Wednesday
Sep062017
A MASHPIA WHO IS A FATHER
September 6, 2017R’ Chaim Steiner, Deputy Mayor of Kiryat Malachi: My mechanech: the mashpia, R’ Elimelech Zweibel
Wednesday
Sep062017
HEARING WHAT IS IN THE HEART OF THE STUDENT
R’ Aviram Magor: My mechanech: R’ YY Wilschansky, Rosh Yeshiva
Wednesday
Sep062017
REB MOSHE’S APPROACH
R’ Oholiav Abutbul, Director of Beis Moshiach in Eretz Yisroel: My mechanech: R’ Moshe Assoulin
Wednesday
Sep062017
THE SEVEN BLESSED ILLNESSES
This week’s parsha contains the harshest threats of pain and suffering for the Jewish people if they fail to follow G-d’s commandments. This lengthy section is called the Tochecha (rebuke).
Wednesday
Sep062017
PIONEER AND TRAILBLAZER OF “K’VUTZA”
For decades now, thousands of talmidim have spent their K’vutza year with the Rebbe. Few know that the pioneer of the first K’vutza in 5722 was Rabbi Aharon Halperin of Kfar Chabad who the Rebbe referred to as, “in charge of the K’vutza.” He spent six months in a row with the Rebbe! * Rabbi Aharon Halperin recently passed away, and in this brief bio we have incorporated some of his first-person accounts about the importance in going, as well as memories of rare kiruvim he had from the Rebbe
Wednesday
Sep062017
NO COMPROMISES OR CONCESSIONS
This Shabbos is Chai Elul, the birthday of the holy Baal Shem Tov in 5458 (1698), the date on which his holy master (Achiya HaShiloni) was revealed to him in 5484 (1724), and the date on which the Baal Shem Tov was revealed [as a Rebbe] in 5494 (1734). It is also the birthday of the Alter Rebbe in 5505 (1745).
Wednesday
Sep062017
A HARSH REALITY AND A CALMING DREAM
The doctors said that she would give birth to a boy. The Rebbe said in a dream – a girl. The doctors declared that the baby would have Down Syndrome. In a dream, the Rebbe rejected this out of hand… This is the moving story of Mrs. Etti Bitton from Tzfas, who experienced a period of tremendous tension due to the doctors’ warnings until she merited to have a miraculous dream, which was fulfilled in every detail
Wednesday
Sep062017
BROWSING THE WEB
Selected Halachos from the “One Minute Halacha” project By HaRav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Shlita, Mara D’asra and member of the Badatz of Crown Heights
Wednesday
Sep062017
REWARD FOR THEIR EFFORTS
Presented for 15 Elul, the day Yeshivas Tomchei T’mimim was founded.
Thursday
Aug312017
WHEN HE SPEAKS OF HIS FATHER HE MEANS HIMSELF
Chapter 16 of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2, responds to the questions: Where does the Rebbe explain why he refers to the Pervious Rebbe when he actually means himself? Where does the Rebbe state that he and the Previous Rebbe are one and the same? (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis.)
Thursday
Aug312017
THE COUPLE WHO BUILT AN EMPIRE FROM SCRATCH
Rabbi Sholom Mendel Kalmanson, who arrived in France as a refugee, was a model of a true Chassid. With great fortitude and courage, he undertook the founding of a Chassidic school for Jewish children who did not even know the alef-beis. * With bittul and kabbalas ol, Rabbi and Mrs. Kalmanson founded “Shneor.” They did whatever it took to realize their educational vision, and were constantly guided by the Rebbe. * A moving saga of a Chassidishe couple, based on the book written about them by R’ Sholom Dovber Friedland. * Part 1 of 2
Thursday
Aug312017
THE FEMALE CHASSIDISHE BUS DRIVER
The Shneor School in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris, is known among tens of thousands of French Jews as the school that conveys Jewish-Chassidic values in a professional, sensitive way. This spirit in the school is thanks to the founders, Rabbi Sholom Mendel Kalmanson a”h and his wife, ybl”c, Mrs. Basia Kalmanson.