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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 .
The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of public Torah readings.
11 Nissan or Yud Aleph Nissan (Hebrew: י״א נִיסָן Yūʾd ʾAl ef Nī sān lit. ' the eleventh of Nissan ') is a holiday on the Chabad-Lubavitch calendar that marks the birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Rabbi Schneerson was born on April 5, 1902 corresponding to 11 Nissan 5662.
Throughout history, Jewish couples have been careful to calculate their Onas HaVeset via a paper calendar which was many times a complex process. In 2009, an internet based Mikvah Calendar, MikvahCalendar.com, [1] transformed the way that Onas HaVeset are calculated by automating the process. [2]
There is a Chabad Chasidic saying "when two get together to talk of their spiritual failings, it is two Godly souls vs. one animal soul." [ 7 ] The reasoning is, the Godly souls are selfless and are more than happy to unite and help each other in the spiritual failing at hand.
Chabad adherents switch between standard English and a "Jewish English" which is a Jewish variety of English with influences from Yiddish, textual Hebrew and modern Hebrew. [ 7 ] Song and music – Like many other Hasidic groups, Chabad attaches importance to singing Chabad Hasidic nigunim (melodies), usually without words, and following ...
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The Chabad movement was established after the First Partition of Poland in the town of Liozno, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Liozna, Belarus), in 1775, by Shneur Zalman, [4] a student of Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the successor to Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov.