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Chabad Lubavitch of Beijing, China was established in August 2001 in time for Rosh Hashanah 5762. Rabbi Shimon and Dini Freundlich together with their two daughters, Chaya Mushka and Devorah Freundlich, were sent to establish and run Chabad’s office in Beijing, China. They are now joined by their daughters, Chava and Grunia and their sons, Aaron and Eliyahu Akiva.
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Learning & Inspiration
  • Yizkor of the Child Who Would Rather Not RememberIn the same way others live in space, Jews live in time. It’s all here, all at once. Read More
  • Take the Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah True or False QuizWhat does this day even commemorate, and how do we celebrate? Read More
Daily Thought
On Simchat Torah we dance with our feet, not with our heads. We are celebrating the Torah, and the Torah is something we study with our heads. But we dance with our feet, not with our heads. If we would dance with our heads, each one would dance a different dance, each in a different space, some with friends but not with others, some as lonesome souls. One head is higher, one is lower, one is here on earth, the other in the clouds or beyond, and some minds know only their own space that no one else can know. But we dance with our feet, and all our feet are here on the same earth—none higher and none...
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Daily Quote
As soon as the earth heard G-d say, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helpmeet opposite him" (Genesis 2:18), she began to tremble and clamored. She said before her creator: 'Master of all the worlds, I haven't the power to feed all the kids of man!" Said G-d to her, "You and I shall feed them" and they split it between them.
Midrash Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 12
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