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Avraham Rosen is the author and editor of a number of books on Holocaust literature, testimony, and history, his most recent being, The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy. He grew up in Los Angeles and has had the privilege of living in Jerusalem for the past thirty years.
Tisha B’Av According to Hayom Yom
Within Chabad communities, it is standard practice to read the day’s teaching from Hayom Yom, the compilation of Chabad customs and chasidic teachings by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. The readings serve as a word of guidanc...
New Beginnings
I had gotten the idea from a friend whose elderly mother had, like mine, never done any Torah study.
How Hayom Yom Became a Jewish Classic
The Rebbe’s first book, Hayom Yom, has traveled a distance from its original conception as a calendar to what it is today. At the time of its initial publication in 5703 (1943), one could naturally count on the date and day being in sync with day-to-day l...
Tefillin in Auschwitz—and elsewhere
Professor Wiesel replied: “I put on tefillin in Auschwitz every morning. I probably shouldn’t have done it. But I did.”
Reading Between the Lines of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Holocaust Era Calendar
Harnessing adversity as a paradoxical opportunity for good, the Ha-yom Yom calendar imbued time itself with a special urgency, encouraging and intensifying the study of Torah, the performance of mitzvot and the devotional service of God in an attempt to a...
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