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03/10/2026

PLEASE STOP DONATING!!

These are the words of Moses in Book of Exodus 36:6.

After the Jewish people left Egypt with great wealth, they were finally told what it was for: to build the Mishkan, a home for holiness in the world.

The response was overwhelming.

People brought so much gold, silver, and material that Moses had to make an announcement across the camp: stop bringing donations. We have enough.
But why did Moses have to ask them to give in the first place?

G-d could have instructed Moses to collect the wealth from Egypt.

He could have gathered the materials through miracles.

Instead, the people themselves were asked to bring it.

Because it had to be theirs with their choice to give it.

Today we are living in a time of unprecedented prosperity. At the same time, we are witnessing the building of one of the most remarkable Jewish infrastructures in history through Chabad-Lubavitch.

Thousands of young couples have moved to communities around the world to strengthen Jewish life. But no Chabad center is built by a rabbi or a couple alone.

It is built with a community.

The vision of the Rebbe was not to create institutions supported only by large donors. It was to build communities where people become partners in the mission.

People who help create the programs.

People who support the work.

People who feel that what is being built truly belongs to them.

Chabad is deeply grateful for the federations and foundations that partner in this work, and we would definitely welcome even greater participation.

But the reality is that over 90% of Chabad’s global activities are funded by individual donors, most of them local community members who want to help build Jewish life where they live.

In many ways, it echoes that moment in the desert.

When the purpose is clear, people do not just donate.

They become partners in building something that belongs to all of us.

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11/21/2025

Too often leaders don’t tap into the people around them. They hire the obvious talent, the number one draft picks, and leave the rest behind.

But the ones who need to be built are often the most valuable. With guidance and care they grow into leaders, innovators, and changemakers.

This week’s Torah portion shows this through Yitzchak. He dug wells. Where others saw dirt he saw living water. He never stopped digging. He helped people uncover their own depth and truth. They didn’t just feel inspired they walked away changed.

Everyone carries a well like this, a source of goodness, love, and generosity.

The Rebbe’s mission is to uncover that well in everyone everywhere, to see potential where it’s hidden and plant seeds of lasting change.

Storms come, challenges rise, but they don’t define us. We keep digging. Once that well is uncovered its waters never run dry.

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Yigal Begun

11/06/2025

So often, when things aren’t working out for us, our hearts tighten and our minds close off. We tell ourselves, “I have enough to handle already. I can’t deal with anyone else’s problems.”

But the Torah shows us another way. In this week’s Parsha, Abraham and Sarah had been waiting for a child for decades. Then Abimelech’s household falls ill. Instead of turning inward, Abraham prays for them. And immediately after, his own blessing arrives.

When we focus only on ourselves, we shrink. When we open ourselves to others, we expand. Helping someone else doesn’t just change their world. It changes ours. It makes our hearts wider, our minds more open, and our lives ready to receive.

Join us Today at 1pm to explore this in the story of this week's Torah portion.

10/28/2025

Would you rather live as a monkey or die as a human?

During the pandemic, the Russians spread a strange claim that the UK COVID vaccine could turn people into monkeys. Ridiculous as it sounds, it made me think.

If someone were on their deathbed, and there was a vaccine that could save them, but the side effect was that they’d turn into a monkey, would they take it?

Is being alive enough? Or is how we live just as important as that we live?

In today's Hayom Yom
chabadgrp.com/dailystudy/hayomyom.htm

there's an interesting story about Reb Yekusiel Liepler. When the first Chabad Rebbe offered him a blessing for long life he pleaded that it not be peasant years.

"Not years with eyes that don’t see and ears that don’t hear. Not years lived without perceiving G-dliness.”

That story says everything.

We weren’t put here just to survive and live like animals, driven by instinct or routine.

Every morning when we say Modeh Ani first thing in the morning we’re not only thanking G-d for giving us life. We’re thanking Him for returning our G-dly soul. The part of us that gives life meaning. The part that helps us rise above instinct and live with awareness, kindness, and purpose.

Because we weren’t created just to live.
We were created to live as humans with a soul, with depth, and with the ability to bring light into the world.

09/30/2025

This Yom Kippur, you can take part in Kaparot in a meaningful way. 💛

The custom is to circle your head three times with a live chicken, a live fish, or with money, while saying a short prayer.

This is a symbolic way of transferring any harsh decrees that might have been decreed against you or your family onto the chicken, fish, or money.

When using money, it is then given to charity, helping those in need, transforming it into something that truly makes a difference.

✨ Donate your Kaparot online:

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