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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — stories — Tetzaveh 5784

Выпуск: Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — stories — Tetzaveh 5784. Темы: kashrut. Поисковые термины: кашрут, кошер, kosher, kashrut, כשרות, כשר. We began organizing different groups: At Barnard, where I was, we called our group Ari; at Columbia, they called theirs Yeshurun and used to gather for afternoon prayers in the laboratory of a doctoral student; in Harvard, they called it Taryag; while Cornell had a Young Israel House with a kosher kitchen. He wanted to know how we had started Yavneh and how we had found each other; the problems, the possibilities, and the opportunities for people who were interested in finding out more about their Jewishness; our plan for reaching those people; what we found worked well and what did not. “No, I don’t know law better than the lawyers or medicine better than the doctors, but based on what I have learned in the Torah, I can give people advice.” I thought that was a beautiful answer and was ready to go, but unfor- tunately this young man had another question. Laughing, he said, “People don’t tell me stories about myself – they figure I know them already – so I have no idea what stories are being told about me, and I can’t vouch for them.” He then gave a list of great Torah sages who were either not chasidic or were opposed to the movement, and said, “I have read stories, in books that I trust, about these people and the wondrous things that they did. Biographical note: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (11 Nissan 1902 - 3 Tammuz 1994), became the seventh Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty after his father-in- law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, passed away in Brooklyn on 10 Shvat 1950. “This is what goes on every night at the Rebbe’s.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Source: Lightly edited and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from a weekly email of "Here's My Story,” a part of JEM’s extraordinary “My Encounter with the Rebbe” project. After coming home from the Ponevezh yeshiva and discovering that the boys he had grown up with had joined the Communist Party, he founded a club – Yavneh – for Jewish boys to learn and have fun while getting a better feeling about their Jewishness. I didn’t know it at that time, but it became evident to me later on that since Chabad was planning to set up activities for Jewish college students, he wanted to have a sense of what exactly was going on from people who were in the thick

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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles

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23 февраля 2024 г.

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Темы: kashrut