Tag: Lubavitchers
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Chassidim & Chabad
How to tell if your local Chabad Rabbi believes that the Rebbe is Moshiach
I get asked by a lot of folks if there's a tried and true way to tell if their chabad shaliach or rabbi is…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Tzfatim, Tzfatim and more Tzfatim
This post continues my letter to a disenchanted Litvak and describes the many different possible Mishechist options. I debated including these in my letter…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Chesed Week: Help build the Crown Heights eruv
Crown Heights is one of the last major frum communities to not have a wall built around it so people can carry on shabbos,…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Yechi Adoneinu – African Style!
As much as I hate the yechi folks, I love the yechi song and whenever I go to 770 I can't get it out…
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Chassidim & Chabad
I spent last Shabbos in Boynton Beach Florida
One of the things I hate about doing shabbos in random places is not being able to get to shul. So when I found…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Matisyahu Hater: Decoded!
By Simcha Levenberg One month ago Matisyahu released Light. The album is out there in the ether garnering praise and getting radio play. Personally,…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Gefilte fish made me frum
By Samuel Pilkinton I started becoming religious about 3 years ago. It started when I went into a bookstore and picked up a book…
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Chassidim & Chabad
My first Lubavitcher
Guest post by Jeremy Shadow Despite currently being a neo-pagan, I was born and raised a Conservative Jew in South Orange New Jersey. South…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Ten questions a chabad shliach could ask Jewish rednecks
By Samuel Pilkinton So, I’ve been officially engaged for 2 weeks now. Mazel tov to me right?!?! I could not possibly be happier. Our…
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Chassidim & Chabad
What’s the deal with those annoying Breslov book guys?
If you have ever eaten in a fast food restaurant in the New York Metro area you have encountered those annoying Breslov guys that…
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Purim
What did you do for Purim?
Last years Purim kind of sucked because it was on a Friday, I spent it at my cousins in Monsey and as usual it…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Lubavitchers have their own way of playing Jewish geography
Lubavitchers have a completely different set of rules when it comes to Jewish geography then the rest of the Jewish community does. This is…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Chabad vs. Misnagdim comedy video
You must understand that this was done in good fun, I am a Lubavitcher and Snag rolled into one. It was fun and like…
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Sukkos & Simchas Torah
Video of the Crown Heights Simchas Bais Hashoeva
This is the only video I could really put up but it pretty much shows what goes on- a happy time of dancing and…
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Sukkos & Simchas Torah
Hoshana Rabba Hilarity
We shake our lulavs for 7 days straight and then we bang our hoshanas for 3 seconds. I thought of that while I was…
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Sukkos & Simchas Torah
I would rather stomachs poking me then lulavs
A protruding stomach covered in the smooth material of a bekishe bumped into me, and begged me to push the line a long. The…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Are Jews disproportionately good at business?
Rabbi Levi Brack man seems to think so and he even wrote a book about it. Luckily for him, I went to his house…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Should there be a dress code at the Kotel?
So I snapped the following picture at the kotel and it made a ruckus on my Facebook album of Israel pictures (I intend to…