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In honor of the forthcoming convention of Chabad-Lubavitch shluchim, we herewith offer 3 items related to Chabad which you may have missed:

1) The September edition of New Voices, which they title "The Lubavitch Issue." Our very own Anarchist Rabbi Captain Sholom Keller is featured on the cover with an extensive interview:

2) Tanya in the comix (in the pocket of a Rubashkin yet!), by the talented Eli Valley(http://www.evcomics.com/). See the bottom right frame:

3) A Rubashkin-related story you may not have heard of : A shliach arrested on alleged sex abuse charges with a 13 year old boy:

May Chabad continue with their glorious work until giluy Melech haMoshiach, AMEN!

PS: To the Rebbe-philic cows out there - this is about Chabad, NOT the Rebbe (this time), so do not delete. Unless you consider "Chabad" as synonymous with cyanide & exposure to it (spiritual) suicide…

from Chaptzem: New Square's new dress code for boys  (click on poster to enlarge)

Comment by kolbayar on Info

The Vilder Koznitzer was Reb Ahareleh Koznitzer. He lived in Lodz and Varsheh. I know of his one hanhogeh that I heard from an eyd riyah, that he used to ride around Lodz in his horse drawn wagon and would suddenly jump out and give a passerby a frask in ponim. For that he was despised by soem misnagdim and maskilim in Lodz and warsaw. However apparently many great rebbes held his in very high esteem. Another two vildeh uvdos I know of him mipi hashmuah :
1)He once invited his one a yid (a former chosid, an ex-frummie?) to a melave malkeh, which the latter declined, saying that he has a girlfriend that he needs to spend time with, Reb Ahareleh told him “breng ihr oyich”-”bring your girlfriend with you.
2)Once a yid stole something his Bais Medrash, and when the gaboyim reported it to reb Aharele, the first thing he said was, “zog nisht geganvet, nor genimen”-don’t say that he stole, just say that he took.

His father was a rebbe (R’Yechiel?) and so he received all the rebbishe chinuch. In his early twenties he sent away all his mechanchim, all the nedivim from his father’s court and moved to Lodz to hang out with pshutei am, the poorest and most wretched yidden from Baluty area, which was tye poorest section of Lodz, possibly the poorest section of the entire Poland. During the war he would go around collecting food for the hungry in the ghetto.

It would be funny if it weren't true:

"Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable," said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

"We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion," Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. "We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough."

Read the rest on CNN.

VOSIZNEIAS: Bnei Brak, Israel - Rabbi Kanievsky Compares Obama To 'Hordus' Who Rebuilt The 'Beis Hamikdosh'

(hat tip to pilegesh.org)

hat tip to nanach.net

I'm moving to Boston. Anybody else coming along? (So those bastards are good for something!)

Boston Globe:  Voters approve marijuana law change

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."                                                                          -    haonion hakodesh

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In the name of R. Gedaliah of Linitz who said in the name of his master the Mokhi’ah [of Polonoya] that the messiah will instruct good merit (melamed zekhut tov) upon all of Israel even upon the wicked, [saying] that they are all righteous, that they are correct (yid. “az zey zenen gerecht”). And because of the merit that he will instruct merit upon them they will return in repentance, and through this they will be redeemed, for in repentance one is redeemed.

And he would say - a little tzadik loves little resha’im, a great tzadik loves great resha’im, but the messiah will love and instruct merit even upon complete resha’im. And anyone who instructs merit upon all creatures is of the aspect of the messiah…   

(Sefer Baal Shem Tov, 61, note 100 in the name of Midrash Pinhas Ha-Hadash)

Maybe this applies to oneself as well. You are the messiah to the extent that you have redeemed yourself through the sweetening of Judgments…

In the final analysis we are all a priori vindicated – the messiah is just the one who takes it all the way…    

-atgate231