Tuesday Links

a Lubavitcher חתונה אין תל-אביב, אלול, תש"ט
Reb Mendelle Vizhnitzer is Menachem Avel and davens mincha in Kfar Chabad
The Rebbe who wanted to correct the agunos problem
end of Shiva for Reb Hilllel Zaks
R' Aron Mordche can't get over the cold weather in Monsey
Couldn't make it to the Yarchei Kallah in Yerushalayim? Come to BMG instead!
If you close your eyes you'd think HaAretz is the VaYoel Moshe
Why Briskers learn קדשים and what it means for the MO

הגה"ח ר' יעקב דב הכהן כ"ץ - ראש ישיבת תומכי תמימים המרכזית כפר חב"ד

I must say that I was a bit surprised by the major amount of כבוד and coverage Reb Yankel ע"ה got upon his passing. Not chas vesholom that he didn't deserve it! farkert! It's just that by unz in Lubavitch we don't do grand levayas, don't do hespedim - which didn't happen here - and in today's day and age it's the big shluchim that get all the coverage. So it was nice to see. And to bring the niftar into shul I don't think was done by any other niftar other than by the Rabbeyim. So it raised some eyebrows, is all I'm saying. Reb Yankel was born in Chelm to a family of Radziner Chassidim and joined the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Poking, Germany, where such legendary mashpiyim like Reb Nissen Nemenov and Reb Yisroel (Neveler) Levin led the Yeshiva. He had been teaching for some sixty years, and had been Rosh Yeshiva for some 50, ever since Reb Yisroel Grossman left to start the Karliner Yeshiva in the early 60s.

English

נפרדים ■ תיעוד ראשון מהלווית הגה"ח הרב כ"ץ

ראשי הישיבה ותלמידיה מבכים את פטירת הרב כ"ץ

השווער ביקש לשבת ואמר תחנון. בדיעבד - זה היה וידוי

תיעוד: התינוק האחרון שזכה לסנדקאות של הראש-ישיבה

חב"ד און ליין

נכדו של הרב כ"ץ בטור פרידה מרגש ● בלעדי

If only I'd speak Yiddish... Oh, well.

HaRav Reb Yoel Kahan shares a gleich vertel with the Rov of Kfar Chabad, Harav Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, at the Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen in Kfar Chabad. בתיווך נראה הראשון לציון הרב ר' משה שלמה עמאר. The Rov is one who appreciates a good joke, I'm told.

"כפר חב"ד של פעם"

POTD

Choosing an אתרוג in כפר חב"ד, today.

I'm surprised he's not looking in בני ברק, or in ירושלים by a סוחר who sells אתרוגי ברוורמן, ליפקוביץ, חזון איש, or at least a תימנ'ער.

Do you know this man?

Source:COL

ביכ"ל

An answer from the Rebbe about what to do about a student who brought a non-kosher book to school. You might say the Rebbe had a very "before its time" approach to these things, despite noting the sincerity/severity of the issue and how these things cannot be overlooked or ignored.