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A Hebrew birthday (also known as a Jewish birthday) is the date on which a person is born according to the Hebrew calendar. This is important for Jews, particularly when calculating the correct date for day of birth, day of death, a bar mitzva or a bat mitzva. This is because the Jewish calendar differs from the secular and Christian Gregorian ...
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch [2] ( US: / xəˈbɑːd luˈbɑːvɪtʃ /; Hebrew: חב״ד לובביץּ׳; Yiddish: חב״ד ליובאוויטש ), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements. It is one of the largest Hasidic groups [3] as well as one of the ...
Tanya. (Judaism) Edition of the Tanya printed in Fayid from 1974. The 7th leader of Chabad encouraged new printings to be made in remote places. The Tanya ( Hebrew: תניא) is an early work of Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1796. Its formal title is Likkutei Amarim ...
A Torah scroll and silver pointer ( yad) used in reading. It is a custom among religious Jewish communities for a weekly Torah portion to be read during Jewish prayer services on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The full name, Parashat HaShavua ( Hebrew: פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ ), is popularly abbreviated to parashah (also ...
The Babylonian system, which the Israelites followed, measured weight with units of the talent, mina, shekel (Hebrew: שקל), and giru, related to one another as follows: 1 shekel = 24 giru. 1 mina = 60 shekels (later 100 zuz) 1 talent = 60 mina. In the Israelite system, the ratio of the giru to the shekel was altered, and the talent, mina ...
Chabad.org was the pioneer of “ Ask the rabbi ” sites. Kazen reached out to thousands of people on Fidonet, an online discussion network, as far back as 1988. [5] In 1994, Kazen launched the first version of Chabad's “Ask the Rabbi” website. Today's version, in which 40 rabbis and educators field questions via e-mail, answered more than ...
Chabad customs and holidays. Chabad customs and holidays are the practices, rituals and holidays performed and celebrated by adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. The customs, or minhagim and prayer services are based on Lurianic kabbalah. [1] The holidays are celebrations of events in Chabad history.
Rubashkin family. The Rubashkin family ( Yiddish: רובאַשקין) is a family of American Hasidic Jews of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Brooklyn, New York, headed by Aaron Rubashkin. Members of the family were or are active in various family businesses, most of them in the family's main business, kosher meat, for which they earned the ...