Ask a Lubavitcher Anything

[ushdadude]

But ideally I would recommend you actually listen or watch shiurim. And if you want to use print, come to Crown Heights around ה טבת (actually come a day or two before, as ה טבת will have very long lines) and browse to see what works best for you.

anything online?

[ExGingi]

anything online?

Try https://store.kehotonline.com/mobile/products.asp?dept=925

https://www.sie.org/generic_cdo/aid/2253215/jewish/Shop.htm

https://seforimdeals.com/pages/hey-teves-sale-information

A lot more on stands in 770.

[gozalim]

Try https://store.kehotonline.com/mobile/products.asp?dept=925

https://www.sie.org/generic_cdo/aid/2253215/jewish/Shop.htm

https://seforimdeals.com/pages/hey-teves-sale-information

A lot more on stands in 770.

I think his question

anything online?

was mainly for the 'shiurim' portion of the quoted post. I'm gonna guess you'd refer him to something in https://insidechassidus.org/tanya/
though a number of other resources come to mind as well

[ExGingi]

I think his question was mainly for the 'shiurim' portion of the quoted post. I'm gonna guess you'd refer him to something in https://insidechassidus.org/tanya/
though a number of other resources come to mind as well

The reason I figured he was asking about seforim sales was the timing.

I personally love Rabbi Paltiel's shiurim, and think that insidechassidus.org deserves to be a lot more popular in the English speaking Jewish world.

[YitzyS]

Why do some Chabad centers not receive funding from Chabad HQ?


Saw this on this campaign:

A good friend of mine has been working hard for a long time, and can finally move his community center out of his dining room. I'll match what I can raise from DDF. PM me a screenshotbof your donation. https://charidy.com/growthelight

[Dan]

Why do some Chabad centers not receive funding from Chabad HQ?

Uhhh. What funding?

[YitzyS]

Uhhh. What funding?

So no Chabad centers receive funding?

[Lurker]

Why do some Chabad centers not receive funding from Chabad HQ?

Saw this on this campaign:

No Chabad Houses get funding from HQ. This guy just spelled it out in his pitch.

[EliJelly]

So no Chabad centers receive funding?

It is very known that part of the tough job of shluchim is that the burden of covering the operations is on their shoulders.

[Onefishtwofish]

So no Chabad centers receive funding?

There are some big donors that are "connected" to hq but their donations come with terms and conditions....

[AsherO]

There are some big donors that are "connected" to hq but their donations come with terms and conditions....

Yeah, but that’s the exception not the rule.

HQ has campaigns/programs that fund certain things under very specific conditions, but even if it amounted to $50m annually (which it doesn’t), that’s less than $10k per Chabad institution worldwide.

[Yehuda57]

Yeah, but that’s the exception not the rule.

HQ has campaigns/programs that fund certain things under very specific conditions, but even if it amounted to $50m annually (which it doesn’t), that’s less than $10k per Chabad institution worldwide.

I know what your intentions are, but this post muddies the water more than it clarifies by throwing in numbers like 50 million, which is completely made up, and likely more than 10 times the actual number in grants.

Chabad HQ does not fund any Chabad Houses.

Through certain donors, like the Rohr family, Chabad HQ does offer a couple of grants to a very select few types of Chabad Houses, such as Chabad on Campus. These grants are relatively small and represent a sliver of the Shliach's budget. The grant will also only be for a short length of time, usually a once off sum, though sometimes for up to 3 years.

These grants help a select few Chabad Houses get off the ground, barely, and that's it.

[AsherO]

I know what your intentions are, but this post muddies the water more than it clarifies by throwing in numbers like 50 million, which is completely made up, and likely more than 10 times the actual number in grants.

Chabad HQ does not fund any Chabad Houses.

Through certain donors, like the Rohr family, Chabad HQ does offer a couple of grants to a very select few types of Chabad Houses, such as Chabad on Campus. These grants are relatively small and represent a sliver of the Shliach's budget. The grant will also only be for a short length of time, usually a once off sum, though sometimes for up to 3 years.

These grants help a select few Chabad Houses get off the ground, barely, and that's it.

Thanks for clarifying.

My point was that while it isn’t true to say that HQ doesn’t ever give any Chabad houses any money, in the grand scheme of things even if they did end up assisting every Shliach in some minor way (like by covering the cost of a few pairs of Tefillin that some of his mekuravim commit to putting on every day), and even those small grants added up to “a lot of money”, it’s still a pittance.

By and large Chabad organizations/outposts need to cover their own expenses.

Am I muddling again?

[chbochur]

והימים האלו נזכרים ונעשים

I can't seem to spot myself in this video, if anyone notices a point where I appear please let me know.

Wasn't ExGingi then and didn't have that much of a beard at that age.

Nice talk by Rabbi Y.Y. Paltiel about 5 Teves: https://insidechassidus.org/the-story-5767/#

Thanks for the video, although I couldn't find you I did find my father. Of course he wasn't in middle of the circle but watching (now I see where I get that from).

[CountValentine]

Since the title says ask anything. What is a Lubavitcher?

[Lurker]

Since the title says ask anything. What is a Lubavitcher?

That's not something which can be answered here. For that, you need to sit down in ExGingi's succah and have a few l'chaims.

[AsherO]

Since the title says ask anything. What is a Lubavitcher?

Literally, Lubavitch is a village in Russia, so a Lubavitcher is someone from that village. Chassidic groups have come to be known by their village of origin/base in Eastern Europe, so the term Lubavitcher refers to someone belonging to the Lubavitch sect of Chasidism.

Simply put, nowadays Chabad and Lubavitch are synonymous. Chabad is an acronym for the Hebrew words for “Wisdom, Understanding, [and] Knowledge”, the three intellectual faculties of the Kabbalistic Ten Sephirot. The application of these faculties is a core foundation of the Chabad-chasidic approach that distinguishes them from other Chasidic groups, and has become the name of the group even before it migrated to the village of Lubavitch.

(All of this was written off the cuff, and people can nitpick details here on technicalities, but that’s the gist of it)

[Something Fishy]

(All of this was written off the cuff, and people can nitpick details here on technicalities, but that’s the gist of it)

Okay I'll start.

"Wisdom, Understanding, [and] Knowledge" makes Wuk, not Chabad. You are making no sense at all.

[AsherO]

Okay I'll start.

"Wisdom, Understanding, [and] Knowledge" makes Wuk, not Chabad. You are making no sense at all.

a few l'chaims

in ExGingi's succah

obviously with proportionately-sized cups…

[Dan]

Okay I'll start.

"Wisdom, Understanding, [and] Knowledge" makes Wuk, not Chabad. You are making no sense at all.