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Cyber Farbrengens — 24 - alumni letters - vayikra-compressed 5786

Выпуск: Cyber Farbrengens — 24 - alumni letters - vayikra-compressed 5786. Темы: shabbat_laws, kashrut, family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: шаббат, законы шаббата, melacha, hilchot shabbat, שבת, הלכות שבת, מלאכה, кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר, воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים. Although he spent tremendous amounts of time learning with us – and in general spending time with his family – and he found something unique to learn with each child specifically that underlined the strengths of that particular child, his main lessons were by example, and thus were often learned without even realizing that they were being taught. This story brought to mind a similar story, which I don’t know if I’ve had the opportunity to share yet: There was a bochur, who came from a non-Lubavitcher chassidisher family, who started becoming attracted to Lubavitch and Chabad Chassidus, and gradually started adapting Lubavitcher minhogim. This can perhaps provide us with an additional answer to a basic question in the story of yetzias mitzrayim: Chazal tell us (quoted in Rashi Shemos 3; 18) that the Eibishter assured Moshe that the Yidden would believe him – ‫ – ושמעו לקוליך‬because they had a legacy that anyone who would approach them with the terms ‫פקד‬ ‫ ;פקדתי‬- that they were remembered – was the true redeemer. In his last years he was typing out his letters on a PC, and they were being copied by a family friend who was a printer, and the whole packet (usually many pages) was mailed (that was “snail mail” as mentioned above) out to many destinations. Yet his priorities were so strongly etched in stone that it seemed natural - and it was only years later that I was able to recognize the remarkableness of it – that he would regularly and readily put everything aside for the sake of any need of any of his children. This was before e-mail (yes, there was life before email) and before the popularity of personal computers, and my father would write out a number of pages by hand, often on a weekly basis (he had a very clear and legible handwriting – something I unfortunately did not inherit . Some recipients enjoyed especially the stories, some the divrei Torah, and others the “news”, but there was something there for everyone (in fact, sometimes he would place deliberate mistakes, to test w

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Cyber Farbrengens

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20 марта 2026 г.

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57

Темы: shabbat_laws, kashrut, family_education, chassidus_hashkafa, holidays, health_mind, parsha_commentary