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This year, Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar, is on Sivan 2, May 15. The second of Sivan is sacred because it is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro, zt”l (1872-1937), revered Munkatcher Rebbe and famed ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word va’yikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus, written smaller than the others? It is smaller, suggests the Ba’al Haturim, because it reveals Moses’s ...

Why is the letter aleph in the word vayikra, the very first word of the Book of Leviticus written smaller than the others? A second, more mystical thought comes to mind. Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the ...

A Jew once dreamed he was a rebbe. He shared his dream with the Bostoner Rebbe. The Bostoner was unimpressed, asking, “did any chasidim dream that you were their rebbe?” People who find rebbes and ...

While the hassidic master is the recognized leader of his charges, many hassidic courts nevertheless developed a tiered mentoring structure in which senior disciples played an important role in ...

The Simchat Beit Hoshoeva festivities during Sukkot originally marked a ceremony that involved anointing with water in the Temple in Jerusalem. Now, the streets of Brooklyn’s Chasidic neighborhoods ...

There are many magnificent sukkahs throughout the world and Boro Park has a large number of them. Most renowned are those of Munkatch and Bobov. The Munkatcher Sukkah, on 14th Avenue between 47th and ...