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Jewish views on suicide are mixed. In Orthodox Judaism, suicide is forbidden by Jewish law, and viewed as a sin. Non-Orthodox forms of Judaism may instead recognize the act as more akin to a death by a disease or disorder (except in cases of purposeful assisted suicide). Rabbinical scholars command compassion both for the deceased and the ...
In 2014, Telushkin released Rebbe, which appeared on the bestseller lists of New York Times Best Seller list, Wall Street Journal, [7] and Publishers Weekly. Telushkin tours the United States as a lecturer on Jewish topics, and he has been named by Talk Magazine as one of the 50 best speakers in the United States.
Grand Rebbe Shmuel Halberstam officiating over the tish celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, video taken in his synagogue in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, New York. This article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Right after his father's passing in 2000, Naftali was appointed as fourth Bobover Rebbe at age 69, [1] while Halberstam was appointed as Rav Hatza'ir (assistant rabbi). Naftali died right before the Purim holiday in 2005, [ 4 ] which led to a succession crisis over who should be the Grand Rebbe of the many Bobov Hasidim worldwide. [ 1 ]
Editor’s note: This story includes graphic descriptions of videos that refer to self-harm. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Rabbi Yaakov died in 1954 but his son refused to become a rebbe. [4] Rabbi Sinai Moshkovitz of Shotz-Beitar. Son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda and Rebbetzin Chana, daughter of the rebbe of Kretchnif-Bucharest, Rabbi Shmuel Deutcsh. He was 9 years old when his father died in 1976 and became rebbe in 2016 in accordance with his mother's will.
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
Abraham Shemtov (born February 16, 1937, Moscow, Russia) is a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi and a shaliach ("emissary") of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.. He is chairman of the board of Agudas Chasidei Chabad, the movement's umbrella organization, and was entrusted by the Rebbe with various missions, among them as the movement's envoy to the White House and Capitol Hill.