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  • ...e was adopted by his grandfather, the shadar Rabbi Alexander Sender Menkin from Paris, and in the home of his uncle Rabbi Yehoshua Dobrawsky. Under the yeshiva he headed, he opened branches in Haifa, Nof HaGalil and Tel Aviv, as well as a small yeshiva in Tzfat, Yeshivas Ch ...
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  • ...n his youth, his father was persecuted by the Communists and they wandered from place to place. Studied in [[Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim|Tomchei Tmimim]] yesh ...close to the Rosh Yeshiva Reb Shmuel Notik, learning nigleh and chassidus from him in classes and privately, even sharing a room with him for a period. Af ...
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  • ...ed a concept from Chassidus into Russian to influence one of the important people in Russian society at that time. But this was a one-time event and was not .... Reb Gorodetsky fulfilled this instruction and sent the coffin by ship to Haifa. Meanwhile, Reb Efraim Wolf received instructions to photograph the body be ...
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  • ...f Torah reading in the Rebbe's minyan, and Rabbi Silman proclaimed "Yechi" from his place. Since then, he customarily purchases the right to proclaim "Yech ...orah, Moshiach, and science, attended by researchers and prominent figures from academia emphasizing the connection between science and Torah. Professor Pe ...
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  • ...ternal lives. According to all opinions, Olam Haba is completely different from this world in that there is no eating, drinking, or physical bodily needs a ...ward in a world of souls without bodies is because as limited and physical people, the only pleasure we can comprehend is physical pleasure, and we have no a ...
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  • ...ed to print the Tanya in Egypt, for which he also received many directives from the Rebbe. The printing of the Tanya was mentioned by the Rebbe during a fa In Adar 2011, he received the title "Yakir Ha'ir" (Distinguished Citizen) from Mayor Meir Yitzchak Halevi for his work. ...
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  • ...ers were forced to carry out the mission, which involved fierce resistance from the settlers, and violently remove those who refused to leave, who were sup ...nd pass it in the Knesset, Sharon pressured government ministers and fired from ministerial positions anyone who opposed implementing the plan. ...
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  • ...his release, she was the first to deliver the news of redemption by phone from Kostrama to her father's apartment in Leningrad. ...chuppah ceremony was held in the yeshiva courtyard, where more than 5,000 people crowded together. ...
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  • ...dy reciting Mishnayos by heart. Many times his mother had to pull him away from learning so that he would eat, drink, etc. On one occasion, his father R' L ...d to take a matchbox and say, what comes here from Atzmut, what comes here from Atzilus, and so forth. ...
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  • ...in the world it falls on the 14th of Adar, and in cities that were walled from the time of Yehoshua bin Nun, like Yerushalayim, the holiday falls on the 1 ...Hamikdash, under the rule of Achashverosh, when He saved the Jewish people from Haman's decree to destroy all Jews - men, women and children. This salvatio ...
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  • ...ressed her surprise at the intention to leave such a young child alone far from his parents and advised the mother to bring him to the Rebbe for yechidus ( From the age of 10, R' Folleh grew up in Lubavitch, in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim. ...
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  • ...dly matters and minimizing sleep. He conducted himself with humility, fled from honor, and had pleasant ways. ...aw him as a seraph and prophet and considered him a remnant of the gedolim from before the Holocaust. ...
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  • ...so absorbed his education from the enlightened chassid R' Moshe Gurary and from R' Nachum Goldschmidt, R' Meir Blizinsky, and other elder chassidim. ...his friends Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky and Rabbi Shlomo Berman transferred from Achei Temimim to Ponevezh, he refused to even consider studying at a non-Ch ...
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  • ...ditions with various halachic reasonings, and signed by hundreds of rabbis from all streams. The ruling determines that according to halacha, the Rebbe is ...reported to the Rebbe, the Rebbe instructed to strongly prevent the speech from being published. ...
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