My husband and I want to hire a babysitter for a short time after candlelighting time on Friday evening. How can we pay her for this “work” done on Shabbos? By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, member of the Badatz of Crown Heights • Full Article

If a shidduch is suggested with a good girl who has yiras Shamayim and is a ba’alas midos tovos, but her parents were mechalelei Shabbos, or weren’t generally frum, some people may mistakenly consider it grounds for rejecting the shidduch. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, member of the Badatz of Crown Heights • Full Article

Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, Shliach to Southwest Florida, is proud to present a weekly Parsha class. The goal of the class is to allow people the opportunity to study Torah from their home or office, and hear insights from the Torah that will help understand some of the most challenging questions • Video

I would like to share a story with you that I heard from a Shliach in Eretz Yisrael. He was approached by a very prominent Rabbi, requesting the newest volume of Igros Kodesh. The Shliach asked him the obvious question: “Why Igros? There are Sichos, Maamarim etc” • Full Story

Is it true that Minhag Chabad is to refrain from eating meat even after making a Siyum during the 9 days? I have not heard of such a Minhag as an official Chabad Minhag. By Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, member of the Badatz of Crown Heights • Full Article

Just over a year ago, in the summer of 5779, a group of Bochurim learning in 770 established – with the permission and guidance of the Hanhala – the ועד שבעים שנה, dedicated to activities in connection with 70 years of the Rebbe’s Nesius • Full Story

Live: A special class will be given by Rabbi Braun about the second wave of Covid-19 According to Halacha In Conjunction with a Siyum Harambam • Watch Live

Today at 12:00 PM, Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, will be giving a Shiur on a Mishna of this week’s Pirkei Avos • Full Details

As part of the AskTheRav.com project, answering many questions in Halacha and Minhag, Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Braun, member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, Refers to when Yud Beis Tammuz falls on Shabbos, like this year, 5780, what should be said by Lecha Dodi, Besimcha or Berina? • Full Story

Are your commitments superimposed or engraved in you? How can we know if we have made a successful connection with the Rebbe? What’s your opinion on the tearing down of statues? How should we react to fireworks in the streets? and many more interesting topics in this episode of Mylife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch Live

Today at 1:00 PM, Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, will be giving a Shiur on a Mishna of this week’s Pirkei Avos • Full Details

From after Pesach through the summer months, there is a well-known Minhag to learn a Perek of Pirkei Avos every Shabbos. There is a Hora’ah of the Rebbe to learn at least one Mishna B’Iyun. We are publishing one Mishnah of this week’s Perek with Mifarshim, and some of the Rebbe’s teachings on the Mishnah • Download