Between Sunrise and Sunset
Tech Tribe Dispatch #258
💡 Think:
We find ourselves between two pivotal days on the Jewish calendar: When the Rebbe arrived in America on the 28th of Sivan, this year on July 4th, and his passing on the 3rd of Tammuz, July 9th.
These two epochs serve not as a beginning and end of a single era - but rather as key moments, stages on the proverbial rocket, that helped fuel the sea change of Jewish life and engagement the Rebbe led in America… one that continues to grow through the work of his emissaries, including right here with Tech Tribe.
The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, once noted that American Jews were like tinder… they blazed brightly but then burnt out. Russian Jews, he noted, were like coals, the fire wasn’t as bright - but it burned for longer.
The Rebbe saw the burst of American exuberance, the excitement and can-do brashness of America… and channeled it. He understood how to brand Judaism in a way that not just excited people, but empowered them - to own it and live it.
“If you closed your eyes,” one of my mentors who was privileged to attend the Rebbes talks in those early years, “you could tell the Rebbe was speaking to a much larger audience than those just gathered in the room. He was speaking to the whole world.”
And that’s why the Rebbe’s yahrtzeit is not the bookend on what he taught, but rather a moment that catalyzes us and encourages us to grow ever stronger.
Now, he said, the mission to make this world a better place, to change it inexorably for the better, was given to us. Unlike the classic Talmudic understanding of an emissary —and indeed each and every single one of us can be an emissary— that relegates the mission to be entirely an expression of the one who dispatches them - a call for total self-abnegation, now we must tap into our own abilities, our talents to get the job done.
#ChaiSociety members, enjoy an in depth history of this first decade.
🏃 DO:
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🤖 AI & Identity:A class for Jewglers at Google NYC
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🎧 Listen:
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🎬 Watch:
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🎉 Mazel:
🍷 Mazels to #ChaiSociety member Nikita Sokolsky on his birthday.
🍰 Mazels to Alan Lvov, Third Thursday cohost, on his birthday!
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!["Cheder" by Chanoch Hendel Lieberman, oil on canvas, 1970s. At a pivotal moment in Lieberman's life, he turned to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to ask whether art and Chassidism could coincide. - Via Zev Markowitz / Chai Art Gallery](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5XmN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8470e15-7ee4-4e9d-8168-73e637e03fe0_685x495.jpeg ""Cheder" by Chanoch Hendel Lieberman, oil on canvas, 1970s. At a pivotal moment in Lieberman's life, he turned to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to ask whether art and Chassidism could coincide. - Via Zev Markowitz / Chai Art Gallery")
📚 Read:
🎨 The Rebbe’s Revolutionary Vision for Jewish Art
🏋🏻 My 5-step program for losing weight -By #ChaiSociety member Nikita Sokolsky
🌇 Exclusive for #ChaiSociety members: The Rebbe’s First American Decade
🇺🇸 Did Chabad's Founder Envision an American Future?
📈 Thirty Years of Ascent, and Counting by #ChaiSociety member Eli Rubin.
🔥 Lit:
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