Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: What did Reb Rueven Grozovsky of Torah Vodaas, Reb Velvel Soloveitchik of Brisk and Reb Yitzchak Hutner of Chaim Berlin say about the Basi Legani, the very Maamar the Rebbe said after assuming leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch in 1951. Video
Brisk & Lubavitch: Beis HaRav & Gezeh
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Is it important to be of gezeh (original Chassidic roots), who is and is not gezeh, what is Beis Harav and about the Alter Rebbe's yartzeit. Video
The Chofetz Chaim & Lubavitch
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The Chofetz Chaim - Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan wanted the Lubavitcher chossid R' Chaim Zvi Konikov as a son in law. He ended up being instrumental in Beis Rivkah, Released Time program and the Nusach Ari shul in Williamsburg. Video
The Yechidus of the Satmar Rebbe
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The Yechidus that the Satmar Rebbe R' Yoel Teitelbaum had with the Rebbe Rayatz in Crown Heights; and the Rebbe's words about Israel's President Zalman Shazar. Video
The Bobover Rebbe’s Original Wish
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The Rebbe Rayatz's words to Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam who wanted to lead a private life and not become the Bobover Rebbe; Lubavitch bochurim at the Yeshiva on Bedford and Dean and the Bobover Mikva at 184 Brooklyn Ave. Video
Chabad & Friends – From Moscow
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: a visit to the Chabad minyan in Choral Moscow shul where the Rebbe Rayatz said famous Maamar V'Kibel HaYehudim in 1927. Video
Rebbe’s Instruction to Litvish Rosh Yeshivos
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Laizerson's impact on Litvak students and the Rebbe's instruction for Litvak Roshei Yeshiva to learn Chasidus and Chitas. Video
Rav Reuven Grozovsky & Chabad
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Torah Vodath in Brooklyn, and Lubavitch. Video
The Life of Rabbi Mordechai Altein, ‘A Vareme Yid’
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: A special episode about the life of Rabbi Mordechai Altein, devoted Shliach, brilliant Talmud Chochom and warm teacher, who passed away this week. Video
The Request For a Tanya Shiur by an Artscroll Editor
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: When Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz OBM, a senior editor of Artscroll's the Schottenstein Talmud (Bavli and Yerushalmi), asked for a Tanya shiur to be given at his shul, Beis Tefillah in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Video
Rebbe & R’ Shmuel Berenbaum of Mir
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The chossid the Rebbe sent to comfort Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir in Brooklyn, after the tragic passing of his son in Netanya in 1976; and R' Mordechai Schechter of Chaim Berlin. Video
R’ Moshe Defends Rebbe Rayatz
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The posek Rabbi Moshe Feinstein defense of the Rebbe Rayatz during a meeting of the Agudas HaRabbanim and the Stern brothers. Video
When R’ Moshe Feinstein Came to 770
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The visits of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Rueven Grosovsky of Torah Vodaas to 770. Video
Challenges Are Opportunities
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Achein Ata Keil Mistater - G-d is in the concealment - Do you emphasize the problem or solution? Sing the Nigun properly and your new year will be better. Video
R’ Mendel’s Teshuva Niggun
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: “Ashrei mi shlo choto...”, Shaike Feifer and the Soul Revelation. Video
Rav Kamenetsky’s Interesting Instruction
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: When Torah Vodaas Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky instructed to follow Chabad customs. Video
From Baranovitch to Lubavitch
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Reb Elchonon, Reb Nochum, Yosef Rosenfeld and Reb Laizer Lichtenstein of Torah Vodaas. Video
Chassidus For a Litvish Rosh Yeshiva
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Torah Vodaas Magid Shiur Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Leizerson and Mir Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Nochum Podrowitz. Video
The Lesson the Alter Rebbe Sang
Chabad & Friends with Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The story said by Reb Moshe about his father, the Alter Rebbe that’s applicable to Rosh Hashana. Video
R’ Gustman’s Impact on Rebbe Rayatz
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Who was Rabbi Yisrael Gustman, whom the Rebbe Rayatz appointed as Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch - 770? Video
Rosh Yeshiva Learned First Maamar
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Rav Reuven Grozovsky, Rosh Yeshivas Kamenitz and Torah Vodaas, learned and wrote comments on the Rebbe's first Maamar in 1951. Video
Chabad & Friends: Working Together
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The Yeshivos letter by Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary (Lubavitch), Rabbi Avraham Kalminowitz (Mir) and Rabbi Aaron Kotler (Lakewood) sent Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Lewin and Nohum Goldmann. Video
Chabad & Friends: Rabbi Wolfson’s Emes
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Rabbis Hershel Lustig and Elimelech Silberberg transfer to Lubavitch with permission from Rabbi Moshe Wolfson and what he wrote to the Rebbe. Video
Chabad & Friends: Purpose of Marriage
Chabad & Friends with historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: The purpose of marriage - Rabbi Shmuel Mendlowitz of Torah Vodaas and an unknown Maamar during a Yechidus with the Rebbe Raayatz. Video
New Program on COLlive.com: Chabad & Friends
New weekly video program on COLlive.com - Chabad & Friends by author and historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin. Episode #1: The Freirdiker Rebbe and Rabbis Meir Greenberg, Shlomo Heiman and Shmuel Kuselewitz of Torah Vodaas. Full Story, Video
