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Lakewood, NJ CONTENTS PESACH 10 LAST PESACH Lonely Seder Monologues Wedding 12 Another View of the 4 Cups Unites 14 Pesach Preparation with the Rebbe Rekindling a 25 Lost Friendship 18 Do Miracles Still Happen 62 Luxurious Pesach Menu BUSINESS 52 Shop Local Who Will Listings to Check Out Advocate 59 Borsolino Hatters A Frank Talk Business Profile about Chinuch 30 KIDS 66 The Pesach Post Shazak Page 67 Saudi Showdown Comic Story COLUMNS Our Shuls 6 From the Publisher Of Crown Heights Mica Soffer 35 8 Dvar Malchus From the Rebbe 47 Ask the Therapist Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch Disrespectful 50 Health Letter Sara Chana Silverstein How the Rebbe 71 Humor Responded Mordechai Schmutter 42 74 Important Numbers & Zmanim 4 COLlive Magazine 2 ads_Layout 1 9/1/2020 8:21 PM Page 1 far tui prhhkfgi pxj pxj prhhkfgi prhhkfgi tui tui far far WISHING OUR CUSTOMRES AND THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY A HAPPY HEALTHY, AND KOSHER PESACH! Tishrei Edition 1 Tzfasman Jewelers | 718.774.2770 | 551 Crown St, Brooklyn, NY 11213 @tzfasmanjewelers FROM THE PUBLISHER MICA SOFFER PUBLISHER Mica Soffer In earlier years, when the Crown seeing my father, his face lit up and Heights crowd was smaller, the Rebbe was full of gratitude. EDITOR would personally hand out Shmura Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin He told that during his Seder on the Matzah on Erev Pesach. It wasn’t a second night of Pesach, they were ASSISTANT EDITOR whole “shleima.” It was just a piece - just holding by rochtza, when the Toiby Hayes but that piece was precious and every doorbell rang. It was the postman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS crumb was eaten, as it carried the with the overnight mail, delivering Levi Groner Rebbe’s blessing with it. the Rebbe’s matzah. Libby Herz Chassidim spending Pesach elsewhere In perfect timing, Shmuel gave out the Rabbi Moshe Moscowitz would ask a friend to get a piece of Rebbe’s matzah to his family to eat Rabbi Zalman Posner OBM matzah from the Rebbe on their behalf during motzi-matzah. Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch and then ship it to them as overnight Danit Schusterman And, he concluded - he was the only mail, hoping it would arrive the next Raizel Schusterman one who received the Rebbe’s matzah day in time for the second Seder. Mordechai Schmutter from New York in time for the Seder. Sara Chana Silverstein My father, Rabbi Shmarya Katzen, Other families in Worcester received it Dovid Zaklikowski received such a request one year from on Chol Hamoed... Shmuel, a classmate of his at Yeshiva DESIGN My family and I heard this story Hadar Hatorah, who was spending Toiby Hayes countless times. My father would tell Pesach in Massachusetts. PHOTOS it excitedly every Pesach, and at other On Erev Pesach, my father went by JEM occasions over the years. He had no the Rebbe and was given a piece for Hasidic Archives explanation as to why it happened. He Menush Amit himself. He then gathered the courage was just elated to have been part of Nechama Photography and asked, “I would like a shtikel matzah the Rebbe’s care for another Jew. for my friend Shmuel in Worcester.” Britta Van Kranken We will miss hearing that story from The Rebbe then paused for a moment. my father, of blessed memory. The “The Rebbe just stopped and looked familiar story, which w as so often ADVERTISING at me,” my father recalled. “He gave repeated, is now one that we pass on, Phone: 718-427-2174 ext. 2 me a strange look. I wondered, did I to teach that when a tzadik decrees, Email: [email protected] say something wrong?” Hashem fulfills. 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Johns Place and sent the matzah a recommendation, approval or other representation o quality of products or via overnight mail, as originally intended, services, or the credibility of any claims made and went on to celebrate Pesach. by advertisers including, but not limited to, At the conclusion of Pesach, his friend the kashrus or advertised food products. The Mica Photo by: Nechama Photography use of any products or services advertised Shmuel returned to Yeshiva, and upon in COLlive Magazine is solely at the user’s Soffer risk and COLlive accepts no responsibility or liability in connection therewith. FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @COLliveOfficial @COLlive 718.679.9450 6 COLlive Magazine From Pesach through Shavuot Be informed and inspired by these acclaimed works of Jewish verse and thought by Rabbi Yosef Marcus “The most comprehen- sive and spiritually rich commentary in English that I have ever run across.” Dr. Mark I. Rosen Brandeis University “An invaluable addition to the library of Jewish scholarship.” Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks British Commonwealth “A tribute to the publisher of this excellent volume.” Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm Yeshiva University KEHOT.COM 877-4-MERKOS More in this series J Megillat Esther J Tehillim A Pesach Message: The Individual & Society By the Grace of G-d The above mentioned two aspects are also Erev Shabbos-Kodesh reflected in the Korban-Pesach (Pesach Offering) Shabbos Hagodol, 5739 about which the Jewish people in Egypt were Divinely commanded at the beginning of the To the Sons and Daughters of Our People Israel, Month of Geuloh, on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, as an Everywhere — G-d bless you all! essential prerequisite to Yetzias Mitzraim. Greeting and Blessing: The Korbonos (Offerings) comprise two general The month of Nissan, as also its central feature, categories: Korbonos-Yochid (Individual the Festival of Pesach, Chag Hamatzos, are Offerings) and Korbonos-Tzibbur (Collective “firsts”: The month of Nissan is designated as “It Offerings), i.e. offerings of individuals as shall be unto you—the first of the months of the individuals, and offerings brought by, and year,” while Pesach is the first of all our Festivals. in behalf of, a collective (Tzibbur) of many As such, it is understandable that both the month individuals, wherein the individual is represented and its Festival encompass more, and more by his personal contribution to the Fund which comprehensive, teachings than any of the other was annually raised for this purpose. special days of the year, as is also emphasized by Now, we find that the Korban-Pesach combined the fact that many moments in Jewish life related, both aspects, for it was at the same time both a and serve as “memorials” to Yetzias Mitzraim are Korban-Yochid and, in a sense, a Korban Tzibbur, the Liberation from Egyptian bondage. since it was brought by kenufia (collective of One of the basic significances of the Pesach individuals).’ And both aspects have a distinct Festival is that it represents the birthday of our emphasis which is not found in other Korbonos: Jewish nation; hence it directly relates also to As a Korban-Yochid “the Korban-Pesach was every Jew, as part of the nation.