“This Thursday night, 7th of Teives - 24th of December, is known as “Nitle Nacht”, and the custom is that we don’t learn Torah this night till midnight, (see Rama on Shulchan Aruch, letters of the Chatam Sofer and others) Kabbalisticly the reason is, as is known from the Rebbe Rasha”b the 5th Chabad Lubavitch […]
“A group of Lubavitch girls were granted a rare tour of the Lenin Library in Moscow Tuesday, where the Schneerson collection is held. Students of the Chabad seminary viewed a large anthology of Jewish manuscripts and texts of the Chabad Lubavitch community.They were accompanied by Rabbi Yitzchok Kogan, leader of the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in […]
“A U.S. court has entered a default judgment against the Russian Federation following Moscow’s decision to withdraw from litigation surrounding its control of a portion of the library of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. The order by Judge Royce C. Lamberth, chief justice of the U.S. District Court for the District of […]
The three Mivtzoim that are connected with Jewish women — the lighting of Shabbos candles, Taharas Hamishpachah, and Kashrus, have a connection to tonight’s gathering. The name Chana [Trans. Note: The Rebbe’s mother’s name was Chana] is an acronym for three Hebrew words: Challah, Nidah, and Hadlakas Hanar (lighting of the Shabbos candles). The mitzvah […]
“The Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic movement renewed its efforts on Monday to obtain “righteous gentile” status from the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial institute for a senior Nazi who saved Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Schneerson, the movement’s leader during World War II. The effort was based on new information revealed by historian Danny Orbach that Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, […]
“In January of this year, Russia’s lawyers at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey — including James Murphy, Alan Briggs and Jeremy Dutra in the Washington office, who declined comment — asked to be removed from the case. They had lost contact with their client, they told the court, and weren’t being paid. In March, they withdrew […]
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“Exclusive: The following audio clip was submitted to Chabad.info earlier today. The clip is a recording of a Farbrengen which took place during the year 5765, led by Rabbi Yoel Kahn. During the farbrengen, Rabbi Kahn explained that there is no diiference between the situation before Gimmel Tammuz and after. It seems […]
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rarely in our times do we see such a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty as exhibited by these extraordinary woman. Facing modern challenges in defense and perpetuation of Judaism, the values and qualities they displayed provide […]
