Chabad & Friends is a weekly program aired on community news service COLlive.com exploring facts, stories and anecdotes of the Rebbe and the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s connection and communications within the frum Jewish world.
The program is presented by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, a Chabad historian, an ethnographer of Chassidism and Director of the Jewish Enrichment Press publishing group. He is the prolific author of 60 books – most recently The Rav and Rebbe, Satmar and Lubavitch, Lakewood and Lubavitch, Rabbi Hutner and Rebbe.
His most recent book is Torah Vodaas & Lubavitch, about the connection between Lubavitch and illustrious Yeshiva in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn that has raised generations of Torah observant Jews for close to 100 years. (Buy it here)
Rabbi Dalfin is a featured speaker in many Chabad centers and Jewish communities about Chassidic teachings and life. He is also the recording artist of Chasidic Nigunim: Learn, Understand and Sing.
Chabad & Friends is aired on Tuesday evenings on COLlive.com.
Fabulous, knowledgable clarification–
This was beautiful and the message of being your own yichus is spot on. I do want to say that saying real gheze don’t exist is false. Yes there are only a few families but they have become such big families at this point that many don’t know each other generations later. But there are plenty of them in lubavitch now and Kein Yirbu! Where I felt slighted by this, and every time someone tries to knock gheze, is that our grandparents for many generations had mesiras nefesh that nobody can fathom in order to preserve the yidishkeit in their… Read more »