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Guy Helps a Raven Drink From Fountain and Gets Bit

Tower of London, London, UK.

A day out at the Tower of London a Raven jumped on the water fountain, my friend Ben turned on the faucet so the Raven could have a drink. After he had his drink, the Raven decided to take a bite of Bens's finger. Ouch!

Secret Shul Tunnel

This Moscow Shul, has a secret... a secret tunnel located next to the Aron Kodesh where Jews would escape if there was a pogrom.

Amish Moving a Shed

Hillsboro, Wisconsin.

The owner had the shed moved to make way for a new house. The shed measured 45x72 and took approximately 300 men to move it.

Help Us Get Through this Stage in Our Life

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Our three older kids forgot what it means to have new shoes to start the season. The bank calls almost daily to remind us of the swelling minus, and we’ve wracked up a frightening bill at the grocery… We have no way to make it through the month. I’m ashamed to admit that my husband and I are forgoing the very basics so we can give at least the minimum to our kids…

Please, dear brothers and friends!

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I’m crying out to you from a terrible place of distress, a place that no one should ever reach…

Don’t leave me alone! Help us get through this stage in our life, and in this merit, you should only know comfort, happiness and peace of mind always!

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The Story of Rabbi Shais Taub | Breaking The Stigma

Meaningful People #83

Rabbi Shais Taub is a world-renowned columnist, author and lecturer and is known for his work in the field of addiction recovery. NPR dubbed him “an expert in Jewish mysticism and the 12 Steps” and The New York Times has deemed him “a phenomenon.”. He wrote a popular weekly column in Ami Magazine for 8 years and is the author of the bestselling book, G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction as well as several groundbreaking works on Tanya.

Rabbi Taub’s interest in the field of addiction sprang from his work in a Milwaukee Chabad House with Jewish men in recovery. He lives with his wife, Brocha, and their children, in the Five Towns. For speaking engagments or to reach Rabbi Shais Taub, Please email Info@soulwords.org

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ATIME Auction Live 5782

ATIME Live Auction Show

Starting at 9:30 PM. ATIME Live Auction Drawing.

You don't want to miss this one of a kind show hosted by Naomi Nachman.

Featuring The Rebbetzin and The Therapist, The Comic Cook, Malkie Knoepfler, Personal Journeys and much more. Winners will be called live at 12AM Sharp

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ATIME is devoted to assisting childless Jewish couples yearning for a baby of their own. We turn sighs of distress into sighs of contentment, transform tears of despair to tears of joy. We make dreams come true, one miracle at a time.

Yeshiva Torah Lishma - Bnei Brak

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קליפ סוחט דמעות שהופק לקראת ועידת 'לבנותם' של ידידי ישיבת תורה לשמה "לחיות באושר, ולעבוד את ה' בשמחה" זו משאלת הלב שכל בחור שואל. זו הבקשה שכל ילד ונער זכאי לה.

She Requires Urgent, Life-saving Treatment Abroad

The tumor in her brain is endangering her life, and she requires urgent, life-saving treatment abroad to save her.

I wish I’d never told mommy that my head hurts.

Because now, it hurts so much more.

Instead of going every day to kindergarten and playing with my friends, I go every day to the hospital where it hurts so much.

I’m weak and tired, and I’m always throwing up. Sometimes, I’m too tired to hold my dolly.

My pretty hair, which Mommy braided every morning, is gone.

Now I wear a sheitel, like a Mommy. But I don’t like it. It’s itchy and uncomfortable.
And everyone stares.

Once, I used to like looking the mirror and playing with my dolly, but now I hate it. I’m fat, my skin is gray and I look ugly.

The treatments and medicines and shots did this to me.

Mommy and Tatty tell me that soon, soon, it’ll be over.

But how soon is soon? And it hurts so much!

Why is this happening to me???

I’m a good girl. I always help at home, and I listen to my teacher.

Why do I deserve this?

Mommy tells me to daven to Hashem, because He loves me and is the only one Who can help.

Every day, I go to a corner and I start to cry. I tell Hashem that if He makes me better, I’ll be good always. I won’t fight, and I’ll share all my toys.

I ask Him to please, please just make me get better!

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Please click here to help a little girl live

I flew off to America with my Tatty and Mommy, and baruch Hashem, the surgery was successful, because the doctors said that it was my only chance to live.

Hopefully, I’ll start feeling better soon.

But I still see Mommy looking so, so worried.

Last night, when she thought I was asleep, I heard her tell Tatty that they still haven’t paid the doctor for the surgery. She also said that even though I’ve had the surgery, I still need a whole bunch of treatments when we get back to Eretz Yisrael, and that they don’t have the money to pay for them.

She also talked about how much debt there is at home, and how hard it is for all the kids now that we’re so far away, and if they’ll ever manage to get back on their feet.

Then she started to cry…

It’s awful when a Mommy cries. I wanted to cry too, but I didn’t want her to know that I’d heard everything, so I pretended to be asleep…And then I really did fall asleep.

I want to get better. I’ve learned to close my eyes and I let them prick me whenever they want.

But who knows if there will be any more treatments, because my parents can’t afford anything else.

I’ve come so far, and everyone is hoping that we’re almost at the end.

Help us get there!

I know that you want me to live!

If you do, please help my parents!

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My parents need your help, and it’s a mitzvah to help them. They need tzedakah so they can pay the doctors and for everything else.

I have 16 brothers and sisters waiting for me at home in Eretz Yisrael.

I miss them, and they miss me. I just want to go home already.

Only because of your help and your tefillos, was I able to have this surgery.

Only because of your tefillos did the surgery succeed.

Now I need your help and tefillos to continue treatment.

And please continue davening for me!
  ברכה צעריל בת רוחמה יהודית

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1967 - Channel 2 Goes Color for First Time

April 14, 1967.

Ari Lesser's Rapping & Rhyming Pirkei Avos

Ari Explains How he writes his songs, and raps for us acapella.

What the Lubavitcher Rebbe asked David Chase

Brazen Crooks Dressed as Orthodox Jews Rob Home

A bold and brazen burglary of a Miami Beach home was caught on camera.

It was Saturday afternoon when the family’s 12-year-old son came home and realized his house had been robbed. He quickly picked up the phone and called the police. “I walked upstairs in my mom’s room, and it looked like a tornado hit it,” video showed the boy saying after calling 911. “Draws were taken, everything was taken out on the floor and in the bed.”

Video shows the crooks, dressed as Orthodox Jews, approached the mid-Miami Beach home on the Jewish sabbath.

They rang the doorbell, but no one was home. They then were able to get inside the house.

Heron Hunting Successfully Spears and Eats Fish

Heron spearfishing at Ferry Meadows Country Park Cambridgeshire UK.

Breaching the Police Barricade Entering Kever Rashbi

Lag Baomer 5782/2022.

After waiting for hours for police to open their blockades to Kever Rashbi, the thousands of men who traveled from all over Israel and beyond, were finally able to gain access and Daven at the holy site on the special day of Lag Baomer.

They danced and sang for a long time and the courtyard suddenly became a dance floor as was in years past. Musicians were later brought to the scene using a portable speaker.

The policemen left the area and a number of volunteers from the "Hilula D'rshabi" organization of Rav Kuperstock Z"L, became the ushers and took out old signs to direct the crowd.

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A Tale of Two Fathers

A Touching Story Told Over By Rabbi Yoel Gold

After his first Shabbos ends with an unspeakable tragedy, Shimon Ilan’s resilience & faith paves way for an unexpected friendship and inspires Yaakov Shwekey’s latest hit song Ein Davar Ra.

May this story bring comfort to all those remembering lost loved ones and may this month bring healing to all the pain in Am Yisroel. אני יי רופאיך

Sponsored by Yehoshua & Tami Katz in memory of Leora Tova Bas Rachamim a”h.

Shimma’le Didn't Celebrate his Upsheren in Meron!

Instead of celebrating in Meron. we'll be placing a yarmulke on his bald head

I’m standing here at the tziyun of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

Tears course down my cheeks; loneliness and heartache consumes every part of my being.

After long years of agonizing fertility treatments, the doctors have told us that there is no more hope.

I refused to believe it.

I’d already lost both my parents. How could it be that I would bear no future generations either?

Would my husband and I really leave this world barren, without a child to recite kaddish after us?

I turned to Rabbi Shimon and promised that if Hashem gave us a son in his merit, I would name him Shimon!

Three months later, the doctors couldn’t believe the test results. It was a miracle beyond miracles.

I was expecting a child.

One year after I spilled rivers of tears in Meron, I gave birth to a healthy baby boy, and eight days later, we brought baby Shimon into the covenant of Avraham Avinu.

We were ecstatic with our heavenly gift, our baby Shimon, our beautiful Shimma’le. We innocently believed that our troubles had ended.

But two years later, Shimon began exhibiting odd symptoms, and following a series of tests, the doctors revealed the heartbreaking truth.

Our darling Shimon has cancer.

After all we’d endured on the bumpy road to parenthood, after years spent davening and weeping, after knowing that Shimon would be our one and only child and rejoicing that we had him, we were on the verge of losing him.

I returned to Meron, to Rabbi Shimon, and released floodgates of tears.

I lifted my eyes to the Ribono shel Olam and wept: “Hashem, this is too much for me! You gave us this one and only child. Don’t take Him away from us!”

I turned to Rabbi Shimon and begged, “Rabbi Shimon, this is your child! Daven for him! Save him!”

Shimon is our only child—our life and our future. Without Shimon, we have nothing!

Shimma’le is about to celebrate his 3-year-old birthday.

But instead of celebrating it in Meron with joy and thanksgiving, as planned…

Instead of cutting his beautiful golden locks and curling his sweet peyos…

Instead of shedding a tear as he licks honey off the alef-beis in cheder…

We’ll be placing a large yarmulke on his bald head in the Oncology ward.

Because for Shimma’le, there is no sweet honey and no alef beis.

click here to help little Shimma’le

For Shimma’le, there is no upsherin and no golden peyos.

For Shimma’le, there is only cancer and pain.

Doctors and medicines. Painkillers and more painkillers…

Instead of anticipating the day when my husband will carry him to cheider wrapped in a tallis,

I’m terrified for the day that he’ll be carried out of the hospital in a tallis on his final journey…

Click here to help little Shimma’le

Day by day, we’re watching our beautiful Shimma’le wither away, unable to believe that this is really happening to us.

We want to awaken from this nightmare, but this is no dream. This is our dark, bitter reality.

We’re on the verge of losing Shimma’le.

There is one experimental treatment that can save him, but we’re still in major debt from fertility treatment, and no one is willing to loan us the funds for the treatment.

Please! This child is Rabbi Shimon’s child! He’s Klal Yisrael’s child.

And he’s our only child. He’s all we have.

Please, I’m begging you! If you’re reading this, please join us in the battle to save our Shimma’le’s life!

With your generous contribution, we can fund the treatment that is his last hope of life.

Hashem granted us salvation once, and He can surely do it again!

But we need your help!

Donate now to save our little Shimma’le, and im yirtzeh Hashem, when we’re zocheh to celebrate a seudas hodaya in Meron, in the tziyun of Rabbi Shimon, we’ll remember you too.

We’ll remember you, daven that Hashem should grant you the help and salvation that you need and that you should always be among the givers of our nation.

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Jewish Freestyle Rap "Lag BaOmer" by Ari Lesser

"Waffles" Thinks He’s Everyone’s Friend

Waffles is a 15-month-old mini donkey that loves and enjoys attention from people and playing with our goats. We have dwarf goats and this mini donkey. Recently, we got two new goats that weren’t ready to trust him yet and he chased them trying to play. Stephanie came out to get him to calm down and he back talked her for correcting him. This was in mid May of 2022 on our property in northeast Kansas. Waffles and the new goats have very recently become comfortable with each other.

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Dog that Plays Baseball

Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Watch Line of 7,000 Giant Domino Blocks Topple

More than 7,000 concrete dominoes have fallen to start the 250th Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

The dominoes stretched between Anglia Square and The Forum in Norwich, with some even going through homes and buildings.

Artist Julian Maynard Smith said the artwork, which has been replicated across cities of the world since 2009, grew out of an initial idea to connect boroughs of London.

Each concrete domino weighed about 17lbs (8kg). The 1.6-mile (2.5km) toppling lasted about 30 minutes.

"Mit A Bren" Greenberger, Weinberger, Kletzkin

השיר החדש בביצוע 'קולעוילם' בניצוחו של פנחס ביכלר, עם זאנוויל, משולם גרינברגר, 'מלכות' ובנצי קלצקין

זה היה בשיאו של מעמד 'מיט א ברען' שהתקיים בבנייני האומה לאלפי בחורי ביתר עילית ע"י הסיעה החסידית בעיר, בימי בין הזמנים שאחרי חג הפסח.

משולם גרינברגר, המלחין החסידי, מלמד את אלפי הבחורים שיר חדש, מיוחד עבור פרויקט 'מיט א ברען' המתקיים בעיר בעידן האחרון, אותו הוא מלמד לקהל, כאשר אחריו עולה פנחס ביכלר ומארגן את האלפים לשירת המונים – 'קולעוילם', המשלימה את ההרמוניה הווקאלית יחד עם זאנוויל ויינברגר, בנצי קלצקין ומקהלת מלכות המורחבת