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To see a gallery of pictures of the farbrengens and dancing before slichus, click here. To see pictures of slichos in 770, click here.
To watch a video of slichos, click here.
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| | Shofar Factory in Sydney, Australia | | |
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In Sydney Australia, three of the smicha students/shluchim remained for two weeks after completing their smicha to run a shofar factory. The bachurim met over 1,000 children and made shofars at Jewish schools, local private schools, shuls and many public schools. (In Australia, religious programming is allowed on public school property.)
At one public school the bachurim completed the program and the kids went to line up. The bachurim asked the principal if they could blow the shofar for the entire school. He himself was excited to hear the shofar and gave his permission. The school has about 350 children of whom 50 are Jewish. Many children learned for the first time about Rosh Hashana and about the "great shofar" that will be blown when Moshiach comes. One teacher remarked, "it put the kids in the Rosh Hashana mood."
Thanks to Yossi Shuchat who came from New York to make the program happen and Yossi Kopfstien, Benyamin Kosofsky and Shmuly Kopel. May we merit to hear the "big shofar" blow.
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| | Shleimus Haaretz Meeting Monday Night | | |
Leibel and Miryam Swerdlov will be hosting a Shlaimos HaAretz program featuring Moshe and Chaya Belogorodsky on Monday evening, 22 Elul, at 8:30, at their home 484 Crown Street. Separate seating.
Fourteen year old Chaya Belogorodsky was recently released from jail in Ramle, (not far from Kfar Chabad.) Moshe Belogorodsky has come with his daughter to raise awareness of the denial of civil rights to those who oppose evicting Jews from their homes in order to reward terrorists.
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Chaya was accused of standing on the sidewalk while her friends proceeded to block traffic. Chaya was asked by a policewoman to leave the area. She refused, saying that she was not doing anything illegal, that she had every right to stand on every inch of the Land of Israel... For her first week in jail, Chaya was kept in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to shower or call home. She was not given packages from home with fresh clothing and fresh food.She was given food that did not meet her level of Kashrus. She was denied a fan in her cell in the stifling heat of summer. Once a week she was degraded by having male jailers search her personal
belongings.
Chaya is not alone in her experience of being arrested and mistreated. Youth from Crown Heights who were in Yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel and attended anti-disengagement rallies experienced the same treatment, along with severe beatings by police.
This p! ast week eleven young girls were incarcerated in Eretz Yisroel. The hunt continues even past the disengagement, because the disengagement process is still in full swing! All those who are aware of the Rebbe's call to action to do what we can to stop the retreat from the Holy Land cannot rest. Our evil opponents are not resting, they are busy planning their next disengagement.
The Belogorodsky's are coming to Crown Heights to tell their story. Let us show them their story is important to us… they are important to us! They are upholding – with great Mesirus Nefesh – the Rebbe’s message of Shlaimos HaAretz.
In Volume 28 of the Rebbe’s letters, on page Kuf Tzadik Hey, the Rebbe speaks about the lack of democracy in Eretz Yisroel and he says, “The most painful point is that nobody protests against this because, anyone who is not in agreement should have protested with all their strength.”
Chaya and her friends, the Crown Heights youth who were arrested, an! d the thousands of other upright Jews who have been arrested b! ecause t hey protest the evil regime in Eretz Yisroel, have all been helped by the experienced and dedicated lawyers who show up right away to defend the innocent from a court system guilty of corruption. As badly as Chaya and others have been treated, without the presence of these lawyers, the situation would be much, much worse.
These lawyers are organized by and their expenses are paid by Honeinu Legal Defense Fund. The Monday evening event is being held to benefit Honeinu.
The event is being organized by Sarah Chana Schreiber in the Zechus of Tzvi Yehuda ben Esther Saks of Pittsburgh, may he have a miraculous, speedy, complete recovery.
Please try to come to hear the Belogorodsky’s. This is a rare opportunity to hear first hand a story of Mesiras Nefesh for Shlaimos HaAretz and Pikuach Nefesh.
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| | Tonight: Slichos and Farbrengens | | |
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In Yeshivos and Chabad Centers around the world, Chassidim and Anash will gather at midnight for slichos. Before slichos, chassidishe farbrengens will be held to generate inspiration for slichos night. Slichos in 770 will begin at 1:00 AM and can be heard live at 770live.
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| | Wealth in the Days of Moshiach | | |
Mercaz Moshiach of Yerushalayim held an inspiring event on Wednesday night entitled "Living Wealthy in Our Days". The evening was held to carry out the directive of the Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Terumah 5752, that we should all aspire to be wealthy in the literal sense.
During the evening, various successful businessmen told the story behind their success, and gave tips for good financial health. Central to their success was remembering to give credit to Hashem and sharing generously of their wealth.
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| | Shloshim Gathering for R. Shmuel Shuchat | | |
On Monday night, Ohr l'Chof Gimmel Elul, a shloshim gathering will be held in memory of R. Shmuel Tanchum A"H ben R. Moshe Sheyichye Shuchat. The gathering will be held in Lubavitch Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. at 8:30 PM. The community is invited to attend. Separate seating for men and women.
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| | 3,000 Attend Chai Elul Farbrengen | | |
Over 3,000 people participated yesterday in a gathering of "Strengthening and Renewal", entitled "They will seek out Hashem and David their King." Many rabbinical leaders of the religious Zionist movement, headed by R. Avraham Shapiro, attended. The gathering turned into a massive Chai Elul farbrengen with R. Yitzchak Ginsberg of Kfar Chabad. The gathering represented another step in breaking the klippa of seeing the secular state of Israel as "the beginning of Geulah." The purpose of the gathering was to awaken the faith of the people in the true redemption with Moshiach.
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| | Cholov Yisroel in Ukraine | | |
(Sue Fishkoff, JTA) SUMY, Ukraine — Most people buy milk in a store. But the Levitanskys get theirs straight from the cow.
Unlike the first Chabad families who arrived in Ukraine 15 years ago, Rabbi Yechiel and Rochi Levitansky have a choice: They could have Lubavitch-certified milk shipped to them in boxes. That’s what Yechiel Levitansky’s sister, a Chabad emissary in Kharkov, does, as does Rochi Levitansky’s brother, the Chabad rabbi in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
But when the young couple moved here from Santa Monica, Calif., in September 2004, they figured they were putting their three kids through enough, shlepping them to this ends-of-the-earth industrial city on the Russian border where they’d be the only Orthodox kids in town, and where most of their food would have to be flown or trucked in.
Boxed milk, too? Not on your life.
So twice a week, Yechiel, 31, and Rochi, 28, pile the children in the car and drive a half-hour outside Sumy to a barn in the countryside, where Yechiel watches a friendly Ukrainian farmer milk his cow. If they’re late and the farmer starts without them, they can’t take the milk he’s already got foaming in buckets — Lubavitch-kosher milk must be watched by a rabbi from the time it leaves the udder.
“They don’t really understand why I have to watch, but they respect it,” Yechiel Levitansky says.
It’s not his first experience with milk fresh from the cow.
He remembers doing his same thing with his father 30 years ago in Santa Monica, before milk that met their standard of kashrut was readily available in California.
As the old car bumps its way along pot-holed country roads in a mad dash to make it to the barn in time, Yechiel recounts how, last fall, he spent two weeks going door-to-door in this rural neighborhood asking farmers whether they’d mind if he watched them milk. He didn’t understand why a few slammed doors until he found out about an old Ukrainian superstition: A cow watched during milking will dry up.
The locals might also have been put off by his black hat, prayer fringes and American accent. Finally Levitansky knocked at the door of Galina and Mikhail Fisatidye, an older couple who agreed to help him.
“We’re from Zhitomir province; we had lots of Jewish friends,” Galina says.
As the car pulls into the muddy driveway, Galina’s broad, red-cheeked face breaks into a huge, semi-toothless grin. She holds out her arms to the three Levitansky children, hugs and kisses them, then takes them behind the barn to pet the rabbits.
What began last fall as a twice-weekly business transaction has become something much warmer.
Starved for fresh, California-style produce, the Levitanskys began bringing the Fisatidyes celery, asparagus, sweet pea and other seeds — “things we like to eat,” Rochi Levitansky says — for them to plant.
Most of the seeds failed to take hold. The only crop that flourished was romaine lettuce, and the Fisatidyes now have a greenhouse full of the stuff.
“You can’t find this in the bazaar downtown,” Mikhail Fisatidye boasts.
But the biggest benefit of all stands in a small enclosure at the back of the barn: two gleaming black-and-white calves, twins born this spring to the Fisatidyes’ cow.
“They were worried when the cow got pregnant because a pregnant cow usually gives less milk, and during the last month it’s often bitter,” Yechiel Levitansky says.
Soon after Purim, the cow gave birth to not one but two calves.
“All the other cows in the neighborhood got pregnant from the same bull, but only this one had twins,” he says.
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Today, Chai Elul, is also the Yom Hilula of the Maharal of Prague, the great-grandfather of the Baal Yom Huledes, the Alter Rebbe. Among those who visited the Maharal's kever today were the local shluchim, who prayed for the immediate revelation of Moshiach.
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| | Hachnasas Sefer Torah in Poughkeepsie | | |
(AP) About 200 people from different Jewish congregations and affiliations turned out Sunday in Poughkeepsie to witness the completion of a handwritten Torah scroll.
They saw a rabbi from Montreal, Canada write the last of the 600,000 characters in Hebrew letters for the Mid-Hudson Valley Community Torah.
A police escort then led the Torah on a parade through Poughkeepsie's business district to the Chabad House where a celebration was held.
Hindy Borenstein of the Chabad House said the Torah, written on parchment, is the same unaltered text for thousands of years, regardless of Jewish affiliation.
Gallery of pictures in full article.
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Yesterday (Wednesday) a special farbrengen was held in honor of Chai Elul in Tokyo, Japan. Dozens of Israeli backpackers and tourists participated. The Rebbe's shliach in Tokyo, R. Yosef Kleiman, spoke and shared numerous miracle stories of the Rebbe. The farbrengen lasted for hours and at the end many of the participants wrote their own letters to the Rebbe. The farbrengen was organized by local shliach R. Binyamin Edrei.
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