Last Tuesday, Isru Hag of the festival of Shavuot, an exhibition was opened at the central library of Lubavitch, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth […]
‘Mother’ of Polish Chassidus Polish King Graces Temerl’s Wedding In Shevat 5547/February 1787 a glorious wedding took place in a suburb of Warsaw that was attended by many prominent members […]
On the first day of Chanukah, Rabbi Yochanan Twersky, the Tolner Rebbe of Jerusalem passed away at the age of 93. Thousands upon thousands participated in the funeral which began […]
(Continued from last week) Against the expectations of Captain Shtaier, it was in the Hungarian areas through which he passed, and not in the German occupied territories that his scheme […]
In his introduction to the first volume of Mossad HaRav Kook’s Hebrew Encyclopedia of Hasidism, which appeared in 1960 and which featured complete bibliographies of Hasidic writings, arranged according to […]
The Midrash tells of a Roman Jew, a tailor by profession, who on the eve of Yom Kippur competed with the servant of the governor for the last fish on […]
(Yiddish, time spent together)- Term used by the Hasidim of Lubavitch to denote gatherings at which there are eating, drinking, singing and discussion of Hasidic teachings. The Hebrew expression for […]
Many know Reb Chaim Liberman, more have heard about him, but only very few know of his real greatness in the world of Jewish scholarship. Though he is eighty-eight—until one […]
“The Hebrew word “pras” means prize, reward. It also means a part of something, a piece. On the occasion it means both—it is a prize, but it is only part […]
Much time has passed since I had seen him last. He has not changed much—the same white flowing beard, the thick dense eyebrows, the clever eyes twinkling from behind the […]