Abba's Last Conversation With His Father

The Daily Thread, Dec. 22, 2022.

Remembering Reb Nison Gordon + more in todays episode of The Daily Thread!

We ask of Klal Yisroel to please be generous and open up your hearts to this family to help them get through this very difficult and challenging time and help their Yesomim in the future.

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Moishy Schwartz - Lechtela

Sung & Music: Moishy Schwartz
Video & Edit: TwoTone Media
Mix: Shlome Wechter

This Chanukah, Keep Kids Entertained With Mostly Music

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Yingerlich Boys Choir Sing Yiddish Songs from the Shtetel

Boro Park Jewish Community Council Presents: Songs from the Shtetel,

A musical moment, paying tribute to our precious Holocaust survivors
By the Yingerlich Boys Choir
Chanukah - 2020.

Michoel Schnitzler & Friends Sing at Menorah

Singing Lechtele at the Chanukah candles.

Bardak - The Struggle of the Doughnut

With Your Help Efraim Can Live!

With your help, we can still prevail. With your help, Efraim can live!

When the results came back, I was ecstatic.

Following an extended waiting period that included several miscarriages,

I was finally, finally, expecting!

I spent seven out of nine months on full bed rest, 

But that couldn’t mitigate my joy for even a moment.

I would do anything to give birth to a healthy child, 

To raise a child of my own…

Efraim entered the world earlier than planned.

Only several minute after the lightning birth, while still in shock from the rapidly-unfolding events,

we somehow grasped that something was very, very wrong with our baby.

It wasn’t just the fact that he was early. It wasn’t just the fact that he was a preemie.

There was something terribly wrong with our beautiful little boy.

Several hours later, we learned the truth.

The doctors were kind and sensitive, but there was nothing they could do to minimize the heartbreak.

Our newborn had a malignant growth in his liver.

Malignant. Aggressive. 

The tumor is slowly but surely overtaking his tiny body, destroying it from the inside.

I had just given birth. I was weak and frightened, and I couldn’t even hold the darling newborn that I’d waited so long to cradle.

I’d spilled so many prayers before his birth, and I promised myself that I wouldn’t stop praying now.

He’s so tiny and powerless as he lays there in his incubator attached to a dozen lines and machines.

And the doctors are preparing us for the worst…

But we refuse to give up!

My husband ran from one medical advisor to the next, committing to finding a way to save our baby’s life. 

Efraim is already 7 months old, but his body is the size of an average 2-month old’s.

He’s on the waiting list for an urgent liver transplant.

His medical condition is very delicate, and his age complicates the situation.

The doctors are not optimistic, and they repeatedly warn us about total heart and system failure.

Efraim’s only hope is to travel abroad and have surgery in a private medical center.

The cost of surgery, of flights and accommodations are beyond our family’s capacity.

We opened all our savings accounts, and relatives have contributed everything they can.

But it’s all just a drop in the bucket.

After all our efforts, we’re still far from achieving our goal…

Our Efraim needs you! We need you!

We waited so long for Efraim.

We can’t bear to lose him…

Every passing hour could be fatal. 

Please! Help us save our baby’s life!

Help us come back home as a family! 

Efraim is in critical condition, and he needs this transplant urgently.

Every gift counts. Every dollar counts.

For Efraim, every dollar means oxygen!

Your gift can be the difference between life and death.

I want to personally thank each and every donor,

Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for concern. 

Most important, thank you for caring!

With your help, we can still prevail.
With your help, Efraim can live!

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Bentzi Kletzkin "Raza D'Shabbos"

Accompanied by the Mendy Hershkowitz Band.

Powerful Message From the Chanukah Lights

A short excerpt from a talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Just like we add in the number of Chanukah Candles every day, we too, must constantly be growing. It’s not enough today to do the same as yesterday.

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"Ner Li" | Boys Town Jerusalem Choir Music Video

The popular Chanukah song written by Levin Kipnis, speaks about how the candles spread light. In the music video, the choir boys spread light each in their own small way.

“A-BBA!” He Cries... Breaks My Heart Each Time Anew

“A-BBA!” he cries in a high-pitched voice that breaks my heart each time anew.

In my worst nightmares, I never dreamed where life would take me.

We were a perfect, happy family. So happy, so close.

We didn’t have much, but we were happy with what we had.

The first wave of Covid caught us, like so many others, unaware.

We lived through lockdown, through loneliness, through repeated quarantines.

But we had each other.

Our financial situation fluctuated, but there were so many others in the same boat that we just hoped and prayed that we’d get past it.

We never imagined that we’d be struck by the worst of all.

It started with a light cough that worsened. We weren’t worried at first. 

Didn’t almost everyone get corona and pull through? And my husband was young and robust.

But the cough worsened, and before long, he was hospitalized. 

It was only a matter of days before complications set in.

His condition deteriorated fast. So fast that we were entirely unprepared when the news came.

He was gone. We were now alone.

Shock. Heartbreak. Devastation. Ineffable grief.

From a happy loving wife and mother of two darlings, I became a widow of two tiny orphans.

I had little choice but to collect myself, pick up the fragments of my shattered world and try to offer my little ones an illusion of stability.

Not long after that, Russia invaded our home in Ukraine.

Like everyone, I was sure that it would be a matter of days, weeks maximum.

Yet as the days dragged by, we began experiencing what it meant to live in hell.

My children woke up screaming at night. Every slight noise made them jump. 

Every night the nightmare grew worse.

Our region became a warzone. Danger and death lurked on every corner.

One day, I just couldn’t take it anymore, and I packed several bags, took my two children in the double stroller and fled.

The escape route was harsh, cruel and replete with danger.

I was a fresh widow with two babies. All I wanted was a safe haven.

Words can’t describe the horrors we endured throughout the days and weeks of our escape.

I was alone with the babies. I didn’t have a spare hand, and I could only take what was absolutely critical.

If I wanted to live, I couldn’t afford to think about tomorrow, only the here and now.

And I wanted so badly for us to live.

Several impossible days passed until we finally crossed the border into Poland.

The wonderful Jewish community welcomed us with open arms, offered us a place to sleep and fresh changes of clothes.

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Nachum Leifer "Es Sheint" - Music Video

Just in time for Chanukah!

Rising star vocalist 'Nachum Leifer' with a brand new single "Es Sheint" covering well known oldeis in a very creative collection Kumzitz Medley, including originals by Mordechai Ben David, Avraham Fried & Michoel Schnitzler.

Watch 'Nachum' performing these beautiful songs with his sweet voice as he brings you into the joyful spirits of Chanukah.

The music was produced at 'Dididum Studios' and is accompanied by a beautiful music video filmed & edited by the talented duo of 'TwoTone Media'!

Sit back, sing along with Nachum and enjoy the Chanukah spirits while the are with us.

To book Nachum Leifer for your next Occasion or Simcha
Call, Text or WhatsApp: +13479493738

Driving on a Frozen Flat Tire

"We were just out driving and saw this dude with a frozen and flat tire doing 55 down the Parks Highway. He did not stop until we got to a red light. When we finally got his attention, his response was 'okay,' and he kept driving."

December 16, 2022. Wasilla, Alaska.

USA National Menorah Lighting: Washington D.C.

SUnday night's first night of Chanukah live broadcast of the lighting ceremony of the National Chanukah Menorah located on the Ellipse at the White House in Washington D.C. Featuring musical performances by the “Pershing's Own United States Army Band.

New York Boys Choir - The Message Of The Candles

A Bonei Olam Presentation
A Yitzy Bald/New York Boys Choir Production
Composed and Lyrics by Yitzy Bald
Bonei Olam Executive Producer: Boruch Goldberger

Isaac Honig, Arele Samet, Bentzi Kletzkin "Avos U'Banim"

At a wedding in Israel. Accompanied by the Mendy Hershkowitz Band, during his very first visit to the Eretz Yisroel, and by the Malchus Choir.

Songs included in the medley:

זרעא חיא – מיוחס למהר"ם שפירא מלובלין זי"ע

זרעא די לא יפסוק – קטע מתוך יצירתו של אברהם פריד, לחנו של יוסי גרין

זרעא קינדערליך – ישראל ורדיגר, לחנו של פינקי וועבר

אשר קדשנו – יואלי גרינפלד, לחנו של מוטי אילוביץ

ואזכה לראות – יעקב דסקל, ביצוע מקור עם מקהלת מלכות

ולא ימוש התורה – יואלי גרינפלד, לחנו של מוטי אילוביץ

ומאירים את העולם – ברוך לוין

הבה לי בנים – שמילי אונגר, לחנו של נפתלי משה שניצלר

בנים ובני בנים – ניגון מבית סקיוורא בביצוע אביש בראדט

שהחיינו נחת – אייזיק האניג, לחנו של אליעזר קאליש

Police Break Down Door as Suspect Jumps Out Window

"Two police cars arrived at the property, which was a suspected drug house used to sell drugs. They used their barricade tool to break down the door. Once all the police went inside the property, the suspect then proceeded to jump out the window and run away from them. The police soon chased after them."

December 7, 2022. Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.

"SCANDAL" a "Day 6 Production" film - Official Trailer

"SCANDAL" is a Brand New Yiddish Film Produced by Day 6 Productions

Written by Yair Weinstock

Available Everywhere

דעי סיקס פראדאקשנס ברעכט ווידער היסטאריע מיט א רייכער פראדוקציע,
אן עמאציאנאלע און תוכנ'דיגע שפיל מיט'ן נאמען סקאנדאל

א גאר דראמאטישע געשיכטע צונויף געפלאכטן אויף א געשמאקן פארנעם. געשיכטע געשריבן דורך דעם בארימטן שריפט שטעלער און שרייבער ר' יאיר וויינשטאק, אראפ געשפילט אויף א העכסט דראמאטישן אופן דורך די בארימטע אקטיארן, געשמאק און באצויבערנד, א הנאה יעדע מינוט!

די פראדוקציע איז געאייגענט פאר די גאנצע פאמיליע. אינג און אלט צוגלייך וועלן הנאה האבן פון יעדע איינציגע מינוט און וועלן מיטהאלטן די מאמענטן מיט שפאנונג.

סקאנדאל איז יעצט דא צו באקומען אין די געשעפטן!

Chanukah Medley - Avi Ilson - LIVE

LIVE: Tehillim On Klaf Tefilah Chanukah Inspiration

Tehillim on Klaf Tefilah global daily Tehillim invites you to join for Chanukah Inspiration

Guest Speakers: HaRav Elya Brudny, member Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America,
Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rabbi Ephraim Eliyahu Shapiro, Rabbi Eytan Feiner

Tehillim will be lead by Rabbi Eliezer Ginsburg

On Zos Chanukah, the entire Tehillim will be said, from a Tehillim On Klaf, over looking the Kotel Hamaaravi with a Minyan of Talmidei Chachamim. To Submit a Name for this Tehillim Tefilah, visit tehillimonklaftefilah.org

Miami Boys Choir "Light Up the Nights" 1997

Performed Chanukah 1997.
Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY, on a rotating stage.
Composed & Directed by Yerachmiel Begun.

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They Are Forgotten by the World...

They have no family, and most of their friends have already passed to another world. They are forgotten by the world.

The first cold front of the winter sets in, sending millions of citizens scurrying to the warmth and safety of their homes. Outside, the winds bluster, and rain pours down in icy sheets. The temperature hovers right around zero, and then sinks below. The first pristine flakes of snow fall…

Millions find safe haven in their warm, heated homes. But what of dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors? Those who are alone and childless, forgotten by the world?

Do you know that Israel still has hundreds of Holocaust survivors and elderly who live alone without sufficient heat or protection from the outside elements?

The frost penetrates their apartments, their bones, their very souls. It’s cold outside, and inside their hearts, it’s even colder.

These elderly men and women who bore witness to years of atrocities, who suffered the unspeakable, and who still carry the weight of a destroyed world in their hearts are, once again, forced to contend with cold and loneliness. They bear their excruciating memories and their painful present alone without means to heat their homes or revive their aching souls.

They have no family, and most of their friends have already passed to another world. They are forgotten by the world. No one even cares…

No longer!>>

At the Chabad House, our goal is to emerge from the current cold spell with zero tragedies.

With zero tragedies, but with infinite stories of rescue and help for our elderly brothers and sisters who are eagerly sitting and waiting for us to join them in their cold, dark houses.

Let’s partner in this remarkable endeavor to bring light, joy and warmth to our Holocaust survivors!

If it’s hard for you to visit, transport items or deliver meals, there are wonderful people out there who will act as your messenger!

Partner with us to save lives and reignite a spark of joy and warmth in their saddened, lonely hearts.

Donate today!

Chabad House. Fill them with warmth and light!

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Refuah Medley | Shir V’shevach | Yedidim

At the annual Achim B’Ychad - Chai Lifeline Pre Purim Party, a beautiful and heartwarming performance took place. The performances which were attended by many featured the famous and talented Shir V’Shevach Boys Choir accompanied by The Yedidim Choir and Shmiel Hersh Miller.

Achim B'Yachad provides joy and happiness to children and their families who go through illness. They create opportunities for the families to gather and enjoy events featuring top entertainers. These outings provide the families with joy and energy in their difficult times.

The beautiful songs and melodies created an uplifting atmosphere filled with gratitude which was felt by the children and volunteers. May ה׳ listen to our תפילות and grant a speedy recovery for all חולי ישראל.

Ishay Ribo Separate Seating Chanukah Concert

By popular demand, for the first time ever in the US, IshayRibo will perform at a separate seating concert this Chanukah in New York. In another first, Ishay will be hosting MBD in their first-ever joint performance.

Last Tickets

Gedolei Torah Engage in Pilpul-Farher with Shas Yiden

In 14 years, the Shas Yiden Kollel Network has had a major impact on Shas (Talmud) study around the world. Each of 100 Shas Yiden avreichim geonim completes a full study of the entire Shas with all Rashi and Tosfos, 5 times a year, and knows it by heart.

This year’s siyum of the cycle (and beginning of the next) was held (Dec 2022) after a three-hour public oral test by 7 leading Torah scholars in Israel who fired questions and issues from across the entire Shas. The examiners expressed their amazement at the prowess and mastery of the Shas Yiden avreichim geonim.

The ‘line-up’ of the Geonim, shlit”a at this year’s siyum in Beit Shemesh who tested the mettle of the avreichim geonim are a veritable Who’s Who of Torah learning – Maran Harav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Maran Harav Itamar Garbuz, Harav Yaakov Ades, Harav Elimelech Biederman, Harav Shmuel Yaakov Landau and Harav Eliyahu Stefansky. Among those who graced the dais was Harav Mordechai Stern, Rav of Heichal Dovid, Lawrence, NY.