bochurims who invested great effort to ensure that the camps were a smashing success.
Ask the Rov: When did the minhag begin to wear Shabbos clothing on Shabbos in the Nine Days? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Live at 3:00 PM: Following the Rebbe’s instruction to hold siyumim daily, a live siyum will be broadcast by Rabbi Levi Osdoba, Rabbi of Congregation Bais Yehudah of Belle Harbor, on masechta Brachos in Yerushalmi.
After 12 incredible months of immersive Limud Hatorah with geshmak, talmidim of Ohr Menachem yeshiva of Crown Heights and their parents gathered in the ULY hall for a to celebrate their graduation.
Watch today’s daily video about the Beis Hamikdash by Rabbi Chananya Hoffinger and take a quiz to enter a raffle on two gift cards at Judaica World of Crown Heights.
Rabbi Leibel Turk, a respected shochet from Crown Heights and the father of a large Lubavitch family, passed away shortly before Shabbos.
War Summary, Day 309: The U.S. told Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that it has closed the investigation into the Netzach Yehuda battalion for Human Rights violations, IDF hits 19 terrorists in Gaza school building which Hamas falsely claims 100 killed, and Mikhail Samara, 27, succumbed to wounds from Tuesday attack to the North.
Mrs. Pesya Wolf, the daughter of the chossid Reb Avrohom Pariz, the wife of Rabbi Ephraim Wolf, director of Chabad institutions in Eretz Yisroel, and matriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed away on Shabbos, 6 Av.
Article by Rabbi Shmuel Wagner: There is a common expression, “Hashem always answers our tefillos – but sometimes, the answer is ‘no!’” Could it be that Hashem commanded me to request my needs from Him, all the while smirking, knowing that the answer to this request will be “no!”?
Great disappointment as a new setback in the long legal battle being waged over the Chabad Library in Russia due to the United States Overturning the sanctions previously placed on Russia.
Close to 1,300 men and women gathered at an event titled “Dina D’malchusa Dina” to raise awareness on “preventative pidyon shvuyim,” featuring among others Rabbi Aaron Lipskar of the Aleph Institute and renowned criminal defense attorney Mr. Benjamin Brafman.
Live at 3:00 PM: Following the Rebbe’s instruction to hold siyumim daily, a live siyum will be broadcast by Rabbi Levi Garelik, Rav of Bais Shmuel – Chabad, on masechta Rosh Hashanah.
A large crowd gathered in front of 770 for the levaya of Mrs. Miriam Mintz, a young shlucha from Maryland, and the wife of activist and shliach Rabbi Mendel Mintz.
A group of mashpi’im, colleagues, and students of Reb Yoel Kahn paid a visit to his kever, just feet away from the Rebbe’s Ohel, ahead of his third yahrzeit this Shabbos, 6 Av.
Live at 3:00 PM: Following the Rebbe’s instruction to hold siyumim daily, a live siyum will be broadcast by Rabbi Levi Shusterman, Magid Shiur at Darchai Menachem Mesivta, on masechta Megillah.
This week’s selection of letters by Rebbe Responsa are on the topic of Moshiach, including: reversing the cause of Galus, the process of Moshiach, and the biggest question towards Hashem.
The stone that fell from the Kosel six years ago on the night after Tisha B’Av was buried on Wednesday alongside the stones of the Kosel that fell during the destruction of the Second Beis Hamikdash.
In an early yechidus, bochur Berl Yunik complained of his highs and lows in his avodas Hashem. The Rebbe reassured him that fluctuation is normal and then went on to outline the problem of many bochurim which can be easily resolved.
