Attended the local Chabad menorah lighting in solidarity with Sydney and Jews around the globe. Lessons from the Rabbi: Eradicate darkness. Spread Light. Spread Love. Keep dancing. @chabad.bsky.social #Hanukkah #HappyHanukkah #WePersist

Shabbat Shalom! What are you looking forward to this Shabbat? For local shabbat candle-lighting times: Chabad.org/candles

Chag Sameach! Wishing you an incredibly joyous Simchat Torah. Learn more chabad.org/simchattorah For local holiday candle-lighting times: chabad.org/candles

Shabbat Shalom! Local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

🛖 Chag Sameach! Wishing You A Happy Sukkot - filled with blessings warmth and joy! For local holiday candle-lighting times: chabad.org/candles Learn more about Sukkot: chabad.org/sukkot

Wishing you Gmar Chatima Tova - meaningful Yom Kippur and easy fast. May this year bring so many blessings!

Shana Tova! May this 5786 bring you peace so many blessings! For local candle-lighting times: Chabad.org/candles To find services near you: Chabad.org/centers

Shana Tova!

Shabbat Shalom! What are you doing for the last Shabbat of the year? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

Shabbat Shalom! What are you doing for the last Shabbat of the year? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

FIND ROSH HASHANAH SERVICES NEAR YOU. CHABAD.ORG/CENTERS

Shabbat Shalom! Who's someone that inspired you this week? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

📆TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY: Passing Of R. Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1944) Av 20 is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the passing) of the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944), in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan.

Shabbat Shalom! What are you looking forward to this Shabbat? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

They asked Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the first rebbe of Chabad: "Which is greater: love of G-d, or love of your fellow Jew?" "Love of your fellow Jew," he replied. "For then you love that which your Beloved loves."

Keep your trust in G-d for yourself. When things don't go so well, tell yourself it is all really for the good, and rejoice in however G-d treats you. But when others come with their troubles, telling them they should rejoice in their afflictions can be callous and even cruel.

💍Mazel Tov! Former Hostages Engaged! Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen were kidnapped on October 7th and held separately in captivity. They were separated for 498 days. Today they got engaged!

CHABAD RABBIS FROM ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM! Can you find your rabbi?

♥️ CHABAD DEDICATES IDF LOUNGE IN JERUSALEM Chabad of Rechavia has dedicated a new center to provide for the emotional, logistical, and social needs of the families of combat soldiers.

There are times G-d will put a soul in prison-often a very lofty soul, such as Joseph. It is like being held in a vise. Squeezed with the ultimate of futility, the deepest powers of the soul break through.

"ONLY OUR BODIES WERE SENT INTO EXILE. OUR SOULS WERE NEVER SUBJUGATED." Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch quoted by his son, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, upon being sent to exile by the Soviet regime in 1927

♥️PRAY FOR THOSE IN TEXAS Flash Floods In Central Texas Killed At Least 43 And Dozens More Are Missing Or Stranded After The Guadalupe River Surged Following Torrential Rain.

Shabbat Shalom! What are you looking forward to this Shabbat? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

📆TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY: Entebbe Rescue -Tammuz 6 (1976) Jewish hostages held by Arab terrorists at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, were rescued by Israeli commando units in 1976.

Our brains can orbit about the truth forever, but they have no feet to land. There is a faculty, however, that doesn't need to travel to find truth; for which truth was never hidden or obscured. For it is a native of truth from birth.

✨ More Than 50,000 Visit The Ohel, The Rebbe's Resting Place, This Weekend To Mark His 31st Yartzeit. Have You Ever Been To The Ohel?

TODAY IS THE REBBE'S YAHRTZEIT 3 TAMMUZ, 5754 (1994) The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of saintly memory, the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty and considered the most influential rabbi in modern history, passed away in the early morning hours of the 3rd of Tammuz, 5754

TODAY IS THE REBBE'S YAHRTZEIT - 3 TAMMUZ The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of saintly memory (b. 1902-1994), the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty and considered the most influential rabbi in modern history, passed away in the early morning hours of the 3rd of Tammuz, 5754 (1994)

The fall of the communist dictatorships of the Eastern Bloc was a kind of miracle that has no historical precedent. Never before were so many people affected by such radical change with so little violence.

Shabbat Shalom! What's inspiring you this Shabbat? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

👴IS BERNIE A JEWISH NAME? How come there are so many older Jewish guys named Bernie?

Welcome New Chabad Emissaries! Rabbi David And Anya Yakub Are Bringing New Energy To The Historic Jewish Community In Dzerzhinsk, On The VolgaRiver In Western Russia

MAZEL TOV! MY MOTHER IS A LIONESS! Babies Born In Bomb Shelters Get Special Gift. At Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, a special gift was given to babies born in its fortified delivery rooms-symbolizing the bravery of mothers giving birth under rocket attacks.

🕯️ BLESSED IS THE TRUE JUDGE: Murdered By Iranian Missiles This Morning Israeli authorities identified three of four killed in Iranian missile attack on Beersheba were Eitan Zacks, 18 alongside his mother Michal, 50, and girlfriend Noa Boguslavsky, 18.

🔥MITZVOT UNDER FIRE: While Taking Cover In A Jerusalem Bomb Shelter, A Chabad Chasid Used The Time To Help Other Jews Don Tefillin.

Iranian Cluster Bomb Strikes Chabad Daycare in Be’er Sheva Rabbi Sholom Duchman vows center will ‘again be filled with laughter and learning’ chabad.org/6937698

Shabbat Shalom! What's bringing you peace and meaning this Shabbat? For local Shabbat-candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

📖 WHY ARE JEWS CALLED THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK? Throughout history, Jews have been called "People of the Book" (Am HaSefer) by both Jews and non-Jews.

📖 WHY ARE JEWS CALLED THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK? Throughout history, Jews have been called "People of the Book" (Am HaSefer) by both Jews and non-Jews.

MIRACLES IN BEER SHEVA! An Iranian ballistic missiles hit Soroka, the largest hospital in Israel's South. The hospital's old surgical ward sustained heavy damage, yet miraculously, no one was harmed. Just the day before, the building was evacuated.

📅 TODAY IN JEWISH HISTORY: A Miracle in Ancient Persia. Haman's Decree Counteracted. Sivan 23 (357 BCE)

🌎WHERE IS THE LARGEST MEZUZAH IN THE WORLD? WE THINK THIS ONE MAY BE IT

They saw the miracles in Egypt, they witnessed Pharaoh & his army drowning in the sea. They ate manna from heaven & they heard the mighty voice of G-d at Mount Sinai. How could they imagine any people or any force in this world to be more powerful than the G-d who created everything from nothing?

WELCOME CHABAD'S NEW EMISSARIES: Rabbi Chaim Dovid And Chaya Paer. Naberezhnye Chelny is the second- largest city in Tatarstan, a region of Russia that is the historic home of both Sephardic Jews as well as the Ashkenazim who were allowed to settle there after serving in the Czar's army.

🎉 5 Ukrainian Refugees Celebrated Their Bar Mitzvahs Israel As Iranian Missiles Began Falling. The ceremony marked three years since these children fled the war in Ukraine, crossing borders under fire to reach safety in Israel.

✊UNITED FOR ISRAEL As our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land face down Iran's massive missile attack, we see miracles unfolding. Join us as we unite with them for a live online gathering of prayer, charity, and faith. 📅 Join us tomorrow, TUESDAY, JUNE 17 👉 Join us: CHABAD.ORG/UNITED

From this week's Torah portion: The Land is exceedingly good.

💪 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, 90, PUTS ON TEFILLIN FOR ISRAEL! Sam Harris, one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, joined Rabbi Shimmy Susskind at Chabad Jewish Center of Vernon Hills to put on tefillin in solidarity with his brothers and sisters in The Holy Land. What's a mitzvah that you're doing?

Why are you afraid? Why do you panic? Eagerly and with purpose, your soul plunged downward to live in an earthly realm, to enwrap herself in a body of flesh and blood. What emboldened her? What drew her to squeeze her unbounded light into the straitjacket of time and space?