The Talmud outlines three tracks that one may follow in the observance of kindling the Chanukah lights, the choice depending on your eagerness to observe the mitzvos.  The base requirement is to kindle only one light per family on all eight nights, but the mehadrin, those who eagerly pursuemitzvos, kindle additional lights based on the size of their family. […]

The discovery of the one and only undefiled cruse of oil allowed for more than just a resumption of operations in the Beis Hamikdash on a bare minimum level. For by the simple standards of Jewish law, the Menorah may even be lit using oil that is ritually impure if no pure oil can be obtained (see Rambam, Temidin U’musafin […]

“….I have one easy Mitzvah, called Sukkah. Go and do it…” – Immediately, each gentle will build a Sukkah on his roof. G-od will make the sun blaze, and they will kick the Sukkah and leave. This test is justified as sometimes Jews must sit in the Sukkah while still in the summer season as well. But if it is […]

“…On Rosh Hashana they will be inscribed…” – Rosh Hashana Liturgy בְּרֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה יִכָּתֵבוּן – תפילת מוסף דר”ה Rosh Hashana marks the start of the new Jewish year. Yet, the name of this holiday in Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashana, does not mean “the start of the year,” but “the head of the year.” As explained in Chassidus, this name demonstrates that […]

The name Rosh Hashana, meaning “head of the year”, tells us that this holiday is not only the day on which a new year on the Jewish calendar begins, and when our deeds of the last year are judged. If it were, names like “Start of the Year” or “The New Year” would be more appropriate than “Head of the […]

In this lecture Rabbi Anava gives us the step by step tools in order to properly prepare the right way for Rosh Hashana!            

In this lecture Rabbi Anava teaches us the step by step process on how to prepare for the awesome days of Elul leading into Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur so we can attain the utmost from this most auspicious time.            

A great long class about the mystical depth of the month of Elul. Information you want to know to really take advantage of the special month getting ready the right way for the coming new year     Part 1   Part 2        

Elul is known to be a very powerful month to do Teshuva and fix our actions from the past year and prepare the right way for the coming new year. The essential class with clear things out and help prepare the right way for the coming new year     Part 1   Part 2      

The custom in the Rebbe’s home is to sound the shofar for training over the course of this day (the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul, the 30th of Av), and to begin sounding the shofar after davening (Praying) on the second day of Rosh Chodesh. Why do we have a fixed day of Shofar practice before beginning the official […]

“…It is customary to sound the Shofar after Shacharis throughout the month of Elul, beginning on Rosh Chodesh…” –  Rema, Orach Chaim 581:1 מראש חודש ואילך מתחילין לתקוע אחר התפילה שחרית – רמ”א או”ח תקפ”א, א The Rambam writes that the sounding of the Shofar conveys this message: “Sleepers, be roused, from your sleep! Slumberers, wake from your slumber! Search […]

One of the most important Mitzvot we have is Marriage, unfortunately most people do not value it and do not know how to deal with it. In this video Rabbi Anava is explaining it all                

We’re all are waiting for the coming of Moshiach and the building of the Beit Hamikdash, but what are we doing and how can we make it come faster? In this video, Rabbi Anava is reveals the 4 things we must do in order to hasten the redemption                

This is part of a question and answer lecture on Rabbi Anava’s Near Death Experience about being true to oneself                

This is part of the questions and answers from a long lecture of Rabbi Alon Anava about his personal near death experience.                

This is part of the questions and answers from a long lecture of Rabbi Alon Anava about his personal near death experience.                

The Shabbos before Pesach is called Shabbos Hagadol, the great Shabbos, because a great miracle happened on this day. (Tur, Orach Chaim 530) שבת שלפני הפסח קורין אותו שבת הגדול והטעם לפי שנעשה בו נס גדול – טור או”ח סתק”ל One of the miracles attributed to Shabbos Hagadol is recorded in the Midrash (cited in Machzor Vitri 259 and elsewhere): […]

All Jewish people today customarily fast on the 13th of Adar, in remembrance of the fast that they fasted in the days of Haman, as is written (Esther 9:31), “the matter of the fasts and the outcries.” (Rambam, Hilchos Taaniyos 5:5) ונהגו כל ישראל בזמנים אלו להתענות בי”ג באדר זכר לתענית שהתענו בימי המן שנאמר דברי הצומות וזעקתם – רמב”ם […]

On Rosh Chodesh Adar, Rabbi Alon Anava gave a lecture about how one can reach true happiness and serve G-od with joy                  

“….In the tenth month, on the tenth of the month… the king of babylon has besieged jerusalem on this very day….” – Yechezkel 24:1-2 ״….בחודש העשירי בעשור לחודש…. סימך מלך בבל אל ירושלים בעצם היום הזה…״ – יחזקאל כ״ד, א-ב The early and important work known as Sefer Abudraham states that if the 10thof Teves were to occur on a Shabbos we […]