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Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul

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556 Crown St, corner Albany Ave.

Use the Albany Ave entrance (1 flight up)

Mailing address- 383 Kingston Ave / Suite 249

Brooklyn, N.Y. 11213

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Shacharis Sunday @ 9:00am

Shacharis Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha @ 1:45pm

Maariv @ 6:30pm

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Shacharis Shabbos 10:00am

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Sunday 11th of Mar Cheshvan

Yahrzeit of our matriarch Rochel Imeinu. It’s known what Yaakov told his son Yoseph… “that it was by Divine command that I buried her there so that she should be a help for her children when Nebuzaradan [of Babylon] will exile them and they will pass by there. Then Rachel will come out upon her grave and weep and plead for mercy for them, as it is written (Jeremiah 31:14–16): “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping: Rachel is weeping for her children and refuses to be comforted for her children because they are away. And G‑d will answer her: Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded, says G‑d; and they will return from the land of the enemy. There is hope for your future . . . that your children will return to their own borders” (Rashi’s commentary on this verse). May we merit the Geula Now

Yahrzeit of R. Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl, student of the Baal Shem Tov and the Mezeritcher Magid, author of Meor Einayim, 5558 [1797]. His grandson, R. Yaakov Yisroel, married the Mitteler Rebbe's daughter. It is told that the Alter Rebbe picked Reb Yaakov Yisroel to marry his granddaughter when he was yet in his baby crib in his grandfather’s house.

Yahrzeit of R. Shneur Zalman Aharon, son of the Rebbe MaHaRaSh, 5669 [1908]. The Frierdiker Rebbe said about his uncle, Reb Zalman Aharon, that he was a man of Baal Midos Tovos (a person with good character traits) and a person with an extraordinarily strong heart. Personally, he went through many tough times and suffered a great deal. Nevertheless, there was always a smile on his face. He never shed a tear for himself. But for the pain of another would touch him very deeply, the smile would fade, his face would sadden, his eyes would fill with tears, and he would do everything to help the person in distress.

Shabbos Schedule:

5:35pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

5:40pm 2nd Mincha

6:25pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

5:35pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

6:34pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Shacharis - Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 6:30pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

SPONSORS NEEDED

Shabbos 3rd of Cheshvan Yahrzeit of holy Tzadik Reb Yisroel of Ruzhyn

[The Rebbe MaHaRaSh related, "When I was eight, I went in on Shabbos to see my father, the Tzemach Tzedek. He was sitting and studying the Zohar. He closed it and said, "When the holy Tzadik of Rizhyn says Tehilim, the entire world is open before him, and in the Tehilim of Shabbos, he sees the source of all the matters of the world and can correct them in their source, and thus the decree is rejected and canceled. And I agree with the advice of the holy Tzadik of Rizhyn." And this was the story: There was great love between the Tzemach Tzedek and R. Yisroel of Rizhyn. Once there was a great general crisis, and the Tzemach Tzedek sent the Gaon, Tzadik, and Chasid, R. Eizik HaLevi Epstein of Homel, to R. Yisroel of Rizhyn to consult and plan with him about annulling the decree. When R. Eizik HaLevi came to the Ruzhyner, he received him very graciously and said: "We'll say a few chapters of Tehilim, HaShem Yisborach will light up the gates of light, and we'll see what happens." (Letter of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Kovetz Michtavim, 1)

The power of Tehilim is enormous. Now more than ever, we should recite chapters of Tehilim as often as we can. For the safety of Eretz Yisroel and Yidden all over.

Mazal Tov to our dear Baal Kore on his upcoming wedding, Rabbi Mendel Goldberg, to Ms. Mushka Friedman. Mazal Tov it should be in an auspicious time with all the Rebbes' Brachos

Shabbos Schedule:

5:44pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

5:49pm 2nd Mincha

6:34pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

5:44pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

6:42pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Shacharis - Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 6:45pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Rabbi Mendel Goldberg, in honor of his Ufruf and upcoming wedding, Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov. The wedding should be in an auspicious time and place, with all the Rebbes' Brachos.

Grossman family, in honor of their father, father-in-law, and grandfather, Mr. Shlomo Grossman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Mazal Tov. You should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Urbach, with complete Health, Wealth, Happiness, Joy, and long life Amen.

Ms. Stacy Albert, in honor of all the wonders and Miracles Hashem performs with us daily

Special Announcements:

Bais Levi Yitzchak wants to thank again all those that participated, davened, made pledges, and made the month of Tishrei a meaningful experience for all.

It is because of your participation and generosity that we continue to grow and build our community!!

May Hashem repay and bless every one of you with an abundance of healthy, wealthy, happy, joyful, nachas year with the immediate Geula Now Amen.

“. . . It’s known the saying of the Rebbeim that the way we set ourselves up on Shabbos Bereishis so goes the entire year” [Likutei Sichos: Vol. 1, p. 1]

This Shabbos is Shabbos Bereishis and Shabbos Mevorchim Marcheshvan.

We say the Sefer Tehilim before Shacharis and bless the month. We do not say “Av Harachamim” at Shacharis or “Tzidkosecha” at Mincha.

This Shabbos is -- "Shabbos of Beginning" -- the first Shabbos of the annual Torah reading cycle, on which the Torah section of Bereishis ("In the Beginning") is read.

The weekly Torah reading defines the Jewish week, serving as a guide and point of reference for the week's events, deeds, and decisions; Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi called this "living with the times." Hence, the theme and tone of this week is one of beginning and renewal, as we launch into yet another cycle of Torah life and the daily Chita’s, study of Chumash, Tehilim and Tanya.

“Studying a parsha of Chumash with Rashi every day (Sunday until Sheini, Monday until Shelishi, etc.), saying Tehilim every day and the entire Tehilim on Shabbos Mevorchim - be scrupulous about all of these. It is crucial for you, for your children, and your children's children.” (Hayom Yom 25th Shevat)

A Special Thank You

We would like to recognize and express our greatest appreciation to Yoni Biston, as well as all those who helped set up the kiddushim throughout Yom Tov and ensured they ran smoothly. Thank You; You should be blessed with all blessings, and we should dance at your wedding this year.

Shabbos Schedule:

5:54pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

5:59pm 2nd Mincha

6:44pm Kabbolas Shabbos

8:30am Tehilim

10:30am Shacharis / Farbrengen

5:54pm Mincha
6:51pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Shacharis - Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 6:45pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. & Rebeca Bolinsky, in honor of their dear daughter Sara’s Golda birthday, Mazal Tov Mazal Tov. She should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha, much Nachas from her.

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai & Mrs. Chana Pesha Jacobson in honor of Mordechai's father Yahrzeit, Simcha ben Menachem Mendel Ha’Kohen obm. His Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Ms. Zelda Levin, in honor of her birthday, Mazal Tov, you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Hoshana Rabba -Shemini Atzeres -Simchas Torah

Kiddush -Pledges

As of now, 100% of all orders are in, and 80 % of pledges have come in.

Please take this opportunity to pay your pledge and help sponsor the kiddushim for Shemini Atzeres / Simchas Torah.

“. . . The Rebbe RaShaB said “We must treasure the forty-eight hours of Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah very much; in every moment we can gather barrels and kegs of physical and spiritual blessings. And this is through the dancing.” [Sefer Hamaamarim, 5711 p.79]

We should be B’Simcha and merit the ultimate Simcha of Geula Now

Sunday night Hoshana Rabba

We say the whole Chumash Devorim tonight (any time) before Tehilim

1:00am Tehilim

The world is judged for water on Sukkahs, ending on Hosanna Rabba. The Zohar describes it as a Judgment Day like Yom Kippur: The judgment of Yom Kippur is sealed; the parchments with the decrees are handed to the angels to deliver. Thus, it has special importance as a day of Tefillah and Teshuvah. It is customary to stay up the night of Hoshana Raba and read Sefer Devarim. After midnight, we say Sefer Tehilim with the Yehi Ratzon for Hosanna Raba in back of Tehilim. There is a custom for the Gabbai to distribute apples and honey. We eat them after Tehilim in the Sukkah

Monday Hoshana Rabba

9:30 am Shacharis

We go around the bimmah 7 times, and then we take the bundle of 5 Aravo’s and strike the floor 5 times with them. It is the last day for benching Lulav and Esrog.

1:45pm 1st Mincha

Afternoon we have a Seuda (Yom Tov meal)

6:00pm candle lighting in Crown Heights

6:05pm 2nd Mincha

6:55pm Maariv, followed by Kiddush

8:00pm Hakofos!!

Tuesday Morning Shemini Atzeres

10:30am Shacharis / Yizkor / Tefillas Geshem (we ask for rain)

Birchas Kohanim

6:00pm Mincha

Light Candles after 6:57 pm

6:55pm Maariv, followed by Kiddush

8:00pm Hakofos!!

Wednesday Morning Simchas Torah

10:30am Shacharis Birchas Kohanim, Grand Kiddush and Hakofos

(all men & boys should get an Aliya today)

Afternoon, we have a Seuda (Yom Tov meal)

5:45pm Mincha / Farbrengen

6:56pm Maariv/Yom Tov Ends

The following is what the Rebbe said about the upcoming days

"...The time of Simchas Torah, particularly before Hakofos, was always an auspicious time for my sainted father-in-law, the Rebbe…. As such, also those who have several times asked for a particular Brocha, for a need that has yet to be fulfilled, may now obtain its fulfillment.

Therefore, let them take mashkeh, and say "L’Chaim" to the Rebbe, and take upon themselves a particular commitment to strengthen their ties with him, and through this, all matters will be achieved. [From a Sicha of Simchas Torah 5711]

“. . . My father (the Rebbe Rashab) said, “On Simchas Torah, every minute is a year.” [Sefer Hasichos 5702, p. 9]

On Simchas Torah all, the gates of heaven are open, the gates of light, blessing, success, and all other gates. And one receives them through Torah. [Sefer Hasichos 5709, p. 59]

Sukkos Time of Joy

Chassidus explains that “rejoicings” refers to “Yisroel rejoices in their Maker” [Tehillim, 149:2] and “HaShem rejoices in His works” Tehillim, 104:31]. Since Sukkos is the “Season of our Rejoicings” not the “Season of Yisroel rejoicing in their Maker” or “HaShem rejoices in His works”, both rejoicings are united together every moment of Sukkos.

SIMCHAS BEIS HASHO’EIVAH

“ . . . . Though it’s a Mitzvah to rejoice in all the festivals, there was an additional celebration in the Temple on the festival of Sukkos . . . On the eve of the festival's first day, they set up a place in the Temple for women [to watch] from above and men from below so they wouldn’t intermingle.

The celebration would begin the night after the first day of the festival. Similarly, on each day of Chol Hamoed, after offering the daily afternoon sacrifice, they would begin to celebrate for the rest of the day and throughout the night.

. . . The flute would be sounded, and songs played on the harp, lute, and cymbals . . . Each person would play the instrument he knew. Those who could sing would sing. They would dance and clap their hands, letting loose and whistling, each in the manner he knew. They would say words of song and praise.

“Whoever did not see Simchas Beis HaSho’eivah has never seen rejoicing in his life! . . . There were golden menorahs . . . There was not a courtyard in Jerusalem that wasn’t illuminated with the light of Beis HaSho’eivah

"...The custom of the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek was that after Maariv of the second night, he would begin to arrange Farbrengens with singing and dancing. He would dance so hard that even the young men couldn't keep up with him." [Sefer HaSichos, 5703, p. 10]

The Rebbe emphasized that participation in Simchas Bais Hoshoeva is for all Jews. Since it doesn’t have the stature it had in the Beis Hamikdash, everybody can and must participate. Not only through seeing and hearing but also with actual Simchah and dancing, every single Jew and even children. [Maayanei Hayeshua, p. 44]

Rabbi Mendel Lerman would like to invite everyone to a Farbrengen every night of Sukkah @ 695 Montgomery Street. The Sukkah is in the back of the house.

BLYS needs sponsors for the Shemini Atzeres / Simchas Torah Kiddushim. contact Rabbi Mendel Lerman @ info@blys.org or 917-327-9493

Monday Erev Sukkos

8:00am Shacharis

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:11pm Candle Lighting in Crown Heights

6:16pm 2nd Mincha

7:10pm Maariv First night of Sukkos

Tuesday First Day of Sukkos

10:30am Shacharis

6:11pm Mincha

Light Candles after 7:08pm

7:10pm Maariv Second night Sukka’s

Wednesday Second day of Sukkos

10:30am Shacharis

6:11pm Mincha

7:06pm Maariv / We do regular Havdalah - without Candle or B’Samim

In the sukkah, we say the blessing Leishiv BaSukkah.

Thursday 1st day Chol HaMoed Sukkah

9:30am Shacharis

1:45pm Mincha

7:00pm Maariv

Friday 2nd day Chol HaMoed Sukkah’s

9:30 am Shacharis

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:05pm candle lighting in Crown Heights

6:10pm 2nd Mincha

7:00pm Kabbolas Shabbos

Shabbos 3rd day Chol HaMoed Sukkah

10:30am Shacharis

6:05pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim

7:02pm Maariv/ Shabbos Ends / Rebbes Video / regular Havdalah - with candle and Bisamim— in the sukkah, and we say Leishiv BaSukkah.

Special Announcements:

The Bais Levi Yitzchak shul wants to thank every single one of you personally who came and davened, made pledges and made Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a meaningful Yom Tov. Everyone should be blessed with All blessings that one can imagine Amen.

Sunday 13th of Tishrei

Yahrzeit of our holy Master and Teacher, R. Shmuel, “the Rebbe MaHaRaSh”, 5643 (1882). “...His life and work are best summarized by his saying, “The world says if you can’t go under an obstacle, you have to go over, and I say —go over in the first place.” The simple meaning of this is that in Torah and Mitzvas we have to “go over in the first place”: not make calculations, and when that’s not enough, and you have to go above measure and limit, you go “over” —the Rebbe MaHaRaSh said “go over in the first place”, in a way that’s above calculations and limits

Shabbos Schedule:

6:16pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:21pm 2nd Mincha

7:06pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

6:16pm Mincha

7:13pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening –Schedule for the following days

Shacharis Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday and Monday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday @ 7:15pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Shmulik Kravitsky in honor of Shmulik’s father's Yahrzeit Reb Naphtali ben Reb Asher obm his Neshama should have the highest aliya ever

Mrs. Mazal Zirkind in honor of her father 20th Yahrzeit Ephraim ben Lulu V’Yaakov obm his Neshama should have the Highest Aliya ever

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai & Mrs. Chana Pesha Jacobson in honor of Chana's birthday today, Mazal Tov Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Yom Kippur

The Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul wishes all our friends and all of

Israel, a Gemar Chasima Tova!

May we all be, signed and sealed with complete Health, Wealth, Happiness, Joy, etc., Geulah Now Amen

Wednesday Erev Yom Kippur

8:00am Shacharis – At Shacharis, we do not say Mizmar Lisodah, Tachnun or Avinu Malkeinu. (Mizmar Lisodah is in place of the Korban Toda, which was not brought Erev Yom Kippur.)

Lekach

It is customary to ask friends for Lekach (honey cake) and eat it. One reason for this custom is that, were it decreed upon us, Chas Vishalom, to depend on the “gifts of flesh and blood”, we discharge our “obligation” with this. . .. My father-in-law, the Rebbe told: 'The Baal Shem Tov would say that giving Lekach (honey cake) on Erev Yom Kippur is an ancient custom, and when he gave it he would say, I give you Lekach, and may HaShem give you a good year, and my father [the Rebbe RaShaB] would add, ‘a sweet year’… [Sicha, Erev Yom Kippur, 5711]

Tzedakah

It is customary to give charity generously and liberally on the day before Yom Kippur, for Tzedakah is a great source of merit and serves as protection against harsh decrees.

Festive Meals

It is a Mitzvah to eat and drink on Erev Yom Kippur as if for two days. It is forbidden to fast. We eat two full meals for which we wash and eat Challah dipped in honey. One meal is before Mincha; Seudah Hamafsekes is after. We eat Kreplach. We do not eat eggs on Erev Yom Kippur.

Malkus (Lashes) & Mikvah

We try to go to the Mikvah 3 time 1st- before Shacharis 2nd- before Mincha and after the first meal. (3rd after Seudah Hamafsekes before sundown.)

Before Mikvah, we have the custom of Malkos: receiving thirty-nine symbolic “lashes” to remember the need for Teshuvah. Both the one giving and getting Malkos say the thirteen words of “VeHu Rachum” three times, for thirty-nine. Yom Kippur does not atone for sins against a fellow man, unless we appease him. If we have sinned against others, even if only in words, we are obliged to appease them. We must go personally to them. The injured party should forgive them willingly and wholeheartedly.

Mincha

3:15pm Mincha @ Bais Levi Yitzchak

We wear Yom Tov clothes to Mincha. We give a lot of Tzedakah before Mincha. At the end of the Amidah, before “Elokai Nitzor” we say Viduy (see Siddur) in the silent Amidah, but not in the Repetition. We do not say Tachnun (or Avinu Malkeinu). After Mincha, we eat the final meal before the fast.

Seuda Hamafsekes (Final meal before fast) followed by Mikvah

We eat only easily digestible food, such as boiled chicken or soup. We do not eat or drink spicy or salty foods. Finish the meal while it is still daytime.

If you finish quite early and intend to eat or drink before the fast, make a declaration (or at least have in mind) before Birchas HaMazon that you are not yet beginning the fast.

Parents bless their children before going to Kol Nidrei.

Light a Yahrzeit candle, put it in a safe place to ensure it is not put out, for it needs to be lit until Motzaei Yom Kippur for Havdalah

Those saying Yizkor should light a Yahrzeit candle (Ner Neshama) at home for each parent who passed away.

Every man (married or single) brings a 24-hour candle (Lebediker Licht) to shul, to light before Yom Kippur

Wednesday Night Yom Kippur Schedule (10-1-2025)

6:19pm Candle lighting in Crown Heights
6:19pm Fast begins.

Before Kol Nidrei, we say quietly Al Chait and the next 8 chapters of Tehillim
6:37pm Kol Nidrei

Thursday Yom Kippur (10-2-2025)
10:00am Shacharis Yom Kippur
5:10pm Mincha
7:17pm Maariv* – Fast Ends*- followed by break the fast

Break the fast sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. and Rebecca Bolinsky in honor of Rebecca’s birthday. Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov, you should have a Gemar Chasima Tova Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

After Maariv:

*Maariv is davened with the Talis and the Kittel. Instead of putting the Talis over our head, we wear our hat.

* We wish one another Gut Yom Tov.

* Netilas Yoda’im: we wash our hands as is done in the morning, without a Bracha.

* Havdalah is said while wearing a Talis and Kittel. We make the Brachos for the wine and the Candle. For the Bracha of "האש מאורי בורא" one should use the candle that has been lit throughout Yom Kippur.

* One can then wash up, put on leather shoes, and say Kiddush Levana.

* By the Seuda after the fast, the Challah is dipped in honey, and the meal is served בהרחבה (in abundance).

* One should begin work on the Sukkah or at least discuss it.

* We do not say Tachanun till the end of the month of Tishrei.

Wishing everyone a Gemar Chasima Tova Geula Now

Special Announcements:

On behalf of Bais Levi Yitzchak shul we thank all those who came and davened, made pledges, and made Rosh Hashanah a meaningful Yom Tov. Everyone should be blessed with A Gemar Chasima Tova. May we all be signed and sealed in the book of life, Health, Wealth, and prosperity Geula Now Amen.

Shabbos Shuvah

The Shabbos between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is called Shabbos Shuvah, "Shabbos of Return." The name derives from the Haftarah (reading from the prophets) for this Shabbos, which opens with the words (Hosea 14:2), "Return O Israel unto the L-rd your G-d..." Occurring in the "Ten Days of Repentance" (see "Laws & Customs" for Tishrei); it is a most auspicious time to rectify the failings and missed opportunities of the past and positively influence the coming year.

The master Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria ("Ari") taught that the seven days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (which will always include one Sunday, one Monday, etc.) correspond to the seven days of the week. The Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur includes within itself all Sundays of the year; the Monday embodies all Mondays, and so on. Shabbat Shuvah is thus the archetypal Shabbat -- the juncture in time at which we are empowered to influence every Shabbat of our year.

Sunday Vov Tishrei - Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chana

Rebbetzin Chana was born on 28th Tevet 1880, in Nikolayev, Ukraine, to Rabbi Meir Shlomo and Rachel Yanovsky. She was the eldest of four children: she had two sisters, Gittel and Ettel, and a younger brother, Yisroel Leib, who passed away as a youth. Rabbi Meir Shlomo was the chief rabbi of Nikolayev; indeed, the Yanovsky family was known as a prestigious rabbinical family of scholars and leaders.

In 1900, at the age of 20, Rebbetzin Chana married Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. The great-grandson of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the “Tzemach Tzedek” (the third of the Chabad-Lubavitcher Rebbe’s), Rabbi Levi Yitzchak a renowned scholar and a brilliant Kabbalist. Rabbi Shalom DovBer Schneerson, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, had suggested the match. The wedding took place on the 13th of Sivan, in Nikolayev.

Rebbetzin Chana had three sons: our Rebbe, DovBer and Yisroel Aryeh Leib.

Her eldest son, our Rebbe, was born on the 11th of Nissan 1902. On that day Rabbi Shalom DovBer sent six telegrams to the child’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, each with blessings and various instructions.

Before nursing her son, Rebbetzin Chana would wash her hands in the ritual manner, and do the same for her infant. She had a yarmulke and tzitzit made for him and took great care to raise her son—who would eventually become the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe—in a holy environment.

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul wishes all our friends and all.

Israel a Gemar Chasima Tova!

May we all be signed and sealed with complete Health, Wealth, Happiness, Joy, etc. Geula Now Amen

Shabbos Schedule:

6:28pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:33pm 2nd Mincha

7:18pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chasiddus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

6:28pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar
7:25pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday through Wednesday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Tuesday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Tuesday @ 7:15pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

The following friends and families, Bander, Caplan, Hayman, Nash, and Weber, Co-sponsored in honor of Mrs. Rivka bas Herschel Siegel obm. 3rd Yahrzeit on Yom Kippur. Her Neshama should have the highest aliya ever and be a good advocate for all her friends and family for Gemar Chasima Tova.

Anonymous, in honor of the Rebbe’s parents, Reb Levi Yitzchak & Rebbetzin Chana, whose Yahrzeit is on Sunday, in honor of Rebbetzin Chana, we should all be blessed with a Gemar Chasima Tova with the immediate and complete Geula Now Amen

Mr. & Mrs. Avraham and Devora Hayman, in honor of the Yahrzeit of Baila bas Yosef Mayer, whose Yahrzeit falls on Shabbos, and their great aunt Rose bas Avraham Yahrzeit on the 9th of Tishrei, and Rebbetzin Chana, their Neshama, should have the highest aliya ever we should all be blessed with a Gemar Chasima Tova with the immediate and complete Geula Now Amen

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim and Shoshana Bander, in honor of Rebbetzin Chana's Yahrtzeit, may she be blessed, in honor of their parents Avraham Ha’Levi ben Yetta and Yehudit bas Sara Rivka. They should have an immediate and complete Refua Shleima now. May all Yidden be blessed with revealed good and Gamar Chasima Tova!

Rosh Hashanah - 5786

The Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul wishes all our friends and family,

and all of Israel

A Kesiva V’Chasima Tova! L’Shana Tova U’Msuka.

With Blessings, of Health, Wealth, Happiness,

Joy & Sweet New Year Geula Now

Praising the Jews

The Rebbe Maharash once remarked to his son the Rebbe Rashab, “Hundreds of angels wait on Rosh Hashanah for a Jew to praise another Jew because they (the angels) know that G-d desires the praise of a Jew even more than the prayers of the righteous.”

Precious Time

The minutes and hours of Rosh Hashanah are extremely precious and should not be wasted. This is a time that is more elevated than the rest of the year, both in quantity and quality, in the same way, the brain is superior to the other limbs of the body.

It is appropriate to recite Tehillim during one’s spare time on Rosh Hashanah. Some endeavor to complete the entire Tehillim twice.

The number of chapters recited (300) is then the numerical value.

(gematria) of kaper (atone).

During the 48 hours of Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to avoid idle talk and daytime sleep and spend every available moment reciting chapters of Tehilim.

Monday Erev Rosh Hashanah (9-22-25)

7:00am Selichos

8:00am Shacharis followed by Hatoras Nedorim / Pruzbul

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:34pm Candle Lighting in Crown Heights

6:39pm 2nd Mincha Erev Rosh Hashanah, followed by saying Tehilim

7:30pm Maariv First night Rosh Hashanah

Tuesday First Day Rosh Hashanah (9-23-25)

10:00am Shacharis

12:00am approximately Torah reading followed by Shofar Blowing

2:15pm approximately Birkas Kohanim

Followed by Mincha (after Musaf), then Tashlich.

Light Candles after 7:31pm for Crown Heights

7:30pm Maariv Second night Rosh Hashanah

Wednesday Second day Rosh Hashanah (9-24-25)

10:00am Shacharis

12:00am approximately Torah Reading followed by Shofar Blowing

2:15pm approximately Birkas Kohanim

6:15pm Mincha / followed by Farbrengen

7:29pm Maariv

Thursday Tzum Gedalia (fast of Gedalia) (9-25-25)

5:21am Fast begins

8:00am Shacharis

1:45pm Mincha

7:13pm Maariv

7:15pm Fast ends

Special Announcements:

Now is the best time to give Tzedakah, to fulfill all those outstanding pledges.

Shabbos 27th Elul is Shabbos Mevorchim, the last Shabbos of the year

The power of saying Tehilim - last Shabbos of the year

The power of saying Tehilim - Hayom Yom 24th of Shevat

Studying a passage of Chumash every day with the commentary of Rashi (reading the first Aliyah of the coming Shabbos on Sunday, the second on Monday, and so on), reciting [the daily bracket of chapters of] Tehilim every day, reciting the entire Book of Tehilim on Shabbos Mevorchim — these things must be carefully observed. Doing so impacts the individual, his children, and his grandchildren.

Hashem himself blesses this month, Hayom Yom 25th Elul

The Alter Rebbe related: When I was in Mezritch I heard from my Rebbe, the Maggid, in the name of the Baal Shem Tov: The seventh month (Tishrei), first of the months of the year, is blessed by G‑d Himself, on Shabbos Mevorchim - last Shabbos in the month of Elul. With this power, Israel blesses the other months eleven times a year.

It is written, Atem Nitzovim Hayom, "You stand this day." This day refers to Rosh Hashana which is the day of Judgment (as it is written, "The day came," which Targum renders, the day of the great judgment came). Yet you remain standing firmly upright (Nitzovim), meaning you will be vindicated in judgment.

On the Shabbos preceding Rosh Hashana, the last Shabbos in Elul, we read the parsha of Atem Nitzovim, which is G‑d's blessing on the Shabbos of blessing the seventh month (Shabbat Mevorchim). That seventh month (Tishrei) is itself sated - and in turn satiates all Israel - with an abundance of good for the duration of the (coming) year."

Yahrtzeit of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, student of the Ba’al Shem Tov, 5546 [1786]. It is known that on the Histalkus of the Ba’al Shem Tov, Shavuos 5520, 1760, the Ba’al Shem Tov called R. Yechiel Michel and told him to sing his famous Nigun. The Ba’al Shem Tov said I promise that anyone who’ll sing this Nigun, of great awakening of mercy, with an awakening of Teshuvah, I will hear it in any place I may be (in Gan Eden) and I will join him in the singing and awaken great mercy on the Ba’al teshuvah that sings it. This is accepted as the Nigun of Hisorerus Rachamim Rabim.

Sunday 28th Elul

Yahrtzeit of R. Shalom Roke’ach of Belz, founder of Belz Chassidus, 5615 [1855]. R’ Chitrik writes in Volume 3 of Reshimas Devarim, one time the Rebbe MaHaRaSh went to Belz, and he was dressed as a businessman. He wanted to see the Tzaddik R’ Shalom of Belz. He sat in the far corner of the shul, where he could observe. When R’ Shalom came in, it was very hard for him to see, his attendant was taking him to the head table, he pulled away and said he smells a very fine odor; he went to the Rebbe MaHaRaSh, and said to him, “from me you cannot hide”. He asked him how his father, the Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek is doing. Later he gave him Shirayim and whispered to him the secret of giving Shirayim. (See Letters of the

Rebbe, volume 2, pg. 324 and footnotes)

Monday 29th of Elul

Birthday of our Holy Master and Teacher, R. Menachem Mendel b. R. Sholom Shachne, third Lubavitcher Rebbe, "The Tzemach Tzedek," author of Tzemach Tzedek, 5549 [1789], in Liozna. (He was named for R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, who had passed away the year before.) The Alter Rebbe said a Maamar, which became the first three chapters of Tanya. The law

WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY & HEALTHY SWEET NEW YEAR

Kesiva V'Chasima Tova L'Shana Tova U’Msuka with Geula Now

Shabbos Schedule:

6:39pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:44pm 2nd Mincha

7:29pm Kabbolas Shabbos

8:30am Tehillim

10:30am Shacharis / Farbrengen

6:30pm Mincha / Seder nigunim / Maamar

7:36pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe Video

Schedule for Sunday & Monday

Sunday Selichos @ 8:30 am, Shacharis @ 9:00 am,

Monday Selichos @ 7:00am, Shacharis @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday & Monday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday @ 7:30pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Rabbi & Mrs. Lipa Shapiro, in honor of Lipa’s mother, Yahrzeit Rochel bas Reb Chaim DovBer, obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim Refua Shleima for Yehudit bas Sara Rivka and Avraham Ha’Levi ben Yetta, and all Yidden who need a Refua Shleima

In memory of their dear uncles, Yahrzeit Milton ben Avraham obm and

Sara bas Shlomo Zalman Goldwurm obm their Neshama’s should have the highest Aliya ever. Everyone should be blessed with a Kesiva v’Chasima Tova of Geula Shlama!

ף על מה שהחליט לתת, לא מעט מעט אלא הרבה הרבה. וודאי יוסיף הקב"ה במדתו, מידה כנגד מידה אבל כמה פעמים ככה, וכמ"ש התוס′ ועוד, עד חמש מאות פעמים ככה, כן תהי′ לנו בפשטות, וכספם וזהבם איתם, ונלך לקבל פני משיח צדקנו באופן דקהל גדול ישובו הנה.

Farbrengen Wednesday at 8:00 pm in honor Reb Levi Yitzchak Yahrzeit Chof Menachem Ave

Shabbos Schedule:

7:44pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:49pm 2nd Mincha

8:34pm Kabolos Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

7:44pm Mincha
8:46pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Thursday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:30pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Baruch and Chana Bongart in honor of their Wedding Anniversary, Mazal Tov Mazal Tov may you celebrate happy, healthy, wealthy anniversaries together, much Nachas from your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren Amen.

Mr. & Mrs. Mendel Biston in honor of Mendel’s mothers Yahrzeit Tzvetil Gittel bas Reb Alter Yehoshua Ha’Kohen obm her Neshama should have the highest aliya ever

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim & Shoshana Bander in honor of Ephraim's grandmother Yahrzeit Chana bas Eli obm her Neshama should have the highest aliya ever. In honor of Chof Menachem Av Yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchak, we should all be blessed

In honor of our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Boruch and Chana Bongart, on the occasion of their upcoming Wedding Anniversary. Wishing them Arichas Yomim Tovim Umutzlachim, long, good, successful lives together, Hatzlacha and Bracha, success and blessings, filled with Joy, good health, wealth, and loads of Chassidishe and Yiddishe Nachas from all of your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren!

Mr. & Mrs. Kalman Rothman in honor of Chof Menachem Av Yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchak, we should all be blessed in his merit, Refua Shleima for Warren ben Leah Sara, he should have an immediate and complete Refua Shleima

Shabbos Chazon

Reb Hillel of Paritch would say in the name of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev: "Chazon" means vision; on Shabbos Chazon, Hashem shows every Jew a vision of the Third Bais Hamikdosh". "...Appropriate with the end of the Haftarah of Shabbos Chazon, "Tzion in justice will be redeemed and it’s returning with righteousness" (Yishayahu 1:27): Justice, 'Mishpat', is Torah and righteousness, 'Tzedakah', is all of the Mitzvas, which includes the Mitzvah of Tzedakah, we should, in these days add in the study of Torah and doing Mitzvas, especially the Mitzvah of Tzedakah." (Sicha, Shabbos Chazon, Av 9, 5751a)

The Rebbe would hold a Farbrengen on this Shabbos and advised that Farbrengens spreading Simcha with Ahavas Yisroel should be held on this Shabbos.

Erev Shabbos those who’s custom to shower and go to the Mikvah on Erev Shabbos may do so. We wear Shabbos clothes like every Shabbos and observe no custom of mourning on Shabbos in public.

On Shabbos Chazon, The Rebbe encouraged us to do our daily shiurim of Chitas & Rambam before Midday 1:01pm Crown Heights. (If one is running late, it may be finished any time before sunset. We do not say Pirkei Avos after Mincha. Of course, one may learn the Sichos and Maamorim of those years when the 8th or 9th of Av fell out on Shabbos Chazon. Then you can learn only the parts that deal with the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, or mourning: Megilas Eichah and its commentaries, laws of Tishah B’Av and Mourning in Shulchan Aruch, the tragic parts or Yirmiyahu and the third chapter of Moed Katan, etc.

We can eat meat or drink wine until sunset; at sunset, 8:09pm we stop ALL eating.

On Motzaei Shabbos we must say "Baruch Hamavdil Bein Kodesh L'Chol" before we change our leather shoes, we don't say Havdalah except the Bracha "Borei Meorei Haeish

The Rebbe would demand that we should be B’Simcha; it is the day that Moshiach was born and his Mazal Shines for all of us.

These days are an auspicious time to increase giving Tzedakah.

As summer draws near and the year winds down, we kindly remind everyone who has made pledges to BLYS throughout the year—whether during the month of Tishrei, for Aliyah’s, Yizkor, Farbrengen, Kiddushim, Birthdays, Yahrzeit, or other occasions—to please fulfill your commitments.

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul relies entirely on your donations to cover our expenses and maintain financial stability. Your continued generosity is essential to our community. We appreciate your support!

May it be the will of Hashem that these days change to days of happiness and joy with the ultimate redemption Amen Now.

Shabbos Schedule:

7:53pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:58pm 2nd Mincha

8:43pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

9:25am Latest Shema

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

1:01pm Midday for Crown Heights

6:00pm Mincha / Have a meal before the fast
8:09pm Fast begins

8:55pm Shabbos ends / we say "Baruch Hamavdil Bein Kodesh L'Chol"

And take off your leather shoes right after Shabbos.

9:15pm Maariv / followed by Eicha No Havdalah tonight but we say the blessing on the fire ("Borei Meorei Hoaish") at home or in shul

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Anonymous in honor of the immediate Geula Now Amen

Tishah B’Av Sunday 9th Menachem Av (August 3rd 2025)

9:00am Shacharis (we don't wear Tallis & Tefillin in the morning) / we say Kinnus, It is customary to sit on a chair lower than three Tefachim (about nine inches) until after midday

1:01pm Midday for Crown Heights

7:00pm Tallis, Tefillin and Mincha - is davened while wearing Tallis and Rashi Tefillin. We say Shema and finish what was omitted at Shacharis then begin Mincha, Krias HaTorah, and Haftorah. We add Nacheim and Aneinu in Shemoneh Esrei. After Mincha we put on Rabbenu Tam Tefillin.

8:35pm Maariv

8:39pm Fast ends

After Maariv - Wash your hands three times as you would in the morning.

We cannot eat or drink before we make Havdalah on Wine without the blessings on Fire or Spices.

We say Kiddush Levanah (preferably after changing into leather shoes, washing our faces, and eating something. If we can do this and still say it with a minyan)

We don’t eat meat or drink wine (except for Havdalah) washing clothes and showering till tomorrow afternoon

MAY IT BE THE WILL OF HASHEM THAT THESE DAYS CHANGE TO DAYS OF HAPPINES AND JOY.

Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av

Yahrtzeit of Aharon Ha’Kohen, 2489 [1312 BCE], the only Yahrtzeit recorded in the Torah (BaMidbar 33:38) (in Parshas Masei, read every year on the Shabbos of the week of his Yahrtzeit).

Wednesday 5th of Menachem Av

Yahrtzeit of R. Yitzchak Luria, the Ari Zal, 5332 [1572]. He passed away at thirty-eight, in Tzefas. " . . . All Israel accepted him as the final Posek

In all matters of the hidden parts of the Torah and its secrets, there is no room for argument, and the Halachah is as the words of the Ari Zal."

Nine days

The Rebbe urged that the Three Weeks should be a time of increased giving of charity and Torah study (in keeping with the verse (Isaiah 1:27), "Zion shall be redeemed by law, and her returnees by charity"), particularly the study of those portions of Torah that deal with the laws and the deeper significance of the Holy Temple.

During the “Nine Days," which start on Shabbos Rosh Chodesh the 1st of Menachem Av and end on the Ninth of Menachem Av, we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple. We abstain from meat and wine, music, haircutting, bathing for pleasure, and other joyous & dangerous activities. (For more information, consult a competent halachic authority for details.)

Consumption of meat and wine is permitted on Shabbos or at a Seudas mitzvah such as a bris (circumcision), or a Siyum celebrating the completion of a course of Torah study (i.e., a complete Talmudic tractate). The Rebbe initiated the custom of conducting or participating in a Siyum on each of the Nine Days (even if one does not eat meat).

We should all merit the final redemption when these days are transformed into Gladness, rejoicing, and festivals. Amen Now.

Pledges

These days are an auspicious time to increase giving Tzedakah.

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul relies entirely on your donations to cover our expenses and maintain financial stability. Your continued generosity is essential to our community. We appreciate your support!

Hilchos Beis Habechira for Women and Girls

Taught by Mrs. Mazal Zirkind

Sunday through Thursday
8:30 - 9:45 pm New York time

Starting this Monday, July 14, through Thursday, August 7, 2025

(except Sunday evening, Tisha B’Av, August 3)

To join the Hilchos Beis HaBechira Zoom meeting, click the link below:

https://bit.ly/3zdEHCN

PASSWORD: 770

Instead of zoom, you can call in
DIAL: 646 558 8656
MEETING ID: 362 462 7269
PASSWORD: 770

For more information, please call 347-268-9950

Those interested in traveling to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to visit the resting place of Reb Levik, the Rebbe's father, on the day of his Yahrtzeit, Chof Menachem Av. Please call Shmuel Kravitsky @ 212-599-3333 or email info@sky2000.com for flight options and accommodations

Shabbos Schedule:

8:00pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:05pm 2nd Mincha

8:50pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

8:00pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim
9:04pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:45pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. Bolinsky in honor of Rabbi Mendel Lerman’s birthday Mazal Tov Mazal Tov he should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha, In honor of his grandfather’s Yahrzeit Menachem Mendel ben Meir obm, Yahrzeit of Aaron Ha’Kohen and the Arizal. Their Neshama should have the highest aliya ever. We should all merit unlimited blessings in their Zechus.

Rabbi Chazan Shneur Zalman & Mrs. Baumgarten in honor of Shneur Zalman mothers Yahrzeit Sarah Nechama bas Rabbi Mordechai Avraham Yeshayeh obm her Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Yoseph Ha’Kohen Shurpin in honor of Reb Yoseph mother’s Yahrzeit Rivka bas Reb Yoseph Shmuel obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Professor Baruch and Mrs. Raizel Fruma Bush in honor of Raizel’s father’s Yahrzeit Meir Ben Zvi Hirsh obm his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel Lerman in honor of Rabbi Lerman’s birthday Mazal Tov he should have a Shnas Hatzalah Ubracha

Ms. Stacy Albert, in honor of her mother's Yahrzeit Raisel, bas Shmuel obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Special Announcements:

The importance of saying Tehilim.

Hayom Yom 24, Shevat: If you only knew - The Tzemach Tzedek said –The power of verses of Tehilim and their effect in the highest Heavens, you would recite them constantly. Know that the chapters of Tehilim shatter all barriers; they ascend higher and still higher with no interference; they prostrate themselves in supplication before the Master of all worlds, and They affect and accomplish with kindness and compassion.

The three weeks

We learn about the Bais Hamikdash from Sefer Yechezkel (from Chapter 40 on), Mishnayos Meshechte Midos, and Rambam - Laws of Bais Hamikdash. All of these are available in English.

The Midrash says Hashem showed Yechezkel the Third Bais Hamikdash. Yechezkel said, “How can I come to the Jews and tell them this? It will only bring greater sadness.” Hashem said, “If they learn about the building of the Bais Hamikdash, it is as if the Bais Hamikdash is not destroyed.”

Pledges

These weeks are an appropriate time to increase giving Tzedakah.

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul relies entirely on your donations to cover our expenses and maintain financial stability. Your continued generosity is essential to our community. I appreciate your support!

Hilchos Beis Habechira for Women and Girls

Taught by Mrs. Mazal Zirkind

Sunday through Thursday
8:30 - 9:45 pm New York time

Starting this Monday, July 14, through Thursday, August 7, 2025

(except Sunday evening, Tisha B’Av, August 3)

To join the Hilchos Beis HaBechira Zoom meeting, click the link below:

https://bit.ly/3zdEHCN

PASSWORD: 770

Instead of zoom, you can call in
DIAL: 646 558 8656
MEETING ID: 362 462 7269
PASSWORD: 770

For more information, please call 347-268-9950

It is less than 4 weeks until the Yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchak.

Those interested in traveling to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to visit the resting place of Reb Levik, the Rebbe's father, on the day of his Yahrtzeit, Chof Menachem Av.

Please call Shmuel Kravitsky @ 212-599-3333 or email info@sky2000.com for flight options and accommodations

Shabbos Schedule:

8:05pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:10pm 2nd Mincha

8:55pm Kabbolas Shabbos

8:30am Tehilim

10:30am Shacharis / Farbrengen

8:05pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim
9:16pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:00pm

Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. Daniel Jacobson, in honor of his birthday, Mazal Tov! You should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha.

Ms. Mazal Zirkind, in honor of the Yahrzeit of her dear grandmother, Muzel bat Farcha vEphraim Yona obm, her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Sunday 17th Tammuz

The 17th of Tammuz also marks the beginning of the Three Weeks of mourning, which culminates on the 9th of Av, commemorating the conquest of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Holy Temple, and the dispersion of the Jewish people.

We learn about the Bais Hamikdash from Sefer Yechezkel (from Chapter 40 on), Mishnayos Meshechte Midos, and Rambam - Laws of Bais Hamikdash. All of these are available in English.

Pledges

These weeks are an appropriate time to increase giving Tzedakah.

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul relies entirely on your donations to meet our expenses and remain financially stable. Your continued generosity is essential to our community. I appreciate your support!

Hilchos Beis Habechira for Women and Girls

Taught by Mrs. Mazal Zirkind

Sunday through Thursday
8:30 - 9:45 pm New York time

Starting this Monday, July 14, through Thursday, August 7, 2025 (except Sunday evening, Tisha B’Av, August 3)

To join the Hilchos Beis HaBechira Zoom meeting, click the link below:

https://bit.ly/3zdEHCN

PASSWORD: 770

Instead of zoom, you can call in
DIAL: 646 558 8656
MEETING ID: 362 462 7269
PASSWORD: 770

For more information, please call 347-268-9950

Shabbos Schedule:

8:09pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:14pm 2nd Mincha

8:59pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

8:09pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim
9:16pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:00pm

Grand Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim Bander, in honor of Ephraim's father's Yahrzeit, Chaim Hirsh ben Moshe obm, his Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. & Rebecca Bolinsky in honor of Moshe W. birthday, 21 Tammuz, Mazal Tov, you should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha, in honor of his grandmother’s Yahrzeit, Sarah bas Moshe obm, 10 Tammuz, and his uncle's Yahrzeit, Chaim Aaron ben Benzion obm, 22 Tammuz. their Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Gershon Orenstein to give thanks and praise to Hashem for all the wonders and miracles Hashem performs with us daily

Sunday fast 17th of Tammuz

3:45am Fast begins

9:00am Shacharis

9:16am Latest Shema

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:00pm 2nd Mincha

8:55pm Maariv

8:59pm Fast ends

Special Announcements:

Tammuz, the month of redemption, especially the days between

3rd of Tammuz and 12th & 13th of Tammuz.

Tuesday and Wednesday, 12th & 13Th of Tammuz, we do not say Tachnun.

Tuesday 12th Tammuz

Birthday of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak, 5640 (1880).

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe was told he was free from exile in Kostroma, 5687 (1927). That day he said the Maamar, "HaShem Is in My Assistance", [printed in Sefer Hamaamarim, Kuntreisim, p. 179]

Wednesday 13th Tammuz

The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe received his release papers, 5687 (1927). That evening he said the Maamar, "Blessed Is He Who Has Done Kindness", [printed in Sefer Hamaamarim, Kuntreisim, p. 183]

Directives from the Rebbe for the month of Tammuz

1. From Gimel Tammuz on, we must utilize every day leading up to Yud Beis

Tammuz in spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus to all.

2. We must strengthen ourselves through farbrengens for men, women, and

children (it is understood that the farbrengens for men and women should be

separate).

3. We should publicly learn the Maamar of “Asarah Sheyoshvim” “Ten people that sit and learn Torah…” which the Frierdiker Rebbe gave out in honor of the first celebration of Yud Beis Tammuz. (If you cannot learn it publicly i.e., ten people, each person should learn it by themselves.)

4. We should make farbrengens on Yud Beis and Yud Gimel Tammuz, and

continue through the fifteenth of Tammuz.

5. During the Three Weeks, we should add in learning Torah and giving

Tzedakah, especially Shabbos, we must add in Torah learning.

6. We should learn about the building of the Beis Hamikdash from Sefer

Yechezkel (from Chapter 40 on), from the Mishnayos of Midos, and Rambam - Laws of Beis Hamikdash, also as it’s explained in Chassidus.

7. Small children in camps and day camps should also learn the laws of the

Beis Hamikdash.

8. We must increase in all our activities of Mivtzoim during the summer, for men, women, and children. We have to see that every boy and girl should not miss anything from their learning during the summer.

9. We should make sure that children go to a frum Jewish camp.

10. The counselors have a special mission; they must teach the children what it means to make Bracha, what it means to say Shema before we go to sleep

etc. We should not push the teaching off and say “I’ll do it tomorrow, what’s

the rush to teach them today.”

11. We must utilize every moment of the summer to bring the Geulah.

Pledges

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul relies entirely on your donations to meet our expenses and remain financially stable. Your continued generosity is essential to our community. Thank you for your support!

Farbrengen Tuesday at 8:15pm in honor of the Previous Rebbe

Shabbos Schedule:

8:12pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:17pm 2nd Mincha

9:02pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / Farbrengen

8:12pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim
9:19pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:05pm

Grand Kiddush – Farbrengen - Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Gershon Orenstein in honor of Gershon’s father's Yahrzeit

Nachum Shmuel ben Efraim Godol obm his Neshama should have Aliya Highest Aliya ever.

Rabbi Mendel Horowitz, in honor of his birthday, we like to wish him Mazal Tov Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Special Announcements:

Shabbos Erev Gimmel Tammuz

“Every one of us must know--that is, dwell upon and implant the awareness in his or her mind--that the Rebbe is our Nassi and head: that he is the source and channel for all our material and spiritual needs, and that it is through our bond with him (and he has already instructed us in his letters how and by what means this is achieved) that we are bound and united with our source, and the source of our source, up to our ultimate source on high”.

Rebbe’s letter 3rd Tammuz 5710

It is explained in Inyan HaHishtat’chus

“even as to those who did not know or recognize [the tzaddik] during his actual lifetime but only studied the holy books that he left over as a blessing, and who bask in the radiance of his Torah teachings and are thereby invigorated in their service of G-d,… it is certain that they too are called his disciples,… for they believe in that tzaddik and from him they receive the light of his Torah teachings;… the branches are drawn back to their roots.”

May we be privileged to see and meet with the Rebbe here in this world, in a physical body, in this earthly domain -- and he will redeem us.

(Basi LeGani 5751-1951)

Gimmel Tammuz

Yehoshua commanded "the sun to stand in Givon and the moon in the Valley of Ayalon" during the conquest of Israel, [Yehoshua 10:12, Seder Olam 11] 2488 (1273 BCE).

The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe left Spalerno prison for Kostroma after his death sentence was commuted, 5687 (1927). "...The Rebbe (the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe) at the train station, standing on the train at the time of his farewell blessings, turned to the crowd who came to accompany him and said: '....Not by our will were we exiled from the land of Israel and not by our efforts will we return… nevertheless, all nations must know: our bodies alone have been handed into exile to be ruled, but not our souls... about everything involving our religion, the Torah of the people of Israel, its commandments and customs...no force has the right to subjugate us" [Sefer Ha-Maamorim Kuntreisim I, p. 350]

It is not too late to join and participate in this week’s Kiddush / Farbrengen honoring our Rebbe.

Bais Levi Yitzchak will start Torah reading (kriyas Ha’Torah) Shabbos morning @ 9:00 am. (first-come basis)

Farbrengen Sunday night at 8:15 pm in honor of the Rebbe.

Shabbos Schedule:

8:13pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:18pm 2nd Mincha

9:03pm Kabbolas / Rebbe’s Maamar

9:00am Minyan for Torah reading.

10:00am Shacharis / Rebbe’s Maamar / Farbrengen

8:13pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim / Rebbe’s Maamar
9:21pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday Thursday @ 9:05pm

Grand Kiddush – Farbrengen in honor of our Rebbe

Co-Sponsored by:

Mr. and Mrs. Mordechai and Sheina Bracha Fadlon, in honor of their wedding anniversary, Mazal Tov! May you celebrate many happy, healthy, and wealthy anniversaries together.

Rabbi & Mrs. Chaim Ezra Tzfasman in honor of their wedding anniversary, Mazal Tov! May you celebrate many happy, healthy, and wealthy anniversaries together.

The following families, Bander, Bongart, Bush, Edelkopf, Katzoff, Lerman, Lerner, Orenstein, and Zirkind, in honor of strengthening our connection to Hiskashruth, to the Rebbe. Who’s light and love for all Yisroel shines ever brighter and brighter. In honor of the Rebbe, we should all be blessed with an abundance of Blessings, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Joy, blessings of children, Shiduchim, and all that one needs. May we all merit seeing the Rebbe lead us out of Gallus. Now Amen

Special Announcements:

This Shabbos being Shabbos Mevorchim – we bless the new month of Tammuz. Is high time to make the proper preparations for the holy and auspicious day of Gimmel Tammuz. Every one of us must ask ourselves and think deeply on what can I do to be connected - M’Kusher to the Rebbe

Inyan HaHishtat’chus

“even as to those who did not know or recognize [the tzaddik] during his actual lifetime but only studied the Holy Books that he left over as a blessing, and who bask in the radiance of his Torah teachings and are thereby invigorated in their service of G-d,… it is certain that they too are called his disciples,… for they believe in that tzaddik and from him they receive the light of his Torah teachings;… the branches are drawn back to their roots.”

(See today’s Hayom Yom 24th Sivan)

"You ask how you can be bound (M’Kusher) to me when I do not know you personally..."

"...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my Maamorim of Chasiddus, read the Sichos, associate with those dear to me - the Chassidic community and the Temimim - in their studies and Farbrengen, and you fulfill my request by reciting Tehilim and maintaining a regular study schedule, - this is what constitutes being connected - Hiskashrus”,

The importance of saying Tehilim.

Hayom Yom 25, Shevat: Studying a Parsha of Chumash with Rashi every day (Sunday until Shaini, Monday until Shlishi, etc.), saying Tehilim every day and the entire Tehilim on Shabbat Mevorchim - be scrupulous about all of these. It is crucial for you, your children, and your children's children.

Hayom Yom 24th Iyar; With the advent of Mashiach, there will be revealed the superior quality of the traits of simplicity and wholeheartedness found in the avoda of simple folk who daven and recite Tehillim with simple sincerity.

Shabbos 25th Sivan

Geviha b. Pesisa won the case brought before Alexander the Great by

the Yishmoeilim and Samaritans. He proved Eretz Yisroel belonged.

exclusively to the Jews. Egypt complained that the Jews robbed them.

When leaving Egypt, Geviha proved that the Jews took only a fraction of

The wages are due to them. (Megilas Ta’anis 3). The Rebbe points out that they had three days to reply, but since they had no answer, they ran away and left everything to the Yidden. The 3rd day was 28th of Sivan.

Tuesday 28th Sivan

This year 84th year since the Rebbe and Rebbetzin reached America, escaping European occupation, 5701 [1941]. At 10:30 AM, several of the elder Chasidim met the SS Surpa Pinta at New York Harbor. The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe told them, "I appoint you as my representatives to greet my son-in-law. Let me tell you who he is: He says Tikun Chatzos every night. He is an expert in and knows by heart the Talmud Bavli, as well as being proficient in the RaN, RoSh, and RiF. He is an expert in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Rambam, and in Likutei Torah with all the Tzemach Tzedek's references. “Go and greet him." . . . On this day began a new initiative in strengthening and spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit and Chassidus, by my revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, in founding the central institutions, Machne Yisroel, Kehot, and Merkos L'inyonei Chinuch". [Sichah, Sivan 28, 5749]

Farbrengen Monday night after Maariv in honor of

the 28th of Sivan

Shabbos Schedule:

8:12pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:17pm 2nd Mincha

9:02pm Kabolos Shabbos

8:30am Tehilim

10:30am Shacharis

8:12pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

9:21pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday -8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:05pm

Grand Kiddush co-Sponsored by;

Mr. & Mrs. Mendel Biston, in honor of Mendel’s birthday, wish you Mazal Tov Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha with complete health, wealth, happiness, & Joy with the entire family.

Mr. & Mrs. Velvel Geisinsky in honor of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin arriving in America on the 28th of Sivan. A day of wonders and miracles.

Special Announcements:

Due to the current situation in Eretz Yisroel worldwide, we should try to add the following four chapters of Tehillim daily: 20, 22, 69, and 150

Rebbe

It’s now two weeks before the auspicious & holy day of Gimmel Tammuz. Everyone should ask what I can do to strengthen my connection with the Rebbe.

"You ask how you can be bound (M’Kusher) to me when I do not know you personally..."(See Hayom Yom 24th Sivan)

"...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my Maamorim of Chassidus, read the Sichos, associate with those dear to me - the Chassidic community and the Temimim - in their studies and Farbrengen, and you fulfill my request by reciting Tehilim and maintaining a regular study schedule - this is what constitutes being connected - Hiskashrus”,

Hiskashrus

Thursday 23rd of Sivan

Megillah Chapter 8 Pasuk 9

“And the king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month-that is the month of Sivan-on the twenty-third day thereof, and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors, and the princes of the provinces from Hodu to Cush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, every province according to its script and every nationality according to its tongue, and to the Jews according to their script and according to their tongue. ….. And Mordecai left the king's presence with royal raiment, blue and white, and a huge golden crown and a wrap of linen and purple, and the city of Shushan shouted and rejoiced”.

May we all merit “The Jews had light and joy, and gladness and honor.” Amen Now

Shabbos Schedule:

8:10pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:15pm 2nd Mincha

9:00pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / followed by Kiddush

8:10pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

9:19pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:00pm

Grand Kiddush co-Sponsored by.

Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. & Rebecca Bolinsky in honor of Moshe W. Uncle's Yahrzeit, Yankel ben Menachem Mendel obm 14th Sivan his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever, in honor of his parents wedding anniversary the 15th of Sivan, his father Nachum Chaim ben Menachem Mendel birthday 18th of Sivan and his mother’s Yahrzeit, 18th of Sivan, Asya bas Benzion obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Gershon Meltsin, in honor of Gershon's birthday and their wedding anniversary, Mazal Tov, may you celebrate many happy, healthy, wealthy anniversaries together, Amen. In honor of Gershon

grandmother’s Yahrzeit, Meita bas Getzel, obm, her Neshama, should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Chaim B. and Sara Lotkin, in honor of their wedding anniversary, Mazal Tov, may you celebrate many happy, healthy, wealthy anniversaries together, Amen.

Mr. and Mrs. Kalman Rothman, in honor of Kalman’s brother Yahrzeit, Meir Braicha ben Leib, his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Ms. Stacy Albert, in honor of all the wonders and miracles Hashem performs with us daily

Special Announcements:

Today the 3rd, G-d instructed Moses to "set boundaries for the people around, saying, 'Beware of ascending the mountain or touching its edge...'" (Exodus 19:10-12) in preparation for the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai three days later. To this day, we mark the "Three Days of Hagbalah ('Boundaries')" leading to the Giving of the Torah on the 6th of Sivan.

As we are preparing ourselves for receiving the Torah, we must continue with the theme of Ahavas Yisroel, just like when we arrived at the foot of the mountain. On the 1st of Sivan of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), six weeks after their exodus from Egypt, the Children of Israel arrived at Mount Sinai in the Sinai Desert and camped at the foot of the mountain "as one man, with one heart" in preparation for the receiving of the Torah from G-d. On this day, however, "Moshe did not say anything to them, because of their

exhaustion from the journey."

Hayom Yom 3, Sivan: Haircutting during the Three Days of Preparation, before Erev Shavuot, was displeasing to my father. Whoever ponders the approach of Tosafot in his comment beginning "Torah etc..." (Shabbat 89a) will understand that the festival of Shavuot is an auspicious time Above. On that day G‑d confounds the "supernal accuser" of Israel, similar to His confounding the accuser during Shofar-sounding on Rosh Hashana and on the holy day of the Fast of Yom Kippur.

Hayom Yom 4, Sivan: Shavuot is an opportune time to achieve everything in improving Torah-study and avoda marked by fear (awe) of G‑d, and also to strive in teshuva concerning Torah-study, without interference by the accusing Satan - just like the time of Shofar-sounding on Rosh Hashana and the holy day of the Fast of Yom Kippur.

Shabbos Schedule:

8:01pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:06pm 2nd Mincha

8:51pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chasiddus with Rabbi Lerman

10:00am Shacharis

8:01pm Mincha /Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

9:10pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Wednesday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Wednesday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Wednesday through Thursday @ 9:00pm

Grand Kiddush co-sponsored by.

Sponsors Needed

Special Announcements:

This Shabbos Parshas Behar – Bechukosai, Shabbos Mevorchim

Chodesh Sivan, Shabbos Chazak.

The only Shabbos Mevorchim on which we DO say "Av Ha’Rachamim":

It was written in response to the destruction of Jewish communities during

The First Crusade, throughout Sivan of 1096.

The importance of saying Tehilim.

Hayom Yom 24, Shevat: If you only knew - The Tzemach Tzedek said –

The power of verses of Tehilim and their effect in the highest Heavens, you

would recite them constantly. Know that the chapters of Tehilim shatter all barriers; they ascend higher and still higher with no interference; they

prostrate themselves in supplication before the Master of all worlds, and

They affect and accomplish with kindness and compassion.

Hayom Yom 25, Shevat: Studying a Parsha of Chumash with Rashi every

day (Sunday until Shaini, Monday until Shlishi, etc.), saying Tehilim every

day and the entire Tehilim on Shabbat Mevorchim - be scrupulous about all of these. It is crucial for you, your children, and your children's children.

Shabbos Schedule:

7:56pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

8:01pm 2nd Mincha

8:46pm Kabalos Shabbos

8:30am Tehilim

10:30am Shacharis

7:56pm Mincha /Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

9:03pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 9:00pm

Grand Kiddush co-sponsored by.

Mr. Yoni Biston, in honor of his dear mother and to thank Hashem for all the wonders and miracles he performs with us daily.

Special Announcements:

It is not too late to participate in this Shabbos Kiddush / Farbrengen honoring Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on this auspicious day of Lag Ba’Omer.

Friday 18th of Iyar - Lag Ba’Omer

We do not say Tachnun.

Students of R. Akiva stopped dying.

Yahrzeit of R. Shimon Bar Yochai. " . . . There is a custom to eat carob, because R. Shimon Bar Yochai, hiding from the Romans in a cave for thirteen years, survived on carobs from a tree outside the cave" [Sicha, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, 5742] ".

כּדאי הוא רבּי שׁמעון לסמוך עליו בּשׁעת הדחק

“Rabbi Shimon is worthy to rely upon in challenging circumstances.”

Now more than ever, in his merit we should have the Geula Now.

Zohar relates:

It once happened that the world needed rain...so they came to Rabbi Shimon...he recited the verse: "A song of ascents ...Behold, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together" (Tehilim 133:1).

As a result, the rain began to fall. (Zohar III, 59b) Was not the Rashbi hinting that harmonious, brotherly love and Jewish unity serve as the harbinger of material blessings from G-d?

Baal Shem Tov

explains that the term, rain "gishmeichem"--rain has the same root as "gashmius" -- corporeality. Thus, all physical blessings are dependent on the unity and harmony of the Jewish people.

How can we actually and practically express and reveal our Ahavas Yisroel and Jewish unity? The answer is: when Jews gather in one place "as one man with one mind," with the goal and purpose of encouraging and strengthening their harmony and -- especially increasing Jewish unity and Ahavas Yisroel; and when such a gathering is held in conjunction with a festive meal, including the toasting of "L’Chaim" on wine, this increases Jewish Unity, as the Gemara says: Great is the mouthful (of food or drink) in that it draws near those who are distant. (Sanhedrin 103b)

Mitteler Rebbe

It is known that Lag Ba'Omer was one of the Mitteler Rebbe's particularly noteworthy festivals. He and the Chassidim would go out to the fields that day, and although he did not wash and break bread, he did partake of mashkeh (strong drink), which he was not allowed to do for health reasons. Many wonders were seen at that time, most of them involving the blessing of children for childless couples, and all year long, people waited for Lag Ba'Omer.

Shabbos 19th Iyar

Yahrzeit of the Renowned Talmudist Rabbi Meir ("Maharam") of Rothenburg (1215? -1293) died in his cell in the Ensisheim fortress, where he was imprisoned for ten years in an attempt to exact a huge ransom from the Jewish community. The money was raised, but Rabbi Meir refused to have himself redeemed, lest this encourage the hostage taking of other Jewish leaders.

Gimmel Tammuz

As preparation for the auspicious & holy day of Gimmel Tammuz. Every single one must ask themselves and think deeply about what they can do to strengthen their connection with the Rebbe. (See Hayom Yom 24th Sivan)

"You ask how you can be bound (M’Kusher) to me when I do not know you personally..."

Shabbos Schedule:

7:49pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:54pm 2nd Mincha

8:39pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis

7:49pm Mincha /Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

8:55pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:45pm

Grand Kiddush co-sponsored by;

Mrs. Nira Blizinsky, in honor of her birthday Mazal Tov Mazal Tov, she should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha, for all the goodness & kindness Hashem bestows upon us. Upon the engagement of her granddaughter, Ms. Chani Rapoport, Atlantic City, NJ, to Dovi Vogel, Wilmington, DE. Mazal Tov, the wedding should take place at an auspicious time with all the Rennes Brachos.

Mr. & Mrs. Mordechai and Sheina B. in honor of the auspicious day of Lag B’Omer, honoring Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, which is a day of Simcha, Achdus-Unity, a day of blessings and miracles for all, as we all witnessed by the Rebbe’s.

The following families: Bolinsky, Bush, Edelkopf, Fadlon, Hayman, Lerman, Nemon, Orenstein, and Zirkind, in Honor & Merit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a day of Wondrous Miracles. A day of unlimited blessings of Health, Wealth, Happiness, joy, Children, Shiduchim, Parnasa, and all blessings that one can think of, with the immediate and complete redemption Amen Now.

Dr. Binyamin Nemon, in honor of the Yahrzeit of his dear son Yisroel Levi Yitzchak ben Binyamin Mendel Ha’Levi his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Ms. Mazal Zirkind, in honor of her dear sister’s Yahrzeit, this Shabbos Yehudit bas Farcha vEphraim obm her Neshama should have the Highest Aliya ever.

Special Announcements:

Sunday 13th of Iyar

Yahrzeit of R. Yisroel Aryeh Leib Schneersohn, of blessed memory, brother of the Rebbe, passed away in 5712 -1952. He is buried in Tzefas

Monday 14th of Iyar - Pesach Sheini

We do not say Tachnun. We eat Matzah to commemorate Pesach Sheini.

Pesach Sheini was the last day the Jews ate the Matzos they took out of Mitzrayim, which had in them the taste of the Mon, 2488 [1313 BCE] (Rashi, Shemos 16:35) and thus, another reason for the custom of eating Matzah. [Siddur of R. Yaakov Emden].

"The theme of Pesach Sheni is that it's never too late. It is always possible to put things right. Even if one was impure or far away, and even when the impurity was deliberate, nonetheless, he can correct it".

[HaYom Yom, Iyar 14]

Friday 18th of Iyar - Lag Ba’Omer

We do not say Tachnun. The students of R. Akiva stopped dying.

כּדאי הוא רבּי שׁמעון לסמוך עליו בּשׁעת הדחק

“Rabbi Shimon is worthy to rely upon in challenging circumstances.”

Now more than ever, in his merit we should have the Geula Now.

Zohar relates:

As a result, the rain began to fall. (Zohar III, 59b) Was not the Rashbi hinting that harmonious, brotherly love and Jewish unity serve as the harbinger of material blessings from G-d!

Baal Shem Tov

Explains that the term rain "gishmeichem"--rain has the same root as "gashmius" -- corporeality. Thus, all physical blessings are dependent on the unity and harmony of the Jewish people.

Mitteler Rebbe

It is known that Lag Ba'Omer was one of the Mitteler Rebbe's particularly noteworthy festivals. He and the Chassidim would go out to the fields that day, and although he did not wash and break bread, he did partake of mashkeh (strong drink), which he was not allowed to do for health reasons. Many wonders were seen at that time, most of them involving the blessing of children for childless couples - and all year long people waited for Lag Ba'Omer.

Shabbos Schedule:

7:42pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:47pm 2nd Mincha

8:32pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chasiddus

10:00am Shacharis

7:42pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

8:47pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe’s Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:45pm

Grand Kiddush Sponsored by:

Mr. & Mrs. Baruch Bongart, in honor of Baruch's mother Yahrzeit Maryam bas Binyamin obm her Neshama, should have the highest Aliya. In honor of the birthdays of some grandchildren Kasriel Bongart & Raizel Polter Mazal Tov they should have Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Rabbi Lipa Shapiro, in honor of his father’s Yahrzeit, Reb DovBer ben Eliezer Lipman obm, his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim & Shoshana Bander in honor of Shoshana’s birthday, Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha, In honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, day of wondrous Miracles. We should realize all the Blessings needed, Children, Shiduchim, and Parnasa, we should merit Wonders & Miracles Amen.

Mrs. Masha Levine in honor of her mother’s Yahrzeit, Zlota bas Chaim Tzvi obm her Neshama, should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mrs. Mazal Zirkind, in honor and merit of The Rashbi “Rabbi Shimon is worthy to rely upon in challenging circumstances.”

Special Announcements:

Iyar

Is a month of healing the Chassidic masters see this in the month’s acronym: אני יי רופאך, “I am the L‑d who heals you.”

Iyar represents the return to work - mundaneness— after the month of Nissan / Pesach. At this point, it becomes difficult to infuse our Torah-learning and mitzvah-doing with the excitement of novelty.

This is where healing comes in. G‑d says, “All the sicknesses . . . I will not place upon you, for I am the L‑d who heals you.” In other words, G‑d is giving us preventative medicine—the ability to fight apathy and to experience our divine service with passion and excitement. But although G‑d assists we must do the legwork. If we make the effort to view the world through the eyes of a child, with openness and curiosity, we can keep the forces of apathy at bay.

Iyar Recalls the Patriarchs

The accepted custom is to spell it with two yuds, serving as an acrostic for Abraham, Isaac (Yitzchak), Jacob (Yaakov), and Rachel, the patriarchs, and matriarch associated with the supernal merkavah, a Kabbalistic understanding of the divine revelation in this world.

Bais Iyar

Birthday of our holy Master and Teacher R. Shmuel, "The Rebbe MaHaRaSh", fourth Chabad Rebbe, on Tiferes SheB’Tiferes of the Omer, 5593 [1833]. “...His life and work are best summarized by his saying, “The world says if you can’t go under an obstacle, you have to go over, and I say —go over in the first place.” The simple meaning of this is that in Torah and Mitzvahs we have to “go over in the first place”: not make calculations, and when that’s not enough, you have to go above measure and limit, you go “over” —the Rebbe MaHaRaSh said, “go over in the first place”, in a way that’s above calculations and limits.” [Sicha, Tishrei 13, 5739].

This Shabbos is eight weeks before the auspicious & holy day of Gimmel Tammuz. Every single one must ask ourselves and think deeply what I can do to strengthen my connection with the Rebbe

(See Hayom Yom 24th Sivan)

"You ask how you can be bound (M’Kusher) to me when I do not know you personally..."

"...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my Maamorim of Chassidus, read the Sichos, associate with those dear to me - the Chassidic community and the Temimim - in their studies and Farbrengen, and you fulfill my request by reciting Tehilim and maintaining a regular study schedule, - this is what constitutes being connected - Hiskashrus”,

Mazal Tov Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel and Chaya Lerman upon the birth of two grandsons a boy born to their daughter Mussi and Dov Lervertov Phoenix AZ. Rochel and Yossi Bogomilsky Maplewood NJ. Mazal Tov much nachas from them all your children and grandchildren

Shabbos Schedule:

7:35pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:40pm 2nd Mincha

8:25pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chasiddus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis

7:35pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

8:40pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe’s Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:35pm

Grand Kiddush Sponsored by:

Dr. Batya Lerner in honor of her birthday Mazal Tov Mazal Tov she should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel and Chaya Lerman in honor of the birth of their grandchildren Mazal Tov Mazal Tov much nachas from them all your children and grandchildren Amen

Special Announcements:

It is thirty-four years since the Rebbe issued an emotional call on the eve of 28th of Nissan, 5751 (April 11, 1991) to his followers, and to the world Jewish community, to increase their efforts to bring Moshiach and the ultimate redemption. Spoken in an anguished voice and couched in uncharacteristically personal terms, the Rebbe's words deeply shocked the Chassidim present in the Rebbe's synagogue and reverberated worldwide.

"How is it that the Redemption has not yet been attained?" the Rebbe cried. “That despite all that has transpired and all that has been done, Moshiach has still not come? What more can I do? I have done all I can to bring the world to truly demand and clamor for Redemption...The only thing that remains for me to do is to give over the matter to you. Do all that is in your power to achieve this thing--a most sublime and transcendent light that needs to be brought down into our world with pragmatic tools... I have done all I can. I give it over to you. Do all that you can to bring the righteous redeemer, immediately! I have done my part. From this point on, all is in your hands..."

We start learning Pirkei Avos Shabbos after Mincha. We say a Perek a week, between Pesach and Shavuos (and throughout the Summer)

Monday 30th Nissan

Yahrzeit of the famed Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542?-1620), author of the mystical work Eitz Chaim. Rabbi Chaim was the leading disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria ("the "Holy Ari," 1534-1572) and the transcriber of his teachings, which form the "Lurianic" Kabbalah.

Tuesday 1st of Iyar

Yahrzeit of R. Menachem Mendel of Horodok (1788) Chassidic master Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Horodok (1730?-1788), also known as Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, was one of the leading disciples of the second leader of the Chassidic Movement, Rabbi DovBer of Mezritch. Upon the latter's passing in 1772, R. Menachem Mendel was regarded by his colleagues as the leader of the Chassidic community in Russia, and Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi considered him his rebbe and mentor. In 1777, R. Menachem Mendel led a group of 300 Chassidim to the Holy Land and established Chassidic communities in Safed and Teberias. Rabbi Menachem Mendel passed away on the 1st of Iyar of 1788 and is buried in Tiberias.

Yahrzeit of R. Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg (1778) R. Shmuel Shmelke of Nickelsburg (1726-1778) was a major disciple of the second leader of the Chassidic movement, Rabbi DovBer, the Maggid of Mezeritch, along with his younger brother, Rabbi Pinchas, who served as rabbi of Frankfurt. They were among the first adherents of the Chassidic movement to hold rabbinic posts in Germany. Many Chassidic leaders of the next generation were his disciples.

Wednesday 2nd of Iyar

Birthday of the Rebbe Maharash the fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn (1834-1882), known by the acronym "Maharash", was born in the town of Lubavitch (White Russia) on the 2nd of Iyar of the year 5594 from creation (1834). His father, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (the 3rd Chabad Rebbe, known as the "Tzemach Tzeddek") once remarked that Rabbi Shmuel's birthday, coinciding with the 17th day of the Omer Count, is defined by the Kabbalistic masters as Tifferet sheb'Tifferet ("Beauty of Beauty")

Shabbos Schedule:

7:28pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:33pm 2nd Mincha

8:18pm Kabolos Shabbos

8:30am Tehilim

10:30am Shacharis

7:23pm Mincha / Pirkei Avos / Seder Nigunim

8:31pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe’s Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:35pm

Grand Kiddush co-sponsored by.

Mr. & Mrs. Moshe W. Bolinsky in honor of Moshe W. grandfather’s Yahrzeit Bentzion ben Yitzchak Aizik, obm 4 Iyar. His Neshama Should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mrs. Dorothy Schier, in honor of the Yahrzeit of their dear son Yitzchak ben Leib obm his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Rabbi & Mrs. Yitzchak Hanoka in honor of Yitzchak fathers Yahrzeit Professor Yaakov ben Yitzchak obm his Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai & Mrs. Chana Pesha Jacobson in honor of first Yahrtzeit of Chana's mother, Esther Faiga bas Meir obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. Yoni Biston in honor of his birthday Mazal Tov Mazal Tov you should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Rabbi & Mrs. Mendel and Chaya Lerman in honor of all the wonders and Miracles Hahsem performs with us daily, in honor of Shabbos Mevorchim - the Month of Iyar, which is an acronym for "Ani Hashem Rophecha--I am Hashem your Healer." for all those who need a Refua Shleima Now should have an immediate Refua Shleima.

Schedule last days of Pesach 5785

Friday, the last day of Chol Hamoed (April 18th 2025)

9:00am Shacharis

7:21pm Candle Lighting, Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:26pm 2nd Mincha

8:11pm Maariv

(No Shehechiyunu is said by candle lighting or Kiddush)

After the meal, there will be learning and Farbrengen in shul all night. We ask all to prepare a story or a Sicha for tonight and for Seudas Moshiach Farbrengen. It is customary to remain awake on the eve of the Seventh of Passover and spend the entire night in Torah study and joyful celebration of the great miracle of the splitting of the sea.

If you want to bring any food item for farbrengen tonight, make sure to bring before Shabbos

Shabbos Shevi Shel Pesach (April 19th, 2025)

10:30am Shacharis, Musaf / Birkas Kohanim

7:21pm Mincha

8:23pm Candle Lighting, Crown Heights

8:23pm Maariv

Sunday Acharon Shel Pesach (April 4th 2021)

10:30am Shacharis, Yizkor / Musaf / Birkas Kohanim

7:00pm Mincha followed by Seudas Moshiach

Bring Wine & Matzah for Seudas Moshiach – before Shabbos -The last day of Passover ("Acharon Shel Pesach") is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Haftarah (reading from the Prophets) for this day is from Isaiah 11, which describes the promised future era of universal peace and divine perfection.

Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a "Moshiach's meal" on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at "Moshiach's meal", the Rebbe Rashab added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover's first days. MOSHIACH NOW

8:24pm Maariv / Havdalah wine only, give the Rav about an hour to repurchase the Chametz before using it.

Special Announcements:

Month of Nissan,

Jewish people were redeemed from the first exile, so shall we be redeemed from this last exile. Now Amen. No Tachnun the entire month. Don’t forget to say the Nassi

Maos Chittim

Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul is collecting "Maos Chittim" (Passover funds for those in need), which is one of the most significant observances of the Passover. Please open your heart and participate in this special "Mitzvah".

Sale of Chometz

Rabbi Mendel Lerman will be available to sell the Chometz every night after.

Maariv @ 8:00 pm, or you can contact him at 917-327-9493, or e-mail info@blys.org

The Rebbe’s birthday Yud Aleph Nissan

It is not merely a personal event affecting him alone; on the contrary, the very name Rebbe is an acronym for the Hebrew words, “head of the Jewish people.” The head contains the nerve center for the entire body, allowing all its diverse organs and limbs to function together as a single whole. Similarly, a Rebbe is a comprehensive soul whose life is lived in the consciousness of others and whose efforts are devoted to tightening the connection between them. As such, the Rebbe’s birthday leader of our generation is a day that affects us all.

In honor & merit of strengthening our connection to the Rebbe, everyone should be blessed in an abundance of blessings, of health, wealth, happiness, joy, children, and Shiduchim, and if in need of a miracle, especially in the month of miracles, miracles should happen.

Farbrengen Tuesday night Maariv at 8:00 pm followed by farbrengen.

in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday

Shabbos Schedule:

7:06 pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45 pm 1st Mincha

7:11 pm 2nd Mincha

7:56 pm Kabalos Shabbos

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis
7:06pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

8:06pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe’s Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis - Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:00pm

Grand Kiddush Sponsored by:

Mrs. Nira Blizinsky in honor of her mother’s Yahrzeit Malka bas Avraham obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Rabbis Mendel, Gershon Lerman & family in honor of their fathers Yahrzeit Rabbi Zvi Aba ben Reb Chaim DovBer obm his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mrs. Mazal Zirkind in honor of her dear mother Yahrzeit Farcha bat Muzel v’Shaul Hai 's obm, and her grandfather and uncles Yahrzeit Shaul Hai ben Simcha vShaul, Sholomo Farage ben Muzel vShaul Hai, their Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Dr. & Mrs. Aaron and Nechama Bennish in honor of Aaron's birthday. Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Mr. & Mrs. Mordechai and Sheina Fadlon in honor of Mordechai's and Sheina’s birthday Mazal Tov; you should both have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha.

Mr. & Mrs. Gershon Orenstein, in honor of his mother’s Yahrzeit Shulamis bas Eliyahu her Neshama, should have the highest Aliya ever.

Anonymous, in honor of the Yahrzeit of Shmuel ben Kalman Ha’Kohen “Sidney” Ross, his Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Baruch Bongart in honor of the Yahrzeit of Gershon ben Meyer obm his Neshama Should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs Avraham and Devorah Hayman in honor of Devora’s mother Yahrzeit Yehudis bas Ephraim Fishel obm her Neshama, should have the highest Aliya ever.

Special Announcements:

Thursday was Chof Zayin (27th) Adar and in a few weeks is Yud Aleph Nissan the Rebbe’s Birthday

In honor of Chof Zayin (27th ) Adar & Yud Aleph Nissan. Every one of us must do something special in honor of the Rebbe, to strengthen our connection with him. The following is a quote from Hayom Yom

“You ask how you can be bound (m'kushar) to me when I do not know you personally..."

"...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my Maamarim, read the Sichos and associate with those dear to me - the Chassidic community and the tmimim - in their studies and Farbrenges, and you fulfill my request regarding saying Tehilim and observing Torah-study times - in this is the bond."

This Shabbos we read Parshas Ha’Chodesh

The Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Nisan (or on Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Nisan). This Parsha talks about the first commandments that Hashem gave us: the sanctification of the months, establishing the calendar starting from Nissan; and also, the laws of Pesach

Maos Chittim

You can give Maos Chittim (gifts of money to the needy) through Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul. Please open your heart and participate in this special "Mitzvah".

No Tachnun is said the entire month of Nissan. - From Sunday Rosh Chodesh Nissan (3-30-25), we say the daily Parshah of the sacrifice of each Nasi, after Shacharis, followed by "Yehi Ratzon". (See Siddur). On the thirteenth, we read "Zos Chanukas." (see Siddur) The first Nasi to bring sacrifices, on Nissan 1, was Nachshon ben Aminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah, who was also the first to jump into the Yam Suf.

Monday 2nd of Nissan

Yahrzeit of our holy Master, Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber, the Rebbe RaShaB, of blessed memory, fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, 5680 (1920). He founded Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim. “...This day, the Yahrzeit of the Rebbe RaShaB, is the beginning of the leadership of my saintly father in-law. This day is meritorious for everyone to accept upon themselves, with a firm commitment to go in their ways that they taught, for the entire year, and they will be blessed, as they prophesied, ‘This is the vessel to receive their blessing in the material and the spiritual.’” [Letter of the Rebbe, Adar 25, 5710]

Sale of Chometz

Rabbi Mendel Lerman will be available from Tuesday on to sell the Chometz. 917-327-9493 or info@blys.org

Shabbos Schedule:

6:59pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

7:04pm 2nd Mincha

7:49pm Kabolos Shabbos

8:30am Tehillim for Shabbos Mevorchim

10:30am Shacharis

6:59pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

7:59pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Rebbe’s Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis – Sunday @ 9:00am,

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 8:00pm

Grand Kiddush-Farbrengen- Co-sponsored

Sponsors Needed

Special Announcements:

Parshas Parah

This Shabbos we add Parshas Parah to the weekly Torah reading. Parshas Parah is read on the next to last Shabbos before Nisan (or the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh). It teaches the laws of Parah Adumah - Red Heifer, and how it is purified. Since all Jews had to purify themselves before bringing the Korban Pesach, it is read now.

According to some Halachic authorities, it is a Torah obligation.

Parshas Parah will be read at BLYS at approximately 11:20 pm

Friday 21st Adar

Yahrtzeit of R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, author of Noam Elimelech, colleague of the Alter Rebbe, 5546 [1786].

Sunday 23rd of Adar

The Mishkan was assembled and disassembled for seven days until the Chanukahs’ Ha’Mishkan, 2449 (1312 BCE) (Bamidbar Rabba).

Beginning of the Consecration of Aharon and his sons as Kohanim,

Dedication of Second Beis HaMikdash, [516 BCE]. May we merit for the rebuilding of the 3rd Bais Hamikdash Amen Now

Tuesday 25th of Adar

The 25th of Adar is the birthday of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. On this day, 5789, the Rebbe instituted a birthday campaign by making farbrengen on one's birthday. May we all be blessed in her honor.

Thursday 27th of Adar

Rebbe suffered a stroke. 13 days before the Rebbe had the stroke, he gave out the Maamar VeAta Tzaveh, which discusses the role of Moshe Rabbeinu in

every generation. In honor of Chof Zayin (27th) Adar & Yud Aleph Nissan. Everyone should learn that Maamar, do something special in honor of the Rebbe, to strengthen our connection with him.

(The following is a quote from Hayom Yom)

“You ask how you can be bound (M’Kusher) to me when I do not know you personally..."

"...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my Maamorim, read the Sichos, and associate with those dear to me - the Chassidic community and the Temimim - in their studies and Farbrengens, and you fulfill my request regarding saying Tehilim and observing Torah-study times - in this is the bond."

Shabbos Schedule:

6:51pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

1:45pm 1st Mincha

6:56pm 2nd Mincha

7:41pm Kabbolas Shabbos

9:15am Chasiddus with Rabbi Lerman

10:00am Shacharis

6:51pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

7:51pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends/ Rebbe Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis - Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 7:45pm

Grand Kiddush Sponsored by:

Rabbis Mendel, Gershon Lerman & family in honor of their mothers Yahrzeit Menucha bas Yitzchak obm her Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Leibish and Choula Nash, in honor of Choula’s father’s first Yahrzeit Moshe ben Tzion Ha’Kohen obm his Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Mrs. Anat Hazan, in honor of her mother’s Yahrzeit Elvira Chaya Mushka bas Avraham obm her Neshama should have the highest aliya ever.

Mr. & Mrs. Baruch and Chana Bongart in honor of Baruch’s birthday Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha, with all unlimited Brachos.

In honor of our father, Zaidy, and Alter Zaidy, Boruch Bongart, on the occasion of his Birthday on Shabbos. Wishing you Arichas Yomim Tovim Umutzlachim, a long good successful life, with a year of Hatzlacha and Bracha, success and blessing, filled with Joy, good health, wealth, and loads of Chassidishe and Yiddishe Nachas from all of your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren! With love, The Bongart and Polter families

Dr. & Mrs. Aaron and Nechama Bennish in honor of Nechama's birthday Mazal Tov you should have a Shenas Hatzlacha Ubracha.

Schedule

Thursday Taanis Esther (3-13-2025)

Friday Purim (3-14-2025)

Sponsorship Available

Sponsorship needed for our grand annual Purim Bash** Breaking the fast ** Bagels & Spreads ** Music ** Electric Games ** Cotton Candy ** Face Painting **

** For the entire family **

To take part in this special Zechus, a day of Wonders & Miracles with

unlimited blessings, please be in touch with Rabbi Mendel Lerman.

Machatzis Hashekel (Half a Shekel)

Thursday before Mincha, we give Machatzis Hashekel to commemorate the giving of a silver half a Shekel contributed by each Jew to the Holy Bais Hamikdash

Mattanot L’Evyonim - Purim Gifts for needy families

You can give Mattanot L’Evyonim (gifts of money to the needy)

through Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul.

Thursday Taanis Ester

5:49am Fast Begins

8:00am Shacharis (please come on time Selichos etc.)

1:45pm 1st Mincha, Machatzis Hashekel before Mincha

6:28pm 2nd Mincha - You can give Mattanot L’Evyonim (gifts of money to the needy)

through Bais Levi Yitzchak Shul.

7:28pm Maariv/Fast Ends

7:40pm Megillah Reading / There will be simultaneously Megillah reading for women with children in the big classroom.

Followed by

Breaking the Fast & Purim bash

***Fun Entertainment for the entire family***

*** Cotton Candy ***

***Electronic Games *** Face painting ***

*** Spin Art *** Food *** Nosh *** Music ***

Friday Erev Shabbos Purim Day

8:00am Shacharis

8:30am Megillah Reading

10:15am 2nd Megillah Reading

1:45pm Mincha

Purim observances include:
a) Reading of the Megillah (Book of Esther), which recounts the story of the Purim miracle.
b) Giving to the poor (gifts of money should be given to at least two poor people).
c) Sending gifts of food to friends (a list two ready-to-eat foods to at least one friend).
d) The Purim feast.

e) Reciting the Al Hanissim prayer.
Customs include dressing up in costumes and traditional Purim foods.

Friday Afternoon

6:44pm Candle lighting for Crown Heights

7:34pm Kabbolas Shabbos

Shabbos Day Schedule

9:15am Chassidus with Rabbi Mendel Lerman

10:00am Shacharis / followed by Farbrengen / Kiddush.

6:44pm Mincha / Seder Nigunim / Maamar

7:43pm Maariv / Shabbos Ends / Video

Davening Schedule for the following week

Shacharis - Sunday @ 9:00am

Monday through Friday @ 8:00am

Mincha – Sunday through Friday @ 1:45pm

Maariv – Sunday through Thursday @ 7:45pm

Grand Kiddush / Farbrengen co-sponsored

Mrs. Mazal Zirkind in honor of her birthday Mazal Tov Mazal Tov she should have a Shnas Hatzlacha Ubracha

Mr. & Mrs. Yoseph Ha’Kohen Shurpin, in honor of Yoseph’s father Yahrzeit Sholom ben Reb Yehuda Ha’Kohen obm, his Neshama should have the highest Aliya ever.