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Inspiring Tosafos in Rosh Hashana 17b That Reb Mendel of Rimanov Asked Every Erev Rosh Hashana for His Gabai to Announce in Shul.

Inspiring Tosafos in Rosh Hashana 17b That Reb Mendel of Rimanov Asked Every Erev Rosh Hashana for His Gabai to Announce in Shul.

Inspiring tosafos in Rosh Hashana 17b that Reb Mendel of Rimanov asked every erev Rosh Hashana for his Gabai to announce in shul.

Holidays, StoriesRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Rosh Hashana

Heart Stirring Nigun On Words of Erev Yom Kippur Slichos (Chabad Doesn't Say It). It's From One of the Dzikever Rebbes in Poland. The First Dzikever Was a Son of Reb Naftoli of Ropshitz.

Heart Stirring Nigun On Words of Erev Yom Kippur Slichos (Chabad Doesn't Say It). It's From One of the Dzikever Rebbes in Poland. The First Dzikever Was a Son of Reb Naftoli of Ropshitz.

Heart stirring nigun on words of erev Yom Kippur slichos (Chabad doesn’t say it). It’s from one of the Dzikever Rebbes in Poland. The first Dzikever was a son of Reb Naftoli of Ropshitz.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Yom Kippur

Fascinating Idea About the Mishnah that Young Teenage Kohanim Lit Up the Whole Courtyard of the Beis Hamikdash and Brought Light to All of Yerushalayim.

Fascinating Idea About the Mishnah that Young Teenage Kohanim Lit Up the Whole Courtyard of the Beis Hamikdash and Brought Light to All of Yerushalayim.

Fascinating idea re the Mishnah that young teenage Kohanim lit up the whole courtyard of the Beis Hamikdash and brought light to all of Yerushalayim.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Sukkos

Fascinating Explanation of Reb Levi Yitzchok of Barditchev As to Why the First Day of Sukkos Marks the Beginning of Counting New Sins - Why Celebrate Something Negative?

Fascinating Explanation of Reb Levi Yitzchok of Barditchev As to Why the First Day of Sukkos Marks the Beginning of Counting New Sins - Why Celebrate Something Negative?

Fascinating explanation of reb levi yitzchok of barditchev as to why the first day of sukkos marks the beginning of counting new sins- why celebrate something negative.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Sukkos

The First Two Insights of Reb Levik On the Difference Between Lulav and Sukkah as Well as the Uniqueness of the Schach.

The First Two Insights of Reb Levik On the Difference Between Lulav and Sukkah as Well as the Uniqueness of the Schach.

The first 2 insights of Reb Levik on the difference between lulav and sukkah as well as the uniqueness of the Schach.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Sukkos

The Great Chossid Reb Avrohom Eliyahu Axelrod First Rosh Hashana in the US in 1920.

The Great Chossid Reb Avrohom Eliyahu Axelrod First Rosh Hashana in the US in 1920.

The great chossid Reb Avrohom Eliyahu Axelrod first Rosh Hashana in the US in 1920.

Holidays, StoriesRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 8, 2019Rosh Hashana

The Miraculous Aspect of the Story of Chai Elul 5652.

The Miraculous Aspect of the Story of Chai Elul 5652.

The miraculous aspect of the story of chai elul 5652.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 7, 2019Elul

The Rebbe Rashab at Age Five Explained What Shabbos Tshuva Means.

The Rebbe Rashab at Age Five Explained What Shabbos Tshuva Means.

The Rebbe Rashab at age five explained what Shabbos Tshuva means.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 7, 2019Ten Days of Tshuva

Very Beautiful Pshat From Reb Elimelech of Lizensk On the First Mishnah in Rosh Hashana.

Very Beautiful Pshat From Reb Elimelech of Lizensk On the First Mishnah in Rosh Hashana.

Very beautiful pshat from Reb Elimelech of Lizensk on the first Mishnah in Rosh Hashana.

Holidays, ParshaRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 7, 2019Elul, Re'eh

Reb Nissan’s Davening of ובכן תן פחדך. Reb Zushe Uttering These Words in Front of a Group of Kossacs and Terrorizing Them.

Reb Nissan’s Davening of ובכן תן פחדך. Reb Zushe Uttering These Words in Front of a Group of Kossacs and Terrorizing Them.

Reb Nissan’s davening of ובכן תן פחדך. Reb Zushe uttering these words in front of a group of Kossacs and terrorizing them.

Holidays, StoriesRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 7, 2019Rosh Hashana

Reb Elimelech’s Aveiros on Motzei Yom Kippur and What Reb Itzekel of Pshevorsk Said About It.

Reb Elimelech’s Aveiros on Motzei Yom Kippur and What Reb Itzekel of Pshevorsk Said About It.

Reb Elimelech’s aveiros on motzei Yom Kippur and what Reb Itzekel of Pshevorsk said about it.

Holidays, StoriesRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 7, 2019Yom Kippur

Why Are Many Piyutim Following the Aleph Beis Reb Yonoson Eibeshitz.

Why Are Many Piyutim Following the Aleph Beis Reb Yonoson Eibeshitz.

Why are many piyutim following the aleph beis Reb Yonoson Eibeshitz.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Rosh Hashana, Ten Days of Tshuva, Yom Kippur

Why Is Eating Erev Yom Kippur Like Fasting. Nice Pshat From Reb Mendel Riminover.

Why Is Eating Erev Yom Kippur Like Fasting. Nice Pshat From Reb Mendel Riminover.

Why is eating erev Yom Kippur like fasting. Nice pshat from Reb Mendel Riminover.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

Why Is the Day After Yom Kippur Most Auspicious for Tshuva The Rebbe's Beautiful Explanation.

Why Is the Day After Yom Kippur Most Auspicious for Tshuva The Rebbe's Beautiful Explanation.

Why is the day after Yom Kippur most auspicious for tshuva The Rebbes beautiful explanation.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

Why No Brocho Over the Mitzva of Eating on Erev Yom Kippur.

Why No Brocho Over the Mitzva of Eating on Erev Yom Kippur.

Why no brocho over the mitzva of eating on erev Yom Kippur.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

Why the Drama of Kol Nidre at the Start of the Holiest Day.

Why the Drama of Kol Nidre at the Start of the Holiest Day.

Why the drama of kol nidre at the start of the holiest day.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

The Nigun of the Tzemach Tzedek on אשרי איש שלא ישכחך.

The Nigun of the Tzemach Tzedek on אשרי איש שלא ישכחך.

The Nigun of the Tzemach Tzedek on אשרי איש שלא ישכחך.

Holidays, Chassidic ThoughtRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

Why Do We Say על חטא שחטאנו לפניך ביצר הרע Isn’t Every Aveirah Done Because of the Yetzer Hora.

Why Do We Say על חטא שחטאנו לפניך ביצר הרע Isn’t Every Aveirah Done Because of the Yetzer Hora.

Why do we say על חטא שחטאנו לפניך ביצר הרע Isn’t every aveirah done because of the yetzer hora.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinAugust 6, 2019Yom Kippur

The Effort of Planting Represents the Effort In the Study of Torah - The Rebbe During the Heavenly TuBishvat Farbrengen.

The Effort of Planting Represents the Effort In the Study of Torah - The Rebbe During the Heavenly TuBishvat Farbrengen.

The planting season is the pain and effort in the study of Torah - the Rebbe during the heavenly TuBishvat farbrengen.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinJuly 4, 2019Tu Bishvat

The Remarkable Lesson From a Fruit Tree In the Service of Hashem - Farbrengen 5745 - 1985.

The Remarkable Lesson From a Fruit Tree In the Service of Hashem - Farbrengen 5745 - 1985.

The Rebbe's remarkable lesson from a fruit tree in serving Hashem - farbrengen 5745 - 1985.

HolidaysRabbi Eli SilbersteinJuly 4, 2019Tu Bishvat