| Yom Huledes, Mazel Tov!!
5709: Kfar Chabad Established |  | | 770 Kfar Chabad | Photograph: Meir Alfasi, Shturem | | The Chabad-Lubavitch village in Israel, Kfar Chabad, was founded by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, on Iyar 21 5709. The first settlers were mostly recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of the terrors of World War II and Stalinist oppression ■ more | | | |
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| Lag Sameach
Minhogei Lag B'Omer |  | | Photograph: Shturem Archives | It is customary to eat carobs on Lag BaOmer. This commemorates a lifesaving miracle that Rabbi Shimon experienced. For a period of thirteen years, Rabbi Shimon and his son were fugitives from the Roman regime, in hiding in a cave in Northern Israel. Miraculously a carob tree grew at the entrance of the cave, providing nourishments for its two holy occupants ■ more
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| Chof Cheshvan- 152 Years
Yom Huledes of the Rebbe Rashab |  | | Tonight, Chof Marcheshvan, we celebrate the 152nd Yom Huledes of the Rebbe Rashab ■ The Rebbe Rashab was born to his heilige parents, the Rebbe MaHaRaSh and Rebbetzin Rivka. Years after his birth, the Rebbetzin Rivka related the amazing events that preceded his birth ■ more | | | |
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| My Encounter with The Rebbe
Dr. Laz Recalls Amazing Yechidus |  | Prognosis: Positive. When it's three doctors against one rabbi, who would you believe ■ more  | | | |
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
Felix, Noah and Stratosphere Serenity on Shabbat |  | Felix Baumgartner is the man. He did it. He crawled in to his space suit and jumped down to planet earth. He was scared of his space suit but he had a vision. Just like you ■ more
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| Leb'n Mit Moshiach
TAKE THE SIMCHA TO THE STREETS |  | Chabad Chassidim would traditionally gather during Simchas-Bais-Hashoeva for a farbrengen, where Torah and inspiring talks would be discussed and that would lead to song and dance ■ In recent years, we too have been placing more emphasis on actual singing and dancing in celebrating Simchas-Bais-Hashoeva ■ more | | | |
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
I Wanted to Cry... So I Danced |  | For the first and last Hakafa the Rebbe would come to the centre of the room where, immediately surrounded by hundreds of children, the Rebbe would dance with the Torah.
I still remember the excitement, the energy and the unbridled joy on the Rebbe's face as he would dance with the Torah, cradling it like a father cradling his only child ■ more | | | |
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| Yagdil Torah Presents
Updated Kovetz Limud 13 Tishrei |  | The Rebbe encourages us to learn the works of a Rebbe in Nigleh and Chassidus on his yom hilula, and to learn (at least one perek of) Mishnayos beginning with the letters of his name. Yagdil Torah has compiled a publication with Mishnayos and selected pieces of the Rebbe Maharash's Torah ■ to download kovetz | | | |
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| Don't Miss!
The Triumph of Chabad |  | | The Rebbe's Army | Photograph: Shturem Archive | This year's Yom Kipur found me in Australia. The year before was South Africa. The year before that the south of France, and the year before that Central America. (Yes, I get around.) In all these places, the chagim are an issue -- of security, of buying tickets, in other words of potentially being turned away by a shul packed to capacity and made nervous by all too recent experiences of bombings, stabbings, riots, and various other attacks ■ more
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| A Don't Miss!
A Guide: Tishrei With The Rebbe |  | | Photograph: Avner Institute | On the morning of Erev Rosh Hashanah, following Selichos, the Rebbe would go to the mikveh, then daven Sharcharis with the minyan. Morning service was 9:30, or 10:00 in the later years; in ’92 (1991), extremely late—close to noon. Afterwards, a group of prominent rabbis and Chassidim assembled and sat on benches around the Rebbe for Hatoras Nedorim ■ more 
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| Leb'n Mit Moshiach
Don't Let Golus Overwhelm You! |  | In parshas Nitzavim we read about an issue which is especially relevant in our time of ikvesa d’meshicha – the final days in golus – so we have to prepare for the true and complete Geula through Moshiach tzidkeinu ■ more
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
We Are All Ambassadors |  | I recall once departing from Ben Gurion Airport and noticing a massive billboard just over the final departure gate to the jet way that read “ B'chu"l Kulanu Shagririm ” - “ Outside Israel, We ’ re All Ambassadors. ” Perhaps a feeble attempt to blunt the rough edges of the stereotypical Sabra mentality as it embarks abroad ■ more
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| Leb'n Mit Moshiach
A Tzadik's Birthday is Unique |  | The main thrust of disseminating the fountains outward, is through the revelation of Chabad Chasidus as it comes down into rational comprehension in the intellect. This is the connection between “Chai Elul” and parshas Savo: Following the revelation and dissemination of Toras haChasidus, there is an even greater increase in the certainty that immediately will be the “come to the land that Hashem your L-rd is giving you as a heritage, occupying and settling it ■ more
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew |  | A young Jew living in a distant Island in the Caribbean wrote to the Rebbe in the Lamed years thanking him for his intervention on his son's behalf thereby helping "a small Jew in the Caribbean." In his reply to the individual, the Rebbe accepted his thanks but took issue with his closing remark because "there is no such thing as a small Jew ■ more
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| Gut Yom Tov!
Yom Huledes Shnei HaMeoirois HaG'dolim |  | | Gut Yom Tov Chassidim and Fellow Jews the world over. This Shabbos is Yom HaBohir Chai Ellul, and will be celebrated by Yidden all around the globe with fiery farbrengens, bringing chayus into the avoda of Ani L'Dodi v'Dodi Li. with great joy, in true Lubavitch fashion ■ more | | | |
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| Yom HaBohir Tes Vov Ellul
Mazel Tov, Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim! |  | | Photograph: Lubavitch by Yechiel Offner | | Today, the 15th of Elul, Lubavitcher Chassidim around the world are celebrating the 114th yom huledes of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim, established during the Sheva Brochos week of the Frierdiker Rebbe ■ more | | | |
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