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PIRSUM RISHON: ‘Mafteich’ Team Releases New Set of Rebbe’s Edits

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In honor of Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim, the team at ‘Mafteiach’ presents the Rebbe’s edits on the sicha of Shabbos Mishpatim/Shkolim 5747 (1987). This publication is the 19th installment in the recently initiated weekly series from ‘Mafteiach’ • Download

For Your Shabbos Table: Childlessness

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Virtually every tradition and culture places the highest premium on having children – building a family and home. The ostensible reason is obvious: Children are our future. Life ends if we do not propagate. Even according to the heartless evolutionary view of nature, perpetuation of the species is the cardinal rule of existence. Torah tradition in particular is built around children: Education, the Passover Seder, births, weddings and celebrations – all orbit around the family nucleus. Attempts throughout history to replace the nuclear family have all failed • Click to Read

Tziporah (Robyn) Ferszt, 76, OBM

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we regret to inform you the passing of Tziporah (Robyn) Ferszt, a beloved mother and grandmother from Los Angeles, who passed away on Thursday, 25 Shvat, 5782. She was 76 years old • Full Story

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Delve Into This Week’s Dvar Malchus With Rabbi Greenberg

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Explore the sicha of Parshas Mishpatim 5752 with a thorough synopsis from Rabbi Heschel Greenberg, Shliach to Buffalo, NY • Audio

L’Chaim: Schanowitz – Gurevitz

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The Schanowitz (Las Vegas) and Gurevitz (Philadelphia) families celebrated the l’chaim of their children Mendy and Chaya last night in Lubavitcher Yeshiva. Images captured by photographer Shmulik Reinitz • Photos

Photos: This Week in 770

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Uplifting and rousing moments, as well as ‘ordinary’ moments; this week 770 has been full of photogenic scenes, some of which have been captured for posterity through the lens of ChabadInfo.com photographer Dov Ber Hechtman. Enjoy this week’s gallery of the week of Parshas Mishpotim in Beis Chayenu • Photos

Who Taught The Slow V’harikosi Lachem Brocha Niggun At The Rebbe’s Farbrengen?

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Who taught the slow V’harikosi Lachem Brocha niggun at the Rebbe’s farbrengen? Maor KIDS presents another beautiful video of the Rebbe. To sign up for the ‘Kids Rebbe Video’ WhatsApp: 347-687-8770 or go to: MyMaor.org • Watch

Affluence & Miami Sunshine

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As a shliach to the exclusive community of Golden Beach, Rabbi Chay Amar has more than enough wisdom to share. His shlichus was hardly smooth sailing, but his simcha and strong principles made him come out ahead. In this issue, Rabbi Amar shares financial advice, how to stay firm under pressure, and what wealthy people really want from you • Full Story, Photos

YeshivaCation ’21: 10 Days of In-Person Torah Learning At Yeshiva Hadar Hatorah

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Young men from around the world took a break from their busy lives of school and work to visit Hadar HaTorah’s annual Yeshivication in late December. Hailing from Vancouver Canada, to Ohio, to California, they came to learn the essentials of what the Jewish religion has to offer • Full Story, Photos

Strong Snowstorm Blankets Eretz Hakodesh

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Jerusalem awoke Thursday morning to find that the storm “Elpis” left up to 25 centimeters (9.8 inches) of snow on the ground. Snow also fell in many Binyamin Region towns, in Gush Etzion, and in a number of places in Samaria. Due to the heavy snow, the roads leading to Jerusalem have been partially closed, and within the city, the roads are being salted and plowed. The city has requested that residents not travel by vehicle until the roads are safe enough to drive on • Full Story, Photos

Moscow: Chief Rabbi Hosts Holocaust Commemoration in Jewish Museum

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At Moscow’s ‘Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center’ Rabbi Berl Lazar, Russia’s Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi, flanked by fellow Shliach Rabbi Alexander Boroda, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, Chabad’s umbrella organization in Russia, hosted a delegation from the Russian government to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Present in the delegation was Mr. Vyacheslav Volodin, the current speaker of Russia’s Duma, the lower house of its parliament • Photos, Video

Picture of the Day

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A wall of black bags piled up on the corner of Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway last night as workers retrieved the massive stockpile of sheimos in the basement storage of 770. The bags will imminently be loaded onto trucks and sent to a Jewish cemetery for proper burial.

‘I’m Proud I Irritated You’

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“I’m proud to have irritated you.” With these words, a Lubavitcher bus driver from Beitar Illit, Reb Moshe Dovid Cohen, responded to a contentious statement by an MK from the Blue and White party claiming that Israel’s economic woes are due to the “growth in birthrate” • Full Story, Video

L’Chaim: Lifshitz – Epstein

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The Lifshitz (Cincinnate, OH) and Epstein (Chicago) families celebrated the l’chaim of their children Yisroel and Raizl last night in Eshel Hall. Images captured by photographer Shmulik Reinitz • Photos

Baba Sali Appears in Dream of Jewish Boy in Arab Village, Urges Him to Return to His People

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No one davening at the tziyun of the Baba Sali in Netivot last Thursday knew the amazing story behind the Bar Mitzvah boy who was called to the Torah. The boy, we’ll call him Moshe, was born in a hostile Arab village to a Jewish mother and an Arab father. He was raised and educated as a Muslim, but at the age of six had a dream that changed his life. An old man appeared to him and said, “Your mother is Jewish, and so are you” • Full Story

Mazal Tov

Velvel Reikhtman (Ben Reb Moshe) – Montreal to Channah Kagan (Bas Reb Zev Moishe) – Crown Heights

L’chayim will be Tuesday night in Ulam Chana – 556 Crown St.

Baby boy to Mendi and Devora Leah Labi (née Spielman) — Crown Heights

Mendel Shloima Litzman – Monsey NY, to Rivka Polter – Orangburg NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Tuesday) in ULY crown st.

Mendy Holtzberg – Monterey, California to Leah Schmerling – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14 in the JCM

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No 3 Trains At Kingston Ave? MTA Plans Major Change to Subway Services in Crown Heights

Updated with statement from the MTA: The MTA announced it will unclog the infamous “Nostrand Junction,” just east of Franklin Ave in Crown Heights, which merges the 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines in Crown Heights. The plan means that the 3 train may no longer run along Eastern Parkway and stop at the Kingston Avenue station, and would be replaced by a new “8” subway line • Full Story
Sunday: Siyum Sefer Torah in Memory of Reb Yoel Kahn in Boro Park

The Boro Park community invites everyone — family, friends, talmidim, Chassidim, and all — to take part in a Siyum Sefer Torah this Sunday, dedicated l’ilui nishmas Harav Yoel Kahn a”h, the Rebbe’s chozer and a foundational teacher of Chassidus in our generation • Full Story, Details
Op-Ed: A New Approach To “Mivtza Tzedakah”

Rabbi Gershon Avtzon writes: This week’s column is not a paid advertisement or fundraiser for any specific institution or program. This is to speak about a unique approach to fulfilling the Mitzvah of Tzedakah and the Mivtza (from the 10 Mivztoim!) of Tzedakah. I will be writing from the perspective of an administrator of an educational institution and will share my personal experiences in this area • Full Article
Rabbi in Normandy Attacked by Afghan Migrant with Chair

Just one week after suffering a violent assault, Rabbi Eli Lemel was once again the target of an attack in the seaside town of Deauville, Normandy. This time, the assailant — an Afghan migrant — struck the rabbi with a chair while he was sitting on the terrace of a local café • Read More

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Thousands of Crown Heights Children March On Lag B’Omer

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L’Chaim: Majeski – Hendel

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir Visits 770

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The Divine Census and Quantum Collapse: Lessons in Identity and Potential

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The Crown of Aleppo Mirrors the Story of Our People

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