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Kids Magazine Marks 100th Issue

The HaChayol weekly magazine is marking its 100th issue, having grown from a monthly to weekly and reaching 5,000 children in 31 countries. Full Story

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@83
January 22, 2014 10:20 pm

I agree 100%. These are priceless. It’s amazing to think of what kind of amazing stuff is available for our children’s chinuch today!

Go Bruria!
January 22, 2014 10:18 pm

Your Parshafier is amazing!

Weekly farbrengen
January 22, 2014 10:17 pm

That’s exactly what it is. Our family loves it.

Who would have thought
January 22, 2014 10:16 pm

that an unassuming little article about a kids magazine would make it to the top of the list of commented articles! And all the comments are positive!
Just goes to show what kind of amazing impact HaChayol and Chayolei Tzivos Hashem has had on Lubavitch.
Thank you so much Rabbi Kotlarsky and all the hardworking staff. Please keep up the great work!

@84
January 22, 2014 10:12 pm

awesome, can’t wait!

to 52
January 22, 2014 5:15 pm

stay tuned for the Kids Magazine, it will be coming back soon 🙂

DONT THROW IT OUT!!!
January 22, 2014 5:13 pm

2 mothers commented to me in as many days how they put the hachayol magazine into shaimos each week (even complaining how annoying it is to cut out all the little rebbe pictures all over the place). whyyy would anyone be throwing these out?? besides for the clear amount of hard work, talent and money that goes into producing them, these magazines are a treasure trove of information. put them into an organized binder (one for the house, if not one for each kid) and save them for when your kids get older. trust me, they’ll still be pulling them… Read more »

yeah roots is amazing!
January 21, 2014 9:50 am

thanks so much!

mendel moscowitz
January 21, 2014 12:37 am

Thanks for roots we love it and only wish it would be weekly.

Great tool
January 21, 2014 12:29 am

What they don’t write about in this article is about the amazing teacher resources that comes with hachyol. As a teacher I find they have created a treasure of material that is so helpful in my class. Thanks to all involved. It must be made clear so that people don’t forget. 5 years ago i was struggling with the kids in my class to that they should have some kind of feelings towards the rebbe, a chassidishe yom tov or even a regular yom tov. struggling to get the children involved in davening. 5 years later I can honestly say… Read more »

roots in a book
January 21, 2014 12:18 am

Why don’t you print a book. It’s an amazing story. I have been following from the first part of the story with reb yosef yuspa the father of the first baal shem. for those who are only joining now they don’t even know what they are missing.

yasherkoach
January 21, 2014 12:14 am

thanks to the entire hardworking team! u are doing amazing work!

Koheles 7, 2
January 20, 2014 10:18 pm

Hatzlocha in all that you do!
Just wanted to point out that the possuk mentioned on p5 והחי יתן אל לבו is from perek 7, possuk 2 in Koheles (in the magazine it says perek 6, possuk 2)
Again, beautiful beautiful publication!

print house
January 20, 2014 9:44 pm

Go sholom lane any good thing in lubavitch the print house sponsors.

rabbi Benjaminson
January 20, 2014 9:36 pm

a true shliach of the rebbe. your children and grandchildren are proud of you

mendy shanowitz
January 20, 2014 9:34 pm

Thank you for all you do for our children

A quality publication
January 20, 2014 2:55 pm

Well written and great design. The content is beautiful as well. Great job!! A big yasher coach to everyone who made this happen.

Chassidus made practical
January 20, 2014 2:55 pm

Malchus is Hashem’s energy metzamtzem for the world so we can benefit from it…So too this magazine takes the Torah and Chassidus makes its accessible

Moshiach now!!!
January 20, 2014 2:54 pm

Let’s hope that with efforts like these we will bring Moshiach!!!

We need more things like this in Lubavitch.
January 20, 2014 2:54 pm

On behalf of everyone in yttl…you do so much for us and are so grateful

Why i love hachayol
January 20, 2014 2:54 pm

It shows me what the Rebbe wants of me. also it teaches me about special days that I can celebrate like yud tes kislev. And the dvar Torah about the parsha is so fun rto read. Me and my brother say it at the Shabbos table every week

A great leader
January 20, 2014 2:53 pm

Shimmy Weinbaum is truly a leader unlike any other, pushing his staff to the limits of their creative ability, demanding excellence in all areas, willing to spend on what matters, communicate through difficulties, and show appreciation when appreciation is due. All who work with him are lucky!!

Thank you rabbi kotlarsky
January 20, 2014 2:53 pm

Because of your dedication to tzivos Hashem, they are able do to such amazing things, furthering the rebbes vision and bringing Moshiach!!!

shimmy weinbaum
January 20, 2014 7:35 am

If I remember correctly, Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum has made this his life’s mission to raise the standard for anash and shluchim’s children. This has always been his dream and deciding to stay in CH and not go out on shlichus was the hardest decision he and his wife ever made. BH reading all these comments and hearing first hand from shluchim and anash how important this is for their families chinuch, will surely make him feel it was all worthwhile and is giving the Rebbe nachas. So Yasher Koach to Shimmy and may you go from strength to strength. Many… Read more »

Chava Sneiderman--impressive
January 20, 2014 4:02 am

So proud to see your name up there with all the execs. It’s an inspiration for women everywhere to get out there and make a difference.

to #54
January 20, 2014 4:02 am

Tzivos Hashem is working on developing an app. It will be a few years in the making, but bear with us!

to #50
January 20, 2014 4:01 am

Keep an eye out–Hachayol is featuring a spread focused on health. The mission of the month for Shvat is going to bed on time!

Please respond ASAP
January 20, 2014 12:43 am

Is there a way to sign up my kids that are in OT
Like maybe through another school or if someone would take responsibility to have the program in CH for all those in schools that don’t participate
And maybe TH can have a general program where kids not just from CH can sign up without a school

Everyone in my family that was able to join this program has joined
January 20, 2014 12:40 am

It’s an amazing program

on shlichus far away
January 19, 2014 11:58 pm

You cannot imagine what it’s like to have current, up to date, Chassidishe magazine delivered to your door on time when you live 4000 miles away from New York and your kids rattle around the house searching for something new and good to read. Hachayol is their fuel – it’s become the center of conversation between the kids (never mind the arguments about whose turn it is to have the magazine) and the missions do wonders- they have upgraded the way we do Torah and mitzvos and shlichus and the way we live period. Thank you Rabbi Kotlarsky and everyone… Read more »

So nice to see
January 19, 2014 11:54 pm

It’s nice to see one of the top commented articles be about something so purely positive.
To the incredibly hardworking people behind Tzivos Hashem and HaChayol and to Rabbi Kotlarsky, thank you so much for turning dreams into a reality that our children can use as a tool for real growth through such a refreshingly positive and holy approach.
This is the preventive medicine to having kids feel the need to look elsewhere.
G-d bless you all.

PTA OT
January 19, 2014 9:04 pm

sounds like a really good idea does anyone know someone in the OT PTA that would undertake this. it would be the best thing they have ever done (and i know they do great work)!
Please help save our children!

@38
January 19, 2014 7:35 pm

perhaps the pta can make it a campaign to get someone hired to oversee CTH @ OT. I think one survey to parents will be all that’s necessary to show how much it is wanted. I’d be glad to translate the mission sheets to Yiddish if that’s the issue.

most commented for a reason
January 19, 2014 7:27 pm

CTH and hachayol are awesome! plz keep it coming!

@51
January 19, 2014 3:33 pm

of course the new hahayol is better in the old one it was missions that every lubavitch kid did anyway it was geared towards fry kids
of course you go to shul yom kippur
in the new program they have missions like going every shabbos not just yom kppur

Hachayol App
January 19, 2014 12:45 pm

when will Hachayol have an app. JEM has and App. why cant Tzivos Hashem have an app. it would so much better if i could enter my kids missions on my phone or just give them the ipad and let them do it each night. if this could be done i think so many more kids would be filling out their missions each night and that’s what you guys want – right!

Simple & Stupid
January 19, 2014 12:43 pm

i like the way hachayol and tzivos Hashem has recently become very simple. i used to find out very complicated and i gave up on it. now the Hachayol works together with the mission sheets, each page points out what mission it is connected with and which day of the week it should be read. it so simple that even someone stupid like me has been able to figure it out.

What happened to KIDS magazine
January 19, 2014 12:40 pm

what you do for the Lubavitcher Kids is very important. BUT what happened to the KIDS magazine for the not yet frum children we used to send it out to 2,000 families. REB MOSHE we need it back again! PLEASE PLEASE the children in the chabad house keep asking for it!

Do our Kids NEED this?
January 19, 2014 12:35 pm

Do our kids need a magazine each week?
whats wrong with the old Tzivos Hashem when we got newsletters 6 times a year. it was simple. you went to shul on Yom Kippur, you ate Matzos on Pesach you got points you went up in rank. Now things seem so much more complicated, every day the kids have missions, every week a magazine, a month a rally, every month a raffle, isn’t this too much?

Can we have a focus on more simple things
January 19, 2014 12:31 pm

Please don’t take this the wrong way, we really appreciate the hachayol, my kids read it cover to cover, over and over and over again. BUT because it is such a powerful tool as parents it would help if you could focus on basic things. Like going to sleep on time, eating healthy food. this is also part of being a chosid. if our children would sleep properly and eat healthy food they would be able to focus in class so much more then they do now. Am i the ONLY person who thinks this way?

No words
January 19, 2014 12:26 pm

No words will ever be enough to describe what hachayol has done. just for example, we always took negel vasser from the bathroom, since they had in hachayol that “negel vasser is not to be taken from the bathroom” my kids go downstairs each night and get negel vasser from the kitchen. Now we are putting in a sink upstairs, so my kids don’t flood their house each night with their negel vasser ;). it really has had an amazing impact on our children thank you to all who make it possible.

Our Connection
January 19, 2014 12:22 pm

My children do not learn in a chabad school, they go to the local day school and dont have a chassidisher Chniuch. The Myshliach program has been a life savor for us. My child looks forward all week to the one hour he gets to learn with his big chavrusa. they review Hachayol together, he reviews what Missions my son has done and encourages him to do more. Its very diffrent when it comes from a bochur then when it comes from a parent. I know Rabbi Markowitz was very behind getting this program off the ground back in the… Read more »

100 Farbrengens
January 19, 2014 12:16 pm

100 issues is 100 farbrengens we have had with our family each issue has been rich with amazing toichen and has truly enhanced our lives. I big thank you goes to Rebbi Kotlarsky for funding this project and to Yerachmiel and all his staff / team who create such an amazing product!

Thank you
January 19, 2014 12:13 pm

I am another very thankful parent, who reads Hachayol to my children every night before they go to sleep.
i remember as a child getting the black and white newsletters (amazing for that time) five or six times a year. it was so exciting to get them in the mail. To be able to get full color magazines each week is something amazing. our kids look forward each week to getting them! You truly deserve a big thank you!

TZIVOS HASHEM SHOULD BE FREE
January 19, 2014 12:10 pm

when we grew up Tzivos Hashem did not cost money. Rallies did not cost Money, everything was for free and everyone participated. Today everything cost money and then you wonder why people are not part of it.

Rallies
January 19, 2014 12:07 pm

My kid is in Oholei Torah and he hates going to Tzivos Hashem rallies. he says “why should we sit and watch all the kids who have gone up in rank and win amazing prizes, and we don’t even get missions. Tzivos Hashem does amazing things but they need top find away of getting everyone involved. just Oholei Torah and Beis Rivka from pre 1a – 2nd grade who are not yet in Tzivos Hashem is over 1,000 children! can you imagine what the Rebbe would say about this!

to #38
January 19, 2014 12:03 pm

When I contacted Oholei Torah they never laughed at me. They simply said “we have no one to run it in our school”. i have done my research, and unless you have someone dedicated to running Tzivos Hashem it dose not work. i dont have kids in the school anymore, but perhaps it would be worth suggesting that they should just give out the magazine, watch the rallies and get the amazing siddur that each child gets a gift, I am sure most parents would want to get it for their children.

Moshiach
January 19, 2014 11:58 am

Tzivos Hashem was made to finish off golus and bring Moshiach. Much Hatzlocha in all that you do.

to 38
January 19, 2014 9:35 am

My heart goes out to you and to all of us who are so painfully aware that so much more needs to be put into the children’s chinuch besides actual learning. I suggest that you write a separate op-ed, and ask parents to sign that they want tzivos Hashem to be in the school curriculum. Or, maybe you have another idea? You can e-mail me for support in this. [email protected]. Hatzlacha Rabba!

yerachmiel is the man
January 19, 2014 7:12 am

rabbi Benjaminson is the main man who has kept tzivos hashem alive for 33 years. His partnership with rabbi kotlarsky has definitely changed the face of tzivos hashem but at the end of the day the man who the rebbe chose for tzivos hashem is yerachmiel. we salute you and stand behind ALL the incredible work you do.

Thanks
January 19, 2014 7:00 am

hachyol is an amazing tool for the shabbos table. Our shabbos table used to be a place where we spent the meal chatting with a devar torah or two from the kids. now the meal became a chassidishe farbrengen.

Oholei torah
January 19, 2014 6:33 am

Is there a reason you deprive our children from this amazing magazine. Our children would gain so much from it. 700 children from pre1a till 7th grade could and should be instilled with the sichos of the rebbe about what it means to be a soldier in hashems army and….. Tzivos hashem is the tool that the rebbe gave us to bring up this generation of children. how can you not have this in your school. i still remember when i was a child in mem aleph. Oholei Torah had the most amazing tzivos hashem. we all had army hats… Read more »

amazing
January 19, 2014 12:24 am

hachayol is a great magazine, the kids love reading it every week. It is so creative and well done, and the kids really learn from it! wish it was around when i was a kid. thank you hachayol and whoever is behind it!

Amazing
January 18, 2014 11:41 pm

Hachayol started as a monthly and is now weekly
Keep it up

#32
January 18, 2014 11:26 pm

Why not have it in Chinese and Spanish

If they would translate it it should be to Hebrew or Yiddish before anything else

Rebbe story
January 18, 2014 11:00 pm

They have incredible stories of the rebbe submitted by kids in tzivos hashem
This weeks story as can be seen above is one such story

We live in Russia
January 18, 2014 10:54 pm

We get the magazine shipped to Russia. my kids love it and I wish they had more. why can Bina bunch make a 48 page weekly and we get 12 pages a week. I think we can do better.

why
January 18, 2014 10:52 pm

Why is this magazine not in French?

rebbe stories
January 18, 2014 10:50 pm

I look forward to the rebbe story each week

My shliach
January 18, 2014 10:49 pm

If you would only know how much we struggled with my older kids on shlichus and what you have done for my younger kids i can not put into words. Thank you rabbi kotlarsky and rabbi shanowitz and your partners at tzivos hashem.

mendy shanowitz
January 18, 2014 10:45 pm

He is my hero.

The graphics are so nice
January 18, 2014 10:44 pm

Who does their graphics? They are so nice.

Very painful
January 18, 2014 10:42 pm

Very painful to find out now about issue 100. why do all good things have to be kept s secret?

subscribe
January 18, 2014 10:40 pm

I am not a child but a subscribe to hachyol and it’s worth every penny.

To #10
January 18, 2014 10:29 pm

Your support will help them get to 100000000000000000000000000000000

To # 22
January 18, 2014 10:27 pm

So true
Everyone MUST donate to them for it says the people of your city come first

The man behind it all
January 18, 2014 10:16 pm

Is shimmy Weinbaum he is the main person behind hachayol and the rest of tzivos hashem

Donate
January 18, 2014 10:08 pm

You can donate to tzivos hashem for the continuance of hachayol https://www.mashpia.com/donate.php

Hachayol magazine is a beautiful thing
January 18, 2014 10:02 pm

I read most of them and their awesome

Mazal tov
January 18, 2014 10:01 pm

100 is a milestone

100 issues
January 18, 2014 9:59 pm

corresponds with 100 years since rebbetzin rivkas passing

sholom
January 18, 2014 9:53 pm

from us in LA. we appreciate all you do for our kids and the support to head quarters.

A real visionary
January 18, 2014 9:51 pm

rabbi kotlarsky is a real visionary. He has done so much for the shluchim around the world but this shows what a real visionary he is. He understands that in order to have shluchim to send out you need to invest in the future shluchim.

Thank You
January 18, 2014 9:47 pm

I feel very indebted to rabbi kotlarsky. I have read every one of the 100 issues and grown so much from them. I get them for my children and they love them. But as parents we need this as well. Thank You.

rabbi Benjaminson
January 18, 2014 9:42 pm

Let’s not forget the rebbe’s shliach to tzivos hashem.

Go Rabbi Weinbaum!!!
January 18, 2014 9:39 pm

We all know that without you this would NOT happen!

The gal that actually creates the magazine!!
January 18, 2014 8:49 pm

Go Chava!!!

Chava!!
January 18, 2014 9:37 am

Chava is the most incredible person I know!!
Super dedicated and talented!! Rock on dear! Missing u!

Thank you
January 17, 2014 3:46 pm

Thank you rabbi kotlarsky from a very thankful parent for all that you do. As shluchim we all know how much you do for the family of shluchim, but there is nothing more meaningful to us that you care so much about our children’s well being. bringing children up on shlichus comes with many challenges and to have hachyol is nothing less the a life saver.

Always wondered
January 17, 2014 3:41 pm

I always wanted to know how they can afford to pay for so much that they give our kids. I guess the cat is out of the bag it’s reb moshe. Rabbi kotlarsky you are an amazing man.

100
January 17, 2014 3:37 pm

100 is big. how do you come up with such an amazing magazine each week?

why
January 17, 2014 3:35 pm

Why was hachyol not around when we were kids?

mendy shanowitz
January 17, 2014 3:34 pm

Thanks to you and my shliach our kids are proud to be who they are and are motivated to bring moshiach. reb moshe we always knew you are behind this amazing program, may hashem give you the kochos to continue for many years to come.

roots
January 17, 2014 3:22 pm

My best article is roots, the story is so gripping and packed with yiras shomayim. go mendel moscowitz.

parshafier
January 17, 2014 3:20 pm

We love the parshafier most. so important for our children to hear about the sichos the rebbe said at the rallies. they are given over in such a creative manner. we all take part by the shabbos meal each acting out another part of the feature. The whole shabbos table comes alive each week.

The best publication chabad has today.
January 17, 2014 3:11 pm

So focused, we’ll written and designed. Anyone who does not have hachyol at their shabbos table is missing out on rich chassidishe values saturated with yiras shomayim. Thank you my shliach. you are what we need most.

I am not a child
January 17, 2014 3:05 pm

I am not a child, but I will never miss a week. Hachyol is catching me up on so much of what I missed out on as a child. thanks rabbi kotlarsky for all that you do.

Thanks reb moshe
January 17, 2014 3:02 pm

My children look forward to reading hachyol each week

amazing man
January 17, 2014 2:58 pm

Reb moshe is an amazing man

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