My apologies to Reb Peretz Chein - some 7 years in the making...
I'm not sure Shliach Reb Peretz Chein even remembers; but I know other long-time readers do. I know because one several of you brought it to my attention. Then we criticized him for running a marathon...
View ArticleHirshel: Satmar Rov wanted mikvaos built in small towns for ho-hum Yidden
A reader writes:This Teshuva of the Satmar Ruv is a very important teshuva to study... It wavers constantly, many parts of it go against his standard philosophy, but he also derides the people who were...
View ArticleBreslov/Lubavitch art in Kiryas Yoel, home of "נשתכחה"
The light of chassidus can penetrate/permeate even the highest walls. Ami Yoel Glick Artistbox.com link
View Article....לוח פאפא - תש"ג
I was struck by the עולם כמנהגו נוהג aspect of the calendar. שובבי"ם and all... The world is going to h*ll and they're.... never mind that. I wasn't there, I can't point fingers. But what gets an...
View ArticleIt's a long way from Cluj to Brest-Litowsk
Reb Osher Weisz meeting Reb Aron Lichtenstein in Gush Etzion....
View ArticleThis week's "כפר חב"ד" magazine cover
המשפיע Reb Zalman Gopin says: Gimmel Tammuz by us needs to be like the Kohen Gadol's אחת בשנה
View Articleיותר מדי "קנאות"עושה אותך סתם רשע
שווער צו גלייבען אז דאס קומט פון סאטמאר רב, אבער אזוי שטייט
View Article....ציור פניו של הרה"ק מרוז'ין זצ"ל ׁ
צויר בשנת ת"ר Word on the street is that it was bought now from a Ukrainian non-Jew by a rich Yid names Halpern. It says Rabbi Yisroel Friedman on the original.
View Articleהגראי"ל שטיינמן: בלתי אפשרי לחכות לביאת המשיח • האזינו
Source This may be difficult for some of you to believe; but I didn't post this to make fun or to point fingers. I was not trying to point out that "Litvaks don't believe in Moshiach." It never crossed...
View Article....בינו שנות דור ודור
A Yekker and a Galitzyaner, Shlomo and Zalman, talk about finding G-d through drugs and Eastern Religions... the Chiddushei haRim, the holy Izhbitzer, they're all part of the reyd...
View ArticleZSIDÓ HÍREK BUDAPEST
The "enlightened" ones like to point to the Bilgorajer Rov's parting droshoh in 1944 as proof that the Tzaddikim at that time had no idea what was coming. Even as late as Spring 1944. That the secular...
View ArticleNot a Harry pounds home what he wants us to hear re: "Open Orthodoxy" - GUEST...
Rav Yaakov Perlow - the Novominsker Rebbe - justifiably set off a firestorm with his remarks at the Agudah dinner about Open Orthodoxy. The criticism on the left demonstrate the truth of his words....
View ArticleI'm not sure many Lubavitchers are thinking about גימ"ל תמוז as much as Rabbi...
As least not in an as serious אופן as RTHW. First he speaks to Steve Savitsky.Then he wants us to know about the Torah. The Rebbe's Torah. Because truthfully the Rebbe's Torah - as is true every...
View Articleחסידות מלוקטת עמ"ס סוטה, חלקים ט'-י"ג
sorry for the delay. number 13number 12number 11number 10number 9
View Articleשבעים שנה מאז שנעקד"ה רבינו ה"חקל יצחק"מספינקא זצ"ל הי"ד
JDN אלץ ספינקער תלמיד איז דער טאג ביי מיר א "טאג."עס רעדט צו מיר. ובפרט ווען עס רעדט זיך פון אזעלכע געפערליכע אומשטענדן. הייסען הייסט אז ער האט מבטיח געווען צו זיינע באקאנטער אז "ספינקא וועט...
View Articleדער חסידישער למדן און גביר וועלכע האט מייסד געווען אגודת חסידי חב"ד אין אמעריקא
Read his biography hereOn page 36 - זייט זעקס און דרייסיג, rather - we read about a siyum haShas made by RMAK shortly before his passing in 1926. What is noteworthy about the siyum is that RMAK wasn't...
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