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Vestige of a Jewish gravestone depicting a tzedakah box. The earliest mention of a tzedakah box is in connection with the priest Jehoiada , who crafted a chest with a hole in its lid, positioning it next to the altar 's main entrance on the southern side of the Temple .
Colel Chabad (Hebrew: כולל חב"ד) was founded in Lithuania in 1788 and is the oldest continuously operating charity in Israel. [1] The institution runs a network of soup kitchens and food banks, dental and medical clinics, daycare centers, widow and orphan support, and immigrant assistance programs.
Tzedakah box (Pushke), Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish History. Tzedakah (Hebrew: צְדָקָה ṣədāqā, [ts(e)daˈka]) is a Hebrew word meaning "righteousness", but commonly used to signify charity. [1]
A chassidisher Derher (Yiddish: א חסידישע דערהער a ha si di sher der her /a χaˈsidɪʃə dɛrˈhɛr/ lit. ' A hassidic perception ') Is a nonprofit [1] subscription based monthly magazine published by Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Haolami.
Agudas Chassidei Chabad (Union of Chabad Chasidim or Association of Chabad Chassidim also known by its initials "Aguch") is the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Aguch oversees the other Chabad central organizations such as Machneh Israel and Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch .
The library contains more than 100,000 letters, artifacts, and pictures belonging to, written by and for the rebbes of Chabad and their Hasidim complete the collection. Notable among the collection is the siddur of the Baal Shem Tov , which is kept in a locked safe and is only handled by the head librarian.
The majority of the children that attend Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps are from unaffiliated Jewish homes. [7] To this end, camps offer introductory classes and programs in Judaism. In addition, a growing number of Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps are now equipped to aid children with special needs .
The first kollel – in the modern sense of the term – in the Jewish diaspora was the Kovno Kollel ("Kolel Perushim" [2]) founded in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) in 1877. [3] [4] It was founded by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter [5] and directed by Rabbi Isaac Blaser.