Menachem Berkowitz

finally a Rabbi, now becoming a Rov. Schneersonalia enthusiast

[Menachem Berkowitz @notyetrabbiberk]

Schneersonalia is back!

Read about the fascinating childhood of my great-great-grandfather, Reb Zalman Schneerson:

From his 1898 birth in Homel to his move to the small town of Repke, the traumatic pogroms of 1905 and his time at the Russian Gymnasium. Plus a good dosage of genealogy in the footnotes.

It’s all here in this first installment of Reb Zalman Schneerson: The Russia Years.

Enjoy!

https://t.co/rd55Er186W

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@MyShtender @DBashIdeas Which? …

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@MyShtender @DBashIdeas … embarrassingly no (not yet)

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@MyShtender @DBashIdeas While we’re here, would you know of any records or documents which mention Shlomo and/or Eli Chaim Carlebach at Torah Vodaath? They were both students there from 1940–43.

[Menachem Berkowitz @notyetrabbiberk]

Beautiful.

[Eli Rubin @Eli_Rubin]

"Rather than reducing psychoanalytic explanation to questions of sexuality (following Sigmund Freud) or inferiority (following Alfred Adler), Schneersohn argued that art and religion provided the keys to the “hidden” and “extraordinary” depths of the human soul."
https://t.co/KwtGXniugS

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@AnashOrgNews What in the AI is this?

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@jacklanger @jewishmemequeen @CountingCrows Taps the sign:

[Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone @Mottel]

@CraftsmanBob @Poiupytr @FrumTikTok I'm reminded of a story R' Bentzion Oster from LA once told me:
He was at the gas station with a group of bochurim, much like this bochur, and found a tattooed Jewish man. They put tefillin on him, and in the meantime a group of Heimishe yidden pulled up.

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@tzemach32 I wasn’t told which, but based purely on their apparent ages, I’d assume Russia (Nevel). Perhaps it was a wedding gift…

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Reb Yehuda and Freida Eber

The Eber family tradition is that the Bochurim put these two pictures together and that Reb Yehuda was not pleased by it for Tznius reasons.

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@Mottel @mycr_karenina @YehudaHaMaccabi A copy of an old copy of the same picture.

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@Mottel @mycr_karenina @YehudaHaMaccabi This is perhaps another picture of Freida:
https://t.co/M0JaoBIIKv

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This photo, printed in “Bechol Beisi Ne’eman Hu”, didn’t identify Freida.

My Bubby Hadassah Carlebach, Freida’s niece, confidently asserts that this is her. Incidentally, I actually think my Bubby & Freida look quite similar.

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@Mottel @mycr_karenina @YehudaHaMaccabi A copy of an old copy of the same picture.

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@Mottel @mycr_karenina @YehudaHaMaccabi See the end of this article by @ChabadMargins:
https://t.co/cQSo8bjgyA

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@ChabadMargins @Yahrtzeits I think the posts are automated, because this is a recurring problem…

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Still waiting on a source for this date.

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@JDS1236250411 @querynotfound has this association existed historically, or is it a recent (Chabad) phenomenon? Is the question itself an anachronism?

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@ChabadMargins I discussed another newspaper mention in my blog, here:

https://t.co/c8eRWv0DfS

[Mendel Super @MendelSuper]

Tomchei Tmimim, Krementchug, circa 1925.

Who are these boys?

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@ElliotKaufman6 @ShabbosReads How did you make a PDF of the Substack post?

[Bentzi Avtzon @bentziavtzon]

My favorite anecdote from latest HFL episode with Mrs Hadassah Carlebach was her father paying a chazan who escaped the USSR two decades after him to teach him the latest chabad niggunim

“He didn’t have money for food but he had money for niggunim”

The power of a niggun ❤️

[Bentzi Avtzon @bentziavtzon]

A couple weeks ago I spent an hour plus interviewing Mrs Hadassah Carlebach, a ninety nine year old Lubavitch woman born in Russia only a decade after the Communist revolution and who was a teenager at the start of World War II

The immensity of time she has seen with her own eyes is something very difficult to grasp in an interview

But the idea that came through again and again was the camaraderie between the chassidim, in difficult and also better times

She is also the daughter of Rabbi Shneur Zalman Shneersohn, a second cousin of the Rebbe Rayatz, which gave her access to the homes of Lubavitch royalty

And the same idea came through there as well: kinship, solidarity, we are "all in it together"

HFL ep 87 "99 Years of Lubavitch" w/ Mrs Haddasah Carlebach out now